This is how this works. The left feeds an idea for hateful stories about a group to the media. The media runs wildly negative stories non the group. Then the FBI uses those articles to target those groups.
This is your deep state at work, ladies and gentlemen. (Wait, I mean xer and xem.)
This FBI report indicates that the FBI will be “recruiting sources” in the Church to “mitigate the threat.”
The FBI’s Richmond Division would like to protect Virginians from the threat of “white supremacy,” which it believes has found a home within Catholics who prefer the Latin Mass. An intelligence analyst within the Richmond Field Office of the FBI released in a new finished intelligence product dated January 23, 2023, on Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists (RMVE) and their interests in “Radical-Traditionalist Catholics” or RTCs. The document assesses with “high confidence” the FBI can mitigate the threat of Radical-Traditionalist Catholics by recruiting sources within the Catholic Church.
The acronym, new to many in the Domestic Counterterrorism field, comes with a footnote by the writer explaining RTCs are “typically characterized by the rejection of the Second Vatican Council.” The writer makes an unsubstantiated leap that a preference for the Catholic Mass in Latin instead of the vernacular and a number of more traditional views on other world religions can amount to an “adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and white supremacist ideology.” This writer draws the important distinction between “traditional Catholics,” who simply prefer the Traditional Latin Mass and pre-Vatican II teachings, and RTCs, who espouse “more extremist ideological beliefs and violent rhetoric.”
A discerning reader may wonder why the writer believes such divisions exist and if there is evidence of the extremist and violent rhetoric within the Catholic church. The analyst’s note doesn’t provide specifics. When the FBI generates an intelligence product, it is important to note the analyzed sources. Typically, strict source vetting removes partisanship and bias, so a product is both consistent with federal law and can add value to the FBI’s overall mission. Of note, this document was reviewed and approved for release by the FBI Richmond Chief Division Counsel, who is the office’s top lawyer.
The attached appendices refer to a number of articles and the out-of-FBI-policy Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) at the end of the document. For example, Appendix D is a direct copy of the SPLC list of “Radical Traditional Catholicism Hate Groups,” including the web address accessed. The SPLC appears to be a source for the intelligence analyst’s beliefs that RTCs exist and that they are anti-Semitic. The SPLC description for this “hate group” states RTCs “may make up the largest single group of serious anti-semites in America.” Often in the intelligence world, this type of statement without any established evidence is often followed by the acronym “NFI” or “No Further Information” to indicate it is an unsubstantiated opinion. Additionally, SPLC states RTCs “embrace extremely conservative social ideals with respect to women.” Nothing reported by the SPLC indicates the number of adherents to this alleged ideology nor any instances of violence. This lack of evidence and blatant partisan blindness is one of many reasons the FBI has distanced itself from the SPLC as a source in the past 10 years.The intelligence product includes endnote citations from two other sources: the far-Left online magazine Salon and the equally left-leaning The Atlantic. The Salon articles cited are typical of partisan click-bait writing: “Traditional Catholics and White Nationalist Groypers Forge a new Far-Right Youth Movement” and “White Nationalists Get Religion: On the Far-Right Fringe, Catholics and Racists Forge a movement.” These articles were released a day apart as a series but include substantially the same information. The articles offer only circumstantial suggestions of affiliations between inflammatory figures like Milo Yiannopoulos and Nick Fuentes and a man pictured standing on the steps of a Catholic church in New York after the Dobbs decision. The Salon writer makes the wild leap that using a photo of someone at a church indicates the pictured individual or his beliefs are relevant within a religious institution with 70 million adherents in the United States alone and over 2000 years of tradition and history.
The writer determines that the “threat picture” involving RMVE, again in this case, referring to white supremacists, will increase, but that the “RTC Community is likely to remain relatively stable or show modest growth” over the next one to two years
In short, the FBI is making its case based on the absolutely corrupt SPLC. So if you’re sitting down at a Latin Mass and some guy in a suit and sunglasses leans over and says, “What about them jews, huh?” you should probably move pews. You probably would’ve done that anyway but definitely do it now because he’s trying to put you in jail. (The undercover agents, not the jews.)
I also love how traditional Catholics are now responsible for everything Milo does. Dude’s got a lot going on. Come on, is Milo the representative of traditional Catholicism? Seriously?
In the end, this all means that traditional Catholics will be the target of agents looking to set up trads. I’ve long considered myself trad-adjacent. But I’ll admit trads get all the right hate. The leftists in the Church are after them and now the FBI is after them. I’m jealous.
But you can absolutely expect more SWAT raids of homes with eight children and the media will jump in to demonize the weirdoes who wear veils and attend rituals in a dead language.
And on top of all of this, the leftists in the Vatican will pounce upon this to squash trads. God help us.
February 9, 2023 at 8:55 am
Well, as a “Trad” I relish the targeting. If the enemy hates you you must be doing something right! For me I think they ought to look into our government a little bit more, how many thousands have died because of those decisions? More than anyone I know in the Latin Mass community will ever kill.
As for Latin being a dead language, that is actually its beauty. What gay meant 500 years ago it still means! Words have meanings that shouldn’t change.
Let the persecutions begin, maybe the Lord is watching and waiting, will the traditionalists stand firm? The new Church isn’t that is for sure.
Have a blessed day, love everyone and pray they find their way to the true faith! The Catholic Church, there is no salvation outside it! All grace comes from the Lord through His Church!
February 9, 2023 at 10:18 am
The majority of Catholics do not have access to TLM. The NO is a valid, legitimate mass. I receive the same graces from the NO as I do at the TLM. Our Lord would have to be a liar and lack total mercy if he allowed the Catholic Church of which He is the head to implement the NO liturgy and then condemn us for going to the NO mass. I consider myself a trad in that I believe all that our Church teaches us handed down by the Apostles. All its doctrines and its dogmas. No, I do not go to TLM. Why? There is no parish close enough for me to attend the TLM. Do I wish to go? Yes I do. Do I feel condemned and in error for going to the NO instead? No, I do not. Anyone who tells me that the NO is not a valid Mass needs to realign their hearts with the Catholic Church who gave us the NO. We cannot be in error for following the teachings of the Church. But you are in error if you believe only the TLM is the legitimate litury of our Mother Church.
February 9, 2023 at 10:23 am
” The new Church isn’t that is for sure.”
The ‘new’ Church is the Church founded by Christ. It is the same Church from 2000 years ago. There IS no new Church. Different liturgies, different rubrics, different manner in the why things are done? Yes. In ALL the different rites. I may not attend a TLM but I stand firm against evil through God’s grace. Maybe the trads will too eh?
February 11, 2023 at 6:35 pm
Apparently one of the factors, a significant one, for the failure of US intelligence agencies to prevent the September 11 attacks was their inability to infiltrate Alkaieda ( I think that spelling is wrong). They couldn’t find a man who could recite the Koran from memory which is , of course, a prerequisite test of being a faithful Muslim and without which there is no way you could get into the inner circles of the leadership. So now I say to the EfBeeEye…. Show us your credentials. Let us hear you recite the creed in Latin.