Catherine Herridge published new documents showing former President Joe Biden’s administration labeling those who opposed COVID mandates as “domestic violent extremists (DVEs).”
Herridge’s X posts are for subscribers only. Here are the screenshots of the documents in the first post:
The report, which the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has declassified, claims that “anti government or anti authority violent extremists,” specifically militias, “characterize COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as evidence of government overreach.” A sweeping range of COVID narratives, the report states, “have resonated” with DVEs “motivated by QAnon.”The FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) coauthored the December 13, 2021 intelligence product whose title reads, “DVEs and Foreign Analogues May React Violently to COVID-19 Mitigation Mandates.”The report cites criticism of mandates as “prominent narratives” related to violent extremism. These narratives “include the belief that COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe, especially for children, are part of a government or global conspiracy to deprive individuals of their civil liberties and livelihoods, or are designed to start a new social or political order.““It’s a way they could go to social media companies and say, ‘You don’t want to propagate domestic terrorism so you should take down this content,’” said former FBI agent Steve Friend.
Officials warned agents not to violate anyone’s rights protected by the First Amendment.
However, Friend advised them on an approach he coined “pre-crime,” which is just as disturbing: “The only way they could become aware that you were engaged in wrongthink, as they define it by their own definition of ‘Anti Government and Anti Authority Violent Extremism,’ is to monitor your First Amendment activities or have them reported to you.”
The screenshots from the second post:
Apparently, the authors did not base the report on actual intelligence but on social media and media reports:
The report suggests the Biden administration’s political goals, such as full compliance with the COVID vaccine mandates, drove intelligence collection requirements so that the raw data would reinforce, not undercut the policy. Versus, an open minded approach to intelligence collection, which seeks the facts on the ground to inform government officials who make policy decisions.During Biden’s famous 2022 “red speech,” named after the blood red background behind him, he said, “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”There are scant references to original source data in the report. Rather, it uses language that forecasts the potential for violence such as “vaccination mandates for school-age children, employees facing termination for lack of compliance, or perceptions of unfair healthcare treatment for the unvaccinated might trigger increased violence by DVEs.”
I’m not surprised. As Herridge pointed out, Biden used scare tactics in his speech with veiled threats against those who opposed mandates.
Many of us who opposed the mandates from forced masking to forced vaccines are not a part of MAGA or voted for Trump.
The Biden administration tried to beat us into compliance:
When he announced the mandates, Biden disparaged the unvaccinated, using the phrase “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” and stating, “We’ve been patient. But our patience is wearing thin. And your refusal has cost all of us.“Thousands of American workers were fired for noncompliance with mandates, and the Biden administration coordinated with social media companies to censor “often-true” stories about Covid vaccine side effects and injuries. Emails obtained through Freedom of Information Act request in 2023 revealed that the CDC was aware of vaccine-associated myocarditis risk at the time, but chose not to disclose it.
Of course, the administration wanted to use children as pawns in their evil plan: “The availability of a vaccine for all school-age children might spur conspiracy theories and perceptions that schools will vaccinate children against parents’ will and may increase the potential for violence.”
Remember, parents. If you oppose anything the government forces on your child, you are a domestic violence extremist! That’s what the Biden administration did to parents lashing out at school board meetings.
The government is our betters! It knows what is best for our children, not parents! (sarcasm)
Good Lord, the administration titled one section, “Diverse Sociopolitical Factors Amplifying Persistent Domestic Violent Extremist Threat.”
Fall in line, people. Think like us, or you’re a DVE!
The administration used stats, mostly from January 6, as proof of the dangers of diverse thought. I mean, 61% of the DVE cases stemmed from January 6.
Apparently, FBI information showed Militia Violent Extremists (MVEs) threatened a bunch of places and people due to mandates. I see no citations, though.
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