Track Away, Fibbies

Resistance

Here’s something I knew was coming:

The federal government believes that the threat of violence and major civil disturbances around the 2024 U.S. presidential election is so great that it has quietly created a new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump’s army of MAGA followers.

The challenge for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the primary federal agency charged with law enforcement, is to pursue and prevent what it calls domestic terrorism without direct reference to political parties or affiliations—even though the vast majority of its current “anti-government” investigations are of Trump supporters, according to classified data obtained by Newsweek.

“The FBI is in an almost impossible position,” says a current FBI official, who requested anonymity to discuss highly sensitive internal matters. The official said that the FBI is intent on stopping domestic terrorism and any repeat of the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. But the Bureau must also preserve the Constitutional right of all Americans to campaign, speak freely and protest the government. By focusing on former president Trump and his MAGA (Make America Great Again) supporters, the official said, the Bureau runs the risk of provoking the very anti-government activists that the terrorism agencies hope to counter.

I’m 100% sure that my fevered rants and fervent support for the Second Amendment have put me on several “lists” among the various federal alphabet agencies.  But at the same time, I also know that they’re fucking incompetent — I mean, they missed the 9/11 hijackers, FFS — so I thought I’d just help them out.


(by your definition, anyway)

Let me count the ways:

  1. I believe that the United States of America is the greatest nation the world has ever seen, and I want to restore its power, prestige and majesty to its post-WWII heights.
  2. I support Donald Trump, even though I’d rather not — but he’s the best option for people like me.
  3. I believe in the Second Amendment.  Actually, I believe in all the Amendments, without reservation.  And I want all those who, like me, swore allegiance to the Constitution and its principles to abide by them.
  4. I support homeschooling.
  5. I believe in smaller government.
  6. I know that our taxes are too high and our tax laws too complicated.
  7. I believe in the Four Boxes of civic participation (letter box, soap box, ballot box and when the first three have failed or been made illegal, the cartridge box).
  8. I think that our borders need to be closed to foreign incursions, and the current illegal border-crossers in custody should be repatriated en masse, with no exceptions.

There are a few more, but I think that list should suffice.

Go ahead, assholes:  track me all you want.  I’m only one man, and I publish under my own name — no pseudonyms, no aliases, no pen names — so it should be easy, even for the likes of you.  But this is where I stand.

22 comments

  1. This is why I hate it when pundits like Sean Hanity repeat the lie, “It’s only a few bad apples at the top, the rank and file agents are fine!” Bullshit! They’ve been purging conservatives and politicizing the agency for years. There is no firing it, it has to be eliminated. Fat chance of that, though.

    Words of wisdom from the late, great Angelo Codevilla …

    https://americanmind.org/memo/abolish-the-cia/

  5. Shouldn’t be that hard to compile a list of MAGA deplorables seeing as every MAGA leaning candidate and Most of the Trump Family has my name and sends me a daily email looking for more contributions, the list seems to be readily available.

    So. once they have this list of 50 to 60 million citizens, then what? Narrow it down to the most vocal 10 to 15 milllion? One of the problems with “Big Data” is that it’s only useful for large scale general decisions. You can’t use it on a granular level.

    1. oh give them time and they will figure out how to get down to the granular level of the individual.

      The concept of “lost in the vast quantity of data” becomes invalidated when the right search terms are found to go through the data.

      JQ

  6. ATTENTION FBI!

    Allow me to reintroduce myself. I’m Murphy AZ, Crabby Old Man Domestic Terrorist. I’m sure you already know where to find me. If you decide to come for a visit, please call ahead for an appointment. I’ve got a lot of doctor’s appointments lately and they’re hard to come by these days, but I’ll try to fit you in.

    And keep off the new winter lawn!

  7. If you’re not on their list we probably can’t be friends.
    Trump’s a very flawed man but the lynch mob mentality of .gov is very telling

  8. 9. I believe in the recitation of the pledge allegiance to the Flag should be recited by every schoolchild every morning at the start of classes; those who do not wish to do so (or whose parents or teachers are of similar mindset ) should attend a school not paid for by my taxes.
    10. I believe Election Day should be the first Tuesday of November with voting only by those bringing a valid birth certificate (other forms to be determined on a national level may be acceptable), as well as proof of local residence; special accomodations for the disabled at the voting place should be provided.
    11. I believe a full spreadsheet of the total assets of every person (and their spouse) achieving or running for national, state, or local office should be published (after review by an accredited, not government accounting office) in the media every October just prior to elections

    1. So you want to perpetuate the idea of turning everyone into mindless little drones who unthinkingly follow the government?
      Which is what that pledge brough the country after all. People are so blind to the fact that the country, its people, and its government are NOT one and the same (and this is the case in most any country) that they’ll follow whomever controls said country.

      1. The Pledge of Allegiance I recited in public school is to the Country and the Idea of America as represented by the Flag — and not to the Government. As you said, those are different things. The people have always reserved the right to ( sometimes violently ) disagree with the current government and the people in charge.

        So… if I wasn’t on “the list” before that ought to do it.,

      2. Please re-read:
        “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

  9. Someone somewhere said something to the effect that if you’re over 30 and not on a government list somewhere then you’re not living right.

    Gun license, hunting license, hunter education class, archery safety class etc you be assured that you are on a list. You’re probably on a list if you filled out a 4473 with or without putting your SSN on it. Write to the editor? you’re on a list.

    Go to a pro rights rally and you can bet with cameras these days, your identity was determined by the government before you got home.

    I really thought that lead would fly after the Kelo decision by SCOTUS over a decade ago.

    JQ

  10. I’m good with nearly all of the Constitution, but I favor a change in Article 1 Section 4: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.”
    I’ve run out of trust in the state legislatures AND Congress to determine the manner of holding elections, as boron alluded to above. Whether potential voters showing up at the polling locations are certified, after proving citizenship, by passing a test of constitutional and other knowledge, by demonstrating some extra-governmental income source(s), or by some other criterion/a, I favor some Amendment-determined*, _nationally standardized method_ for removing the ignorant, irresponsible, and stupid from the voting pool.
    * Granted that black-letter law is too often honored in the breach.

    2. “Swiss voters approved a measure that made it illegal to discriminate against people on the basis of sexual orientation.” Fine. The lesbian reporter and all others deserve that human right as long as they don’t injure others.
      But where was the discrimination on the part of the male reporter? He didn’t deny her services, employment, restrict her movements, or lobby for laws against her.
      She IS a fat lesbian. I hope he wins his appeal, but in our do-gooder touchy feely celebrate-neuroses-and-psychoses world, I haven’t much hope for the truth teller.

  12. Being ready for “domestic terrorism” in response to the election outcome looks reasonable on the surface. However, that the FBI is focusing on the so-called “MAGA extremists” is revealing: The Left has always been more willing to use violence than the Right so preparing for a Leftist response to a Trump victory would also be prudent. I think the Fibbies know the fix is in. The Democrat candidate will be frauded to victory no matter what and the Bureaucracy is preparing for the possibility that Conservatives will flip the switch.

  13. ” . . . the Four Boxes of civic participation (letter box, soap box, ballot box and when the first three have failed or been made illegal, the cartridge box).”

    I don’t think I have ever seen “letter box” included in this list before. Usually, the list is “soap box, ballot box, jury box, and cartridge box.”

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