Posted on 05/17/2022 5:58:14 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Last fall, Attorney General Merrick Garland testified before the House Judiciary Committee that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not using counterterrorism statutes to investigate parents who were exercising their First Amendment rights at local school board meetings.
Last week, the House Judiciary Committee produced evidence that Garland's FBI was doing just that.
“Like you, I can’t imagine any circumstance in which the PATRIOT Act would be used in the circumstances of parents complaining about their children, nor can I imagine a circumstance where they would be labeled as domestic terrorism,” Garland told the committee last October.
Now, ranking member Jim Jordan (R-OH) has identified three separate instances in which counterterrorism statutes were indeed used to open investigations into parents whose only crime was speaking at a public event about their local school. Jordan claims that a whistleblower has identified dozens of other similar cases.
In one case, the FBI interviewed a mother after an informant called the National Threat Operations Center tip line to report that a woman who belonged to a “right wing mom’s group” had told a local school board, “We are coming for you.” The mother, a member of Moms for Liberty, told the FBI she was upset about the school’s mask mandate and that the only threat she leveled at anyone was to replace the school board members at the ballot box.
In another case, an informant again utilized the National Threat Operations Center tip line to report a father who “fit the profile of an insurrectionist,” “rails against the government,” and “has lots of guns and threatens to use them." When an FBI agent interviewed the informant, the informant admitted to having “no specific information or observations of any crimes or threats.”
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But people on a terror watch list have been caught coming over the southern border and some of them were released into the USA.
We’ve got some scary Party Apparatchiks running the country. They are capable of anything.
We used to read about tyrannies and say "it cant happen here". And yet somehow ... it has.
“Like you, I can’t imagine any circumstance in which the PATRIOT Act would be used in the circumstances of parents complaining about their children, nor can I imagine a circumstance where they would be labeled as domestic terrorism,” Garland told the committee last October.
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His original answer (”I can’t imagine”) means he was more than willing to prosecute parents just as soon as he could imagine a reason to do so.
“The FBI has become the Gestapo, DHS has a Minstry of Truth, and the DOJ is putting people in jail for years without trial for political dissent and intentionally neglecting their basic care and there are NO CONSEQUENCES.”
What you have just described are the consequences of a stolen election. It’s just that simple.
The commies openly convey their EVIL intentions.
Never give them the smallest benefit of the slightest doubt.
Garland is bitter that he did not get the SCOTUS job he felt he deserved. As AG the man is damaged goods and is extracting revenge on those he feels are responsible for that betrayal of him: The people that voted for Donald Trump.
YEP! to your observation too.
The corrupt administration has sent the corrupt fbi to harass innocent parents. This is a crime worthy of life in prison with no parole. But the corrupt administration will never investigate itself.
“told a local school board, “We are coming for you.”
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Without speaking clearly of what she was talking about, that does sound a little nutty.
“the informant admitted to having “no specific information or observations of any crimes or threats.”
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In this case, in a rational country such an “informant” would be the one who is in trouble for making such statements.
“..What you have just described are the consequences of a stolen election. It’s just that simple....”
^THIS^ bears repeating....every single day.
And every day, we are seeing that that is the ONLY "crime" that Biden's DOJ, and all of the Soros-backed prosecutors, care about or will enforce.
Should rat storm troopers intimidate you, be polite, identify yourself, ask for a lawyer, but otherwise just STFU.
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