Freedom Under Fire | The Rutherford Institute
156 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsFreedom 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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Has America Become a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy?
November 06, 2018 15:16 - 16 minutes - 31.1 MBWe’re living in two worlds, you and I. There’s the world we see (or are made to see) and then there’s the one we sense (and occasionally catch a glimpse of), the latter of which is a far cry from the propaganda-driven reality manufactured by the government and its corporate sponsors, including the media.
Vigilantes with a Badge: Warrior Cops Endanger Our Lives and Freedoms
October 15, 2018 18:20 - 19 minutes - 37.1 MBNot a day goes by without reports of police officers overstepping the bounds of the Constitution and brutalizing, terrorizing and killing the citizenry. Indeed, the list of incidents in which unaccountable police abuse their power, betray their oath of office and leave taxpayers bruised, broken and/or killed grows longer and more tragic by the day. It is increasingly evident that militarized police armed with weapons of war who are allowed to operate above the law and break the laws with impu...
Criminalizing Childhood: School Safety Measures Aren’t Making the Schools Any Safer
September 13, 2018 14:46 - 19 minutes - 37.4 MBAs a result of the government’s profit-driven campaign to keep the nation “safe” from drugs, weapons and terrorism, students are not only punished for minor transgressions such as playing cops and robbers on the playground, bringing LEGOs to school, or having a food fight, but they are being punished with suspension, expulsion, and even arrest. Welcome to Compliance 101: the police state’s primer in how to churn out compliant citizens and transform the nation’s school’s into quasi-prisons th...
Institutionalizing Intolerance: Bullies Win, Freedom Suffers When We Can’t Agree to Disagree
September 06, 2018 19:52 - 15 minutes - 30.2 MBIf Americans don’t learn how to get along—at the very least, agreeing to disagree and respecting each other’s right to subscribe to beliefs and opinions that may be offensive, hateful, intolerant or merely different—then we’re going to soon find that we have no rights whatsoever (to speak, assemble, agree, disagree, protest, opt in, opt out, or forge our own paths as individuals).
Battlefield America: The Ongoing War on the American People
September 06, 2018 17:50 - 13 minutes - 26.3 MBThis is what a state of undeclared martial law looks like, when you can be arrested, tasered, shot, brutalized and in some cases killed merely for not complying with a government agent’s order or not complying fast enough. This isn’t just happening in crime-ridden inner cities. It’s happening all across the country. America has been locked down.
The Evolution of a Police State Lockdown
August 27, 2018 14:24 - 13 minutes - 24.8 MBIt has become way too easy to lockdown this nation. Five years ago, the city of Boston was locked down while police carried out a military-style manhunt for suspects in the 2013 Boston Marathon explosion. Four years ago, the city of Ferguson, Missouri, was locked down, with government officials deploying a massive SWAT team, an armored personnel carrier, men in camouflage pointing heavy artillery at the crowd, smoke bombs and tear gas to quell citizen unrest over a police shooting of a young,...