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4-Year-Old Preschooler Handcuffed, Shackled & Transported to Police Station for Allegedly Acting up in Class
STANARDSVILLE, Va. — The Rutherford Institute has come to the aid of a four-year-old Virginia student who, after allegedly acting…
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Ignorance Is No Excuse for Wrongdoing, Unless You’re a Cop
“[I]f the individual is no longer to be sovereign, if the police can pick him up whenever they do not…
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8th Grader Body Slammed & Arrested by Police for Wearing Rosary to School Football Game in Memory of Dead Brother
AMARILLO, Texas — The Rutherford Institute has come to the defense of an eighth grader at Sam Houston Middle School…
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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…
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The 12 Rules of Christmas – Do’s & Dont’s of Celebrating Christmas in Schools, Workplaces & Elsewhere
Over the years, The Rutherford Institute has been contacted by parents and teachers alike concerned about schools changing their Christmas…
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Virginia Police Sued for Violating Obama Protester’s Right to Free Speech and Lawful Gun Ownership
RICHMOND, Va. — Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Virginia man who was…
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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…
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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…
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The Devil’s Bargain: The Illusion of a Trouble-Free Existence in the American Police State
Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the…
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The American Police State Trains with Zombies in Real Life “The Walking Dead” Scenario
Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the…
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Hollow Justice and Courts of Order in an Age of Government-Sanctioned Tyranny
“The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people.”—Justice William O.…
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Should We Just Follow Orders? Rules of Engagement for Resisting the Police State
“Let your motto be resistance! resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance.”—Abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet…
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Turning Americans into Snitches for the Police State: ‘See Something, Say Something’ and Community Policing
“There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking…
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