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The Second Amendment: A Symbol of Freedom or An Invitation to Violence?

“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” — The Second Amendment to the US Constitution You...

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Why Are Americans Paying to Be Searched, Spied On, Shot At and Robbed Blind...

Outrageous examples of wasteful government spending from Sen. Coburn’s 2013 ‘Wastebook’ “To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.”—Benjamin...

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Jesus Lived in a Police State

“There is no evidence that Jesus himself openly advocated violent actions. But he was certainly no pacifist. “Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I have not come to bring peace, but...

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The Bundy Paradigm: Will You Be a Rebel, Revolutionary or a Slave?

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”—John F. Kennedy Those tempted to write off the standoff at the Bundy Ranch as little more than a show of force...

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Raising Up Compliant Children in the American Police State

“[The aim of public education is not] to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. . . . Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim . . . is simply to reduce as...

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Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Have the Police Become a Law Unto Themselves?

“Police are specialists in violence. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. With varying degrees of subtlety, this colors their every action. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat...

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Failing to Hold Police, Law Enforcement Accountable for Wrongdoing, U.S....

WASHINGTON, DC — Ruling in two separate cases in Plumhoff v. Rickard and Wood v. Moss, the U.S. Supreme Court has once again refused to hold law enforcement officials accountable for allegedly...

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Just Shoot: The Mindset Responsible for Turning Search Warrants into Death...

“A government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly...

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The Stealing of America by the Cops, the Courts, the Corporations and Congress

“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy Call it what you will—taxes, penalties, fees, fines,...

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The Absurd, Bureaucratic Hell That Is the American Police State

“The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is...

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Turning America Into a War Zone, Where ‘We the People’ Are the Enemy

“If you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop...

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The Final Nail in the Coffin: The Death of Freedom in Our Schools

“Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”―D.H. Lawrence No matter what...

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Resistance is Futile: The Violent Cost of Challenging the American Police State

“Police are specialists in violence. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. With varying degrees of subtlety, this colors their every action. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat...

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The Devil’s Bargain: The Illusion of a Trouble-Free Existence in the American...

Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across...

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Rutherford Institute to Defend Oregon Resident Who Was Jailed, Charged with...

GRESHAM, Oregon — The Rutherford Institute has come to the defense of 27-year-old Fred Marlow, an Oregon resident who was arrested, jailed and charged with interfering and resisting arrest after he...

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Citing 1st, 2nd & 4th Amendments, Rutherford Institute Sues Virginia Police...

RICHMOND, Va. — Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Virginia man who was arrested by City of Hopewell police officers as he was engaged in a First Amendment...

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Are ‘We the People’ Useful Idiots in the Digital Age?

Back in the heyday of the old Soviet Union, a phrase evolved to describe gullible western intellectuals who came to visit Russia and failed to notice the human and other costs of building a communist...

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We Are the Enemy: Is This the Lesson of Ferguson?

If you dress police officers up as soldiers and you put them in military vehicles and you give them military weapons, they adopt a warrior mentality. We fight wars against enemies, and the enemies are...

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America’s Children: The Trials of Growing Up in a Police State

“It’s been three weeks since the flashbang exploded next to my sleeping baby, and he’s still covered in burns. There’s still a hole in his chest that exposes his ribs. After breaking down the door,...

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TRI Defends 8th Grader Body Slammed & Arrested by Police for Wearing Rosary...

AMARILLO, Texas — The Rutherford Institute has come to the defense of an eighth grader at Sam Houston Middle School (SHMS) who was allegedly slammed to the ground by police, lain on until he was left...

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