{"id":21686,"date":"2025-06-03T07:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T11:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=21686"},"modified":"2025-06-04T10:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:39:29","slug":"did-the-feds-label-you-a-covid-violent-extremist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/03\/did-the-feds-label-you-a-covid-violent-extremist\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the Feds Label You a Covid \u201cViolent Extremist?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header \">\n<div>\n<header class=\"entry-header \">\n<h2>Brownstone Institute &#8211; reposted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/did-feds-label-you-covid-violent-extremist\">Zero Hedge<\/a> &amp; many other websites<\/h2>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Did the Feds Label You a Covid \u201cViolent Extremist?\u201d<\/h1>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">By <span class=\"posted-by vcard author\"><a class=\"url fn n\" title=\"View all posts by James Bovard\" href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/author\/james-bovard\/\" rel=\"author\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"multiple_authors_guest_author_avatar avatar entered litespeed-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/jim-bovard.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/jim-bovard.jpg\" alt=\"James Bovard\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/jim-bovard.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/jim-bovard.jpg\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><span class=\"author-name\">James Bovard<\/span><\/a> <\/span>\u00a0 <span class=\"posted-on\"><span class=\"published\"> June 3, 2025 <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"entered litespeed-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/play.ht\/embed\/?article_url=https:\/\/play.ht\/drafts\/VNtZn92Yxve7RsXivZySefxGa2k2\/eytQBEt1b&amp;voice=en-US-Wavenet-J\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/play.ht\/embed\/?article_url=https:\/\/play.ht\/drafts\/VNtZn92Yxve7RsXivZySefxGa2k2\/eytQBEt1b&amp;voice=en-US-Wavenet-J\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><strong>Biden administration policy-makers hated you more than you knew.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From the start of the Covid pandemic, I warned that the feds were vilifying anyone who failed to kowtow to the latest commands. In October 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/articles\/fbi-following-bidens-instructions\/\">I wrote<\/a>: \u201cFederal bureaucrats heaved together a bunch of letters to contrive an ominous new acronym for the latest peril to domestic tranquility. The result: AGAAVE\u2014\u2019anti-government, anti-authority violent extremism\u2019\u2014which looks like a typo for a sugar substitute. The FBI vastly expanded the supposed AGAAVE peril by broadening suspicion from \u2018furtherance of ideological agendas\u2019 to \u2018furtherance of political and\/or social agendas.\u2019 Anyone who has an agenda different from Team Biden\u2019s could be AGAAVE\u2019d for his own good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vague, catch-all federal definitions became a Pandora\u2019s box that permitted politicians to denigrate vast numbers of Americans as dangerous extremists.<\/strong> The House Weaponization Subcommittee warned in 2023 that\u00a0\u201cthe FBI\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/18\/democrats-attack-fbi-whistleblowers-giving-cover-to-the-agencys-abuses\/\">appears to be complicit<\/a>\u00a0in artificially supporting the Administration\u2019s political narrative\u201d that domestic violent extremism is \u201cthe \u2018greatest threat\u2019 facing the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Director of National Intelligence Tulsi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/index.php\/newsroom\/dig\/4076-dig-biden-admin-labeling-covid-dissenters\">Gabbard recently declassified<\/a> a December 13, 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/files\/ODNI\/documents\/DIG\/DIG-Declassified-Biden-Administration-Documents-Labeling-COVID-Dissenters-Others-as-Domestic-Violent-Extremists.pdf\">report by the National Counterterrorism Center<\/a>. Gabbard\u2019s version had a more honest title than the original version: \u201cDeclassified Biden Administration Documents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/index.php\/newsroom\/dig\/4076-dig-biden-admin-labeling-covid-dissenters\">Labeling COVID Dissenters<\/a>, Others as \u2018Domestic Violent Extremists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did it take for Biden\u2019s Brain Trust to covertly condemn people?<\/strong> Simply warning that \u201cCOVID-19 vaccines are unsafe, especially for children, are part of a government or global conspiracy to deprive individuals of their civil liberties and livelihoods, or are designed to start a new social or political order.\u201d After government lockdowns had destroyed millions of jobs, only the paranoid would fear the government would ever violate their liberties or subvert their livelihoods. No wonder that a top federal official told Newsweek in 2022: \u201cWe\u2019ve become too prone to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2022\/12\/23\/fbi-ramps-spending-fight-maga-terrorism-1764498.html\">labeling anything<\/a>\u00a0we don\u2019t like as extremism, and then any extremist as a terrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden poli<strong>cy-makers pretended that the surge in criticism of Covid policies was proof of the psychopathology of the president\u2019s opponents.<\/strong> But in September 2021, Biden dictated that 100 million Americans working for private companies must get the Covid vaccine. The official counterterrorism report stated that it anticipated that \u201cthe threat will continue at least into the winter, as many of the new COVID-19 mandates in the U.S\u2026are implemented, including US workplace vaccination policies that carry disciplinary or termination penalties.\u201d The Supreme Court struck down most of that vaccine mandate as illegal in January 2022, but not before it had profoundly disrupted legions of lives and businesses, as well as American health care.<\/p>\n<p>The official report warned that \u201canti-government or anti-authority violent extremists\u2026characterize COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandates as evidence of government overreach.\u201d Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito characterized the Covid dictates as \u201cpreviously unimaginable restrictions on individual liberty.\u201d But that wasn\u2019t \u201coverreach\u201d \u2013 it was simply public service.