Tag: freedom

Posted on

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”

Posted on

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”

Posted on

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”

Posted on

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”

Posted on

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”

Posted on

After a Year Under Lockdown, Will Our Freedoms Survive the Tyranny of COVID-19?

“Americans deserve the freedom to choose a life without surveillance and the government regulation that would make that possible. While we continue to believe the sentiment, we fear it may soon be obsolete or irrelevant. We deserve that freedom, but the window to achieve it narrows a little more each day. If we don’t act now, with great urgency, it may very well close for good.”—Charlie Warzel and Stuart A. Thompson, New York Times

Databit by databit, we are building our own electronic concentration camps. Continue reading “After a Year Under Lockdown, Will Our Freedoms Survive the Tyranny of COVID-19?”