Domestic terrorists on the loose
Posted on 01/18/2024 7:19:52 AM PST by Heartlander
Americans who shopped at sporting goods stores and bought religious books “like a Bible” were flagged through their banks as potential domestic terrorists, Rep. Jim Jordan revealed Jan. 17.
The federal government also flagged as potential criminals any transactions that involved the terms “MAGA” or “Trump,” the House Judiciary Committee chairman said. These Americans were tagged as possible “violent extremists” with zero due process or even notification of this criminalization of their constitutional rights to property, free speech, consent to their government’s activities, and religious exercise. The federal government even asked for surveillance of Americans’ messages on private payment apps like Zelle, a competitor to Venmo.
So if you’ve shopped at a sporting goods store, including Cabela’s, Bass Pro Shops, Dick’s Sporting Goods, or myriad gun retailers, you could be flagged to law enforcement as “Lone Actor/Homegrown Violent Extremism.” All these retailers and dozens more appeared on a list Jordan found that a federal financial crime agency distributed to instruct bank employees in how to criminalize their fellow Americans’ religious and political ideas.
“In other words,” Jordan writes in a letter released yesterday, the federal government “urged large financial institutions to comb through the private transactions of their customers for suspicious charges on the basis of protected political and religious expression.”
In the last year, I’ve shopped at multiple sporting goods stores. We have an active family, and I especially buy my kids outdoorsy Christmas gifts. This year, that included a tetherball set from Dick’s Sporting Goods and some camping gear for my oldest son.
A younger son received a $15 slingshot purchased at a local gun store this Christmas, so he can hunt squirrels. I also bought a son a pair of hiking shoes from Cabela’s a few weeks ago. Ooooh, look at the terror! He could kick people soundly with those!
Oh, and I can’t forget the other item of treacherous samizdat I bought in the last year: last Lent, I bought myself a Bible from ChristianBook.com, a terrorist-sounding site if I ever heard one. They sell other “extremist” gear like Bible commentaries, devotionals decorated with hearts, artsy Bible journals complete with marker sets, plush dolls, craft kits, and Jesus stickers.
When I — wearing snow boots, a winter hat, and mom jeans — went shopping at these retailers, I had no idea it could flag me as a “domestic terrorist” to my bank or federal law enforcement. I was just shopping, for completely legal goods. The only terror I meant was to squirrels. We don’t live in communist China, do we?
Turns out, benign, all-American consumerism by a completely peaceful and law-abiding citizen with zero criminal record or activity somehow threatens the people running my own country into the ground. What are they afraid of, and why do they hate Jesus so much?
Amazing how a totally nonthreatening mom of little kids scares these people, but they have zero qualms about the actual terrorists and foreign military plants certainly embedding themselves into the United States thanks to our wide-open border. But, you know, flagging moms buying hiking boots for their middle schoolers only takes a few keystrokes and PowerPoint presentations. Easy to pad the “terrorist” numbers with people like us and make a nincompoop-filled Congress believe they need to give lots more money to these power-mongering freaks who send the FBI after compliant daddies with seven kids and surveil devout Christians and angry moms and dads at school board meetings.
It’s way harder to go after the international drug cartels coordinating with communist China to infiltrate and destabilize our country via our southern border. That would take a lot more than a few keystrokes and secret fascist orders to highly cooperative “private” financial institutions. It might require going after high-level corruption rings within our own government. Nah. Go after the moms instead.
Take note, too, of the connection between the federal government searching for “MAGA” goods purchasers and President Joe Biden’s insistence that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” He is not exaggerating the Democrat Party’s views. They believe that peaceful political opposition to them equals terrorism. “Silence is violence,” right?
The deepest opposition to Democrats comes from serious Christians, because Democrats’ cornerstone policies blatantly violate the Ten Commandments (and lots more, including much of the Bible’s book of Romans). This is why it makes sense for them to connect Bible-buying with dissent from their politics.
And Democrats want to criminalize dissent. You disagree with them, so you are a thought criminal needing punishment. This bank flagging system puts the massive weight of federal resources behind leftist cancel culture — that is to say, behind bloodthirsty mobs.
How different is this from Canada’s debanking of its own citizens attempting to have their voices heard by the government allegedly representing them? How is this different in kind from China’s social credit system? It’s certainly laying the groundwork for such totalitarian acts in this country. You have to identify the citizens infected with wrongthink before you can start punishing them.
All this is blatantly unconstitutional, but almost all federal agencies are intrinsically unconstitutional, and they control the federal government. Harshly worded letters and congressional hearings are better than nothing, but they are not even close to the horsewhipping Congress needs to give these agencies they allegedly oversee.
So did King David................
The ironic part: the boss might nod and say, "I could see that"
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I just bought some new shoes at Bass Pro Shops, so I’m now a terrorist.
How do you complete financial transaction using these terms anyway? Hi, (to the teller) I'd like to make a $100 cash withdrawal so I can go to the Trump store down the street and buy a Red MAGA hat.
Domestic terrorists on the loose
Use cash more often while you still can.
Jethro shouldn’t be pointing his rifle at Jeb with his finger so close to the trigger.
Well, I just purchased another 1000 rounds of PMC X-Tac, so I am definitely on the list...
Yep- the vast majority of conservatives are people who have never, and will never, commit any crimes agaisnt society, but the doj apparently thinks they are domestic terrorists because they bought bibles?
Blm and antifa have committed, and will continue committing, great destructive crimes against towns and citizens- often crimes so great that they run businesses out of business by destroying and stealing and burning, comandeering areas with force via the same “assault weapons” that the left get so hyped up over, taking over whole city blocks, and the left and the doj just can’t bring th3mselves .to label them as domestic terrorists.
They hypocrisy and direct assaults on peaceful conservative citizens is just stunning, and not in a good way, to watch unfold. The left scream about “democracy being at stake”, yet they are the ones who,have waged a hostile takeover of this nation using violence and destruction all while accusing the right of “domestic terrorism”.
The federal government also flagged as potential criminals any transactions that involved the terms “MAGA” or “Trump.
Fake ID’s a worth while investments all the illegals have them it works.
I just bought several Trump/MAGA Christmas tree ornaments.
Come and get me coppers!
If you went to Mass in Latin, you are screwed!
....hmmmm.... my next purchase of ammo might well be for cash...using credit cards for ammo (and even firearm..)
purchases puts one on the feddle gubbermint’s “domestic terrorist” list I would imagine.....
I have been on an All CASH diet for many many years precisely because all electronic transactions are monitored, logged, tracked and then you are marketed, bought and sold like a $2 whore, no offense to $2 whores, at least they provide a valuable service.
I have a few class 3 items, and I am CC registered with sheriffs departments in multiple states. I think they would have me on their list regardless of whether I bought with cash or card.
“It’s way harder to go after the international drug cartels...”
That has occurred to me. It’s easier and safer to go after the common citizen than the criminal.
Correction: Using Credit Cards for ANYTHING puts you on a whole lot of lists, they should only be used for an emergency at best, and even then you should everything possible to avoid using them, like waiting til you can go to the bank.
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