GOP Rep. calls for LGBTQ+ activists to be classified as terrorists 28AUG25

 THIS neo-nazi fascist fotze gop / guardians of pedophilia-republican state representative in Montana is so amazingly ignorant it is almost impossible to believe, until you read this article and realize there are so many just like him. I just want to know why he didn't make the same kind of declaration after any of the multiple mass shootings committed by White men??? This from LGBTQ Nation.....

GOP Rep. calls for LGBTQ+ activists to be classified as terrorists

Montana state Rep. Lukas Schubert's statement is both dangerous and possible.

Daniel VillarrealAugust 28, 2025, 6:22 pm EDT

Montana state Rep. Lukas Schubert (R) has said, “[The] LGBTQ movement needs to be classified as a terrorist organization,” in an X post referencing yesterday’s mass shooter, a now-deceased individual who may have been transgender.

While Schubert’s extremist statement is in line with his anti-LGBTQ+ views, it’s worth noting that Republicans and social conservatives have praised Russia for designating the LGBTQ+ rights movement as an extremist organization.

Schubert made his comment on an X post from Libs of TikTok, an anti-LGBTQ+ account run by Chaya Raichik. Raichik’s post noted that the person who killed two people in a Catholic school shooting on Tuesday was reportedly trans. Additional reporting on the shooter’s diary suggests that they may have de-transitioned, making their exact gender identity unclear.

But while right-wingers have rushed to blame the shooter’s gender identity for the shooting — even though the vast majority of mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men — Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said on Thursday that investigators have not identified a specific explanation for why the shooter targeted the church.

“[The shooter] harbored a whole lot of hate towards a wide variety of people and groups of people,” O’Hara said, “[and] had a deranged obsession with previous mass shooters.”

Alluding to reports on the shooter’s gender identity, Minneapolis Mayor Frey said, “I have heard about a whole lot of hate that’s being directed at our trans community. Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity. Kids died. This needs to be about them.”

Schubert’s anti-LGBTQ+ animus is well documented on his social media account. He has previously said that schools should teach about Sodom and Gomorroah, a Biblical story that anti-LGBTQ+ Christians cite as “proof” of queer people’s wickedness. He has also repeated false claims that trans politicians wish to imprison parents who oppose gender-affirming care for their trans kids.

But his call for the LGBTQ+ movement to be designated as terrorists is both dangerous and possible.

In November 2023, Russia’s Supreme Court declared the international gay rights movement as an “extremist organization.” The declaration paved the way for the country’s increased persecution of LGBTQ+ activists throughout the country and abroad. Anti-LGBTQ+ conservatives in the U.S. have praised the country’s anti-LGBTQ+ crackdown.

Furthermore, the current U.S. president has designated people with different political views as national security threats. The current administration has illegally arrested, detained, and tried to deport student activists and journalists who have made public statements supporting Palestinians.

In February, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security changed language in its internal documents, allowing intelligence agents to spy on LGBTQ+ people & groups as threats to U.S. safety.

Daniel Villarreal is a longtime, award-winning journalist and editor who has written for NBC News, Newsweek, Vox, Slate, Vice News, The Seattle Stranger, The Dallas Voice and numerous other LGBTQ+ publications. He has spoken at SXSW, Creating Change, Netroots Nation, GaymerX, and is a graduate of GLAAD's Voices of Color program and of the Poynter Institute's 2024 Power of Diverse Voices seminar. He is also the founder of QueerBomb Dallas, an annual non-corporate Pride event; CinéWilde, the nation's longest running monthly LGBTQ film series. He is available for interviews and educational talks.

Domestic Spying Victim: Virginia Cody

EVER since I found out the fbi had a file on me because of my political activities starting when I was in the 9th grade I have been wary of government security agencies. Think this is overblown? Check out this video about the government's spying on and monitoring of Virginia Cody in Factoryville, PA for her anti-gas grilling activities. I love my country, I am proud to be and thank God I am an American...and it is sad that I can't trust my government. This from the ACLU of the latest fbi tactics to monitor Americans based not on criminal activity but just on one's race, ethnicity, national origin and/or religion. God bless America AND the ACLU!!!

Mapping the FBI: Uncovering Abusive Surveillance and Racial Profiling

EVER since I found out the fbi had a file on me because of my political activities starting when I was in the 9th grade I have been wary of government security agencies. I love my country, I am proud to be and thank God I am an American...and it is sad that I can't trust my government. This from the ACLU of the latest fbi tactics to monitor Americans based not on criminal activity but just on one's race, ethnicity, national origin and/or religion. God bless America AND the ACLU!!!

