I've always wondered what it's like to be an enemy of the state in your home nation.
I can fathom what it's like to be in a foreign nation and have every entity looking for you due to espionage or something else, but not in the nation you were born and raised in; the nation you swore to protect.
I just had no idea that I'd actually be one.
That might be a bit of an exaggeration, but not as much of one as I'd like to think. By now, we're all well aware of the Biden-era "Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism," which has some very troubling language in it.
As Just the News reported earlier on Tuesday, the criteria included buying guns, being a veteran, and what was termed as "'xenophobic' disinformation."
I'm a veteran and gun owner, and I was pretty critical of China during the whole pandemic, at least on social media. Now, I'm curious as to whether my own government was monitoring my lawful activity simply because I wasn't a raging leftist loon willing to toe the progressive party line on these issues.
Was I considered a threat to become a domestic terrorist?
I'm sure I could file a FOIA request and find out, and part of me is considering doing just that, but another part of me would rather not know.
I'm not a big fan of government as a general thing. I recognize the need for it, so I tolerate it as a necessary evil, but like so many other necessary evils, it needs to be tamed and constantly monitored.
The government needs to be monitored, not the people who might question it.
Finding out that I was monitored because of my views and lawful behavior might just be too much for me to tolerate, and I'm seeing too much that I'm incapable of tolerating as it is. I can't afford to seek out another example.
Yet, as we hear the left scream about due process for a "Maryland Dad" who turned out to not just be a member of MS-13 and a wife-beater, but is also apparently a human trafficker, I can't help but notice the lack of outrage over law-abiding Americans being monitored and snooped on as potential domestic terrorists despite having never uttered a single call for violence in their lives.
There's a line that you should never cross, and for folks on this side of things, that should be about calling for violence.
For the government, that line is the United States Constitution, though, which is as hard and fast of a rule as we'll ever see, and the former Potato-in-Chief – or whoever was handling him – crossed it. For all the screaming about due process and norms, they shattered those.
So I sit here, a veteran, a father, a husband, and a lot of other things, all of which are peaceful, and wonder whether or not my nation considered me an enemy of the state, even for a time.
How many of you are in the same boat? How many of you faced being snooped on by the people your tax dollars pay, simply because you weren't a progressive jackwagon?
That's not how it should ever work in a free society.
Of course, when has the left ever wanted a free society?