Catholic Vote News Feed | Groundhog Day, February 2, 2024
We have Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Shakespeare, and Homer on our bookshelf. Clearly, I should be watched! Photo by D R Pico.
CV NEWS FEED // A now-viral report by British government counterterrorism program Prevent stated that classic novels by authors such as J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis can be “red flags” for possible “far-right extremism.”“We prevent vulnerable people from being drawn into extremism,” Prevent claims on its website. Prevent goes on to describe itself as a “government-led, multi-agency” program that “aims to stop individuals becoming terrorists.” Its website elaborates that “police play a key role” in the program’s efforts.
The Daily Caller’s Kay Smythe reported that while Prevent “was founded to support counter-terrorism efforts” it “has gradually swayed into a focus on only extremists from Islam and ‘far-right’ ideological mindsets.”
“[T]he programme’s attempts to address right-wing extremism were even more inept than some of its attempts to address Islamist extremism,” British author Douglas Murray noted in a February 2023 Spectator piece.
Murray pointed out that Prevent was once “advised by left-wing activist groups like Hope not Hate.”
“Such groups have long believed that the definition of far-right should encompass, for instance, many people who supported Brexit,” he added.
My old Bible, using an Israeli 20 shekel note as a bookmark.
It’s not just Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit which are in our bookcase, but I also have a Bible, a Catholic Bible, complete with an Israeli ₪20 note being used as a bookmark therein! The bookmark is currently in the Book of Job, because that was the Catechism lesson I taught last Sunday morning. I’m even on our parish council.
Even worse: one of the parishioners in our very small parish is trying to get a Knights of Columbus chapter set up, and has asked me to sign up.
federal government flagged terms like “MAGA” and “TRUMP,” to financial institutions if Americans completed transactions using those terms.
What was also flagged? If you bought a religious text, like a BIBLE, or shopped at Bass Pro Shop.
Heaven forfend! Clearly, I should be watched, perhaps even arrested for Wrongthink.
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I actually have a Cabela’s Club card, which allows me to use my points to apply to my firearm purchases there. That’s gotta make ’em really crazy at FINCEN.
I actually have a Cabela’s Club card, which allows me to use my points to apply to my firearm purchases there. That’s gotta make ’em really crazy at FINCEN.