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is collecting racial and ethnic information and “mapping” American communities around the country based on crude stereotypes about which groups commit different types of crimes. Nationwide, the FBI is gathering reports on innocent Americans' so-called “suspicious activity” and sharing it with unknown numbers of federal, state and local government agencies.
In response, the ACLU's “Mapping the FBI” initiative seeks to expose misconduct, abuse of authority, and unconstitutional profiling and other violations of Americans' rights and liberties across the country.

Read ACLU "Eye on the FBI" Alerts » SEARCH THE DOCUMENTS Mapping the FBI - Search » TAKE ACTION Tell the FBI: Don't Map Me or My Community! » MAP: Mapping the FBI » MORE Expanded FBI Authority »

As our nation's predominant law enforcement agency, the FBI should be tracking true threats, not wasting resources and inappropriately mapping American communities on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, or religion. Law enforcement programs based on evidence and facts are more effective than a system based on racial stereotypes or mass suspicion.
Yet, in the decade since 9/11, long-standing safeguards on the FBI's investigative and intelligence collection activities have been erased, allowing it to engage in racial and profiling and to initiate intrusive investigations with little or no suspicion of wrongdoing.
Taken together, the changes in the FBI's authority have vastly expanding its ability to engage in unlawful and abusive surveillance of innocent Americans. Learn more: Expanded FBI Authority »
The ACLU is working in the courts, in Congress and in communities to expose the ways in which the FBI's expanded authority threatens civil rights and civil liberties. Our work includes:

• Eye on the FBI: Consolidating information obtained through ACLU records requests, lawsuits and reports, the ACLU's “Eye on the FBI” alerts provide regular and detailed analysis of FBI activities that pose a threat to civil liberties. These activities include the use of factually incorrect and bigoted biased counterterrorism materials and FBI racial profiling. Learn more »
• Racial and Ethnic Mapping: 34 ACLU affiliates have filed public records requests to uncover how the FBI is using racial and ethnic demographic information and data about “ethnic-oriented” business and facilities to “map” and investigate local communities. ACLU affiliates in Michigan, New Jersey and Northern California are in federal court to enforce their records requests and secure information for the public. Learn more »
• eGuardian: The ACLU has sued the FBI and the Justice Department to learn more about an FBI monitoring and information-sharing program known as “eGuardian,” through which the bureau collects so-called “Suspicious Activities Reports” (SARs) from local, state and federal law enforcement agencies nationwide. Learn more »
• Spy Files: This ACLU effort paints a comprehensive picture of the vast and expanding infrastructure of surveillance in the U.S. today by local, state and federal law enforcement—including the FBI. Documents obtained by the ACLU show that through this de facto domestic intelligence system, our government is monitoring and recording Americans' First Amendment-protected beliefs and activities. Learn more »

FBI Interviews: The ACLU is working to educate individuals and community organizations across the country about their rights when encountering law enforcement. Over the past two years, the FBI has significantly increased its use of “voluntary” interviews – especially within specific racial, ethnic, and religious communities – often encouraging interviewees to serve as informants in their communities. Know Your Rights »
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Help Fight the Government's Massive Spying Campaign Join the Expose and Expunge Movement 20DEZ10

AS a person who has had a FBI file since I was in the 9th grade (started during the Nixon years), and having proof of continued government surveillance of my activities (my brother who was in the USAF was denied a promotion and transfer to a missile silo because I was involved in anti-war protest (covert war in Central America) and involved with a No Nuke organization (Union of Concerned Scientist, just doing office drudge volunteer work for them), I know what it is like to have the government watch and listen in on my life....and though I have joked about it with my friends I do resent it. I am an American, a Christian and a left wing Socialist. I participate in non-violent civil disobedience , have been arrested at some of these protest, and am not afraid to speak out against threats to the Republic, threats to our civil and human rights. I resent the increasing erosion of the freedoms that I learned about in school, the freedoms so many in the military as well as in civil actions died for, resent the propaganda campaign of fear used against us to justify the attacks on the freedoms that have made our nation great. I hope you will sign on to this action by the Partnership For Civil Justice in defense of our freedom, our civil rights, our Constitution, our Republic! DON'T BE AFRAID, SIGN THE LETTER TODAY!

