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APRIRL 13, 2020

WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES

COVID-19’s Challenge to the Christian Church: What Would Jesus Do? 

Draconian Lockdown Powers: It’s a Slippery Slope from Handwashing to House Arrest 

Suspending the Constitution: Police State Uses Crises to Expand Its Lockdown Powers 

This Is a Test: How Will the Constitution Fare During a Nationwide Lockdown? 

Coronavirus vs. the Mass Surveillance State: Which Poses the Greater Threat?

COVID-19: THE LATEST

Kentucky Will Take Down License Plates of People Attending Easter Services and Order Them to Quarantine  

Big Data Is Helping Us Fight The Coronavirus — But At What Cost To Our Privacy? 

Fauci: Coronavirus Immunity Cards for Americans Are ‘Being Discussed’ 

Boston Suburb Sets Up One-Way Sidewalks and Will Fine Those Who Walk in the Wrong Direction 

Michigan Order Bans ‘Travel Between Residences,’ With a Few Exceptions 

The COVID-19 "Lockdowns" Are What Twenty-First-Century Mob Rule Looks Like 

Governments Are Using the Coronavirus to Hide Information From Reporters and Citizens 

The Outer Banks Tried To Crack Down On Outsiders, But They Keep Sneaking In 

Google Publishes Movement Data to Bolster War Against Coronavirus 

Los Angeles May Keep People From Traveling Outside Neighborhoods If Virus Cases Soar 

Kentucky Coronavirus: Some Residents Who Are Refusing to Self-Isolate to Wear Ankle Monitors 

NYPD’s Aggressive Policing Risks Spreading the Coronavirus 

‘Immunity Passports’ Could Speed Up Return to Work After COVID-19

RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES

The Rutherford Institute's Statement on the Right to Religious Freedom During COVID-19 

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Blank Check Policing, Allows Cops to Stop Cars Registered to Unlicensed Owners, Whether or Not Owners Are Driving 

Tenn. Supreme Court Allows Police to Carry Out Warrantless, Suspicionless Searches of Probationers’ Homes, Undermining Fourth Amendment
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IN THE COURTS

Judge Rules Against Virginia Man’s Request to Allow Groups of 10 or More to Attend Easter Church

PODCAST: FREEDOM UNDER FIRE

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Draconian Lockdown Powers: It’s a Slippery Slope from Handwashing to House Arrest

Suspending the Constitution: Police State Uses Crises to Expand Its Lockdown Powers

This Is a Test: How Will the Constitution Fare During a Nationwide Lockdown?

Podcast Archive

VODCAST: ON TARGET

Stealing from the Citizenry: How Government Goons Use Civil Asset Forfeiture to Rob Us Blind

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JUSTICE SYSTEM

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AMERICAN POLICE STATE

Police Interrupt Palm Sunday Service After Neighbor Reports Church

OVERCRIMINALIZATION 

Former Police Officer Arrested in Park for Throwing Ball With Daughter Due to Coronavirus Social Distancing Rules 

Arresting People for Coughing Won’t Keep Communities Safer

AMERICA AT WAR

Maryland Forms Coronavirus ‘Strike Teams’ to Combat Nursing Home Outbreaks
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SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

White House Uses COVID-19 As A Reason To Create A Real-Time National Coronavirus Surveillance System 

Judge Rips Jared Kushner's Proposed Coronavirus Surveillance System, Says It Breaches the Constitution 

Thermal Imaging Cameras are Still Dangerous Dragnet Surveillance Cameras 

Beware: Our New Online Culture is a Feast for Mass Surveillance 

Edward Snowden Warns Coronavirus Surveillance Could Lead to Abuse 

FREE SPEECH

Book Burnings in the Digital Age: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Now….Poetry?

TECHNOLOGY

Google-Fitbit Merger Would Cement Google’s Data Empire 

Drone Hovers Above NYC, Urges People to Practice Social Distancing

DRONES

Legislative Watch: The Rise of Drones During the Pandemic

ECONOMY

Nearly a Third of US Apartment Renters Didn’t Pay Any Rent for April 

Businesses Banning Banknotes, Asking Customers to Use Credit, Debit Cards 

Replacing Cash: Will U.S. Start Becoming a Cashless Society in 2020? 

Is A Cashless Society Good For America?

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Responds to Bill Gates’ Statements on a Mandatory Coronavirus Vaccine

POLITICS

Experts Sound Alarm Over Trump Plan to Purge 7 Inspectors General 

Secret Provision Sets Up Mysterious $450 Billion Coronavirus Bailout Fund — With Almost No Oversight 

From Drafting Doctors to Stealing Equipment, Politicians Violate the Limits of a Free Society

FURTHER READING 

A New World Is Being Born:  What Will It Be?

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