New FBI documents that were recovered from a conservative government watchdog show that the FBI has labeled Christian groups as “potential terrorists.”
Initially, the FBI claimed that the document was from a single field officer.
However, we now have proof that this was not an isolated incident thanks to Judicial Watch.
Fox News has more on the story:
A conservative government watchdog has released almost 100 pages of FBI documents it says show the agency was not fully forthcoming about its actions surveilling and targeting Catholic churches.
“FBI Director Christopher Wray had told congressmen that the memo was ‘a single product by a single field office,’ but the records uncovered by Judicial Watch show that it was “Reviewed by: OGC/CDC [Office of General Counsel/Chief Deputy Counsel],'” Judicial Watch posted in a press release Friday.
Judicial Watch obtained the documents through a FOIA request related to an internal FBI memo leaked earlier this year, which revealed that the agency had efforts underway to identify and treat Catholics as “potential terrorists.”
“The records also indicate coordination with officials from Portland and Milwaukee,” the press release said.
The FBI Richmond internal memo, titled “Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities,” was leaked in January and drew instant criticism from Republicans.
It identified “radical-traditionalist Catholic[s]” as potential “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists” and said that “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) in radical-traditionalist Catholic (RTC) ideology almost certainly presents opportunities for threat mitigation through the exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development.”
Why is our government labeling Christians as terrorists?
What threat do Christians pose to America?
This is more proof that our government is acting against our people.
See what Judicial Watch had to say here:
“In a brazen attack on the First Amendment and Christians, the Biden FBI planned to treat Catholics as potential terrorists and spy on them in their churches,” @TomFitton.
READ: https://t.co/Fg2ZJZKcHC pic.twitter.com/IQkrtbECAZ— Judicial Watch ⚖️ (@JudicialWatch) December 9, 2023
ICYMI: House panel confirms that FBI tried to "infiltrate" Catholic Church in Richmond, labeled Catholics as "extremist threat."
This is nothing less than Democrats targeting Christians for what they believe. pic.twitter.com/eW25RXO9jz
— Virginia GOP (@VA_GOP) December 7, 2023
The Christian Post shares more on the story:
The U.S. House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released an interim staff report titled “The FBI’s Breach of Religious Freedom: The Weaponization of Law Enforcement Against Catholic Americans” on Monday. The publication of the report comes nearly a year after the publication of an internal memo previously circulated in the FBI’s Richmond Field Office identifying “radical-traditionalist Catholics” as a national security threat.
The document, distributed in January and published by former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin in February, warned that “the increasingly observed interest of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) in radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology almost certainly presents opportunities for threat mitigation through the exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development.”
The document defined “radical-traditionalist Catholics” as those who reject “the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) as a valid church council” and express “disdain for most of the popes elected since Vatican II, particularly Pope Francis and Pope John Paul II.” The memo also maintained that RTCs adhere to “anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT, and white supremacist ideology.”
As explained in the document, the Second Vatican Council that took place from 1962-1965 was “intended to help the church respond to global cultural changes in the aftermath of World War II and resulted in significant reforms to the liturgy, attitudes towards non-Christian religions, roles and responsibilities of the laity, views on religious freedom, etc.”
The memo attempted to clarify that “radical-traditionalist Catholics compose a small minority of overall Roman Catholic adherents and are separate and distinct from ‘traditionalist Catholics’ who prefer the Traditional Latin Mass and pre-Vatican II teachings and traditions, but without the more extremist ideological beliefs and violent rhetoric.”
The FBI wants to claim that they are only watching certain Catholics; it is hard to believe that this is the case.
We know from the Patriot Act that the government is unafraid to watch its people.
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