<\/p>\n<p>Criticisms of Covid policies were turbocharged by the failure of the Covid vaccines. In early 2022, the effectiveness of the Covid booster shot had fallen to 31% \u2013 too low to have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Though most American adults had gotten Covid vaccines, there were more than a million new Covid cases a day in January 2022. Most Covid fatalities were occurring among the fully vaxxed. Studies showed that people who received multiple boosters were actually more likely to be hit by Covid infections.<\/p>\n<p>So obviously, <strong>the Biden administration had no choice but to demonize any and all Covid critics<\/strong>. A confidential 2022 Department of Homeland Security report detailed pending crackdowns on \u201cinaccurate\u201d information on \u201cthe efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines,\u201d among other targets. A few months earlier, Jen Easterly, the chief of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, declared: \u201cWe live in a world where people talk about alternative facts, post-truth, which I think is really, really dangerous if people get to pick their own facts.\u201d Plenty of Biden administration officials considered it \u201creally dangerous\u201d to permit people to assert that Covid vaccines were failing.<\/p>\n<p>The National Counterterrorism Center report noted: \u201cThe availability of a vaccine for all school-age children might spur conspiracy theories and perceptions that schools will vaccinate children against parents\u2019 will.\u201d In the same way that some states and many school systems have sought to enable children to change their gender without their parents\u2019 knowledge or consent? The report also warned that \u201cnew COVID-19 mitigation measures \u2013 particularly mandates or endorsements of vaccines for children \u2013 will probably spur plotting against the government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FDA knew that Covid vaccines sharply increased the risk of myocarditis \u2013 an inflamed heart \u2013 in young males but the Biden White House browbeat the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/14\/the-corrupted-science-behind-bidens-covid-vax-mandates\/\">agency into fully approving<\/a> the Covid vaccine anyhow. New York Governor Kathy Hochul sought unsuccessfully to mandate vaccines for all schoolkids in the Empire State even though her State Department of Health reported in May 2022 that the Pfizer vaccine was only 12% effective for children during the Omicron surge. The Biden administration included Covid vaccines in the semi-mandatory regimen for young children despite the vaccine\u2019s failure and perils.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Portraying doubts on Covid policy as a warning sign of domestic violent extremism unleashed the FBI to target anybody who howled against mandatory injections or the near-total destruction of their freedom of movement.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>That report is also a reminder that \u201cextremism\u201d has always been a flag of political convenience. In Washington, anyone who doesn\u2019t worship government is considered an extremist.<\/strong> How far did officialdom go in smearing the American people?<\/p>\n<p>In September 2022, President Biden made history with the first prime-time presidential speech with a backdrop inspired by the movie <em>V for Vendetta<\/em> and Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. Biden raved that his opponents were practically assassins waiting to finish off American democracy. A few hours before Biden\u2019s speech, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre asserted, \u201cWhen you are not with where the majority of Americans are, then, you know, that is extreme. That is an extreme way of thinking.\u201d <strong>This is a definition of extremism that could put the federal crosshairs on practically anyone who visits this website.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A<strong>ctually, the feds used definitions of extremism that extended far beyond Covid controversies and undermined the First Amendment.<\/strong> Biden\u2019s FBI targeted conservative Catholics who preferred to hear the Latin-language version of the mass, claiming they were potentially violent extremists. An FBI analysis portrayed rosaries as extremist symbols.\u00a0The Treasury Department\u2019s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) stretched its \u201csuspicious behavior\u201d definition, warning banks to track \u201c\u2018extremism\u2019 indicators that include\u2026the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/01\/19\/news\/bidens-big-brother-teams-are-now-watching-what-you-buy\/\">purchase of books<\/a> (including religious texts),\u201d according to a House Judiciary Committee report. Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) complained that the federal government \u201curged large financial institutions to comb through the private transactions of their customers for suspicious charges on the basis of protected political and religious expression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That December 13, 2021, National Counterterrorism Center report may be only the tip of the iceberg of federal mischief. W<strong>e may soon learn of more direct federal machinations to vilify, undercut, or silence Covid critics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Biden-era crackdowns and the newly declassified report should spur Americans to ask: What if the government is the most dangerous extremist of them all?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">An earlier version of this post was published at <a href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/articles\/covid-doubts-made-you-a-violent-extremist\/\">The Libertarian Institute<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brownstone Institute &#8211; reposted on Zero Hedge &amp; many other websites Did the Feds Label You a Covid \u201cViolent Extremist?\u201d By James Bovard \u00a0 June 3, 2025 Biden administration policy-makers hated you more than you knew.\u00a0 From the start of the Covid pandemic, I warned that the feds were vilifying anyone who failed to kowtow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2124,2349,476,4583,2014],"class_list":["post-21686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biden","tag-covid","tag-extremism","tag-national-counterterrorism-center","tag-tulsi-gabbard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Did the Feds Label You a Covid \u201cViolent Extremist?\u201d - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Biden administration vastly expanded definition of extremist to vilify critics of its Covid policies. 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