The U.S. Government’s Secret History of Grisly Experiments: “They were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too late.” — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

I have never known any government to put the best interests of its people first, and this COVID-19 pandemic is no exception, writes John Whitehead, constitutional lawyer, bestselling author.

Since 1996, John W. Whitehead has taken on everything from human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia, protection of religious freedom, and child pornography, to family autonomy issues, cross burning, the sanctity of human life, and the war on terrorism in his weekly opinion column. Buy his book Battlefield America here. Mr. Whitehead’s commentaries have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times andUSA Today.

Now this isn’t intended to be a debate over whether COVID-19 is a legitimate health crisis or a manufactured threat.

Such crises can—and are—manipulated by governments in order to expand their powers. As such, it is possible for the virus to be both a genuine menace to public health and a menace to freedom.

For example, back in 2017, FEMA “inadvertently” exposed nearly 10,000 firefighters, paramedics and other responders to a deadly form of ricin during simulated bioterrorism response sessions.

In 2015, it was discovered that an Army lab had been “mistakenly” shipping deadly anthrax to labs and defense contractors for a decade.

The question remains: why is the government doing this? The answer is always the same: money, power and total domination. It’s the same answer no matter which totalitarian regime is in power.

Constitutional attorney, John Whitehead is a regular contributor to The Herland Report TV, watch our latest TV interview with him here and here.