Posted on 08/11/2023 11:29:06 AM PDT by ebb tide
t turns out the FBI memo targeting Catholics as potential domestic terrorists wasn’t limited to “a single field office,” as FBI Director Christopher Wray claimed under oath last month to Congress. In addition to the Richmond, Virginia, field office, the agency’s Los Angeles and Portland offices were also involved.
The memo, which was leaked earlier this year, singled out what it called “Radical-Traditionalist Catholics” who attend parishes that offer the Latin Mass, which the FBI seems to think are hotbeds of “Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists.”
Outrageous as it was for the FBI to try to monitor, surveil, and investigate American citizens based on their religion, it appears to have been a coordinated effort — an effort that Wray lied to Congress about, according to a newly unredacted memo obtained by House Republicans after months of FBI stonewalling.
Setting aside the absurd pretext that traditionalist Catholic parishes are fonts of “white supremacy” and potential terrorism, it should come as no surprise that the FBI would target Latin Mass-attending Catholics.
Why? Because the FBI has become a tool of the permanent regime in Washington, which will tolerate no resistance to their ideology — an ideology best understood as pagan morality. Abortion, gender ideology, and the thinly-veiled racism of critical race theory in particular are considered sacred by the regime. Traditional Catholics — or “Radical-Traditionalist Catholics” in FBI parlance — oppose these things and will never accept them.
That’s the real reason the FBI was targeting Catholics. It had nothing to do with the alleged threat of “white supremacy,” as the leaked memo claimed. Anyone with a passing familiarity with Latin Mass parishes knows they are just about the last place in America where you’re likely to encounter white supremacists.
The reason why is that Catholics who attend Latin Mass tend to take the Catholic Church’s teachings seriously. Unlike supposedly “devout” Catholic Democrat politicians, including President Joe Biden and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Latin Mass-attending Catholics oppose abortion, gay marriage, transgenderism, and racism in the guise of CRT.
They oppose these things not because they’re on the political right but because they accept the Catholic Church’s teachings on marriage and homosexuality, as well as the doctrine of imago Dei, that all people are created in God’s image, regardless of race or sex, and therefore all are equal in the eyes of God. This doctrine, by the way, is one of the pillars of Western civilization, without which our entire system of constitutional self-government would collapse.
In fact, it’s precisely this doctrine that so offends the FBI and the regime it serves. Dividing people according to immutable and unchosen characteristics such as race or sex is what the political left wants to do. It’s what drives the left’s obsession with skin color and so-called gender identity. Instead of a republic of free and equal citizens, the regime wants a collection of favored and disfavored groups to rule over, pitting them against one another while doling out rewards and punishments based on alleged guilt and grievance.
Faithful Catholics will never accept this. Nor will they accept abortion as a fundamental right that trumps all others, or the castration and sterilization of children in the name of transgenderism. Catholics who accept and obey the church’s teachings on human sexuality, the dignity and rights of the unborn, and the equality of all people before God — teachings that are unchanged and unchangeable — will never submit to the regime or adopt its pagan morality.
Understood in that light, the FBI is right to treat traditional Catholics as a threat. If your goal is to force the country to accept abortion, transgenderism, or race essentialism, then yes, Catholics — especially Catholics who attend Latin Mass — are going to be a problem for you. You’re going to want to keep an eye on them, maybe infiltrate their parishes with informants and spies. Maybe tap their phones. Maybe more.
In order to pull that off under the guise of a legitimate federal law enforcement investigation, you also might have to pretend you’re doing it for fear of “white supremacy,” which Biden himself has named as the No. 1 threat facing America today. What better excuse could the FBI have to monitor Christians than stopping white supremacists from launching terrorist attacks?
Three FBI field offices were involved in drafting this memo. How many hundreds of FBI agents and supervisors had a hand in crafting it? How many saw it? Those are questions Wray is going to have to answer. But he won’t have to tell us why the FBI did it in the first place. We already know.
Ping
This will interesting if they ever get around to targeting the real refuseniks, the Islamists.
Never happen. Islamists fight back. Our glorious DoJ and it’s crew of Spartan Warriors want no part of anything like that.
They might pick a couple of elderly invalids to shoot at 2am though. Using 338 Lapuas at 400 yds. You know. Typical Fed tactics by our brave boys in blue. Or they could CS Gas a Mosque’s children’s study group. That’s about their style. Maybe snipe a woman holding a baby.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Not so sure about that given the Marxist Pope you currently have.
“Not so sure about that given the Marxist Pope you currently have.”
You, sir, just don’t get it. Latin Mass Catholics dislike the Marxist Pope even more than you do. And it’s mutual. Bergoglio despises us.
bkmk
If you don’t think that the FBI isn’t tracking traditional Methodists leaving the UMC, you haven’t been paying attention.
The FBI feels this is their business? Not the country I grew up in...
I say this whole thing is about Biden wanting to do a solid for his buddy Bergoglio…
Nice to know the Fibbies here in Los Angeles were surveilling my tiny TLM parish in Van Nuys/Lake Balboa. Ora pro nobis.
I'll go a step further, a lot of us doubt that he is a valid pope given his many heresies and blasphemous actions against the Church.
FWIW whatever merits attributed to the Latin Mass, ADL’s focus on them (through FBI) is just to get their camel’s nose in the tent by targeting a small group rather than all Catholics. Yet.
all Gestapo activities have to commence around the “offensiveness” of a minority ...corrupting “progress of the people”..doncha ya know
Traditional Catholics are just such a minority today...
So LA and Portland have turned their backs to God.
Interesting that the quality of life in these cities is deteriorated.
Coincidence?
All “fundementalist” Christians who take their faith seriously will be targeted in the same manner, if not already.
It’s “fundamentalist”.
Sorry about the misspelled word.
Sorry about the misspelling; it’s “fundamentalist”.
Unfortunately, many have accepted evolution and higher criticism, which is where it all started. If they keep it up, no telling what they’ll end up believing.
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