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FBI Make-Work Entrapment Schemes: Creating Criminals in Order to Arrest Them
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”— Friedrich Nietzsche We’re…
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Sounding Alarm Over Thought Crime Programs, College Warned Against Tracking Religious, Political Ideologies
CHARLOTESVILLE, Va. — Responding to a report suggesting that the University of Virginia should consider tracking the religious and political…
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Commentary
Traitor to the Constitution: The US Government Is the Real Criminal
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without…
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Rule by Decree: The Emergency State’s Plot to Override the Constitution
“Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as…
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U.S. News
Court Asked to Hold Government Accountable for Violating Citizens’ First Amendment Right to Political Expression
LAKELAND, Fla. — The Rutherford Institute is challenging attempts by the government to sidestep accountability and avoid having to make…
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Commentary
Conspirators for the Constitution: When Anti-Government Speech Becomes Sedition
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”— George Orwell Let’s be clear about one thing: seditious…
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Rein in the FBI: Put an End to the FBI’s Gestapo Tactics
“One of the creeping hands of totalitarianism running through the democracy is the Federal Bureau of Investigation… Because why does…
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Supreme Court Refuses to Rein In IRS – Allows Agency to Carry Out Secret, Warrantless Searches of Innocent Taxpayers’ Bank Accounts
WASHINGTON, DC — In a unanimous opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the IRS to go on secret, warrantless…
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Business As Usual: Shutdown or Not, the Police State Will Continue to Flourish
“There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.”—Ludwig von Mises Once…
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Commentary
Danger Within: The Government Is Turning America Into a Constitution-Free Zone
“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those…
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Police Get a Green Light to Use Force Against Unarmed Individuals Who Have Already Surrendered or Complied
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court has once again refused to hold police accountable for using force on unarmed…
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Commentary
Disarm the IRS, De-Militarize the Bureaucracy, & Dismantle the Standing Army
“There are instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation and which place them so totally at the mercy…
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Supreme Court Asked To Rein In IRS’ Unconstitutional Power Grabs, Warrantless Searches Of Innocent Taxpayers’ Bank Accounts
WASHINGTON, DC — Warning against unconstitutional power grabs and overreaches by the IRS, The Rutherford Institute has asked the U.S.…
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The War on Free Speech Is Really a War on the Right to Criticize the Government
“Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those…
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Recognizing the Need to Protect Due Process Rights, Supreme Court Gives Green Light to Lawsuit for Post-Conviction DNA Testing in Death Row Case
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the need to protect due…
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Speak The Truth: Don’t Let The Government Criminalize Free Speech
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”—George…
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