Table of Contents
Foreword Nat Hentoff ix
Introduction xiii
Part I Is This America? 1
1 I Am afraid 3
2 Who Will Protect Us from Our Government? 13
3 On the Road to a Police State 23
Part II The Future Is Here 31
4 Fiction has Become Reality 33
5 Reality Check 39
6 Smiling at Big Brother 47
Part III Welcome to The Police State 51
7 1984 53
8 America's New Way of Life 55
9 Swat Team Mania 63
10 Dominate. Intimidate. Control 75
11 The New York Prototype 85
Part IV The Electronic Concentration Camp 91
12 The Matrix: Where They Live 93
13 The Federal "Gestapo"? 97
14 Living in Oceania 105
15 The Watchers and the Watched 113
16 A Total Control Society 123
Part V America the Battlefield 133
17 Subduing a Populace: Thx 1138 135
18 Tactics of Intimidation 137
19 Tasering Us into Compliance 143
20 The Goodbye Effect 151
21 Attack of the Drones 159
Part VI The New American Order 169
22 Soylent Green Is People 171
23 Are We All Criminals Now? 175
24 The Criminalization of America's School Children 185
25 The Prison Industrial Complex 193
26 The Psychology of Compliance 203
Part VII The Point of No Return 209
27 V for Vendetta 211
28 Have We Reached the Point of No Return? 215
29 Know Your Rights or You Will Lose them 219
30 Compliant Lambs or Nonviolent Gadflies? 225
31 What Kind of Revolutionary Will You Be? 229
Acknowledgments 233
Notes 235
Index 271
About the Author 287