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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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00:09:15

We’re All Enemies of the State: Draconian Laws,...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/08/10

If the government is consistent about any one thing, it is this: it has an unnerving tendency to exploit crises and use them as opportunities for power grabs under the guise of national security. Cue the Emergency State, the government’s Machiavellian version of crisis management that justifies all manner of government tyranny in the so-called name of national security. The government’s proposed response to the latest round of mass shootings—red flag gun laws, precrime surveillance, fusion centers,

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00:12:13

The Rise of the American Gestapo: Has It Already...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/08/04

Despite the finger-pointing and outcries of dismay from those who are watching the government discard the rule of law at every turn, the question is not whether Donald Trump is the new Adolf Hitler but whether the American Police State is the new Third Reich. As constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead makes clear in this week's podcast, the warning signs are unmistakable for those who can view the present and past political landscape without partisan blinders: the Deep State’s love affair with

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00:09:37

Monsters with Human Faces: The Tyranny of the Police...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/07/29

We are in desperate need of a populace that can stand united against the government’s authoritarian tendencies. So disagree all you want about healthcare, abortion and immigration—hot-button issues that are guaranteed to stir up the masses, secure campaign contributions and turn political discourse into a circus free-for-all—but surely we can manage to stand united on certain principles that should be non-negotiable in the midst of the destructive, disrupting, diverting, discordant babble being

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00:09:06

It’s Un-American To Be Anti-Free Speech: Protect the...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/07/21

The First Amendment does more than give us a right to criticize our country: it makes it a civic duty. Certainly, if there is one freedom among the many spelled out in the Bill of Rights that is especially patriotic, it is the right to criticize the government. The right to speak out against government wrongdoing is the quintessential freedom. Unfortunately, as constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead makes clear in this week's podcast, those who run the government don’t take kindly to individuals

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00:09:14

The Heart of Darkness: The Sexual Predators Within...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/07/10

Politics, religion, sports, government, entertainment, business, armed forces: it doesn’t matter what arena you’re talking about, they are all riddled with the kind of seedy, sleazy, decadent, dodgy, depraved, immoral, corrupt behavior that somehow gets a free pass when it involves the wealthy and powerful elite in America. In this age of partisan politics and a deeply polarized populace, corruption—especially when it involves sexual debauchery, depravity and predatory behavior—has become the great

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00:07:46

The Jackboots Are Coming: Mass Arrests, Power Grabs...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/06/23

How do you persuade a populace to embrace totalitarianism, that goose-stepping form of tyranny in which the government has all of the power and “we the people” have none? You persuade the people that the menace they face (imaginary or not) is so sinister, so overwhelming, so fearsome that the only way to surmount the danger is by empowering the government to take all necessary steps to quash it, even if that means allowing government jackboots to trample all over the Constitution. This is how you

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00:08:52

You’re Under Arrest: How the Police State Muzzles Our...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/06/15

Those who seek to exercise their First Amendment rights during encounters with the police are increasingly finding that there is no such thing as freedom of speech. As constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead points out in this week's podcast, this is the painful lesson being imparted with every incident in which someone gets arrested and charged with any of the growing number of contempt charges (ranging from resisting arrest and interference to disorderly conduct, obstruction, and failure to obey

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00:08:05

Drivers Beware: The Deadly Perils of Traffic Stops in...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/06/02

Trying to predict the outcome of any encounter with the police is a bit like playing Russian roulette: most of the time you will emerge relatively unscathed, although decidedly poorer and less secure about your rights, but there’s always the chance that an encounter will turn deadly. Indeed, the most common reason for a citizen to come into contact with the police is being a driver in a traffic stop. On average, one in 10 Americans gets pulled over by police, who have been given free range to pull

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00:09:04

D Is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/05/20

What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater. Played out on the national stage and eagerly broadcast to a captive audience by media sponsors, this farcical exercise in political theater can, at times, seem riveting, life-changing and suspenseful, even for those who know better. Yet as constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead

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00:08:34

Predator Police Are a Menace to Society

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/05/11

Police sexual misconduct is a systemic problem, and the dangers arise every time police are dispatched: traffic stops, domestic abuse calls, minor offenses, drug arrests, police interactions with teenagers, investigations into sex trafficking. Rather than being part of the solution, America’s police forces—riddled with corruption, brutality, sexual misconduct and drug abuse—have increasingly become part of the problem. In a number of cases, victims of sex trafficking report that police are among

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00:09:00

The Essence of Evil: Sex with Children Has Become Big...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/04/26