JusticeOnline.org Subscribe Help Fight the Government's Massive Spying Campaign Join the Expose and Expunge Movement Spread the word The Washington Post today has given extensive coverage to the U.S. government's massive and growing operation of domestic spying on the American people – a threat that the PCJF has been at the forefront of exposing and fighting. Please join the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund and thousands of others and sign the letter that states, "The people's rights protected under the Constitution are fundamentally diminished unless these illegal operations are halted." (Click here to read the letter.) The PCJF is also undertaking a People's Investigation and Audit using FOIA, public records demands and other legal means to compel disclosure and expungement. "We will not stand by and allow the Constitution to become a mere ornament affixed to a police state," emphasized Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, co-founder of the PCJF. As today's article states, "The Post findings paint a picture of a country at a crossroads..." where enshrined constitutional protections against government intrusion and surveillance into our lives are being dismantled in practice by a monster intelligence complex that uses national security as its pretext. The article details how, "Technologies and techniques honed for use on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan have migrated into the hands of law enforcement agencies in America." "The occupied people of Iraq have become the guinea pigs, and their land the testing ground, for the implementation of a new surveillance state in the United States," stated Mara Verheyden-Hilliard. The Post's report, "Monitoring America," includes that: The FBI's Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative contains 161,948 files on people who have not been accused of any crime, but simply were targeted for reporting by local or federal authorities, or even just a neighbor or stranger. The files include employment history, financial documents, photos and more.   The Department of Homeland Security's massive fusion center program -- which feeds into the FBI's Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative -- is so out of control that they can't account for the $31 billion in tax-payer funds they have handed out to state and local law enforcement.   There are no professional standards or qualifications for the "expertise" that is hired for training and advising law enforcement, and as such right wing and racist anti-Muslim so-called "experts" have been paid to advise and influence operations. A broad and diverse cross-section of leaders, human rights advocates, attorneys and legal scholars have come together to take a stand against these continuing violations. Please join them and add your name to the Sign-On Letter for the Expose and Expunge Campaign that demands that the government disclose and purge the data collected through its domestic spying and surveillance programs. Take Action Read and Sign the letter here. See the initial list of signers. If you have signed the letter, get five friends and family members to do so by clicking here. Make an urgently needed tax-deductible end of year contribution to support this critical campaign. Initial list of signers Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General Noam Chomsky Geronimo ji Jaga, former political prisoner held for 27 years Cindy Sheehan Cynthia McKinney Michel Shehadeh, LA8 defendant; Committee for Justice Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, co-founder Partnership for Civil Justice Fund Carl Messineo, co-founder Partnership for Civil Justice Fund Jennifer Harbury, Human Rights Lawyer Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights* Ron Kovic, author, Born on the 4th of July Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator, Voices for Creative Nonviolence Blase and Theresa Bonpane, Office of the Americas John Passacantando, former Executive Director, Greenpeace USA Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild Mahdi Bray, Executive Director, Muslim American Society Freedom Michael Berg, father of Nicholas Berg, killed in Iraq Brian Becker, National Coordinator, ANSWER Coalition Mounzer Sleiman, Vice Chair, National Council of Arab Americans Michael Prysner, co-founder, March Forward! Michael Avery, former President, National Lawyers Guild, professor Suffolk Law School Michael Steven Smith, Board of Directors, Center for Constitutional Rights* Carol Sobel, Civil Rights Attorney James Lafferty, Exec. Director, National Lawyers Guild Los Angeles Eric Mar, Board of Supervisors, City & County of San Francisco Shakeel Syed, the Executive Director of the Shura Council of Southern California* Marina Drummer, Angola 3 Defense Committee Frank Dorrel, Publisher, Addicted to War Mike Ferner, President, Veterans for Peace * Organization listed for identification purposes only. Sign-On Letter for the Expose & Expunge CampaignDisclose and purge data collected through illegal domestic spying and surveillance programs We the undersigned call on the Obama Administration and Congress to immediately begin identifying and expunging from all government databases the massive accumulation of information collected by the Bush administration’s illegal domestic spying operations on millions of people who broke no law. Some of these illegal spying programs were suspended and yet the government maintains the illegally collected data. These databases should be expunged. We also oppose the continuation of other programs initiated during the Bush era which continue on