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Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute

John W. Whitehead

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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00:09:08

Madness: The Summer of Hate Meets the Age of Intolerance

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2020/06/25

What started as a movement to denounce police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of killer cops has become a free-for-all campaign to rid the country of any monument, literal or figurative, to anyone who may have at any time in history expressed a racist thought, exhibited racist behavior, or existed within a racist society. Censoring speech—toppling monuments—kowtowing to political correctness—is not the answer to what ails this nation. As constitutional attorney John W

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00:09:10

The System Is Rigged: Qualified Immunity Is How the...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2020/06/17

The system is rigged and the U.S. Supreme Court—the so-called “people’s court”—has exchanged its appointed role as a gatekeeper of justice for its new role as maintainer of the status quo, ensuring there will be little if no consequences for the cops who brutalize and no justice for the victims of police brutality. This is how unarmed Americans keep dying at the hands of militarized police. By refusing to accept any of the eight or so qualified immunity cases before it this term that strove to hold

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00:08:14

This Is Not a Revolution. It’s a Blueprint for...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2020/06/02

What is unfolding before us is not a revolution. The looting, the burning, the rioting, the violence: this is an anti-revolution. The protesters are playing right into the government’s hands, because the powers-that-be want this. They want an excuse to lockdown the nation and throw the switch to all-out martial law. They want a reason to make the police state stronger. It’s happening faster than we can keep up. This is how it begins. As constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead warns in this week's

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00:08:30

From 9/11 to COVID-19, It’s Been a Perpetual State of...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2020/05/27

From 9/11 to COVID-19, this year’s crop of graduates have spent their entire lives in a state of emergency. As constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead points out in this week's podcast, those coming of age right now were born in the wake of the 9/11 attacks; raised without any expectation of privacy in a technologically-driven, mass surveillance state; educated in schools that teach conformity and compliance; saddled with a debt-ridden economy on the brink of implosion; made vulnerable by the

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00:09:09

The Slippery Slope to Despotism: Paved with...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2020/05/23

What started out as an apparent effort to prevent a novel coronavirus from sickening the nation (and the world) has become yet another means by which world governments (including our own) can expand their powers, abuse their authority, and further oppress their constituents. Until now, the police state has been more circumspect in its power grabs, but this latest state of emergency has brought the beast out of the shadows. We are on a slippery slope to outright despotism. This road we are traveling

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00:08:32

The Worst Is Yet to Come: Contact Tracing, Immunity...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2020/05/13

Yes, COVID-19 has taken a significant toll on the nation emotionally, physically, and economically, but there are still greater dangers on the horizon. As long as “we the people” continue to allow the government to trample our rights in the so-called name of national security, things will get worse, not better. It’s already worse. Now there’s talk of mass testing for COVID-19 antibodies, screening checkpoints, contact tracing, immunity passports to allow those who have recovered from the virus to

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00:09:30

Technofascism: Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2020/05/06

Welcome to the age of technofascism. Big Tech wedded to Big Government has become Big Brother. While on paper, we are technically free to speak—at least according to the U.S. Constitution—in reality, however, we are only as free to speak as the government and its corporate partners such as Facebook, Google or YouTube may allow. As constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead makes clear in this week's podcast, that’s not a whole lot of freedom. Especially if you’re inclined to voice opinions that may

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00:09:08

Human Lab Rats: The U.S. Government’s Secret History...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2020/04/29

Grisly experiments, barbaric behavior and inhumane conditions have become synonymous with the U.S. government, which has meted out untold horrors against humans and animals alike. For instance, did you know that the U.S. government has been buying hundreds of dogs and cats from “Asian meat markets” as part of a gruesome experiment into food-borne illnesses? The cannibalistic experiments involve killing cats and dogs purchased from Colombia, Brazil, Vietnam, China and Ethiopia, and then feeding the

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00:08:34

Draconian Lockdown Powers: It’s a Slippery Slope from...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2020/04/05

We still have choices. Just because we’re fighting an unseen enemy in the form of a virus doesn’t mean we have to relinquish every shred of our humanity, our common sense, or our freedoms to a nanny state that thinks it can do a better job of keeping us safe. Whatever we give up willingly now—whether it’s basic human decency, the ability to manage our private affairs, the right to have a say in how the government navigates this crisis, or the few rights still left to us that haven’t been

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00:08:38

Suspending the Constitution: Police State Uses Crises...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2020/03/29

You can always count on the government to take advantage of a crisis, legitimate or manufactured. This coronavirus pandemic is no exception, as constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead makes clear in this week's podcast. Not only are the federal and state governments unraveling the constitutional fabric of the nation with lockdown mandates that are sending the economy into a tailspin and wreaking havoc with our liberties, but they are also rendering the citizenry fully dependent on the government

