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July 18, 2020

WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES

America, You’ve Been Blacklisted: McCarthyism Refashioned for a New Age 

Tyranny Without a Tyrant: The Deep State’s Divide-and-Conquer Strategy Is Working 

America’s Revolutionary Founders Would Be Anti-Government Extremists Today 

This Way Lies Madness: The Summer of Hate Meets the Age of Intolerance 

The System Is Rigged: Qualified Immunity Is How the Police State Stays in Power 

Engineering a Race War: Will This Be the American Police State’s Reichstag Fire? 

This Is Not a Revolution. It’s a Blueprint for Locking Down the Nation

RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES

In a Victory for Religious Freedom, U.S. Supreme Court Prohibits Government From Meddling in Employment Decisions at Religious Schools 

Victory: U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Discriminatory Law Preventing Students From Using Scholarships to Attend Religious Private Schools 

Rutherford Institute Warns Tech Giants: Attempts to Censor Unpopular Viewpoints Online Run Afoul of First Amendment 

Supreme Court: No Consequences for Police Who Destroy Home, Mistakenly Shoot 10-Year-Old Boy, or Sic Police Dog on Suspect Already Under Arrest 

Rutherford Institute Asks Virginia Supreme Court to Prohibit Police From Using License Plate Readers As Warrantless Mass Surveillance Tool to Track Drivers 

 
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IN THE COURTS

Court: Charlotte Police Drug Search in Traffic Stop Was Illegal 

UConn Not Liable for Unconstitutional Punishment of Athlete Because She Flipped the Bird on National TV 

Indiana Supreme Court Says Compelled Decryption Of Smartphones Violates The Fifth Amendment 

Justice Alito's Brief Retelling of Blaine Amendment History

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America, You’ve Been Blacklisted: McCarthyism Refashioned for a New Age 

Tyranny Without a Tyrant: The Deep State’s Divide-and-Conquer Strategy Is Working 

America’s Revolutionary Founders Would Be Anti-Government Extremists Today 

Madness: The Summer of Hate Meets the Age of Intolerance 

The System Is Rigged: Qualified Immunity Is How the Police State Stays in Power 

This Is Not a Revolution. It’s a Blueprint for Locking Down the Nation 

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AMERICAN POLICE STATE

Federal Officers in Unmarked Vans Detain Portland Protesters 

Research Shows Police Actions Often Escalated Confrontations 

Police Partially Blinded Eight People on the Same Day of George Floyd Death Protests: 

Police Officer Charged, Fired After Holding Gun to Handcuffed Man’s Head for Refusing to Give His Name 

Nationalizing the Police Is Not the Answer 

U.S. Police Unions Approved for Millions in Pandemic Aid

AMERICA AT WAR

Seattle City Council Member Suggests Firing White Officers In Massive Reduction Of Police Department 

Police Throw Black Lives Matter Protester Out of Wheelchair, Then Break It in Viral Video  

Trump Says Federal Government May ‘Take Over Cities,’ Because Crime 

Fort Hood a Dangerous Place for Women in the Military 

Why Police Pay Nothing for Military Equipment 

ICE Offering 'Citizens Academy' Course with Training on Arresting Immigrants
MAKE THE GOVERNMENT PLAY BY THE RULES OF THE CONSTITUTION: SUPPORT THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

COVID-19 DEVELOPMENTS

Mask Rules Expand Across U.S. as Clashes Over the Mandates Intensify 

The US National Security State Is Using Coronavirus To Drive Authoritarian Technocracy 

Ohio County Starts Hotline to Report People Not Wearing Masks  

Colorado Town Threatens Up To A Year In Jail For People Who Don’t Wear Masks 

Fauci Says Vaccine May Only Be 75% Effective And Transitory 

Won't Talk To Contact Tracers? There's A Subpoena For That 

239 Experts With One Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne 

How ‘Immunity Passports’ Could Create an Antibody Elite 

West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station To Start Citing People Not Wearing Face Coverings 

The Coronavirus Is Mutating

NATIONAL SECURITY

Customs to Expand License Plate Reading Program Nationwide 

An 11-Year-Old Changed Election Results on a Replica Florida State Website in Under 10 Minutes 

Germany Seizes Server Hosting Pilfered U.S. Police Files 

GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION

With ‘Judges Judging Judges,’ Rogues on the Bench Have Little to Fear 

Did NYPD Scrub References to Police Brutality on Its Wikipedia?  

Thousands of U.S. Judges Who Broke Laws or Oaths Remained on the Bench

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

UN Expert Joins Call for Immediate Moratorium on Sale, Transfer and Use of Surveillance Tech 

CBP Updates Privacy Impact Assessment On License Plate Readers; Says Opting Out Involves Not Driving 

Technocrats Pitch Surveillance System To Detect Next Pandemic 

Police Are Seeking Tesla Owners to Solve an Attempted Murder 

Facial Recognition Is Here But We Have No Laws

FREE SPEECH

Bari Weiss Quits New York Times After Bullying by Colleagues Over Views: ‘They Have Called Me a Nazi and a Racist’

ASSET FORFEITURE

Through Civil Asset Forfeiture, Police Become the Real Looters

TECHNOLOGY

Time to Ditch the Smart Phone? 

Amazon Shopping Cart Knows What You’re Buying 

Dataminr Helped Police Use Tweets To Surveil BLM Protests 

Car Owners Forced To Breathe Into A Breathalyzer To Start Their Vehicles

EDUCATION

L.A. Schools Police Will Return Grenade Launchers but Keep Rifles, Armored Vehicle

ECONOMY

No Change on the Way to No Cash 

‘I Can’t Keep Doing This:’ Small-Business Owners Are Giving Up 

Yelp: 41% Of Closed Businesses Are Closed For Good

RESISTANCE

87 Charged With Felony After Protest on AG’s Lawn 

North Carolina City Bans Protests, Protects Confederate Monument

POLITICS

Pompeo Takes On the Politicization of Human Rights 

Officials Tell CNN Trump Calls With World Leaders Are Unhinged, Delusional 

CULTURE

The Beatles in Jacksonville, 1964: Inside the Fab Four’s Historic Stand Against Segregation

FURTHER READING 

Judge Napolitano: Why I’m Worried About ‘Tyrannical’ Governors and Anarchy in the Streets 

PCR: White Professors Live In Fear 

A Letter on Justice and Open Debate 

We Are All Prisoners of Groupthink

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