Author: "For Liberty"

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Sounding Alarm Over Thought Crime Programs, TRI Warns College Against Tracking Religious, Political Ideologies

CHARLOTESVILLE, Va. — Responding to a report suggesting that the University of Virginia should consider tracking the religious and political affiliations/ideologies of students and faculty, The Rutherford Institute has warned that such a program would raise significant constitutional concerns, especially as it pertains to the right of citizens to associate anonymously without being compelled by the government to disclose their political or religious beliefs. Continue reading “Sounding Alarm Over Thought Crime Programs, TRI Warns College Against Tracking Religious, Political Ideologies”

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Traitor to the Constitution: The U.S. Government Is the Real Criminal

By John & Nisha Whitehead

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable.”—H.L. Mencken

And so it continues.

Continue reading “Traitor to the Constitution: The U.S. Government Is the Real Criminal”

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Rule by Decree: The Emergency State’s Plot to Override the Constitution

By John & Nisha Whitehead

“Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.”—Justice Neil Gorsuch

We have become a nation in a permanent state of emergency.

Power-hungry and lawless, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expand its powers and justify all manner of government tyranny in the so-called name of national security. Continue reading “Rule by Decree: The Emergency State’s Plot to Override the Constitution”

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Conspirators for the Constitution: When Anti-Government Speech Becomes Sedition

By John & Nisha Whitehead

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”— George Orwell

Let’s be clear about one thing: seditious conspiracy isn’t a real crime to anyone but the U.S. government.

To be convicted of seditious conspiracy, the charge levied against Stewart Rhodes who was sentenced to 18 years in prison for being the driving force behind the January 6 Capitol riots, one doesn’t have to engage in violence against the government, vandalize government property, or even trespass on property that the government has declared off-limits to the general public.

To be convicted of seditious conspiracy, one need only foment a revolution.

This is not about whether Rhodes deserves such a hefty sentence. Continue reading “Conspirators for the Constitution: When Anti-Government Speech Becomes Sedition”

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Police Get a Green Light to Use Force Against Unarmed Individuals Who Have Already Surrendered or Complied

WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court has once again refused to hold police accountable for using force on unarmed individuals who have already surrendered or complied with police orders. Despite a series of high-profile incidents involving the use of unnecessary and excessive force by police against unarmed individuals, the Court declined to narrow the scope of qualified immunity granted to officers who assault non-violent suspects who have ceased to resist arrest. Continue reading “Police Get a Green Light to Use Force Against Unarmed Individuals Who Have Already Surrendered or Complied”

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The Debt Ceiling Deal From Hell

Conservatives have long been suspicious of U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). He is rightly viewed as a deal maker with little backbone who often sacrifices principles for expediency. This is why it took fifteen ballots for him to finally get elected as House Speaker. He was able to secure the position due to support from conservative stalwarts such as U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and President Donald Trump.

Unfortunately, his tenure as House Speaker has been about as disappointing as many conservatives feared. He has not kept the promises he made to the members of the Freedom Caucus to garner their support. Continue reading “The Debt Ceiling Deal From Hell”

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Rein in the FBI: Put an End to the FBI’s Gestapo Tactics

 

“One of the creeping hands of totalitarianism running through the democracy is the Federal Bureau of Investigation… Because why does the FBI do all this? To scare the hell out of people… They work for the establishment and the corporations and the politicos to keep things as they are. And they want to frighten and chill the people who are trying to change things.”—Howard Zinn, historian

Power corrupts. We know this.

In fact, we know this from experience learned the hard way at the hands of our own government. Continue reading “Rein in the FBI: Put an End to the FBI’s Gestapo Tactics”

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Disarm the IRS, De-Militarize the Bureaucracy, and Dismantle the Standing Army

“There are instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation and which place them so totally at the mercy of their governors that those governors, whether legislative or executive, should be restrained from keeping such instruments on foot but in well-defined cases. Such an instrument is a standing army.”—Thomas Jefferson, 1789

What does it say about the state of our freedoms that there are now more pencil-pushing, bureaucratic (non-military) government agents armed with weapons than U.S. Marines? Continue reading “Disarm the IRS, De-Militarize the Bureaucracy, and Dismantle the Standing Army”

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The War on Free Speech Is Really a War on the Right to Criticize the Government

By John & Nisha Whitehead

“Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? The constitutional theory is that we the people are the sovereigns, the state and federal officials only our agents. We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.”— Justice William O. Douglas

Absolutely, there is a war on free speech.

To be more accurate, however, the war on free speech is really a war on the right to criticize the government. Continue reading “The War on Free Speech Is Really a War on the Right to Criticize the Government”

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Speak Your Truth: Don’t Let the Government Criminalize Free Speech

By John & Nisha Whitehead

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”—George Washington

What the police state wants is a silent, compliant, oblivious citizenry.

What the First Amendment affirms is an engaged citizenry that speaks truth to power using whatever peaceful means are available to us.

Speaking one’s truth doesn’t have to be the same for each person, and that truth doesn’t have to be palatable or pleasant or even factual. Continue reading “Speak Your Truth: Don’t Let the Government Criminalize Free Speech”