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The Richmond Memo, Every Knee Will Bow
There appear to be two acceptable prejudices in the United States, acceptable by both the elite and the not-so-elite statists. Jews and Catholics have been targeted as a danger to the collectivists. There is a long history of this bigotry that began with ire aimed at the lower classes, and included the more refined Ivy League schools as well as higher education across the US.
This bigotry still exists today, and some in the FBI decided that they needed to act to protect the country from traditional Catholics.
The FBI’s anti-Catholic Richmond memo was distributed to more than 1,000 employees in FBI field offices across the country before it was ever leaked to the public by a whistleblower, according to documents obtained and revealed by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-IA, this week.
Even though Biden calls himself a Catholic, he and his administration knew who their political enemies were and attempted to take the necessary steps to crush them.
“The FBI’s recent production shows the FBI analysts in Richmond also consulted with the Louisville, Portland, and Milwaukee field offices as they prepared the Richmond memo,” Grassley wrote. “This included gathering information about Catholic traditionalist groups from the Louisville Field Office. That information appears to have informed a slide presentation at least one of the Richmond analysts produced referencing [Radical Traditionalist Catholics] RTCs’ supposed ‘core concepts,’ including ‘[c]onservative family values/roles’ and finding ‘radical-traditional Catholicism’s’ beliefs were, ‘[c]omparable to Islamist ideology.’”
In 2022, a Notre Dame grad was removed from the FBI:
Steve Friend’s removal from the FBI may not be a story about anti-Catholic bigotry, but it is a story about conscience.
Friend explained the reasoning behind the FBI’s decision to move resources away from child exploitation: “If you are able to open up a full investigation for national security reasons, it’s no secret that you’re going to have more money thrown at it than you can possibly imagine and without a tremendous amount of oversight.”
The raid was carried out against five men who were accused of rioting at the Capitol on January 6th. Friend, who did not vote for Trump in 2020, realized that he could not avoid participation in the raid in his current position, and he brought his first complaint over the “irregular” handling of January 6th cases to his immediate boss on August 19th, saying, “It was inappropriate to use an FBI SWAT team to arrest a subject for misdemeanor offenses … the subject would likely face extended detainment and biased jury pools in Washington, DC.”
Friend, who graduated in 2006 from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Accounting, was well respected in both his dorm and in the larger campus community. Fr. R.M. Vierling, former rector of Morrissey Hall where Friend lived, tweeted on September 22, “This young man was on my hall staff at the University of Notre Dame. You will not meet a finer, more ethical gentleman than Steve Friend. I have no doubt as to the veracity of what he has brought to light.” Continuing, “If you knew the man in question, you would find him to be very sober, not given to exaggeration, certainly not one to make false statements, nor desiring to be ‘page one.’ His character is impeccable.”
Saying “no” comes with a price, at least a temporal price, but the eternal cost is not worth the loss of your soul.
Published in Religion and Philosophy
I have nothing but rage for the creatures that grasped the instruments of power to pursue the righteous while the criminals ran rampant. The lines of police ordered to protect looters and arsonists from an outraged populace also comes to mind. And the mostly peaceful “journalists”, mostly still in place in the employ of corporations like Disney. It is a considerable encouragement in such times to discover that there was a man of conscience somewhere on that grand game board. It is chastening to realize they were so few, that we have made the “City on a Hill” a festering hive of maggots. Biden is a fitting icon for our rotten age.
Thank you, Steve Friend. May the Lord be with you.
Quite good. Reinforces Stockholm Syndrome Christianity which I am currently reading.
Abrego Garcia was stopped for speeding by the Tennessee Highway Patrol back in 2022. He had a car with Texas license plates, an expired Maryland drivers license, eight non-English speaking passengers without luggage, and $1400 in cash in his pockets. THP attempted to call both the FBI and the DHS in during the stop for suspected human trafficking.
THP got no response from the Feds. They were undoubtedly hunting down renegade Papists.
Well it seems that not only is the FBI bigoted against Catholics but they are also very stupid if they think Catholicism is comparable to Islamist ideology.
It isn’t stupidity , it’s malice with forethought . Evil is going to evil .
