"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."
-Thomas Jefferson
This is an incident report of an occurrence which never should have happened in this Constitutional Republic, these United States of America.
A man I will refer to only as The Patriot told me this disturbing story. He had some questions, he asked for my opinion, and I subsequently debriefed him. After ascertaining the facts of the case, I suggested that I could write a report, so that the incident would be memorialized for the public record. He agreed, but asked me not to use his name. He is concerned to protect the privacy and security of his family (who are not involved in his activism), which is certainly understandable.
The Patriot is a Christian, a family man, a husband, father and grandfather. He is a Military Veteran who served his country with honor in his heart.
He is a dedicated activist for defending Liberty and his solid Christian values. He has established a visible presence in media (including radio and print journalism). And from my knowledge of his work, he has been quite effective in his activism, which placed him on the radar of the PTB.
He is also my friend and Brother in Christ. I know him to be a decent, honorable person, who shares the values held dear by many Christian Patriots.
We are currently under siege in this nation, simply for defending those Christian values against the rising tide of totalitarian political systems: Marxism, Progressivism, the woke mob of left-wing agitators, the extreme aggression by LGBTQ+ activists and sex predators (pedophiles), propagandizing the society and grooming children, for indoctrination and to foment horrific mutilation of their bodies, the racists of BLM, the communists of Antifa, the New World Order/Luciferian despots of the United Nations...and on and on it goes.
Tyranny rears its ugly head in many forms. A tyranny, which as Christians, we must absolutely resist in obedience to God.
It is our Christian values we work to promote, and which we have every right to defend, in any and every lawful and ethical way available to us.
Our rights are God-given (natural, inherent), thus unalienable. And lest we forget, they are protected under the Constitution.
Why then, does the FBI think they have the authority to come after a Christian Patriot, who has committed no crime, who has no criminal record, who is a law-abiding citizen, for simply practicing his faith and exercising his God-given rights, including (but not limited to) his freedom of speech?
Answer: They don't have the authority.
And they do it anyway, with increasing frequency, targeting law-abiding Christians and Patriots, for no reason other than that they can get away with it. And they do so with impunity.
Here is the story, as told to me by The Patriot.
In the month of June (hijacked as “Pride Month”), 2023, two FBI agents appeared at The Patriot's private residence. He was not at home, but his wife answered the door. The agents asked for The Patriot by name. They did not identify themselves as FBI, nor did they give their names, nor any other information as to the purpose of their visit.
As it happened, The Patriot had been out walking in his neighborhood, and as he rounded the corner leading to his house, a vehicle slowed down, stopped and rolled down the window. It was the FBI agents, who had just left his house. They asked if his name was______. The Patriot answered in the affirmative.
The agents then identified themselves as FBI. The Patriot suggested that they come back to the house and said they could talk outside, as he did not want to upset his wife by inviting them into the house.
As to the purported “offense” for which The Patriot was a suspect? It had to do with him making a response to an e-mail, sent to a list of people by his friend, a fellow Christian.
Evidently the FBI had first visited the friend, and The Patriot was next on the list. All this started because there had been a complaint made to the FBI by one of the recipients of the e-mail, stating that he felt “threatened” by something written by The Patriot.
I have seen the e-mail, and I consider it absolutely ludicrous that anyone could feel personally “threatened” by any of the statements therein. There was no threat whatsoever.
But this character, whom I will call The Snitch, apparently decided that because he felt “offended”, he would make a report to the FBI, to stir up some trouble for his “enemies”, the Christians, which included The Patriot.
When informed by the FBI of the complaint made by The Snitch (my word, not the FBI's) The Patriot made it very clear that he is not a violent person, has never advocated violence, has never threatened anyone.
In fact, the agents openly admitted to him that they had seen just such a statement published on the website of a group he is involved with, a very clear disclaimer against any form of violence.
But here's a question: Why did The Snitch call the FBI? Why not the police?
No threats were made, not even by the slightest implication. But again, why the FBI?
Because, the FBI are 'scarier' than the police, at least in the minds of many people. The FBI have become a veritable Gestapo in this nation, who regularly overstep the bounds of their authority. They break their oath to defend the Constitution, against all enemies, foreign and domestic. In truth, they have become the de facto domestic enemies of We the People.
