FBI Making List of American "Extremists," Leaked Memo Reveals

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-list-of-extremists-is-coming

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peppersghost93•10h ago

I bet the criteria for being an extremist is not agreeing with everything the state does.

msandford•10h ago

Back during Obama's tenure lots of right sympathetic groups got labeled domestic terror organizations. It's always political. Don't like the state calling you bad names? The solution is to reduce its power not to just get the "correct" people in charge. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/year-hate-and-ex...

text0404•9h ago

> Back during Obama's tenure lots of right sympathetic groups got labeled domestic terror organizations

Which groups were labeled domestic terror organizations by the Obama admin? SPLC is a non-profit, not a government agency.

immibis•9h ago

Were they domestic terror organizations? The answer to this is important, and often overlooked.

michaelmrose•7h ago

No they actually didn't. A lot of hate groups pushing violent and hateful rhetoric got called out by individuals and non-profits.

msandford•7h ago

I realize I didn't make the point clearly enough. This is nothing new. It's politics, always has been. The left labels people on the right they don't like with bad names. The right is absolutely going to do it back to the left. That's the game. I don't like it, but that's clearly how it goes.

Don't read what I'm saying as an endorsement of what the right is going to the left right now. Nor should you read it as an endorsement of what the left did to the right back then. They're both bad.

text0404•6h ago

What are you talking about? This is weaponization of the FBI to treat US citizens like criminals by designating them as terrorists or supporters of terrorism. This is not a "both sides" issue. This is the full weight of the state being used against its own citizens for constitutionally-protected activity.

You specifically mentioned Obama. How did the Obama admin do the same? Does it make this a dismissable non-issue?

RickJWagner•5h ago

The Obama administration sent the IRS after conservative organizations.

https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2014/06/24/timeline-of-the-ir...

rhcom2•4h ago

This was also bad, and was criticized by Dem members of Congress along with the mainstream media, and led to the IRS Commissioner's resignation. Hopefully Bondi will too.

msandford•4h ago

"Don't read what I'm saying as an endorsement of what the right is going [doing] to the left right now. "

That's me in the post you're critizing me for. I'm explicitly saying it's not good. What else do I need to do to make sure that you understand that I don't think it's okay?

piker•10h ago

Hasn't this been true for like ever?

cratermoon•10h ago

Now is a good time to read Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism.

mindslight•10h ago

Any former Trump supporters ready to eat some humble pie, admit the mainstream critical narrative was right and this guy really is a freedom-hating fascist con artist with no real constructive plans, and work together to save our country?

treetalker•10h ago

> The target is those expressing “opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology,” as well as “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Christianity.”

In other words, those exercising the most fundamental of Constitutional rights.

Copy of the Bondi memo at issue: https://substack-post-media.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/post-...

RickJWagner•4h ago

Labeling people across the aisle is nothing new.

Kamala Harris went so far as to badger a judicial nominee about his membership in a Catholic men’s organization. ( Other Democrats did as well ).

https://www.archbalt.org/knights-leader-takes-umbrage-at-sen...

halJordan•3h ago

I think there's a difference between badgering a Catholic about where his tendencies will lead him (the pope posts them publicly so we already know) and instructing the national law enforcement to write them up as domestic terrorists.

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