FBI Agent Says He Hassles People 'Every Day, All Day Long' Over Facebook Posts
"It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will," he claimed.

The FBI spends "every day, all day long" interrogating people over their Facebook posts. At least, that's what agents told Stillwater, Oklahoma, resident Rolla Abdeljawad when they showed up at her house to ask her about her social media activity.
Three FBI agents came to Abdeljawad's house and said that they had been given "screenshots" of her posts by Facebook. Her lawyer Hassan Shibly posted a video of the incident online on Wednesday.
Abdeljawad told agents that she didn't want to talk and asked them to show their badges on camera, which the agents refused to do. She wrote on Facebook that she later confirmed with local police that the FBI agents really were FBI agents.
"Facebook gave us a couple of screenshots of your account," one agent in a gray shirt said in the video.
"So we no longer live in a free country and we can't say what we want?" replied Abdeljawad.
"No, we totally do. That's why we're not here to arrest you or anything," a second agent in a red shirt added. "We do this every day, all day long. It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will."
Shibly says that he doesn't know which Facebook post caught the agents' attention, and that it was the first time he had heard of Facebook's parent company, Meta, preemptively reporting posts to law enforcement. Andy Stone, a spokesman for Meta, and Kayla McCleery, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Oklahoma City office, declined to comment.*
Meta's official policy is to hand over Facebook data to U.S. law enforcement in response to a court order, a subpoena, a search warrant, or an emergency situation involving "imminent harm to a child or risk of death or serious physical injury to any person." The company received 73,956 requests from U.S. law enforcement and handed over data 87.84 percent of the time in the first half of 2023, according to the Meta website.
Abdeljawad's Facebook timeline is public, so the FBI agents could have found it themselves. For the past week, she has made multiple angry posts per day about the war in Gaza, referring to Israel as "Israhell." But none of the posts on her feed call for violence.
Ironically, Abdeljawad had also posted a warning about exactly the kind of government monitoring she was later subjected to.
"Don't fall for their games. Our community is being watched & they are just waiting for any reason to round us up," Abdeljawad wrote. "If you're Muslim and/or pro-pal consider all your media accounts, Google searches, mail, messenger, local mosques & political events monitored. #NYC #usa #PoliceState #FreePalestine"
Shibly claims that Abdeljawad knew how to assert her rights from her time volunteering at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, where Shibly used to be a state-level director. "It's unfortunately normal behavior for the FBI to target the community like this," Shibly says.
In his caption of the video, Shibly added some advice to others: Abdeljawad was right to refuse to speak and right to record the interaction, but should not have stepped outside the house to talk to the FBI agents.
He tells Reason that his main goal with Abdeljawad's case is to raise awareness of people's rights when dealing with the FBI.
"It's wrong what they did. Realistically, with where the community's at, I don't know if we have the bandwidth to go after them for it," Shibly says. "Moreso, it's, ok, continue to exercise your rights. If they do contact you again, they're going to be hearing directly from us. We're going to deal with it. We're going to put them in check."
*UPDATE: After publication, McCleery provided the following statement; "Every day, the FBI engages with members of the public in furtherance of our mission, which is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States. We can never open an investigation based solely on First Amendment protected activity. The FBI is committed to ensuring our activities are conducted with a valid law enforcement or national security purpose, while upholding the constitutional rights of all Americans."
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Not a good idea to throw shade on joe.
CAIR is basically a front for a terrorist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood.
The FBI is the enforcement wing of a terrorist organization, the Biden regime.
I like the idea of CAIR fighting with the FBI. They deserve each other.
Pretty sure they're part of the deep state that could find some incriminating evidence against Biden if he decided to be less swampy.
They certainly didn't work for the Trump regime.
You might as well ask why Beria didn’t investigate Stalin.
Next year, they will be the enforcement wing of a terrorist organization, the Trump regime. Same as it ever was.
CAIRThe FBI is basically a front for a terrorist organization, theMuslim BrotherhoodDeep State.Both things are true.
Has CAIR ever paraded?
They most certainly are but they still are covered by the same Constitution as the rest of us. I have little sympathy, though, for this whining victim. Join the rest of us "domestic terrorists" like church goers, parents at school board meetings, NRA members, right of center voters etc. Now you see how the Government under Brandon has turned into a tyranny with it's own cadre of brown shirts doing it's political biding.