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00:08:40

This Is a Test: How Will the Constitution Fare During...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2020/03/13

This is a test. This is not a test of our commitment to basic hygiene or disaster preparedness or our ability to come together as a nation in times of crisis, although we’re not doing so well on any of those fronts. No, what is about to unfold is a test to see how well we have assimilated the government’s lessons in compliance, fear and police state tactics; a test to see how quickly we’ll march in lockstep with the government’s dictates, no questions asked; and a test to see how little resistance

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00:09:03

Coronavirus vs. the Mass Surveillance State: Which...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2020/03/04

How will the government’s War on the Coronavirus impact our freedoms? For a hint of what’s in store, you can look to China—our role model for all things dystopian—where the contagion started. In an attempt to fight the epidemic, the government has given its surveillance state apparatus, which boasts the most expansive and sophisticated surveillance system in the world, free rein. The problem is what happens after: once the outbreak is controlled, it’s unclear whether the government will retract its

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00:08:55

Compliance 101: Gun-Toting Cops Endanger Students and...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2020/03/01

Two years after President Trump announced his intention to “harden” the schools, our nation’s children are reaping the ill effects of gun-toting, taser-wielding cops in government-run schools that bear an uncomfortable resemblance to prisons. As constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead explains in this week's podcast, the fallout has been what you’d expect, with the nation’s young people treated like hardened criminals: handcuffed, arrested, tasered, tackled and taught the painful lesson that the

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00:08:41

Red Flag Nation: Anti-Gun Laws, Sanctuary Cities and...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2020/01/20

Mark my words: gun control legislation, especially in the form of red flag gun laws, which allow the police to remove guns from people suspected of being threats, push us that much closer towards a society where everyone must be preemptively rendered harmless. As constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead explains in this week's podcast, these laws, growing in popularity as a legislative means by which to seize guns from individuals viewed as a danger to themselves or others, are yet another Trojan

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00:12:00

Betraying the Constitution: Who Will Protect Us from...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/12/17

While Congress subjects the nation to its impeachment-flavored brand of bread-and-circus politics, our civil liberties continue to die a slow, painful death by a thousand cuts. Case in point: while Americans have been fixated on the carefully orchestrated impeachment drama that continues to monopolize headlines, Congress passed and President Trump signed into law legislation extending three key provisions of the USA Patriot Act, which further normalize the U.S. government’s mass surveillance

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00:09:07

John Lennon vs. the Deep State: One Man Against the...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/10/15

It’s getting harder by the day to reconcile John Lennon's dream of peace with the reality of the American police state. Indeed, those who dare to speak up are being labeled dissidents, troublemakers, terrorists, lunatics, or mentally ill and being tagged for surveillance, censorship, involuntary detention or, worse, even shot and killed in their own homes by militarized police. Yet as constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead points out in this week's podcast, all of the many complaints we have

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00:09:22

Welfare Checks Turn Deadly: You Might Want to Think...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/09/29

Think twice before you call the cops to carry out a welfare check on a loved one. Especially if that person is autistic, hearing impaired, mentally ill, elderly, suffering from dementia, disabled or might have a condition that hinders their ability to understand, communicate or immediately comply with an order. Particularly if you value that person’s life. At a time when growing numbers of unarmed people are being shot and killed for just standing a certain way, or moving a certain way, or holding

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00:09:00

Martial Law Masquerading as Law and Order: The Police...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/09/22

There can be no free speech for the citizenry when the government speaks in a language of force. What is this language of force? Militarized police. Riot squads. Camouflage gear. Black uniforms. Armored vehicles. Mass arrests. Pepper spray. Tear gas. Batons. Strip searches. Surveillance cameras. Kevlar vests. Drones. Lethal weapons. Less-than-lethal weapons unleashed with deadly force. Rubber bullets. Water cannons. Stun grenades. Arrests of journalists. Crowd control tactics. Intimidation tactics

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00:08:52

Is the U.S. Government the Enemy of the People?...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/09/08

Take heed, America. Our losses are mounting with every passing day. What began with the post-9/11 passage of the USA Patriot Act has snowballed into the eradication of every vital safeguard against government overreach, corruption and abuse. The rights embodied in the Constitution, which have been steadily chipped away at, undermined, eroded, whittled down, and generally discarded, are now on life support. Since the towers fell on 9/11, the U.S. government has posed a greater threat to our

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00:09:32

American Apocalypse: The Government’s Plot to...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/08/27

The U.S. government is working hard to destabilize the nation. No, this is not another conspiracy theory. Observe for yourself what is happening right before our eyes. Domestic terrorism fueled by government entrapment schemes. Civil unrest stoked to dangerous levels by polarizing political rhetoric. A growing intolerance for dissent that challenges the government’s power grabs. Police brutality tacitly encouraged by the executive branch, conveniently overlooked by the legislatures, and granted

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