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June 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM

The Richmond Memo, Every Knee Will Bow

Doug Watt
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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 Richmond Memo:

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.

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    Sisyphus@Sisyphus·1y

    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.

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    Chuck@Chuckles·1y

    Quite good. Reinforces Stockholm Syndrome Christianity which I am currently reading.

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    Percival@Percival·1y

    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.

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    Scott Wilmot@ScottWilmot·1y

    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.

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    Kevin Schulte@KevinSchulte·1y
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    Scott Wilmot (View Comment):

    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 .

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