The FBI is no different than the Stasi. Just more polite.
If the FBI was no different than the Stasi, Rolla Abdeljawad would have just disappeared.
Please read a damn history book for once. Not everyone on the stasi radar was murdered. They often used public and private intimidation like this as well.
But please. Continue your faith in institutions and democrats.
It is ridiculous hyperbole that (a) makes all of us look like paranoid kooks for comparing the FBI to the Stasi, and (b) when done often enough, becomes a "boy who cried wolf" situation: if you consider this incident, while totally wrong, to be "Stasi-like" in its propriety, then what words do you use to describe when the FBI does something REALLY wrong? Stasi-squared?
Sorta like your hyperbole?
You've been told a kajillion bazillion zillion times to knock it off.
Do you think the FBI is like the Stasi?
Do you think?
No, just react. I'm surprised your knees still work.
Right, so all you want to do is fling poo.
Yup.
So yer Buddy Squirrelsy can eat it.
"Do you think the FBI is like the Stasi?"
Abso-fucking-lutely, chemjeff authoritarian reactionary.
The Staasi didn't disappear people 99.8% of the time. They just threatened them and gave them warnings like your jackbooted goons here.
So, the U.S. put out propaganda posters during WWII. The Nazis put out propaganda posters during WWII. Some of the propaganda the U.S. produced compares directly with some of the propaganda the Nazis used. Thus, the U.S. was no different than the Nazis.
Are you defending the use of dehumanizing propaganda? It is always wrong. If they couldn't persuade the People to back entry into the war in Europe through logical argument, then they had no right to authorize it. Imagine if the US hadn't distracted Germany's focus from the USSR. Imagine if France hadn't had those extra years of pissing off Vietnam and Iraq. Imagine if Japan had conquered China.
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Yup, these types of simplistic comparisons is why libertarians have a bad reputation as being nothing but a bunch of paranoid kooks.
Yet you come here every day and get your ass handed to you by a bunch of paranoid kooks. What does that make you?
Hitler loved his mother.
The Pope loves his mother.
Therefore THE POPE IS HITLER! QE F'n D, mothefuckers!
This wouldn't be so hilarious if I couldn't go search and in 2 minutes find multiple lefty sites where they are calling the pope Hitler for detailed and complicated reasons.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/vatican-documents-show-secret-back-channel-between-pope-pius-xii-and-adolph-hitler
Dammit, there is so much on Pius XII that I couldn't find stuff about more modern popes in 2 minutes. But at least the lefty rag was PBS.
Wouldn't the Pope have to love Hitler's mother for your logical cycle to connect? Or maybe if Hitler's mother loved the Pope....
Yes, because poor kkkemjeff isn’t quite as clever as he imagines.
Also whereas I made a factual association, that the FBI and Stasi both intimidated people for legitimate expressions of political speech, Jeffy and his T20 sockpuppet are back in “bears in trunks” mode, except this time with popes and WWII propaganda.
How long did it take to get to Hitler?!!!! Hahahaha
The first casualty of War is the truth. Yes, the Allied Powers played fast and loose with the truth just like the Axis Powers.
They did the same in WWI, as a mater of fact the US has never gotten involved in a war based on honest information from our representatives. Even the Revolutionary War had propaganda flying from both sides to motivate the Loyalists and the Rebels.
Does it make both sides morally equal? That's actually hard to say. The one thing the Germans did was to go past the concentration camps that were a feature of both sides and actually mechanically and methodically murdered their own civilians. Probably pushes them over the top onto worst actor in WWII.
But Stalin was right behind him and Stalin was an Allied Power.
The Japanese didn't adhear to the Geneva War Crimes treaty, but they weren't signatories to be honest. Some of the shit they pulled made Hitler look positively tame, at least Germany honored the Prisoners of War rules for the most part. Things got dicey with American Jewish POWs.
I think, morally speaking, WWII was a wash. Neither side was really fighting for anything but their right to be the kind of socialist shithole they wanted to be.
Stalin was much worse. His government killed more of its own citizens and more foreign nationals. Estimates are from 60-80 million killed in Stalin's purges and by the famine resulting from collectivization. Stalin himself is known to have signed tens of thousands of orders for people to be arrested and liquidated.
I’m not sure that we can truly assess any of this in the next 50-100 years.
What I have been taught makes the Japanese look worse than the Germans and the Russians and Chinese and Cambodians look worse than the Japanese.
