John W. Whitehead
President
Dear Friend,
If the government can tell you what you can and cannot do within the privacy of
your home, whether it relates to what you eat, what you smoke or whom you love,
you no longer have any rights whatsoever within your home.
If government officials can fine and arrest you for growing vegetables in your
front yard, praying with friends in your living room, installing solar panels on
your roof, and raising chickens in your backyard, you’re no longer the owner of
your property.
If school officials can punish your children for what they do or say while at
home or in your care, your children are not your own—they are the property of
the state.
If government agents can invade your home, break down your doors, kill your dog,
damage your furnishings and terrorize your family, your property is no longer
private and secure—it belongs to the government.
Likewise, if police can forcefully draw your blood, strip search you, and probe
you intimately, your body is no longer your own, either.
This is what a world without the Fourth Amendment looks like, where the lines
between private and public property have been so blurred that private property
is reduced to little more than something the government can use to control,
manipulate and harass you to suit its own purposes, and you the homeowner and
citizen have been reduced to little more than a tenant or serf in bondage to an
inflexible landlord.
This is not the world that I envisioned for my children and grandchildren, which
is why The Rutherford Institute is working hard to ensure that Americans remain
secure in our “persons, houses, papers, and effects.”
In other words, we’re fighting to ensure that the Fourth Amendment’s
protections, which were intended to follow us wherever we go, also apply to all
that is ours—whether you’re talking about our physical bodies, our biometric
data, our possessions, our families, or our way of life. But we can’t do this
alone.
Please take a moment right now to make a tax-deductible donation to The
Rutherford Institute in support of our critical legal cases and educational
programs. You can do so by
clicking here, visiting us online at
www.rutherford.org, or over the phone at
1-800-225-1791. Or, if it’s easier on your budget, you can also sign on to be a
regular monthly donor. Whatever you do, know that we appreciate it and that
you’re making a huge difference in the fight for freedom.
I remain, yours faithfully,
John W. Whitehead
President
P.S. The best gift you can give anyone this year is the gift of freedom, and a
good place to start is by supporting the work of The Rutherford Institute. With
any gift of support of $35 or more, we’ll also send you a signed copy of my new
book,
A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American
Police State.