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** JUNE 2, 2024
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** WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES
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Get Up, Stand Up, Don’t Give Up the Fight: Know Your Rights or You Will Lose Them ([link removed])

From COVID-19 to Campus Protests: How the Police State Muzzles Free Speech ([link removed])

10 Things College Graduates Can Do in the Face of a New Age of Fear ([link removed])

A Nanny State Idiocracy: A Tale of Too Many Laws and Too Little Freedom ([link removed])

Virtual Home Invasions: We’re Not Safe from Government Peeping Toms ([link removed])

The Steady Slide Towards Tyranny: How Freedom Dies from A to Z ([link removed])


** RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES
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Victory: Rutherford Institute Protects Valedictorian’s First Amendment Right to Talk About God in Graduation Speech Without Being Censored ([link removed])

Relying on Red Tape and Technicalities, Police Use Asset Forfeiture to Keep Thousands of Dollars in Cash From Innocent Owners ([link removed])

SCOTUS Fails to Protect Citizens From Asset Forfeiture Delay Tactics That Let Police Keep Seized Cars & Cash ([link removed])

Michigan Supreme Court Allows Government to Conduct Warrantless Drone Surveillance of Excess ‘Junk’ Cars on Couple’s Secluded Property ([link removed])

U.S. Supreme Court Allows Case to Move Forward That Could Dissuade and Chill the Right to Organize Peaceful Political Mass Protests ([link removed])


** LEGAL FEATURES
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Constitutional Q&A: American Community Survey ([link removed])

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

The Case Against Technofascism: When Big Tech Companies Censor Speech ([link removed])
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** IN THE COURTS
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Trump Becomes First Former US President Convicted of Felony Crimes ([link removed])

The NRA's Unanimous Supreme Court Victory Is Good for Free Speech—No Matter How You Feel About Guns DC Transit Authority Ban on Controversial Ads Found to Violate First Amendment ([link removed])

Texas Supreme Court Rules Against Women Who Alleged State Abortion Ban Put Their Health at Risk ([link removed])

Does Religious Freedom Give You a Right to Have Dreads? ([link removed])

Florida Supreme Court Rules Law Enforcement Can Force Drivers Out of Their Car for Drug Sweep ([link removed])


** PODCAST: FREEDOM UNDER FIRE
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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 ([link removed])

We’ve Already Got a Dictator-in-Chief: How Absolute Power Corrupted the President ([link removed])

2024 Is the New 1984: Big Brother and the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex ([link removed])

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** ON TARGET VODCAST, INTERVIEWS
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How to Stand Up for Freedom (Interview with Collapse Life) ([link removed])

Counting the People (Interview with Financial Rebellion, CHD) ([link removed])

Are You Being Watched? (Whitehead Interview with Good Morning, CHD) ([link removed])

The Rise of the Security Industrial Complex: One America News ([link removed])


** JUSTICE SYSTEM
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A Legal Doctrine That Shields Police From Many Lawsuits May Be Losing Support ([link removed])


** AMERICAN POLICE STATE
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Four Years After George Floyd Killing, Police Reform Slow to Follow ([link removed])

Drones Set to Replace First Responders in Denver Police Force ([link removed])

New Louisiana Law Will Make It Harder for Bystanders to Film Police Misconduct ([link removed])


** BEHIND BARS
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** NATIONAL SECURITY
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Secret Service Deleted Texts From Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, After Watchdog Sought Records ([link removed])

Biden Administration Tries to Plug Loophole That Released Migrant Linked to Terrorism Into the U.S. ([link removed])


** SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY
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What Philadelphians Need to Know About the City’s 7,000-Camera Surveillance System ([link removed])

San Francisco Should Stop Sharing the Ankle Monitor Data of Suspects on Pretrial Release ([link removed])

The U.S. Finally Passes An Internet Privacy Law… For Rich Jet Owners ([link removed])

Watch Out for the Doorman. Technology and Neighbourhood Surveillance ([link removed])

Privacy International Warns That Biometrics at Sports Stadiums Infringe on Human Rights ([link removed])

How Israel Is Using Facial Recognition in Gaza ([link removed])

We’re Nearing a Point of No Return on Data Privacy ([link removed])

CBP, ICE Sued for Information About Sharing of Noncitizens’ Biometrics ([link removed])


** FREE SPEECH / CENSORSHIP
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How Campus Protests Flip-Flopped America’s Free Speech Debate ([link removed])

For Protest-Minded Workers, Employment Law and Free Speech Are Not Clearly on Your Side ([link removed])


** TECHNOLOGY
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Experts Seeing ‘More and More’ Hate Content Created by Artificial Intelligence ([link removed])

‘I Was Misidentified as Shoplifter by Facial Recognition Tech’ ([link removed])

What Is the Internet of Bodies? ([link removed])

DHS Sets Its Research Sights on 8 Emerging Technologies ([link removed])

China’s Military Shows Off Rifle-Toting Robot Dogs ([link removed])

How Facial Recognition Technology Is Transforming Travel Efficiency and Security ([link removed])


** POLITICS
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Trump Is Now a Convicted Felon. Here’s What That Could Mean for His Rights ([link removed])

Wide Scope of Presidential Emergency Powers Could Be Reined In by Congress This Year ([link removed])

Speed, Red-Light Camera Rule Revisions Approved, Pursued in 12 States ([link removed])

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