President Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) brainstormed about infiltrating local communities to spy on Americans and suggested being “religious” or “in the military” was an “indicator of extremists and terrorism.”
Could it be that in our beloved country, our leadership and their agency leaders have concluded that Christians and patriots are suspect and should be watched carefully?
That's what excerpts of documents obtained by America First Legal indicate.
Be informed, not misled.
On Friday, America First Legal reported, "Today, America First Legal (AFL) is releasing the second tranche of internal files from the 'Homeland Intelligence Experts Group,' obtained exclusively through AFL’s litigation with Ambassador Ric Grenell against the Biden Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This is the second installment of #DeepStateDiaries, a multi-part series of releases including newly obtained documents."
They continued, "Yesterday, AFL released documents showing how the Deep State’s DHS intel group proposed expanding DHS’s reach into local communities in an 'ambiguous' and 'non-threatening' way and contemplating ways to get teachers and mothers to report their children. "
They also noted that "Today’s installment exposes how the Biden Administration classifies someone as a person likely to commit 'domestic violent extremist' attacks, particularly those who support President Trump, are 'in the military,' or are 'religious.'”
The Federalist is also reporting, "The committee, on which John Brennan and James Clapper — both notorious for their participation in the Russia-collusion hoax as well as for falsely claiming Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation — sat, also suggested religious Americans, members of the military, and Trump supporters were possible security threats, according to segments of the documents released by AFL."
“If you ask researchers to dive into indicators of extremists and terrorism, they might indicate being in the military or religious,” one segment states. “This being identified as an indicator suggests we should be more worried about these. We need the space to talk about it honestly.”
“There is a political backdrop to all of this. It seems that most of the Domestic Terrorism threat now comes from supporters of the former president,” the segment states. “It is not like you want a political advantage, but people have attacked the government and its institutions for the last six years.”
Of course, they are seeking political advantage.
I thought this group was disbanded due to public outrage.
It was, but we are just learning what the discussions involved.
And asking ourselves did this kind of thinking cease with shutting down the "group?"
Biden administration agreed to disband the “Experts Group” in May after an AFL lawsuit, and other federal agencies under Biden have ramped up their efforts to criminalize “opposition to the regime.”
Newsweek has reported: "The federal government believes that the threat of violence and major civil disturbances around the 2024 U.S. presidential election is so great that it has quietly created a new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump's army of MAGA followers."
"The challenge for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the primary federal agency charged with law enforcement, is to pursue and prevent what it calls domestic terrorism without direct reference to political parties or affiliations—even though the vast majority of its current 'anti-government' investigations are of Trump supporters, according to classified data obtained by Newsweek."
According to Newsweek, "From the president down, the Biden administration has presented Trump and MAGA as an existential threat to American democracy and talked up the risk of domestic terrorism and violence associated with the 2024 election campaign."
"Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country," President Biden tweeted last September, the first time that he explicitly singled out the former president. "MAGA Republicans aim to question not only the legitimacy of past elections but elections being held now and into the future," Biden said.
Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 2, 2022
Biden's Homeland Security Advisor Liz Sherwood-Randall said: "The use of violence to pursue political ends is a profound threat to our public safety and national security...it is a threat to our national identity, our values, our norms, our rule of law—our democracy."
Attorney General Merrick Garland says: "Attacks by domestic terrorists are attacks on all of us collectively, aimed at rending the fabric of our democratic society and driving us apart."
The question then becomes, who are the "domestic terrorists?"
The Federalist says, "This is a top-down ideology, exemplified by Biden himself espousing the baseless yet inflammatory claim that 'MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country.'”
The Daily Signal, an arm of The Heritage Foundation, notes that "The real threat is Democrats’ unabashed use of law enforcement agencies to target political dissidents. The FBI, for example, used a document from the left-wing extremist group, Southern Poverty Law Center, to target Catholics for beliefs like opposing abortion and holding orthodox views on sex. The FBI labeled these individuals as 'racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists.'”
Takeaway
While it's clear the Catholic Church has been targeted, it should be equally clear that all other faiths are now also considered targets.
The SPLC claims it does not brand Christian organizations “hate groups” merely because they oppose same-sex marriage, but many of its accusations boil down to a disagreement on LGBT issues. The SPLC branded the Ruth Institute an “anti-LGBT hate group” in part because its founder, Jennifer Roback Morse, called homosexual activity “intrinsically disordered,” pulling a direct quote from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares addressed the document in comments to The Daily Signal.
“The right to worship freely is fundamental and sacred,” Miyares said. “This sort of government abuse—the FBI spying on faithful Virginia Catholics and treating them like potential terrorists—is what I expect in Communist Cuba. Not here, in a country founded as a beacon of freedom for religious minorities.”
He described it as “truly terrifying that the FBI might be taking its pointers from a thoroughly discredited report issued by the far left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center. Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland have a lot of explaining to do. Virginians deserve to know whether the federal government is treating them like terrorists because of how they worship.
Be Informed. Be Not Afraid. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Prayerful. Be Bold.