Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and 19 GOP state attorneys general are looking into a matter regarding a memo from the FBI and DOJ that revealed the government law enforcement agencies are undergoing efforts to treat Catholics as “potential terrorists” – a situation that sounds shockingly similar to religious discrimination by the U.S. government.
In the memo, the FBI listed multiple potential Catholic hate/extremist groups, many of which are completely faith-based and have no violent history or intent.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and 19 GOP state attorneys general wrote a letter to the FBI and DOJ demanding that they:
“…desist from investigating and surveilling Americans who have done nothing more than exercise their natural and constitutional right to practice their religion in a manner of their choosing.” Miyares and his GOP colleagues also asked that the FBI and DOJ “reveal to the American public the extent to which they have engaged in such activities.”
The Biden administration and overzealous law enforcement agencies are no strangers to throwing around words such as “extremist” or “terrorist,” as they’ve even used these words along with FBI investigations into parents who spoke out against left-wing ideology at school board meetings within the previous few years following the COVID-19 pandemic.
The United States Constitution guarantees American citizens religious freedoms, and the FBI and DOJ have a long history of utilizing their powers to trample these American rights, as Miyares points out with Muslim Americans following the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.
Miyares and his GOP colleagues also added:
“Anti-Catholic bigotry appears to be festering in the FBI, and the Bureau is treating Catholics as potential terrorists because of their beliefs,”
“We are the chief legal officers of our respective States charged not only with enforcing the law, but also with securing the civil rights of our citizens… The FBI must immediately and unequivocally order agency personnel not to target Americans based on their religious beliefs and practices,” adding that they would be “[taking] appropriate means to protect the rights of our constituents as guaranteed by our Constitution.”
The FBI has since responded, saying:
“While our standard practice is to not comment on specific intelligence products, this particular field office product – disseminated only within the FBI – regarding racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism does not meet the exacting standards of the FBI… The FBI is committed to sound analytic tradecraft and to investigating and preventing acts of violence and other crimes while upholding the constitutional rights of all Americans and will never conduct investigative activities or open an investigation based solely on First Amendment protected activity.”
“The FBI is committed to sound analytic tradecraft and to investigating and preventing acts of violence and other crimes while upholding the constitutional rights of all Americans and will never conduct investigative activities or open an investigation based solely on First Amendment protected activity.”
It is time we pull the teeth from Biden and the DOJ and FBI Every time someone says anything against the crooked regime They are just like the Nazi’s This is totally against what we are in this country It is time for these people to go down Who in the hell do these sons of bitches think they are anyway I do think that we may not get them now but we will and then we are going to fry their ass We are a free country and it doesn’t make any difference about Biden’s fucking lies and loud voice is not going to change anything Biden’s fucking ass better be locked up for all of the garbage he has pulled and he is not even the rightful president and he is sucking Klaus Schwab’s ass and think they are going to take us over I have news for Biden’s fucking Kraut idiot friend You will not get this country as long as there are people like me and there are millions just like me So get tough Biden and see what happens I am not threatening the old bastard I am merely saying he is going down one way or another I know there is danger of Biden using the doj on me but come on down if you feel lucky
Ah, the FBI. Where is Eliot Ness when you need him.
Ah, this will be just the first of ALL Christians – next will be the Presbyterians, then the Methodists, then the Baptists (in fact the Baptists will probably be the next group of terrorists). You know you gotta stomp out all dem none-worshipper’s of satan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Constitution – what’s that?????
Liars.
“The last I heard, this is a free country”.. I can’t say how many times I heard this throughout my life. Just what does it mean? We are a Constitutional Republic. Our Constitution assigns responsibilities to three branches of govt and the authority to achieve and regulate those responsibilities. The govt is restricted to acting only within their assigned responsibilities. Our individual human and civil rights are not “granted” by our govt, the Constitution enumerates individual liberties establishing that we as citizens and human beings are born with these rights, while protecting those rights enumerated in the Amendments from govt itself and tasking govt with enforcing laws which prevent govt and other persons or individuals from violating those rights.
Having said that….it is not illegal to hold bigoted ideologies, nor is it even illegal to hold racist, sexist, ageist or religious ideologies which have the POTENTIAL of violating rights protected by the Constitution or law ratified by Congress. Only actual ACTS which violate another’s liberties, protected by the Constitution, are illegal, not the ideology that drives the discriminate acts. POTENTIAL discriminate ideas are not illegal in themselves, only acting on that discrimination which leads to a violation of another’s protected liberty is itself illegal. NO ONE has a right “to not be offended”, not by one’s speech OR ideology. The right to freedom of speech cannot exist with a right to not be offended. For example, It is no more unconstitutional to offend someone by refusing to accept another’s non-binary ideology or preferred pronouns as it is to be offended at the burning of an American Flag or to be offended that non-binary ideology and preferred pronouns are actually a “thing”. No matter what someone believes or says, someone else will be offended by it. If there were a requirement for any speech or ideology to be acceptable by all, there would be no need for the 1st Amendment to protect speech. What other “type” of speech would need to be protected, if not offensive speech? Bigotry? Racism, etc? Holding the ideology, speaking it, may be misguided, sad, socially unaccepted more and more each day, garnering public persecution, but it is not illegal or unconstitutional until that ideology results in action that violates anothers liberties protected by the Constitution and law. It is unconstitutional for the govt to involuntarily compel “preferred” speech or ideology through tyranical mandates or laws. Is it the govt’s Constitutionally assigned responsibility to enforce one’s rights enumerated in the Constitution from acts of another person that violate the other’s rights? Or does the Constitution only protect the individual from the govt? The SCOTUS appears inconsistent on this matter. SCOTUS has ruled that it is unconstitutional and illegal for a commercial baker to refuse service to a gay couple getting married, because the baker disagrees with the customer’s ideology, yet it’s perfectly fine for a commercial financial institution to refuse service to established and unestablished customers based on the customer’s ideology or even societal status. A social media platform is within its rights to exercise the same discrmination, tho some how it’s different for a baker? Where is the line between public persecution and and violation of one’s liberty driven by discrimination?
If you believe that bs from the FBI I have a dragon to sell you. FBI is now owned by Hillary, Obama and Biden against anyone who believes in God.. These people are about to get a big surprise. Bill Gates, John Kerry using lies about climate change to destroy America. Big banks thinking we will hand our money to a nazi government. Prepare for war. Because Biden is the biggest traitor America has seen. Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell are in on the destruction of America.
When is this faux Catholic going to be excommunicated?
Sounds like Senator Joe screaming about “communists” some decades ago. Same hate driven lunatic ravings, same political aspirations.
FBI response, Talk about Blowing Smoke…..Gag !!
We are so closing in on 1984 with the Biden administration. They talk of unity but push to divide everyone by gender, race, and other categories. They totally disregard the Constitution just like Obama.
Then, how come the Catholic BIGOTS-In-CHIEF male and female leaders are still free to run around and spread hatred- aka – Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi.