Posted on 10/06/2023 5:45:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Donald Trump’s supporters are now in the FBI terrorist-investigation crosshairs, according to a new report in Newsweek.
The agency has created “a new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump’s army of MAGA followers”; it’s targeting strident Republicans with some of the same counterterrorism methods honed to fight al Qaeda.
Federal bureaucrats heaved together a bunch of letters to contrive an ominous new acronym for the latest peril to domestic tranquility.
The result: AGAAVE — “anti-government, anti-authority violent extremism” — which looks like a typo for a sugar substitute.
The great majority of the FBI’s “current ‘anti-government’ investigations are of Trump supporters,” William Arkin, a highly respected investigative journalist, reported in Newsweek.
The FBI recently vastly expanded the supposed AGAAVE peril by broadening suspicion from “furtherance of ideological agendas” to “furtherance of political and/or social agendas.”
Anyone who has an agenda different from Team Biden’s could be AGAAVE’d for his own good.
The Biden administration is vilifying anti-government opinions at the same time judges are exposing federal crimes.
Federal court decisions in July and September condemned the Biden censorship regime — and those rulings were preceded by Supreme Court decisions striking down President Joe Biden’s student-loan-forgiveness scheme and vaccine mandates.
But Team Biden still presumes anyone who suspects the feds are violating the Constitution is up to no good.
The FBI is required to have (or claim to have) solid information before launching a criminal investigation. But the bureau needs almost zero information to open an “assessment.”
The FBI conducted more than 5,500 domestic-terrorism “assessments” in 2021, a 10-fold increase since 2017 and a 50-fold increase since 2013.
“Assessments are the closest thing to domestic spying that exists in America and generally not talked about by the Bureau,” Arkin noted.
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Nothing funny about what Garland and his goons are doing... They’ll support Hillary’s deprogramming camps... And yeah, it CAN happen here.
Well, if it does, I won’t see it. I’ll be laying in a pile of brass somewhere.
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