As I listened to my friend's story, it became clear to me that the FBI agents were on a fishing expedition, just to see what they might reel in, anything that might be used against The Patriot and his like-minded Christian associates.
But I know from experience that there is more to it than that. As a counterintelligence expert, I know a great deal about their tactics against anyone considered to be a “dissident”.
That would include Patriots, Christians, Defenders of the Constitution, anyone declaring their Sovereignty, anyone standing up against government tyranny.
The FBI's COINTELPRO (COunter INTELligence PROgram) was initiated in 1956 by J. Edgar Hoover.
Their purpose: "To expose, disrupt, misdirect, or otherwise neutralize" groups that the FBI officials believed were "subversive" by instructing FBI field operatives to:
~Create a negative public image for target groups (for example through surveilling activists and then releasing negative personal information to the public)
~Break down internal organization by creating conflicts (for example, by having agents exacerbate racial tensions, or send anonymous letters to try to create conflicts)
~Create dissension between groups (for example, by spreading rumors that other groups were stealing money)
~Restrict access to public resources (for example, by pressuring non-profit organizations to cut off funding or material support)
~Restrict the ability to organize protest (for example, through agents promoting violence against police during planning and at protests)
~Restrict the ability of individuals to participate in group activities (for example, by character assassinations, false arrests, surveillance)
Some of their Targets
included the Black Panthers, Martin Luther King Jr., the American
Indian Movement (AIM), Animal Rights Activists, Militia groups.
These days, the FBI's
counterintelligence operations increasingly focus mainly on
Christians, Pro-life activists, American Patriots, Defenders of the
Constitution.
As I explained to my
friend, The Patriot, there were probably two main purposes to the
FBI's visit:
To intimidate.
To present an implicit
threat to the friends, family and associates of the Target, so that
they might abandon him and withdraw their support from him.
Thus, they thought he
might be “neutralized”.
(Little
do they know that The Patriot, like his Christian brothers and
sisters, must stand firm in defense of his Christian values.
)
After a general meandering discussion, which seemed to lead nowhere, the FBI agents took their leave. They made no specific accusations. They gave no indication that they intended to return, nor that they planned to take any further action in regard to The Patriot.
But their mission was accomplished, at least for that day. They had planted the seeds of paranoia, that perhaps, there were FBI agents lurking behind every bush, skulking in the parking lot taking license plate numbers, or maybe, that The Snitch had like-minded accomplices, just waiting in the wings to make further complaints.
Complaints, which as some of us know, were entirely bogus, made against law-abiding Christian Patriots, fueled only by fear and hate in the minds of the false accusers – in point of fact, a fear and hatred of the truth itself.
The question becomes: Who cares?
The answer: Not nearly enough of those who call themselves Patriots, and who carry the name of Christ.
Some may say, It's not my problem, so why should I care?
What they don't realize is that any form of tyranny is everyone's problem.
And if they think this problem is not coming to their own doorstep (sooner or later), they need to think again.
If you want to live in a free country, it is your problem, and what's more, your duty, to do something about it.
Any defender of Liberty worthy of the name needs to stand up and be counted, become a warrior, in whatever ways they are capable, with whatever resources, talents and treasures are at their disposal.
No, I am not talking about employing violence, or making any kind of threats against anyone. Those are the tactics of thugs, not of Christians.
I am talking about peaceful protests in any places where we can gather. Using the media, print and radio, TV. Town hall meetings, churches, privately owned businesses run by Patriots, holding to Christian values. The possibilities are endless...where there is a will, there is a way.
If we don't stand up against this onslaught, one by one, if we don't support our brothers and sisters when they need our help, soon there won't be any country left to defend.
These FBI visits are more than just harassment, they are full-blown politically-motivated persecution.
A few words to the wise should be sufficient:
The next victims could be you and your family, your children and grandchildren.
Stand up and make your position known.
Shout it from the rooftops and anywhere else you can.
We have the right to speak our minds and to defend our values, and we will not be silenced, or intimidated by the agents of an out-of-control federal government, a juggernaut hell-bent on totalitarian control of the populace.
Lastly, I ask you to pray for The Patriot and his family. You don't have to know his identity, because God most certainly does. And pray for all the others like him, those you know and those you don't.
The more people praying, the more standing up against tyranny, the more will join us in our fight.
Barbara Hartwell
June 30, 2023
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