{"id":17817,"date":"2013-04-26T20:04:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T00:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17817"},"modified":"2013-04-26T20:04:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T00:04:21","slug":"feds-%e2%80%9cmollycoddle%e2%80%9d-jihadists-but-profile-christians-pro-lifers-and-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17817\/feds-%e2%80%9cmollycoddle%e2%80%9d-jihadists-but-profile-christians-pro-lifers-and-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds \u201cMollycoddle\u201d Jihadists But Profile Christians, Pro-Lifers and Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a follow-on to Quin\u2019s column this week<\/a>, it\u2019s interesting to learn which people agencies of the federal government think deserve to be profiled, monitored, etc.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, as the Washington Examiner<\/a> (echoing Quin) points out, FBI training manuals were systematically purged in 2011 of all references to Islam that were judged offensive by a specially created five-member panel.\u201d \u201cNearly 900 pages were removed from the manuals as a result of that review.\u201d<\/p>\n

Without a training manual to fall back on for cover, it\u2019s no wonder that FBI agents took a hands-off approach when investigating Tamerlan Tsarnev, one of the two Boston Marathon bombers who posted a pro-jihad video on his Facebook page. Without specific, bureau-approved criteria for monitoring Tsarnev even though he expressed radical views, frontline investigators let a future terrorist roam free.<\/p>\n

But not to worry; the Obama administration knows whom to target.<\/p>\n

David Limbaugh<\/a> over at NewsBusters has a sobering round-up of many of the instances of government profiling of Christians, pro-lifers, and Second Amendment supporters.<\/p>\n

Examples include military bases blocking access to the Southern Baptist Convention\u2019s website for \u201chostile content,\u201d a West Point study linking pro-life advocates to terrorism and a Department of Homeland Security briefing alleging that returning military veterans with Tea Party views could pose a security threat.<\/p>\n

Branches of the federal government as diverse as the U.S. Army, DHS and the Houston National Cemetery, among others, are part of a seemingly coordinated effort to monitor and marginalize people that not so long ago would have been considered as the patriotic backbone of America. In today\u2019s upside-down world, however, not so much.<\/p>\n

Clearly, when it wants to, the Obama administration knows how to keep tabs on individuals and groups it deems dangerous to public safety. Unfortunately, they aren\u2019t the people who are acting like terrorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a follow-on to Quin\u2019s column this week, it\u2019s interesting to learn which people agencies of the federal government think deserve to be profiled, monitored, etc. On the one hand, as the Washington Examiner (echoing Quin) points out, FBI training manuals were systematically purged in 2011 of all references to Islam that were judged offensive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4117,1045,1966,342,4116,682],"class_list":["post-17817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-dhs","tag-discrimination","tag-fbi","tag-military","tag-profiling","tag-terrorist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17817"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17822,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17817\/revisions\/17822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}