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SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES

Constitution Day 2021: It’s Time to Make America Free Again 

20 Years of Government-Sponsored Tyranny: The Rise of the Security-Industrial Complex from 9/11 to COVID-19 

Bring All the Troops Home: Stop Policing the Globe and Put an End to Endless Wars 

TRI IN THE NEWS

Whitehead on the Ominous Rise of "Fusion Centers": The News with Rick Sanchez 

RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES

Special Report: Civil Liberties in the Age of COVID-19 

Under Misguided ‘Evict First, Ask Questions Later’ Policy, Delaware Police Mistakenly Evict Blind Man During a Snowstorm, Rendering Him Homeless 

On Appeal: Should Police Be Allowed To Retaliate Against Citizens for Exercising Their First Amendment Rights by Recording Police Brutality? 

Court Ruling Strips Apartment Dwellers of Fourth Amendment Rights, Leaves Hallways Open to Warrantless Police Surveillance & Arrests 
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IN THE COURTS

Appeals Court: PA Cops Who Forced Women Into Sex For Traffic Stops Cannot Be Charged As Sex Offenders If They Don't Plead Guilty  

Judges Reverse Lower Court, Allow Blood Alcohol Test in Fatal Crash 

Judges Who Violate Due Process Rights For Personal Gain Just Got a Major Pass From This Federal Court 

Federal Judge Blocks Forced Vaccination For Medical Personnel In New York State 

PODCAST: FREEDOM UNDER FIRE

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Constitution Day 2021: It’s Time to Make America Free Again 

Bring All the Troops Home 

Authoritarians Drunk on Power: It Is Time to Recalibrate the Government 

Podcast Archive

VODCAST: ON TARGET

Techno-Censorship: When Censoring ‘Disinformation’ Becomes Silencing Truth 

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COVID-19

Michigan Health Care System Says Workers With Natural Immunity Don't Need Vaccine 

Members of Congress and Their Staff Are Exempt From Biden's Vaccine Mandate 

A N.Y. Hospital Won't Deliver Babies After Workers Quit Over Vaccine Mandate 

4 Things to Know About Legal Challenges to Biden’s Vaccine Mandates 

Documents Provide New Evidence U.S. Funded Gain-of-Function Research 

United Airlines Workers With COVID Vaccine Exemptions Must Take Temporary Leaves 

AMERICAN POLICE STATE

Law Enforcement Is Buying Personal Cell Phone Data From Commercial Brokers Without Warrants 

The New Warrant: How US Police Mine Google for Your Location and Search History 

‘Officer of the Year’ Arrested for Sodomizing Innocent Black Passenger 

LAPD Officers Told To Collect Social Media Data on Every Civilian They Stop

OVERCRIMINALIZATION 

New Texas Law Gives Police Permission To Seize Vehicles Involved in Street Racing 

AMERICA AT WAR

Intercepted: The War on Terror’s Long-Lasting Consequences 

FBI Terrorism Stings: Two Decades of National Security Theater 

The Forever Wars Are Coming to America

BEHIND BARS

Prison Company Patents VR to Give Inmates Brief Taste of Freedom
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GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION

Red Light Robberies Across America 

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

Illinois Prohibits Warrantless Data Collection from Household Electronic Devices 

Facebook Smart Glasses Can Overheat; They Can Also Take Pictures and Video of People without Their Consent 

License Plate Readers Use Footage From Ring, Smartphones And ATM Machines To ID Vehicles 

ECONOMY

Traditional Buying and Selling May Soon Become Obsolete without Biometric Verification 

POLITICS

Biden Wants IRS To Snoop Into Your Bank Account, Know When You Have $600 or More 

FURTHER READING 

Naomi Wolf: We’ve Reached ‘Step Ten’ of the 10 Steps to Fascism 

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