abuse of administrative power

In the 1960s, Elwood is college-bound until he makes a mistake that lands him at a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, whose staff profess to shape inmates into upstanding young men but who routinely deliver vicious beatings and sexual abuse and make sure resisters disappear forever. The shocked Elwood takes Martin Luther King's pacifist approach to events, but friend Turner has other ideas. Whitehead researched the Florida Industrial School for Boys (later the Dozier Academy), where a secret mass grave was found after its 2011 closure.

The U.S. Senator from Kentucky defends his assertion that the government is out of control and running amok through thousands of regulations that serve as a source of unconstitutional abuse of the good, honest, tax-paying citizens of America.

Presents a critical history of the FBI, from its origins in 1908 with three dozen investigators to the 27,000 staff members of today's agency. Examines the FBI's obsession with secrecy and argues that the agency has a long record of undermining political dissent and constitutional freedoms. Profiles major figures in the agency's history such as Charles Bonaparte and J. Edgar Hoover and discusses the FBI's responses various national crises.

The author issues a warning to American citizens claiming that free America is under assault and little by little America is being compared with the fascism and totalitarianism of Nazi Germany.