Fox News personality Tucker Carlson criticized US Attorney General Merrick Garland for allegedly using the Department of Justice to target people for their religious expression. The shocking allegations point to a worrying trend about devoted people and how they are treated in our society right now.
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Carlson said Thursday that the DOJ is targeting “anyone who is religious, humiliating them in front of their children,” referencing the case of Mark Houck, a pro-life father who had his house raided by the FBI after he allegedly violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
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Houck and the elderly guy got into a violent argument outside a Philadelphia Planned Parenthood, during which Houck defended his 12-year-old son from verbal abuse.
In late January, Houck was declared not guilty and cleared of all counts. Carlson asserted that the Government is picking on Christian Americans as “people raised to believe that God is in charge are much harder for the government to control as they grow up.”
“Are you allowed to believe that there’s an authority higher than the people in charge of your government? That has always been the hallmark of America: religious liberty. It’s in the First Amendment,” the Fox News host questioned.
Carlson accused Garland of leading the “most aggressive attack on civil liberties” and “Christianity than any living American has seen.”
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On Wednesday, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) launched similar accusations at the DOJ and Merrick Garland. Hawley asked if the DOJ possessed an “anti-Catholic bias,” referencing a leaked FBI internal memorandum that called for “the exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development against traditionalist Catholics.”
On January 23, the Richmond FBI office sent out a memo alerting agents of potential white supremacist activity within traditional Catholic communities. In response to this threat, undercover investigators were dispatched to infiltrate and monitor religious groups in search for evidence of such behaviour. “assesses the increasingly observed interest of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists in radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology almost certainly presents opportunities for threat mitigation through the exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development.”
The memorandum claimed their was a link between traditionalist Catholics and “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists.” Following mass backlash over the memorandum, the FBI released a statement disavowing the memorandum’s content, saying it “does not meet the exacting standrds of the FBI.”
“Upon learning of the document, FBI Headquarters quickly began taking action to remove the document from FBI systems and conduct a review of the basis for the document,” the FBI told the Washington Examiner.
