Political Targeting – When Did it Really Begin?

by George Mcclellan

A comment in a recent article on the “American Liberty” internet site titled: “Surveillance State: How January 6th Turned Financial Scrutiny Into Political Targeting” starts on what I believe is a mistaken premise that the January 6 Capitol protest changed the government’s protocols on surveilling American citizens. It didn’t change them, and it expanded them! Since that 06 Jan 21 post-election event, the new president, Joe Biden, directed his Federal Government to go whole-hog totalitarian, employing the FBI, IRS, and ATF under the DoJ for plausible deniability, to seek out any MAGA Americans who were at the Capitol on 06 January. It was a designed attack on Donald Trump and a direct attempt to destroy his MAGA movement. They met success for a while, but since stabbing Joe Biden in the back and pushing that total idiot, Kamala Harris, as their candidate of choice, all their clever planning has turned into a Democrat shambles. They’ve cleared their bench!

Before 06 Jan, financial surveillance operated within a constitutional framework designed to identify and combat criminal and terrorist money laundering schemes. That may be so, but what the 06 January protest did was provide Democrats the excuse they needed to attempt the destruction of Trump and his MAGA movement. They took advantage of the protest to make it happen! The four years of Trump’s banishment, as we know, were filled with lawfare attacks, phony accusations of petty crimes raised to the level of felonies, claims of mishandling classified documents, et al., all designed to convince Americans not to return him to the White House to complete his promised destruction of the bureaucratic deep state. Since 9/11 and the Patriot Act, judicial oversight (FISA Court) supposedly operated as an essential link in defending the Fourth Amendment process, ensuring that any government intrusion into citizens’ financial lives followed the law. Obama, from the moment of his first election, changed the targets of who was Americas real terrorist threat from Islamic Jihadists to White Christian Nationalists. Obama was offended that Islam, simply because of 9/11, was, by law, to be considered America’s main terrorist threat.

Until Trump’s 2016 victory, an uneasy balance of applying the law existed until the 06 Jan Capitol event altered the balance. Under Biden’s administration, Fourth Amendment safeguards were swept aside, and surveillance efforts shifted from a necessary tool for national defense to a blunt instrument wielded against pro-Trump supporters and the broader “MAGA” movement. Capitol protest attendees, if they were anywhere within sight of the US Capitol building or their cell phones indicated they were, were hunted down by the FBI, arrested, interrogated, tried, and imprisoned in conditions normally afforded to actual criminals. The Democrat Party leadership took a golden opportunity to neutralize the Conservative movement! Under Biden’s leadership, the lawfare against Trump ran for four years unknowingly for them, creating an unintended level of fear and distrust of government agencies. By ensuring the destruction of many Americans’ reputations, expending their finances, and draining their bank accounts to protect themselves, how could they not have known? Individuals from far away who attended the rally or donated to conservative causes soon found themselves subjected to the surveillance of their communications, travel histories, and hotel bookings, but especially the unlawful examination of their financial transactions. This is how the East German Stasi and the Soviet KGB operated.

The American Liberty article claimed that 06 Jan was the changing point. It wasn’t! In light of current events, we see it as a clumsy attempt by the Democrats to destroy conservatism and keep political power forever. Well, forever ended on 05 Nov 2024! In any event, the vehicle for plausible deniability for violating the Constitution was the Patriot Act. That act appeared off the shelf immediately after 9/11 to “create appropriate tools to intercept and obstruct terrorism, enhance law enforcement tools for investigation terrorism, deter and punish terrorist acts, Increase penalties for terrorism crimes, expand the list of activities that qualify as terrorism charges” The act gave law enforcement and intelligence agencies increased surveillance powers, including expanded wiretapping and pen register monitoring, expanded access to electronic communications, allowed secret searches, Removed privacy protections to allow federal agencies to share more information and Increased funding for federal law enforcement agencies.” Isn’t that wonderful? Who could be against our government protecting us from another Islamic terrorist attack? Why, you’re unAmerican if you disagreed.

Of course, to “remove privacy protections,” as the act states, ignores the Fourth Amendment. The Department of Justice ignored warnings to that effect, claiming: “the act protects Americans’ First Amendment rights and that terrorism investigators are not interested in the library habits of ordinary Americans.” The hell they’re not! The Second Amendment protects our First Amendment rights and the Fourth Amendment protects Americans from the intrusions of their hostile government. Effectively, the Patriot Act, for convenience’s sake, allowed the combining of the counterintelligence function with law enforcement, placing both in the hands of the FBI. What could go wrong? Why, nothing, except that for the sake of convenience, it corrupts the mechanism of safeguarding Americans’ protections against unlawful searches by the investigative process. This is where FISA Court judges were supposed to intervene if constitutional protections were in danger of being ignored for the sake of making an arrest or…claiming politicians like Donald Trump were in cahoots with those awful Russians. After Obama, that whole process changed from knowing who is our outside enemies (Islam) to charging White Christian Males as our internal enemies and destroying them before they can interfere with their Globalism agenda.

The Patriot Act was altered to “allow (nongovernment) Internet services to disclose (mandate) customer records “voluntarily” to the government in emergencies involving immediate risk of death or serious injury.” And that’s how it’s been since Obama came on the scene. Budgeting was still an essential issue in generating the resources to fund the government’s totalitarian efforts against the MAGA state. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was the logical vehicle for that and so Biden’s fascist state grew apace until 05 Nov 2024. Trump’s massive mandate of claiming both the electoral and popular votes brought the Globalism business to a halt for now! But be aware we cannot drop our guard. We still have never had Trump RiNO problems waiting to do their damage.

Confirmation of illegal targeting is found in a report by the House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, revealing extensive abuse of the law by the federal government. Congressional investigators exposed the FBI’s abuse of the Bank Secrecy Act to target opponents of Biden’s administration and identify Trump supporters. The information obtained during the Committee and Select Subcommittee’s investigations revealed that federal law enforcement works hand-in-glove with financial institutions to seek unchecked access to private financial data while testing new methods and technologies to continue their financial surveillance of American citizens.” We should be writing our congressmen and senators right now. You think?

Now, learn your roles, and don’t be afraid to wade in and help Trump restore America. At least don’t get in the way. Remember, freedom is the goal; the Constitution is the way. Now, get involved.

Help save America.

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