3 Ways the Deep State Is Quietly Targeting Your Freedoms
All eyes are fixated on the border, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the primary races – and rightfully so. Many would argue the state of the republic is bleak. But regardless of what’s in the headlines, the Deep State remains relentless in its covert efforts to erode your freedoms.
So how deep, exactly, does the Deep State go? For starters, it is actively trying to control three crucial resources of conservatives right now. And the more the ACLJ exposes it, the more the Deep State kicks and screams.
1. Information
The collusion between the Deep State and Big Tech is on full display. The ACLJ just received, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, correspondence between FBI counterintelligence agents and Facebook officials one month prior to the 2020 election. This specific joint effort to censure “misinformation” happened just before the infamous Hunter Biden laptop story was suppressed across social media platforms. In one email thread, an FBI agent admitted, “I think private industry is our most valuable asset.”
Of course, this abuse of government power is unsurprising, considering the Supreme Court will hear Murthy v. Missouri (formerly known as Biden v. Missouri), and the ACLJ just filed an amicus brief at the Supreme Court in this case. The Supreme Court Justices will soon decide if the Biden Administration’s direct meddling with Big Tech’s decision to suppress information violated Americans’ First Amendment rights.
If that isn’t scary enough, the House Judiciary Committee also just released a treasure trove of emails from Amazon detailing “pressure from the White House” to quietly censor books that the Biden Administration did not approve of. Also, Elon Musk’s widely publicized Twitter Files are another example of the Deep State deciding which content is acceptable to be shared with the public.
Make no mistake: The Deep State is busy ensuring that you only consume information that meets its approval.
2. Money
Financial institutions are also in bed with the Deep State. Most recently, the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government revealed the FBI coordinated with financial institutions to flag any private transactions involving “MAGA” or “Trump” purchases. Even more disturbing, purchases of religious texts, such as the Bible, were also flagged.
Upon hearing this news, the ACLJ filed a new FOIA demanding answers. We already have firsthand experience of defeating the Deep State IRS after it was caught targeting Christian organizations and conservative groups. So this is not the first time we’ve seen this kind of financial targeting.
The Deep State is undeniably targeting your money and wants to know what you’re buying.
3. Speech
Controlling the information you consume and how you spend your money is, apparently, not enough for the Deep State. It also wants to restrict your speech if you hold Christian values.
The most egregious recent example might be the six pro-life activists who were prosecuted and recently found guilty of protesting outside a Tennessee abortion clinic in 2021. They did not threaten anyone, destroy property, or block highway traffic. They peacefully sang hymns. Now they face up to 11 years in federal prison.
Of course, such tactics are nothing new for Attorney General Merrick Garland’s DOJ, which was caught coordinating with law enforcement to target parents who spoke out at school board meetings (corroborated by an FBI whistleblower whom the ACLJ represents).
Garland insisted it was all about a “disturbing spike” in threats and harassment directed at school officials. Garland’s excuse might be believable had the DOJ not been caught investigating what was described as “radical traditionalist Christians.”
According to the House Judiciary Committee, the FBI was working to infiltrate churches to keep tabs on churchgoers. Though Garland testified it was a rogue FBI office that had targeted Christians, the targeting was revealed to include multiple FBI field offices across the country.
The ACLJ is fighting back against the Deep State’s targeting of Christians. We filed a FOIA lawsuit demanding information related to the FBI’s spying on Christians. Through this lawsuit, we have learned that the FBI currently has roughly 1,200 pages of correspondence related to its targeting of Christians. In fact, in another FOIA lawsuit against the Biden IRS, we have uncovered tens of thousands of pages of documents about the targeting of the “Word of God” and “Prayer.” The free speech of Christians must not be violated.
The Deep State is real, and it doesn’t rest – quietly targeting three crucial resources of conservatives: information, money, and free speech. But the ACLJ also doesn’t rest in exposing the Deep State’s abuse and protecting your civil liberties.