Children, young girls—some as young as 9 years old—are being bought and sold for sex in America. The average age for a young woman being sold for sex is now 13 years old. Sex trafficking—especially when it comes to the buying and selling of young girls—has become big business in America, the fastest growing business in organized crime and the second most-lucrative commodity traded illegally after drugs and guns. It is estimated that at least 100,000 children—girls and boys—are bought and sold for

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00:08:46

From Jesus Christ to Julian Assange: When Dissidents...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/04/17

When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals. In the current governmental climate, where laws that run counter to the dictates of the Constitution are made in secret, passed without debate, and upheld by secret courts that operate behind closed doors, obeying one’s conscience and speaking truth to the power of the police state can render you an “enemy of the state.” That list of so-called “enemies of the state” is growing. As constitutional attorney John

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00:08:37

Financial Tyranny: America Has Become a Pay-to-Play...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/04/10

We’re not living the American Dream. As constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead makes clear in this week's podcast, we’re in the grip of a financial nightmare. “We the people” have become the new, permanent underclass in America. We get taxed on how much we earn, taxed on what we eat, taxed on what we buy, taxed on where we go, taxed on what we drive, and taxed on how much is left of our assets when we die, and yet we have no real say in how the government runs, or how our taxpayer funds are used

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00:09:12

The Making of a Monster: We’re All Lab Rats in the...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/04/07

The U.S. government has unleashed untold horrors upon the world—including its own citizenry—in the name of global conquest, the acquisition of greater wealth, scientific experimentation, and technological advances. These horrors are being meted out against humans and animals alike. As constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead makes clear in this week's podcast, you don’t have to dig very deep or go very back in the nation’s history to uncover numerous cases in which the government deliberately

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00:07:32

Don’t Shoot the Dogs: The Growing Epidemic of Cops...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/03/31

The absurd cruelties of the American police state keep reaching newer heights. Consider that if you kill a police dog, you could face a longer prison sentence than if you’d murdered someone or abused a child. If a cop kills your dog, however, there will be little to no consequences for that officer. Not even a slap on the wrist. In this, as in so many instances of official misconduct by government officials, the courts have ruled that the cops have qualified immunity, a legal doctrine that

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00:09:12

Pity the Nation: War Spending Is Bankrupting America

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/03/23

Don’t be fooled into thinking that your hard-earned tax dollars are being used for national security and urgent military needs. As John W. Whitehead makes clear in this week's podcast, it’s all a ruse. In one month alone, government agencies—including the Department of Defense—went on a $97 million shopping spree that included $670,000 for golf carts, $1.7 million for musical equipment including pianos, tubas, and trombones, $4.6 million for lobster tail and crab, almost $8 million for iPhones and

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00:08:18

Forced Blood Draws & Implied Consent Laws Make a...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/03/06

You think you’ve got rights? Think again. All of those freedoms we cherish—the ones enshrined in the Constitution, the ones that affirm our right to free speech and assembly, due process, privacy, bodily integrity, the right to not have police seize our property without a warrant, or search and detain us without probable cause—amount to nothing when the government and its agents are allowed to disregard those prohibitions on government overreach at will. Our so-called rights have been reduced to

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00:08:26

The Age of Tyrannical Surveillance: We’re Being...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/03/01

With every smartphone we buy, every GPS device we install, every Twitter, Facebook, and Google account we open, every frequent buyer card we use for purchases—whether at the grocer’s, the yogurt shop, the airlines or the department store—and every credit and debit card we use to pay for our transactions, we’re helping Corporate America build a dossier for its government counterparts on who we know, what we think, how we spend our money, and how we spend our time. Yet it’s not just the surveillance

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00:07:40

I’m Not Breaking Up with America, and Neither Should You

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/02/16

Life in America has become a gut-wrenching, soul-sucking, misery-drenched, demoralizing existence. Even so, I’m not breaking up with America this Valentine’s Day, and neither should you. Instead, get outraged at what has been done to our country. What has been done to our freedoms. Get off your duff, get out of your house, get in the streets, get in people’s faces, get down to your local city council, get over to your local school board, get your thoughts down on paper, get your objections plastered

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00:08:30

Jackboots in the Morning: No One Is Spared From This...

Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute ·

2019/02/08

Nationwide, SWAT teams routinely invade homes, break down doors, kill family pets (they always shoot the dogs first), damage furnishings, terrorize families, and wound or kill those unlucky enough to be present during a raid. These raids are one more vivid example of how the government’s short-sighted use of immoral, illegal and unconstitutional tactics become dangerous weapons turned against the American people.

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