I have a feeling in the next 20-50, Americans/Canadians will look worse for what we did to the Natives.
History/Victors and all that.
The explanation for better>worse being that the Germans did it with a racist intent... whereas the Chinese and Russians killed more and the Cambodians killed a greater percentage but they were color blind.
Not that I believe that the Americans and Canadians were worse, just that the general American liberal consensus will be that we were the worst people to ever inhabit the earth.
"Americans/Canadians will look worse for what we did to the Natives."
The Democrats ethnically cleansed them from the East (Trail of Tears, etc) and ran genocidal Indian Wars against the Western tribes. Canada just ran a series of treaties with different tribes.
Trudeau was trying hard two years ago to adopt the Democrats racial disharmony playbook and tried to make the overwhelmingly decent and tribe supported Residential Schools into some sort of genocidal holocaust, but after two years and not a single grave showing up, and the only bone material was a marmot, they're basically left with occasionally making allusions.
I feel increasingly strongly that the U.S. getting involved in WWI is one of the worst things the nation has done. We never should have.
Why do you feel that way? The US played a limited, albeit crucial, role and really avoided the horrors of Verdun and The Somme
So, the U.S. put out propaganda posters during WWII. The Nazis put out propaganda posters during WWII. Some of the propaganda the U.S. produced compares directly with some of the propaganda the Nazis used. Thus, the U.S. was no different than the Nazis.
This has to be a Chemleft sock, because what an amazingly stupid and dishonest analogy.
Here's a more accurate one, shithead:
If the Stasi and the FBI both try to intimidate legitimate political speech, then the FBI is no better than the Stasi.
Oh, well would you look at that. My analogy actually happened.
If the Stasi and the FBI both try to intimidate legitimate political speech, then the FBI is no better than the Stasi.
If the Nazis and the U.S. government both try and dehumanize their enemies with wartime propaganda, then the U.S. government was no better than the Nazis.
Oh, well would you look at that. My analogy actually happened.
And so did mine.
If you want to criticize the FBI for using tactics that the Stasi uses, that is one thing. To equate the FBI with the Stasi based on something relatively tame compared to what makes the Stasi infamous is just hyperbole, to be charitable about it.
And no, I am not anyone's sockpuppet.
In this case we are talking about government agents watching people's opinions on social media, then "visiting" them when the exercise of free speech moves across the threshold authority wants to accept.
No bridge to totalitarianism is tame. May appear that way, but the outcome rarely is.
Stasi(ish) which is entirely too much Stasi.
Do you think the FBI is like the Stasi?
i don't know lets ask the people at Ruby ridge or Waco or a number of other instances. Sorry you can't ask they are dead and unlike the stasi who hid their misdeeds the FBI paraded around and took photos as souviners in order to intimidate more people
Jeff doesn’t care that the criticism of the stasi is broken down into two parts. There is the violence part that sarc referenced. But also the loyal soldier of a specific party of the state.
Given the news on violations of FACE, texts from the Russia investigation, school board and catholic investigations, armed arrests of non violent political opponents, etc… the criticism is about the political use of the FBI like the political use of the stasi.
But jeff supports that usage, so he has to scream and rage against the comparator.
Also why he hates when we bring up Italian fascism or Maos red guard.
That's funny. Commenter_XY's comment didn't mention anything about a "two part" criticism of the Stasi. That was you, defending your team at all costs and trying to bail them out of their own hyperbolic references.
But let's even take your argument, which was not Commenter_XY's, and take a look at it:
political use of the FBI like the political use of the stasi
Hmm. What constitutes "political use of the FBI", as opposed to, say, obeying the enforcement priorities of the President who is, after all, the Chief Executive of the Executive Branch?
If the President were to, say, direct ICE to prioritize immigration violations for enforcement, would that be "political use of ICE"? Yes or no?
But I don't think you give a shit about these issues, only in portraying everything that Democrats do as "bad".
It amazes me that you have the balls to make these sorts of fascist excuses on a libertarian website of all places.
Media Matters must be paying you well, shill.
Please tell us about those J6 terrorists again Jeff. Stop with false claims when you are one of the biggest proponents of rhetorical flourishes.
The only time you seemingly object is to defend bad acts of abuses from the left, because hey at least they aren’t as bad as this other group.
You were one of two people here calling Trump Hitler for fucks sake.
