I went to a J.C. Garand shoot last month. The president of the guns club was a match organizer. He said that at the last meeting of the officers of the club, an FBI agent showed up to make a presentation. It was for the gun club to be on the lookout for terrorists who want to overthrow the government.
The presentation said that the likely terrorists were old, white, Christian guys (usually with gray or white beards) who don’t like to pay taxes. When the president asked if someone shouted “Allah Akbar” just before shooting, would that be suspicious, the FBI agent refused to answer.
True story. We are all screwed.
I had a visit early last year from a fellow masquerading as a hospice nurse (my mother is on hospice care for Alzheimer’s). This guy was the biggest man that I ever ever seen for a short guy at 5’7” and 275 pounds, and probably less than 8% body fat. After he took care of mother, he joined us in the living room for an introduction, since we had never seen him before, and talked about the sport of “power lifting”, which I had excelled in up until about 20 years ago, hunting and other outdoor activities, and I showed him and old custom 6.5x55 that I had built(being careful to not cop to owning any other toys). After talking about his stint as a trainer in Ukraine, his training Brad Pitt for a movie role in London, and his try at the Foreign Legion, he just out of the blue asked me where he could meet some “militia types”.
I had red lights and sirens going off in my head so I told him that I didn’t advocate the overthrow of the government, and that he shouldn’t hang around with people that did. After he left, I googled his name which turned up photos of him in Ukraine, at the gangster’s home in London where the Brad Pitt training took place, and a bunch of other biographical stuff.
The regular nurse came the next day and said the hospice group did not know who this guy was, and that he disappeared the same day that he visited me.
I can only speculate, but the only activities that I engage in that could be remotely perceived as anti-government are my membership on this site, the past membership on a gun owners forum that originated in Norway, and a query sent to the NC Militia for information(oops). Oh, and I had my photo taken at a couple of “Tea Party” rallies in Charlotte, NC.
It would appear that the Feds already have a long list that they are working so be careful what you think.