{"id":1841543,"date":"2023-02-09T17:19:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T22:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1841543"},"modified":"2023-02-09T17:20:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T22:20:30","slug":"fbi-retracts-memo-labeling-traditional-catholics-violent-white-supremacists-pushing-infiltration-of-christian-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-retracts-memo-labeling-traditional-catholics-violent-white-supremacists-pushing-infiltration-of-christian-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Retracts Memo Labeling Traditional Catholics \u2018Violent White Supremacists,\u2019 Pushing Infiltration Of Christian Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffbi-retracts-memo-labeling-traditional-catholics-violent-white-supremacists-pushing-infiltration-of-christian-communities%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1841543&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A leaked FBI report revealed that the Bureau\u2019s Richmond, Virginia Division is investigating the threat of \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d Catholics who prefer Latin Mass. FBI headquarters was notified of the leak shortly after it became public. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/fbi-retracts-memo-on-radical-traditionalist-catholic-ideology-says-it-failed-to-meet-bureau-standards\/\">Rescinded<\/a> According to the report, it does not \u201copen an investigation based solely on First Amendment protected activity.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>This contradicts the document, which claims that its findings are partly based on. \u201cliaison reporting.\u201d<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncoverdc.com\/2023\/02\/08\/the-fbi-doubles-down-on-christians-and-white-supremacy-in-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According<\/a>\u00a0to the document\u2019s whistleblower and former Special Agent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncoverdc.com\/2023\/02\/08\/the-fbi-doubles-down-on-christians-and-white-supremacy-in-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kyle Seraphin<\/a>, liaisons \u201care overt contacts with trusted members of a community or an industry.\u201d This suggests that the FBI has already been investigating Americans on the basis of these facts \u201cFirst Amendment protected activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Document claims &#8211; January 23, 2023 \u201cRadical-Traditionalist Catholics\u201d (RTCs). \u201ctypically characterized by the rejection of the Second Vatican Council\u201d (which allowed for Mass to be said in people\u2019s spoken language) and their \u201cadherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and white supremacist ideology.\u201d According to the FBI, RTCs are becoming more fraternizing with each other. \u201cRacially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists\u201d (RMVE).<\/p>\n<p>For more surveillance \u201cRadical-Traditionalist Catholics,\u201d The document states that the Bureau could potentially mitigate this \u201cthreat\u201d With \u201ctripwire and source development,\u201d This means that more infiltration will occur into Catholic communities by various types of informants. According to the report, the FBI will also begin monitoring social media posts in order to verify its claims. \u201cRadical-Traditionalist Catholics\u201d ideology.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Terrible Sourcing<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The FBI sources grounding the field office\u2019s recommendation to increase federal surveillance of conservative Christians include\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2022\/05\/12\/nationalists-get-religion-on-the-far-right-fringe-catholics-and-forge-a-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Two<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2022\/05\/13\/trad-catholics-and-nationalist-groypers-forge-a-new-far-right-youth-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Salon<\/a>\u00a0The infamous articles \u201crosary extremism\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/08\/radical-traditionalist-catholic-christian-rosary-weapon\/671122\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Atlantic article<\/a>, and a report by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/11\/12\/anti-hate-southern-poverty-law-center-partner-funds-violent-canadian-antifa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/fighting-hate\/intelligence-report\/2007\/12-anti-semitic-radical-traditionalist-catholic-groups\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 all left-wing sources, three of which were op-eds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The FBI does not explain in any document how Catholics are traditional Catholics. \u201cviolent\u201d threat. Only two pieces of evidence are provided in the document. \u201coverlap\u201d Between \u201cRacially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists\u201d And \u201cRadical-Traditionalist Catholics.\u201d One is that both are \u201c[hostile] toward abortion rights advocates.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>For the second, the FBI cites an alleged collaboration between Nick Fuentes\u2019 \u201cAmerican First\/groyper Movement\u201d and Church Militant, a Catholic media organization that has been hyper-critical of the Catholic Church\u2019s handling of sex abuse cases and woke ideology infecting American bishops.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These evidence sources support the assertion. \u201coverlap\u201d Between Radical-Traditional Catholics \u201cRacially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists\u201d include Fuentes\u2019 supporters and Church Militant activists attending the same pro-life demonstration and Michelle Malkin speaking at Church Militant rally. <\/p>\n<p>One of the Salon articles even has a quote from Church Militant founder Michael Voris explicitly stating there\u2019s no association between Church Militant and America First: \u201cChurch Militant doesn\u2019t align itself with any specific group in a formal way \u2014 including groups that are expressly Catholic,\u201d Voris spoke at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChurch Militant might partner with anyone in a particular effort to achieve a limited and shared goal,\u201d Voris added. \u201cIn this particular case (Roe), yes. [Church Militant] will link arms with almost anyone who decries the horror of babies being hacked to death in their mothers\u2019 wombs. Isn\u2019t \u2018linking arms\u2019 the very thing Antifa and BLM and the Democrats do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Voris was asked by The Federalist whether there had been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, the target was traditional Catholic Christians, but you can be sure they won\u2019t stop with Catholics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1623,"featured_media":1841546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[13174,4592,9390,5591,18218,4777,17040,7068,18217,18216,6197,3947,3765],"class_list":["post-1841543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-catholics","tag-christian","tag-communities","tag-fbi","tag-infiltration","tag-labeling","tag-memo","tag-pushing","tag-retracts","tag-supremacists","tag-traditional","tag-violent","tag-white"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1841546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}