A month or so I was speaking to a neighbor who is an FBI agent. I don’t think I brought it up but he said there are 6000 agents under investigation (maybe review is a better word) for taking part in J6 investigations. He also said that many were “just working cases” and that it wasn’t fair, in his opinion. He also said there were only around 14,000 total agents (I have no idea if this is accurate).
My military officer training included much discussion (and renewal training) on how to deal with illegal orders. I wonder how much federal agents learn about it.
I have been a Catholic all my life. I have known that the US may be a Christian nation but it is not a Catholic one.
As for Jew, well that is a bit harder to figure. While Catholic is a religion and a belief. Jew seems to be a different thing. Yes it is a religion, but it also seems to also maybe mean a country, both in the past and now, and even worse a ethnicity of an actual race or maybe a social group. I find it a little more difficult to get my understanding of.
But in either case our government has always been hostile against both. Which seems to be what the Democrats are against since they seem to be the one that runs the government, media and our school systems.
Makes you wonder how they wanted JFK to be elected to anything.
It was a different country, consciously religious and anti-Communist. JFK’s election came amid a rise in secularism that made a “variant” Christian tradition look more like a test of ones pluralist American values than ones (Americanist) religious orthodoxy. It was a country shaking off the wounds of segregation and telling Polish jokes but occasionally chastened by the Anti-Defamation League. There were no generations raised under explicit racist quotas intended to eliminate implicit racism. I also recall the black supremacist pamphlets on the DC transit buses. The past is a foreign country.
P.S. I’m pretty sure knees bend, not bow.
Wasn’t it pretty much just Merrick Garland deciding these things?
Philippians 2:9-11 “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Oh, bad translation then. Even if said like “boe” it isn’t quite right.
I’ll be sure to see that St. Jerome is properly rebuked. Oh, wait, bend and bow (think archery) are synonyms in Koine Greek, Vulgate Latin, and English. Thousands of translators, living and dead, are wiping their brows at finding they did it right.
On another, related post I mention the connection between incompetence and malice.
JFK’s daddy spread a lot of money around. Some of it was used to make JFK the hero of PT-109, when in fact it was JFK’s actions that led to being struck by a Japanese destroyer and resulting loss of life.
Did they? Then you also get some of the other weird stuff. While JFK was a Catholic and so is Joe Biden. I personally have my doubts of either in that way. There is Catholic and then there is Catholic. While JFK is a little before my time I hear some JFK stuff that does not show a lot of belief in his belief. On the case of Biden. Him being considered Catholic and some sayings from church officials on Biden make me doubt if I am a Catholic anymore. It must being getting old thing. I know my grandmother and my mother have their doubt about our political Catholic church it seems it come to me also.
Sounds interesting. Perhaps a brief review when you are done?
Hadn’t heard about that, and I used to listen to every anti-Kennedy thing that came along. I wonder if there are others I missed, too.
Intriguing title. I could not guess what that’s about. But I’m gonna check it out
I remain bewildered about this. How could any rational person or group of people allow these things to take root and get so far? I know the answer to my question but it’s still a stunning phenomena. Call me naive I guess.
If not stupid, at least inexplicably ignorant
The past is a foreign country. What a line this is. It’s like an entire book in six words.
Yes. I’ve seen it over and over. Incompetence resorts to malice in order to grow and retain power.
The late Joe Sobran nailed the Catholic facade of so many politicians in his killer quip about Ted Kennedy: “He is so concerned about imposing his religion on others that he does not even impose it on himself.”
Not mine, it is much stolen and since last year even the title of a book.
Dang! Of course it is. Born too late for greatness I guess. :) Me thinks me will check out the book.
The Catholic Church is for Saints and sinners, for respectable people the Anglican Church will do. A sly dig at Henry VIII.
In a more serious comment, Catholics that use the words Heretic, and Apostate should understand they are only applicable to baptized Catholics. Catholics that become politicians must not commit the sin of Scandal by supporting abortion, or euthanasia. Scandal that creates confusion and leads Catholics to commit grave sins. A Catholic who obtains or procures an abortion is excommunicated by the act itself.
Catholics who are promoting abortion are schismatic. They should not receive communion, and in the case of politicians their penance may include making a public statement to repudiate their errors.
This.