Sit down and eat your twinkie.
Please tell us about those J6 terrorists again Jeff.
lie - I never called them terrorists, that is you doing your usual schtick of stuffing words in people's mouths.
You were one of two people here calling Trump Hitler for ficks sake.
lie - I never called Trump Hitler.
When have you ever objected to over-the-top rhetoric by your team against Democrats? When have you ever said "hey, maybe calling for Democrats to be murdered goes a step too far"? Ever?
lie – I never called them terrorists, that is you doing your usual schtick of stuffing words in people’s mouths.
lie – I never called Trump Hitler.
You utter fucking liar. You haven't done those things just once, but constantly. Everyone here is a witness. Fuck, you tricked poor sarckles into parroting that Trump was Hitler because he had a book about him, and said mean things about Nazis and communists.
There's got to be hundreds of witnesses here, so I don't know who you think you're fooling.
What's particularly ironic though, is that your own beliefs, ideas and policies are indistinguishable from the NSDAP platform.
You haven’t done those things just once, but constantly.
If that's right, then it should be easy to provide a direct quotation. Got one handy?
Oh wait, you don't. Because it's a lie.
Let's do a poll, Nazi.
WHO HERE HAS EVER SEEN CREAMJEFF CALL TRUMP "HITLER" AND THE J6'rs "TERRORISTS".
LYINGJEFFY CLAIMS HE NEVER HAS. POST HERE IF YOU'VE SEEN OTHERWISE.
So you want to take an opinion poll? Oh I see, it's because you don't have the proof. Because it doesn't exist. So you want to manufacture "your truth" by popular opinion.
Fuck off, Jeff. You whine and cry that it's somehow "creepy" that we bookmark your more disturbing posts, and then demand citations of those previous posts when it suits your purposes. That's quite the racket you have going on.
Bookmarking your remarkably regular and common Hitler/terrorist invective, isn't something I thought I'd have to do because I never thought you'd be dishonest enough to pretend you hadn't.
As usual, you defy expectations. No matter how much I loathe you it apparently isn't enough.
I'm not as regular as a lot of you, but even I remember chemjeff claiming Trump was imitating/being like Hitler because he had called communists and fascists "vermin". He did that several times.
Hey Jesse, why don't you tell us again about the FBI "going after" parents protesting at school board meetings. You like that narrative, don't you? Because it makes Democrats out to be far more villainous than they really were.
Why don't you give us the names of the parents who were "targeted" by the FBI for protesting at school board meetings.
You want him to doxx them? Fuck, you're unforgivable trash.
It's not like the Biden Junta FBI don't do this on the regular.
FBI Whistleblowers Claim Agents Investigated Parents Accused of Threatening School Boards over Mask Policies
"The FBI’s counterterrorism bureau reportedly created an internal “threat tag” in fall 2021 to track alleged threats against school boards following an October 4 directive from Attorney General Merrick Garland. Garland released his directive after the National School Boards Association called on the Biden administration on September 29 to investigate parents who allegedly threatened boards over policies on school masks and critical race theory, and to determine whether the parents had violated the Patriot Act or hate crimes laws. (The NSBA subsequently apologized for releasing the letter.)"
Thanks for the link! So you DO know how to provide a citation to a reference. I think we all know this means that when you make a bald claim without any citation, that it is most likely a lie that you pulled out of your ass.
But let's look at your claim: The FBI interviewed exactly three groups of people. Two were based on anonymous tips and went nowhere. The third was based on feuding between school board members themselves. Exactly nothing came of this whole thing, except to drive your outrage. No one was charged let alone arrested, no one was thrown into the gulag, no one was deprived of their civil liberties. Nothing happened except a slight inconvenience from a few people.
And I agree that the FBI shouldn't have even done that. But you cannot put it into proper perspective - in terms of all the crap that the FBI has done, what they did here ranks near the bottom.
Hey Jesse, why don't you tell us about the Justice Department "going after" abortion protestors via the FACE Act. All of the protestors that were charged were committing actual, legitimate crimes, like vandalism or blocking access to property. Now there is certainly a principled case to be made for objecting to what the Justice Department is doing - namely, that these types of violations should be handled by local law enforcement, not a federal agency - that is not the argument that you make. You don't even make an argument. You just want to point to the anti-abortion protestors as poor, poor victims of the Evil Biden Regime.
