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BOOKS BY JOHN W. WHITEHEAD


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MAY 13, 2024

WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES

Virtual Home Invasions: We’re Not Safe from Government Peeping Toms 

The Steady Slide Towards Tyranny: How Freedom Dies from A to Z 

Divide and Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News 

Down with Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution 

RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES

Michigan Supreme Court Allows Government to Conduct Warrantless Drone Surveillance of Excess ‘Junk’ Cars on Couple’s Secluded Property 

U.S. Supreme Court Allows Case to Move Forward That Could Dissuade and Chill the Right to Organize Peaceful Political Mass Protests 

Rutherford Institute Threatens First Amendment Lawsuit Over Censorship of Religious Content From High School Valedictorian’s Graduation Speech 

Rutherford Institute Defends Women’s Basketball Coach’s First Amendment Right to Religious Expression 

Rutherford Institute Denounces Oregon City Law Against Sleeping, Camping in Public as Unconstitutional Attempt to Criminalize Homelessness 

LEGAL FEATURES

Constitutional Q&A: American Community Survey 

Special Report: The Right to Be Let Alone: How to Safeguard Your Freedoms in the Face of the Government’s COVID-19 Power Grabs 

The Case Against Technofascism: When Big Tech Companies Censor Speech 
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IN THE COURTS

Blockbuster Cases Abound as Supreme Court Enters Opinion Season 

Ninth Circuit Finds That Convicted Felons Also Have Second Amendment Rights 

The Supreme Court Rules That Cops Can Steal Your Stuff—as They Always Have 

Warrantless Searches of Private Land Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Rules  

TikTok Sues U.S. Government, Saying Potential Ban Violates First Amendment 

California Supreme Court:  Acting ‘Odd’ in High-Crime Area Did Not Justify Detention

PODCAST: FREEDOM UNDER FIRE

Freedom Under Fire is a free weekly podcast available on SoundCloud and iTunes.

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

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

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

Podcast Archive

ON TARGET VODCAST, INTERVIEWS

How to Stand Up for Freedom (Interview with Collapse Life)  

Counting the People (Interview with Financial Rebellion, CHD) 

Are You Being Watched? (Whitehead Interview with Good Morning, CHD) 

The Rise of the Security Industrial Complex: One America News  

AMERICAN POLICE STATE

When Bad Cops Become Private Security Guards 

Looking Up an NYPD Officer’s Discipline Record? Many Are There One Day, Gone the Next 

Some Police Units Are Murdering and Torturing Civilians. We Need a National Investigation 

A Police Youth Program Is Plagued by Sexual Abuse Allegations Across the U.S.

BEHIND BARS

Lawsuit Alleges Decades of Child Sex Abuse at Illinois Juvenile Detention Centers 

California Ends Use of Out-of-State Prisons After 13 Years 

Breaking a Prison's Code of Silence
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NATIONAL SECURITY

The 2025 Real ID Deadline for New Licenses Is Really Real This Time, DHS Says 

Report Shows CBP Expanding Mass Surveillance System Along Mexican Border 

14 Senators Slam TSA Facial Recognition in Airports

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

Congress Is Working on a Federal Privacy Law. Here’s Why We Need One 

Leaked FBI Email Stresses Need for Warrantless Surveillance of Americans 

The Dark Side of Virtual Try-On Tools 

Microsoft Bans US Police Departments From Using Enterprise AI Tool for Facial Recognition

FREE SPEECH / CENSORSHIP

Can University Protest Camps Be Removed? What Does the Law Say? 

Justice Alito Warns of Declining Support for Freedom of Speech on College Campuses 

 Florida Bar Maoist War on Free Speech Continues 

EDUCATION

Virginia School Board Votes to Restore Confederate Names to 2 Schools

ECONOMY

Medicare and Social Security Go-Broke Dates Are Pushed Back

POLITICS

Trump Promises To Give Police 'Immunity From Prosecution' 

The Controversy Surrounding the Antisemitism Bill, Explained

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