in wholesale data collection and mass surveillance, unchecked and unabated. For instance, federal agents, local law enforcement and U.S. military personnel, with input from private right-wing political groups, continue to collect and report surveillance data, including fabricated disinformation, to the 72 government Fusion Centers around the United States. Fusion Centers have been found to target political, student, and religious organizations and activities. The people of the United States have a legal right to be free from government surveillance, the type of which was initiated by the Bush administration on an enormous scale. Using the Sept. 11 attacks as a pretext, the Bush White House permitted the FBI, the National Security Agency, the CIA, Pentagon and other law-enforcement and military agencies to conduct unprecedented data collection against the people. Thousands have been targeted because of their political beliefs and activities, their religious beliefs, their race and ethnicity, or because they inadvertently fell into one of the many broad categories to justify and execute the sweeping data collection programs. This is the modern-day variant of the discredited witch-hunts of the 1950s. We call on the Obama Administration and Congress to order a complete audit of law-enforcement and military data and record-keeping systems and to disclose to the public the scope and parameters of data-collection on people and organizations in the United States. The people’s rights protected under the Constitution are fundamentally diminished unless these illegal operations are halted and the rights of all people are restored by the identification of data collection programs, and the expunging of those databases. I was arrested during the protest in the case below, still remember that fat pig Ramsey laughing while at the barricades about how they trapped all of us.....well, the joke is on the District now..... Becker, et al.      v. District of Columbia, et al.* U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Case No. 01-CV-811 (Class Action)   Mass Arrest of 600+ Lawful Protestors; Raid and Seizure of Activists' Meeting Hall; Confiscation of Political Literature; Brutal Beatings of Peaceful Activists The Partnership for Civil Justice has advanced a class action complaint against the Government for violations of protestors' rights at the April, 2000 Spring joint meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. This lawsuit challenges the disruption efforts of law enforcement against constitutionally protected First Amendment activities and mass political protest, and the unconstitutional trap and arrest tactics of law enforcement in the District of Columbia against mass assembly. The class portion of the Complaint was filed on behalf of nearly 700 protesters, journalists, tourists and bystanders who were trapped on all sides by police and then falsely arrested in an unconstitutional sweep of the streets during a demonstration against the Prison-Industrial Complex on Saturday April 15, 2000. The arrests were made in advance of days of anticipated protests, and were calculated to disrupt First Amendment protected activity. Many arrestees were put in preventive detention overnight, hogtied ankle to wrist, in harsh conditions as described in further detail in the Complaint. Other claims in this litigation relate to the unconstitutional raid and closure of activists’ meeting hall (the Convergence Center), as well as brutal beatings. The plaintiffs and the District of Columbia have reached a settlement of the case. Click here for the Joint Motion for Preliminary Approval. Click here for the Court's Order granting Preliminary Approval. * This case has been previously captioned as both Alliance v. District of Columbia and Fifty Years Is Enough v. District of Columbia.   AP: DC agrees to pay $13M over arrests of protesters Monday, November 23, 2009 Reprint Legal Times: City to Settle Mass Arrest Class Action for $13.7 Million Monday, November 23, 2009 Reprint Calling the Police Version of Events "Fanciful," Magistrate Judge Recommends the Court Find Mass Arrests Were False Thursday, February 28, 2008 U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola has issued a report and recommendation to presiding Judge Paul L. Friedman that summary judgment issue in favor of the Becker class declaring the mass arrest to be a mass false arrest. Magistrate Judge Facciola also recommended that Judge Friedman reject in entirety the District of Columbia's motion to dismiss the claims of all plaintiffs, including those who were beaten by police or suffered injuries when the MPD raided protestors' Convergence Center.l Multimedia Re-Creation of April 15, 2000 Sidewalk March Tuesday, September 11, 2007 The MPD persists in representing to the Court that the April 15, 2000 march that was ultimately subject to false mass arrest by the MPD was a riot. Rather than accepting these false claims at false value, the Partnership for Civil Justice has undertaken a massive review and compilation of the multi-media footage of the march. Bringing together the critical moments, selecting from scores of hours of police channel communications, command center dispatch announcements, reports from the overhead helicopter, MPD and civilian video, the PCJF has re-created the peaceful, law-abiding and, indeed, police escorted march from the moment it steps off (with police permission) to the moment when without warning the MPD uses a trap-and-arrest tactic to surround everyone including protestors, by-standers, journalists, tourists and legal observers. Please visit www.BeckerSettlement.com.

