Last Monday, almost a full year after Seraphin's disclosure, the House Judiciary Committee released a report, "The FBI's Breach of Religious Freedom: The Weaponization of Law Enforcement Against Catholic Americans." Although the report details how the FBI "Abused its counterterrorism tools" to target Catholics, there are some key issues that Capitol Hill - and most media - missed completely.
The FBI stigmatized a vast number of United States citizens as potential "Radical Traditional Catholic" terrorists based upon the existence of one criminal case involving a man who self-described as an RTC. The FBI's version of the facts, detailed in the Intelligence Note, describes a man who likely suffers from mental illness - hardly a cross-section of the Catholic population.
The most shocking aspect of this, one that largely escaped public attention, is that the FBI memo states the subject wasn't even Catholic.
The FBI never explained what "Threat" the agency sought to "Mitigate" by targeting Catholics.
The FBI never bothered to explain precisely what tenets of Catholicism or "Extreme religious teachings" of the Catholic Church lead to political violence because, of course, there are none.
The Judiciary Committee also fails to address the most fundamental issue posed by the FBI's abuse of Catholics' civil liberties.
The FBI labeled an amorphous and impossibly ill-defined faith community as potential terrorists without pointing to a single historical or current example of a "Radical-traditionalist Catholic" associated with any form of political violence, the preeminent and unnegotiable element required by the domestic terrorism statute, 18 U.S.C. 2331.
As the FBI continues to invent a new alphabet soup of terminological groupings, such as Radical Traditional Catholics and Racially Motivated Violent Extremist, and open investigations for activities such as sporting Gadsden or Betsy Ross flags, the agency has reached apex weaponization as an ideological entity as opposed to a crime-fighting one.
Memo Exposes FBI's Weaponized Modus Operandi Today's FBI routinely opens domestic terrorism investigations targeting people who have never demonstrated any propensity toward political violence.
Ideologically weaponized FBI employees at all levels gravitate toward FBI units, such as domestic terrorism squads, that allow them to indulge their political ideology.
Keep in mind that the FBI's anti-Catholic intelligence note was uploaded to the FBI's databases under domestic terrorism file number 266H-RH-2893090.
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