Biden Administration Labeled Americans Opposed to Covid Mandates "Domestic Violent Extremist"

According to newly declassified intelligence documents, the Biden Administration identified certain Americans who opposed COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates as “Domestic Violent Extremists” (DVEs). A former FBI agent noted that this classification offered an “articulable purpose” for federal agents to begin an “assessment,” which is typically the first step toward a full investigation. The records were obtained and reported by Catherine Herridge.

In Nazi Germany, political labels empowered the Gestapo to persecute opponents, while in Communist China, Mao’s ideological designations directly gave rise to the Red Guards, who targeted so-called class enemies. Of course most are aware of the depravity of the Nazis. You might not remember the Red Guards killed hundreds of thousands of people—often brutally—and their violence was both widespread and state-sanctioned.

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The Biden Administration labeled Americans who opposed the COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as “Domestic Violent Extremists,” or DVEs, according to newly declassified intelligence records obtained by Public and Catherine Herridge Reports. The designation created an “articulable purpose” for FBI or other government agents to open an “assessment” of individuals, which is often the first step toward a formal investigation, said a former FBI agent. The report, which the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has declassified, claims that “anti government or anti authority violent extremists,” specifically militias, “characterize COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as evidence of government overreach.” A sweeping range of COVID narratives, the report states, “have resonated” with DVEs “motivated by QAnon.” The FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) coauthored the December 13, 2021 intelligence product whose title reads, “DVEs and Foreign Analogues May React Violently to COVID-19 Mitigation Mandates.” The report cites criticism of mandates as “prominent narratives” related to violent extremism. These narratives “include the belief that COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe, especially for children, are part of a government or global conspiracy to deprive individuals of their civil liberties and livelihoods, or are designed to start a new social or political order.“ “It’s a way they could go to social media companies and say, ‘You don’t want to propagate domestic terrorism, so you should take down this content,’” said former FBI agent Steve Friend....