From article
During Thursday’s hearing by the House Judiciary Select Committee on the weaponization of the federal government, FBI whistleblower Stephen Friend testified that he was ordered to write down the license plate numbers of parents who attended school board meetings.
Friend — a 12-year veteran of the bureau — was suspended after he refused to take part in a SWAT-style raid on a January 6 suspect who was facing misdemeanor charges last summer. “I have an oath to uphold the Constitution,” Mr. Friend, a 12-year veteran of the bureau, told his supervisors when he declined to participate in the raid on August 24, 2022. “I have a moral objection and want to be considered a conscientious objector.”
On Thursday, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) questioned the FBI whistleblowers on the bureau’s “terrorism symbol guide.”
The agents told Gaetz that voicing support for the second amendment, the Betsy Ross flag and writing “2A” were all among the FBI’s designated domestic terrorism symbols. Gaetz then turned his attention to Friend and asked about school board meetings.
Friend told the panel that the FBI directed him to record license plate numbers from vehicles belonging to parents opposed to leftist agendas at school board meetings. The suspended agent was one of those parents himself, having attended a number of local school board meetings to voice curriculum concerns.
“After I attended privately my colleagues teased me that [the FBI] were probably going to start investigating me,” Friend said.
In addition, Friend revealed that he was pulled from cases involving child predators in order to investigate parents at school board meetings.
In 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland directed the DOJ and FBI to investigate parents who protested divisive topics such as Critical Race Theory at school board meetings. The decision came at the behest of the National School Boards Association (NSBA), who stated that concerned parents were “domestic terrorists” in a letter addressed to President Biden.
Two days later, Garland issued a memo directed federal law enforcement agencies to establish contact with local law enforcement in order to investigate “threats” against school board members.
Sickening.
The truth always comes to light.
God Bless Mr. Friend for standing by his morals and the Constitution.
FYI...local police routinely drive thru shopping center parking lots and scan plates looking for "criminals" with outstanding warrants. Usually on a Friday... so this is not surprising, but it's still fd up.
Well.. scanning plates to check for warrants is different than noting who is objecting to the bullshit and labeling them domestic terrorists.
They are trying to intimidate people into inaction and make every day folk criminals for exercising their rights.
This is very different indeed.
I agree but it isn't as outlandish as it seems when you consider local popo do it all the time. They all need to be scattered to the wind... and unless it's the sheriff, po-leese, enforcing policy of the local incorporated town, need to go. The only "real police" is the sheriff.
Yepers!
Police also will scan your plate as you drive in front of them. I can always tell because they will come close to the tail of your car, back off a bit, linger, then pull into the next lane and pass you. Going to find their next plate to justify their jobs.
I thought it was because of the, "I ♥️ cops" license plate frame...😁
Just like at the Godfather wedding
Too weird