Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute

Mar 14 2024 156 ep. 9 mins 150

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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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COVID-19 Tested Our Commitment to Freedom. Four Years Later, We’re Still Failing

Mar 14 2024 9 mins

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 security. “We the people” failed that test spectacularly. Four years later, we're still failing.

We’ve Already Got a Dictator-in-Chief: How Absolute Power Corrupted the President

Feb 28 2024 8 mins

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 already a dictator with permanent powers: imperial, unaccountable and unconstitutional.

2024 Is the New 1984: Big Brother and the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex

Feb 21 2024 8 mins

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 surveillance state. 1984 has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state.

Who Pays the Price for Botched SWAT Team Raids? We Do

Feb 14 2024 8 mins

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 middle of the night.

The White House's Secret Surveillance Program Breaks All the Laws

Feb 07 2024 8 mins

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

Jan 31 2024 8 mins

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 “Trump”; shopped at Dick’s Sporting Goods, Cabela’s, or Bass Pro Shops; or purchased tickets to travel by bus, cars, or plane.

Digital Kill Switches: How Tyrannical Governments Stifle Political Dissent

Jan 24 2024 8 mins

Communications kill switches have become tyrannical tools of domination and oppression to stifle political dissent, shut down resistance, forestall election losses, reinforce military coups, and keep the populace isolated, disconnected and in the dark, literally and figuratively.

Criminality in the White House: The Rise of the Political Psychopath

Jan 21 2024 8 mins

There is no difference between psychopaths and politicians. Political psychopaths eventually create pathocracies: totalitarian societies bent on power, control, and destruction of both freedom in general and those who exercise their freedoms.

Apocalypse Now: The Government’s Use of Controlled Chaos to Maintain Power

Jan 11 2024 8 mins

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 what’s left of it? All the signs seem to point in this direction.

We the Exploited: The U.S. Government Buys and Sells Its Citizens for Profit and Power

Dec 02 2023 8 mins

Americans have become easy prey for hackers, scammers, snitches, spies, and con artists … and the U.S. government.