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Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute
Freedom Under Fire with John Whitehead™, available free of charge, provides listeners and radio stations alike with insightful, relevant and provocative commentary on popular culture and constitutional issues.
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Burning the Flag or Torching the Constitution: Only One Destroys Freedom
President Trump’s flag burning fight is a constitutional bait-and-switch--a culture-war diversion to distract from the Deep State's authoritarian powe...
COVID-19 Tested Our Commitment to Freedom. Four Years Later, We’re Still Failing
COVID-19 was a test to see how little resistance the citizenry would offer up to the government’s power grabs when made in the name of national securi...
We’ve Already Got a Dictator-in-Chief: How Absolute Power Corrupted the President
Any presidential candidate who promises to be a dictator on day one, if elected, will be a dictator-in-chief for life. Then again, the president is al...
2024 Is the New 1984: Big Brother and the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex
Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of Big Brother, the police state is about to pass off the baton to the surve...
Who Pays the Price for Botched SWAT Team Raids? We Do
SWAT team raids have become a thinly veiled, court-sanctioned means of giving heavily armed police the green light to crash through doors in the middl...
The White House's Secret Surveillance Program Breaks All the Laws
The government wants us to believe that we have nothing to fear from its mass spying programs as long as we’ve done nothing wrong. Don’t believe it.
Watchlisted: You’re Probably Already on a Government Extremism List
According to the FBI, you may be an anti-government extremist if you’ve purchased a Bible or other religious materials; used terms like “MAGA” and “Tr...
Digital Kill Switches: How Tyrannical Governments Stifle Political Dissent
Communications kill switches have become tyrannical tools of domination and oppression to stifle political dissent, shut down resistance, forestall el...
Criminality in the White House: The Rise of the Political Psychopath
There is no difference between psychopaths and politicians. Political psychopaths eventually create pathocracies: totalitarian societies bent on power...
Apocalypse Now: The Government’s Use of Controlled Chaos to Maintain Power
Will 2024 be the year the Deep State’s exercise in controlled chaos finally gives way to an apocalyptic dismantling of our constitutional republic, or...
We the Exploited: The U.S. Government Buys and Sells Its Citizens for Profit and Power
Americans have become easy prey for hackers, scammers, snitches, spies, and con artists … and the U.S. government.
Circle the Wagons: The Government Is On the Warpath
Without our say-so and lacking any mandate, the point of view of the Constitution has been shifted from “we the people” to “we the government.” Our ta...
First, They Spied on Protesters. Then Churches. You’re Next
Dragnet geofence surveillance sweeps can and eventually will be used to target as a suspect every person in any given place at any given time and swee...
A Nanny State Idiocracy: When the Government Thinks It Knows Best
This overbearing Nanny State despotism is what happens when government representatives adopt the authoritarian notion that the government knows best a...
Don’t Bow Down to a Dictatorial Government. America Is a Prison Disguised as Paradise
We’re approaching a time in which we will be forced to choose between bowing down in obedience to the dictates of the government—i.e., the law, or wha...
Raging Bulls in Blue: The Deadly Toll of Warrior Policing on Steroids
While much has been said about the dangers of police militarization, a warrior mindset that has police viewing the rest of the citizenry as enemy comb...
Dictators Bent on Building Military Empires: The Cost of the Nation’s Endless Wars
The United States has spent much of the past half-century policing the globe, occupying other countries, and waging endless wars. What most Americans...
Distract, Divide and Conquer: The Painful Truth About the State of Our Union
Step away from the blinders that partisan politics uses to distract, divide and conquer, and you will find that we are drowning in a cesspool of probl...
Child Trafficking Has Become Big Business in America
Every two minutes, a child is bought and sold for sex. Hundreds of young girls and boys—some as young as 9 years old—are being bought and sold for sex...
Don’t Trust the Government with Your Privacy, Property or Your Freedoms
“We the people” should have learned early on that a government that repeatedly lies, cheats, steals, spies, kills, maims, enslaves, breaks the laws, o...
