Tom Knighton has written an article which resonates with me, for obvious reasons:
By now, we’re all well aware of the Biden-era “Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism,” which has some very troubling language in it.
As Just the News reported earlier on Tuesday, the criteria included buying guns, being a veteran, and what was termed as “‘xenophobic’ disinformation.”
I’m a veteran and gun owner, and I was pretty critical of China during the whole pandemic, at least on social media. Now, I’m curious as to whether my own government was monitoring my lawful activity simply because I wasn’t a raging leftist loon willing to toe the progressive party line on these issues.
Was I considered a threat to become a domestic terrorist?
Anyone see any parallels between Knighton and me? The only difference between us is that I’m a veteran of another country’s army — but I’m still a veteran. (As for the criticism of the foul ChiComs, and buying guns: ipse dixit.)
I have no idea what is/was meant by “xenophobic disinformation”, but if it means saying that I heartily dislike furriners who creep illegally over our borders to take jobs away from U.S. citizens, commit other crimes, engage in espionage or otherwise try to undermine our country, then I’d have to plead nolo contendere*.
Knighton goes on:
I’m sure I could file a FOIA request and find out, and part of me is considering doing just that, but another part of me would rather not know.
I do have one hint that I may be on such a list if “undesirables”: back in 2017 (that would have been under the Obama administration), I had the dreaded “SSSS” designation appear on one of my air tickets, but it was for one flight only (among several others in that year and the year following), and Obama had only been in out of power for a few months at that point.
I’m fairly sure that I was “noted” by some government apparatchik during the latter years of his presidency, and if not then, I have absolutely no doubt that I was flagged during the Biden era.
This website is my only “online presence” (no Twatter, no Fecesbook, no Instagram and certainly no ChiCom-based Tik Tok either), but over the years several of my posts have engendered (shall we say) some notoriety, and it wouldn’t take much for those to have got me noted and monitored by some DHS/FBI drone.
Anyway, my interest in such surveillance by the .gov is minimal, although I am a kindred spirit of Tom Knighton’s in that:
Finding out that I was monitored because of my views and lawful behavior might just be too much for me to tolerate, and I’m seeing too much that I’m incapable of tolerating as it is.
Amen, Brother Tom.
And now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to the range. My AK-47 is feeling all neglected and stuff.
*Whole lotta Latin in this post… sorry.