We’re all familiar with the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List and that bureau reps would frequently appear on television shows like Unsolved Mysteries seeking tips on kidnappings, serial killers, and bank robberies. Tips from the public are a foundational part of law enforcement, including at the federal level. Soliciting such tips regarding actual crimes like kidnapping, murder, and bank robbery is perfectly acceptable, even essential in solving complex cases.
However, soliciting the public to report their family and peers for possible future crimes and wrongthink is another thing altogether.
As we saw with the needless and embarrassing harassment and intimidation of the Alaska couple who attended the January 6th Trump rally but never entered the Capitol building and with the more recent Lego incident that has made them a laughingstock, the FBI has become hopelessly woke and not a little corrupt.
With the focus on “extremists” being defined as Trump supporters, Republicans, Libertarians, self-identified “patriots,” essentially anyone not toeing the woke commie line, the pdf is a bit alarming.
Though most of it seems to focus on actual terrorists (those traveling or coordinating activity with overseas terrorists like ISIS), some of the criteria for suspicious, reportable behavior are open to much broader interpretation. For example, one is “Conducting research for target or tactic selection (e.g., acquiring maps, blueprints, schematics, technical capabilities, planning and logistics information)” . . . like a “fully constructed” Lego set of the Capitol building (that turned out to be in a closet, not only unassembled but still in the box)?
Also these: “Outbursts or behavior, including violent behavior, or advocacy that results in exclusion or rejection by family or community,” and “Condemning behavior of family and peers based on violent extremist doctrine (e.g., denouncing lifestyle choices such as clothing, music, religious practices).” Considering that most progressives proudly state that they have rejected their spouses, parents (or, in some cases, children) for being conservative or having voted for Trump or any Republican, this is an alarming thing to include in reporting the “suspicious behaviors” of potential violent extremists to the FBI.
Much of the material contained in the booklet pretty much defines Antifa/BLM. Still, I’m pretty sure reporting them would be a waste of time since the FBI doesn’t seem very interested in their actually criminal, actually violent, actually anti-government, actually extremist behavior.
I’m pretty sure they don’t mean Antifa/BLM thugs who burned, looted, and murdered their way through American cities last year (and are still doing so). These radical violent extremists literally target federal buildings. The FBI is nowhere to be found.
The FBI’s reputation is in tatters, so the responses to this bizarre tweet are unsurprising. Some are hilarious.
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