360 Degree Surveillance: How Police Use Public-Private Partnerships to Spy on Americans
In this age of ubiquitous surveillance, there are no private lives: everything is public. With every new surveillance device we welcome into our lives...
The Constitution Has Already Been Terminated
For anyone to advocate terminating or suspending the Constitution is tantamount to a declaration of war against the founding principles of our represe...
Make Way for the Killer Robots: The Government Is Expanding Its Power to Kill
Police now have the power to kill with immunity using remote-controlled robots. It’s only a matter of time before these killer robots become as common...
Cancel Culture’s War on History, Heritage and the Freedom to Think for Yourself
There will come a time in the not-so-distant future when the very act of thinking for ourselves is not just outlawed but unthinkable. Where this leads...
Techno-Authoritarianism Is Here to Stay: China and the Deep State Have Joined Forces
The future of this nation is being forged beyond the reach of our laws, elections and borders by techno-authoritarian powers with no regard for indivi...
America’s Death Squads: When Police Become Judge, Jury and Executioner
Warrior cops, hyped up on their own authority and the power of the badge—who feel empowered to act as judge, jury and executioner—have not made Americ...
All of Us Are in Danger: When Anti-Government Speech Becomes Sedition
Anti-government speech has become a four-letter word. In more and more cases, the government is declaring war on what should be protected political sp...
Federal Bureau of Intimidation: The Government’s War on Political Freedom
Discredit, disrupt, and destroy. That is how the government plans to get rid of activists and dissidents who stand in its way. This has always been th...
Masters of Deceit: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear, Mind Control & Brain Warfare
The U.S. government has become a master of deceit. Indeed, with every passing day, it becomes painfully clear that this is not a government that can b...
Weaponizing the Bureaucracy: Who Will Protect Us from the Government’s Standing Army?
We have what the founders feared most: a “standing” or permanent army on American soil. This de facto standing army is made up of weaponized, militari...
Digital Authoritarianism: AI Surveillance Signals the Death of Privacy
Governments and corporations alike have heedlessly adopted AI surveillance technologies without any care or concern for their long-term impact on the...
Dismantling the Constitution: Police No Longer Have to Honor the Right to Remain Silent
We are witnessing the gradual dismantling of every constitutional principle that serves as a bulwark against government tyranny, overreach and abuse....
Rogue Cops: The Supreme Court Is Turning America Into a Constitution-Free Zone
The Supreme Court has spoken: there will be no consequences for cops who brutalize the citizenry and no justice for the victims of police brutality. A...
Everything Is a Weapon: The U.S. Government Is Waging Psychological Warfare on the Nation
For years now, the U.S. government has been bombarding the citizenry with propaganda campaigns and psychological operations aimed at keeping us compli...
America, Meet Your New Dictator-in-Chief: The President’s Secret, Unchecked Powers
Secret, unchecked presidential powers—acquired through the use of executive orders, decrees, memorandums, proclamations, national security directives...
Mass Shootings: The Vicious Cycle Fueled By America’s Toxic Cult of Violence
With alarming regularity, the nation is being subjected to a heartbreaking spate of violence that terrorizes the populace, fractures communities, and...
Get Ready to Be Muzzled: The Coming War on So-Called Hate Speech
Beware of those who want to monitor, muzzle, catalogue and censor speech. Especially be on your guard when the reasons given for limiting your freedom...
Flagged as a Threat: Predictive AI Technology Puts a Target on Your Back
You’ve been flagged as a threat. Before long, every household in America will be similarly flagged and assigned a threat score. It’s just a matter of...
When the Government Plays God: The Slippery Slope from Abortions to Executions
In the 30 years since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade, the government has come to believe that it not only has the po...
The Illusion of Freedom: We’re Only as Free as the Government Allows
We’re in a national state of denial. For years now, the government has been playing a cat-and-mouse game with the American people, letting us enjoy ju...