White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity 29JUL10

MORE bullshit from the government as they continue the assault on the constitution and our civil rights! FIGHT BACK, JOIN THE ACLU AND FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS! Click the header to go to the ACLU website to join.
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 29, 2010; A01


The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual's Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation.
The administration wants to add just four words -- "electronic communication transactional records" -- to a list of items that the law says the FBI may demand without a judge's approval. Government lawyers say this category of information includes the addresses to which an Internet user sends e-mail; the times and dates e-mail was sent and received; and possibly a user's browser history. It does not include, the lawyers hasten to point out, the "content" of e-mail or other Internet communication.
But what officials portray as a technical clarification designed to remedy a legal ambiguity strikes industry lawyers and privacy advocates as an expansion of the power the government wields through so-called national security letters. These missives, which can be issued by an FBI field office on its own authority, require the recipient to provide the requested information and to keep the request secret. They are the mechanism the government would use to obtain the electronic records.
Stewart A. Baker, a former senior Bush administration Homeland Security official, said the proposed change would broaden the bureau's authority. "It'll be faster and easier to get the data," said Baker, who practices national security and surveillance law. "And for some Internet providers, it'll mean giving a lot more information to the FBI in response to an NSL."
Many Internet service providers have resisted the government's demands to turn over electronic records, arguing that surveillance law as written does not allow them to do so, industry lawyers say. One senior administration government official, who would discuss the proposed change only on condition of anonymity, countered that "most" Internet or e-mail providers do turn over such data.
To critics, the move is another example of an administration retreating from campaign pledges to enhance civil liberties in relation to national security. The proposal is "incredibly bold, given the amount of electronic data the government is already getting," said Michelle Richardson, American Civil Liberties Union legislative counsel.
The critics say its effect would be to greatly expand the amount and type of personal data the government can obtain without a court order. "You're bringing a big category of data -- records reflecting who someone is communicating with in the digital world, Web browsing history and potentially location information -- outside of judicial review," said Michael Sussmann, a Justice Department lawyer under President Bill Clinton who now represents Internet and other firms.
Privacy concerns
The use of the national security letters to obtain personal data on Americans has prompted concern. The Justice Department issued 192,500 national security letters from 2003 to 2006, according to a 2008 inspector general report, which did not indicate how many were demands for Internet records. A 2007 IG report found numerous possible violations of FBI regulations, including the issuance of NSLs without having an approved investigation to justify the request. In two cases, the report found, agents used NSLs to request content information "not permitted by the [surveillance] statute."
One issue with both the proposal and the current law is that the phrase "electronic communication transactional records" is not defined anywhere in statute. "Our biggest concern is that an expanded NSL power might be used to obtain Internet search queries and Web histories detailing every Web site visited and every file downloaded," said Kevin Bankston, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has sued AT&T for assisting the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program.
He said he does not object to the government obtaining access to electronic records, provided it has a judge's approval.
Senior administration officials said the proposal was prompted by a desire to overcome concerns and resistance from Internet and other companies that the existing statute did not allow them to provide such data without a court-approved order. "The statute as written causes confusion and the potential for unnecessary litigation," Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said. "This clarification will not allow the government to obtain or collect new categories of information, but it seeks to clarify what Congress intended when the statute was amended in 1993."
The administration has asked Congress to amend the statute, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, in the fiscal year that begins in October.
Administration officials noted that the act specifies in one clause that Internet and other companies have a duty to provide electronic communication transactional records to the FBI in response to a national security letter.
But the next clause specifies only four categories of basic subscriber data that the FBI may seek: name, address, length of service and toll billing records. There is no reference to electronic communication transactional records.
Same as phone records?
The officials said the transactional information at issue, which does not include Internet search queries, is the functional equivalent of telephone toll billing records, which the FBI can obtain without court authorization. Learning the e-mail addresses to which an Internet user sends messages, they said, is no different than obtaining a list of numbers called by a telephone user.
Obtaining such records with an NSL, as opposed to a court order, "allows us to intercede in plots earlier than we would if our hands were tied and we were unable to get this data in a way that was quick and efficient," the senior administration official said.
But the value of such data is the reason a court should approve its disclosure, said Greg Nojeim, senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology. "It's much more sensitive than the other information, like name, address and telephone number, that the FBI gets with national security letters," he said. "It shows associational information protected by the First Amendment and is much less public than things like where you live."
A Nov. 5, 2008, opinion from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, whose opinions are binding on the executive branch, made clear that the four categories of basic subscriber information the FBI may obtain with an NSL were "exhaustive."
This opinion, said Sussmann, the former Clinton administration lawyer, caused many companies to reevaluate the scope of what could be provided in response to an NSL. "The OLC opinion removed the ambiguity," he said. "Providers now are limited to the four corners of what the opinion says they can give out. Those who give more do so at their own risk."
Marc Zwillinger, an attorney for Internet companies, said some providers are not giving the FBI more than the four categories specified. He added that with the rise of social networking, the government's move could open a significant amount of Internet activity to government surveillance without judicial authorization. "A Facebook friend request -- is that like a phone call or an e-mail? Is that something they would sweep in under an NSL? They certainly aren't getting that now."