Author: "For Liberty"

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the wake of a spate of incidents involving the use of excessive force by police against unarmed individuals, including the brutal killing of Tyre Nichols by members of a Memphis SCORPION police unit, The Rutherford Institute has called on the U.S. Supreme Court to narrow the scope of qualified immunity granted to officers who assault suspects who have already surrendered or complied with police orders.

In a joint amicus brief with the Cato Institute in Salazar v. Molina, Institute attorneys take issue with a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that gives qualified immunity to a police officer who tased a non-violent suspect in the back after he lay down to surrender. The ruling essentially gives police a green light to punish and harm suspects solely based upon their initial resistance. The brief warns that this ruling undermines public safety by discouraging suspects from surrendering or complying with police commands. Continue reading “Rutherford Institute Calls on Supreme Court to Stop Police From Using Excessive Force Against Individuals Who Have Surrendered or Complied”

Hemorrhaging Murders:
The US already suffered 39 mass shootings in January 2023, w/ 93 dead. So, what’s going on? Heritage statistics show the trend first began after the George Floyd riots were not prosecuted: 8 Cities That Help Explain National Crime Wave: “FBI statistics show a 30% increase in violent crime in 2020 compared to the previous year, the largest single-year increase since the agency began tracking those numbers in the 1960s.” While there’s possibly many elements involved, such as defunding police, etc, what is the largest influence at play? Continue reading “American Murders Obviously Skyrocket After Abandonment of God”

How do you trust a government that continuously sidesteps the Constitution and undermines our rights? You can’t.

When you consider all the ways “we the people” are being bullied, beaten, bamboozled, targeted, tracked, repressed, robbed, impoverished, imprisoned and killed by the government, one can only conclude that you shouldn’t trust the government with your privacy, your property, your life, or your freedoms.

Consider for yourself. Continue reading “Don’t Trust the Government with Your Privacy, Property or Your Freedoms”

“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”—Montesquieu, Enlightenment philosopher

For those wondering what to expect from the government in 2023, it looks like we’re going to be in for more of the same in terms of the government’s brand of madness, mayhem, corruption and brutality.
Continue reading “What to Expect from the Government in 2023? More of the Same”

In the preamble of the U.S. Constitution, our Founding Fathers declared that the brilliant centerpiece of our government was created by “We the People of the United States.” It was clearly not, “We the Politicians” or “We the Bureaucrats.”

Unfortunately, our federal government has utterly abandoned “We the People.” It was never more apparent than in the disgusting spectacle of the recently passed $1.7 trillion monstrosity known as the omnibus spending bill. Continue reading “THE WAR AGAINST WE THE PEOPLE”

In these darkest of days when self-crowned ‘leaders’ here and afar are deliberately walking the world backwards, comes 2023, a true harbinger of better days to come.

Even as we gather with loved ones to celebrate the Birth of Our Lord, we can take heart in knowing that those better days are on the way.

Better times because it’s End Times—not for the World that God Almighty created— but for all of those working to destroy it.

Continue reading “It’s ‘End Times’ For All Of Those Working To Destroy The World”

“He sees you when you’re sleeping
He knows when you’re awake
He knows when you’ve been bad or good
So be good for goodness’ sake!”
—“Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”

You’d better watch out—you’d better not pout—you’d better not cry—‘cos I’m telling you why: this Christmas, it’s the Surveillance State that’s making a list and checking it twice, and it won’t matter whether you’ve been bad or good. Continue reading “You’d Better Watch Out: The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re On It”

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to rein in the government’s power to indiscriminately pick and choose the laws by which it will abide, especially as it relates to the Sixth Amendment rights of the accused in criminal cases. Continue reading “Supreme Court Allows Government to Deny Sixth Amendment Protections to Citizens in Criminal Cases, Disregard Right to Twelve-Person Jury Trial”

By John & Nisha Whitehead

“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary.”—Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

If there is one point on which there should be no political parsing, no legal jockeying, and no disagreement, it is this: for anyone to advocate terminating or suspending the Constitution is tantamount to a declaration of war against the founding principles of our representative government and the rule of law.

Then again, one could well make the case that the Constitution has already been terminated after years on life support, given the extent to which the safeguards enshrined in the Bill of Rights—adopted 231 years ago as a means of protecting the people against government overreach and abuse—have been steadily chipped away at, undermined, eroded, whittled down, and generally discarded with the support of Congress, the White House, and the courts.

Consider for yourself. Continue reading “The Constitution Has Already Been Terminated”