Last I checked the Central Intelligence Agency was supposed to focus on foreign threats. Not anymore. The spooks have turned their efforts against American citizens.
Former Senior Intelligence Service officer at the CIA, Marc Polymeropoulos published a Sunday piece declaring that that techniques once used to fight radical Islam should be turned against the against the right-wing in America.
Polymeropoulos’ piece for NBC News Think warned that propagandists, whether Islamic terrorists or Republicans, should be subject to counterterrorism and counterradicalization techniques.
“I worked in counterterrorism operations for nearly my entire career at the CIA before retiring in 2019. The battle we engaged in with international terrorist groups like Al Qaeda wasn’t just with their legions of foot soldiers but with their highly effective propaganda arms as well,” he wrote. “The U.S. and our allies considered those propagandists fundamental cogs in a terror group’s machinery, and just as culpable as any other terrorist. So we held them accountable when innocent civilians were killed.”
Polymeropoulos suggested that the attack of Paul Pelosi was evidence that the American government needs to take a firmer approach to its own citizenry.
“Lone wolves are a thorn for domestic U.S. law enforcement as well, as we saw last week when a man not affiliated with any known group but immersed in right-wing propaganda attacked Paul Pelosi, the husband of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,” he wrote. “While the authorities have taken appropriate action against him, there are few signs that the government is taking the big-picture approach needed to combat the violence-inducing propaganda behind his crime.”
Polymeropoulos omits the facts about Paulie Pelosi’s attacker, namely that he’s a psycho, a drug addict, a pedophile, and his political views are schizoid.
He appeared to lament that the U.S. Constitution gives American citizens more rights than foreign enemies.
“The Constitution confers certain free-speech protections for extremist propaganda in the U.S. that prevent authorities from exactly replicating our foreign counterterrorism strategy here at home. But there are important lessons we can and should apply,” he said. “For one thing, we can exercise free speech to proclaim that the normalization of violence against politicians is dangerous and unacceptable. Some violent rhetoric might not be illegal, but it is all morally repugnant.”
Polymeropoulos also seemed to equivocate demonizing an opposing politician with calling for violence against them.
“To start with, we need to clearly identify what crosses the line into the realm of dangerous rhetoric. That means calling out those in the right-wing ecosphere who for years have demonized, and at times even promoted and encouraged, attacks on Pelosi,” he claimed.
This part of his argument is saturated with stupidity:
“Democratic politicians and leaders may not like Trump, but they don’t call for violence against him, let alone his execution,” he claimed.
He neglected to mention multiple incidents of left-wing calls to arms and violence against Republicans, however.
In 2017, a far-left former Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer named James T. Hodgkinson fired upon on a group of Republican lawmakers as they practiced for the annual Congressional Baseball Game, critically injuring House Republican Whip Steve Scalise.
Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., recalled this event when he hammered liberal hypocrisy around political violence on an episode of “Face the Nation” when he said, “I never saw anyone after Steve Scalise was shot by a Bernie Sanders supporter trying to equate Democratic rhetoric with those actions.”
In 2020, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., warned Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh that they “will pay the price” for rulings against abortion and “You won’t know what hit you.”
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., endorsed harassing political opposition in public in 2018. “They’re not going to be able to go to a restaurant, they’re not going to be able to stop at a gas station, they’re not going to be able to shop at a department store,” Waters proclaimed at the time. “The people are going to turn on them, they’re going to protest, they’re going to absolutely harass them.”
Likewise, Polymeropoulos appeared to completely gloss over left-wing activist groups protesting in front of the houses of Supreme Court justices, firebombing crisis pregnancy centers, posting the addresses of public figures online, or politically motivated riots in cities.
Opposition to their power structure is a “terrorist threat”.
I was an Intelligence Analyst and worked in Counter Terrorism. Rogue miscreants like Polymeropoulos advocate the use of weaponized government agencies to target American citizens who speak out and protest against government corruption. Polymeropoulos is a threat to our Republic. He’s in good company. The entire Dem party and their constituents feel the same way. When Dems don’t get their way, they get violent. Their campaign has been going on for a long time.
The Left’s rage-fueled rhetoric inspires their fringe to commit assault and murder.
An Illinois Dem threatened to ‘mutilate and kill’ GOP gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey. Leftwing terrorists have threatened SCOTUS judges over Roe v Wade and one of their fans drove all the way across the country with a plan to assassinate SCOTUS judge Kavanaugh. He wanted to “give his life a purpose.” Pregnancy centers have been firebombed by a group called “Janes’ Revenge”.
Shots were fired at North Carolina, residence of GOP congressional candidate Pat Harrigan’s parents.
Right after Biden made his anti-MAGA Reichstag speech in Philadelphia, leftwing thugs ratcheted up the assaults against GOP voters:
September 20: Local media report a North Dakota man ran down and killed a teen with his car because the 18-year-old was a “Republican extremist.”
September 21: New Mexico Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Ronchetti had the windows of his home shot out.
September 25: Two staffers for Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R-TX) reelection campaign were assaulted in Houston.
September 26: A Michigan man allegedly shot an 84-year-old pro-life volunteer in the back.
Multiple reports of GOP offices being vandalized have also been reported this month, including the offices of the Larimer County Republican Party in Fort Collins, Colorado, and the Ottawa County Republican Party in Hudsonville, Michigan.
A GOP office in Seminole County Florida was vandalized in graffiti with the phrase “eat s*** fascists” days after Biden called MAGA Republicans “semi-fascists,” WOFL-TV reported.
Weeks later, a Democratic office in Seminole County was also vandalized with the word “Nazi” written in graffiti.
Last week, WJBK-TV reported that a pregnancy center in Oakland County, Michigan was vandalized with the message “‘If abortion is not safe neither are you” which represents the second time this year the building has been targeted with authorities investigating whether the leftist pro-abortion group Jane’s Revenge is linked to the crimes.
Dem-supported Antifa and BLM thugs rampage through cities while Jan 6 protesters are persecuted. Biden’s autocratic regime rounds up political dissidents, and holds them in a DC gulag without due process for protesting government corruption.
The very agencies sworn to uphold the constitution participated in an attempted coup d’état against a duly elected president with a fake Russian collusion hoax and a fabricated dossier.
Newsflash, Polymeropoulos: You and your Dem pals have a corner on the terrorist market.
Related posts:
https://sfcmac.com/the-cia-is-now-another-weaponized-domestic-spying-agency/
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/left-political-violence-dangerous-democrat-rhetoric