“actual, legitimate crimes, like vandalism or blocking access to property.”
My God, you’re a Nazi.
But when your party’s paramilitary Antifa forces looted footlockers and burned down laundromats and government buildings, you were bleating about legitimate protest.
Fucking garbage state propagandist. Fuck, I loathe you.
paramilitary Antifa forces looted footlockers and burned down laundromats and government buildings, you were bleating about legitimate protest.
I never referred to violent crime as "legitimate protest". You are a lia as usual who has no choice but to demonize everyone who is not on your team.
That's because you didn't consider the destruction at the George Floyd riots to be "violent crime", you fucking weasel.
Your middle school sophistry isn't tricking anyone you know.
No, I did. Again provide any kind of quote whatsoever where I even attempted to justify acts of violence or property destruction as "legitimate protest".
You are lying, because you must lie, to keep up the pretense that the other team is eeeeeevil. That is the only way your team can win - by scaring them to vote for you.
Hey Jesse, why don't you tell us again about the Jan. 6 rioters being held in solitary confinement in a DC jail in the 2021-2022 timeframe. It's such an outrage, isn't it? Of course you never bother mentioning that MANY of the inmates there, including ones with no connection to Jan. 6, were held in solitary confinement for COVID-related reasons. Of course you never bother to mention that the use of solitary confinement in law enforcement is an abused tactic *in general*, not just when applied to Jan. 6 inmates. No, you have no interest in discussing the actual substance of the issue, only yet again portraying Innocent Victims (hostages, really!) of the Evil Biden Regime. Who cares about the propriety of solitary confinement in general? It's only wrong when it's done to YOUR TEAM.
"were held in solitary confinement for COVID-related reasons."
That was particularly dishonest fascist horseshit because they didn't have Covid and other prisoners weren't.
Fucking Goebbels has nothing on Creamjeff.
Weird brag from Jeffy. "My jackbooted thug is kinder and gentler than your jackbooted thug."
Jeff. I asked you to sit down and eat your twinkie.
Right, you are just a little bitch who can't face even a tiny bit of scrutiny. All you have are lies, insults and fallacies.
All you have are lies, insults and fallacies.
Which means there is absolutely nothing to be gained by arguing with him. He will never admit to his lies, never concede a point, never admit to being wrong, and never tell the truth. So why bother?
Besides that, ignoring him drives him crazy. Or he wouldn't be desperately replying to most of my posts in the vain hope of getting some attention.
Jeff's been playing DNC politruk and lying up a storm here and you've been doing some trolling. Neither of you are in any position to pretend you have the moral high ground when RMac asks you to fuck off.
I wouldn’t know or care if Big Mac told me anything. Asshat’s on mute, and since his only goal in these comments is to score points in a game that I’m not playing, he’s going to stay there. You occasionally engage in good faith arguments, so you're not on mute.
his only goal in these comments is to score points in a game that I’m not playing
The game he is playing is Expose the Malefactor, as opposed to your game which is Dissemble, Deflect, Distract.
Damn, the quadruple reply. Rarely seen.
You know Jesse hit fat boy's nerves when...
=)
Do I have to post bear in trunks? Jeffy was on a roll (on a role?) that day.
EXCEPT: First understand that the FBI is tasked with investigating all violations of civil rights by any government agent including LEO. Go online and watch the TENS OF THOUSANDS of violations of civil rights under color of law by police in the USA. Then go and read 18 USC 241 and 18 USC 242. Go back and read the criminal definition of KIDNAP that the FBI enforces. Damn near every one of those officers along with any officer present that failed to stop the violation of civil rights is to be arrested by the FBI and sentenced according to those statutes. Does it happen? NOPE, instead they are knocking on doors attempting to imply that 1A rights are subject to prosecution, which is what they did in this case.
But hey I get it, this type of rhetoric totally tracks with the Modern Right narrative these days: that Democrats are not just misguided or wrong, but they are *evil* and traitors in all but name, and that the FBI when run by Democrats really is Stasi-like. Because that is what evil people do when they run a law enforcement organization, they turn it into an agency for terrorizing and subjugating the people. There is no other possible outcome, really.
That is why, when many of the commenters here make comments like "shoot the Democrats" or "purge the country of the Left", you all either look the other way or even nod approvingly, because murdering Democrats is like murdering Nazis - even if technically illegal, it serves a righteously moral cause.
What do you think is the inevitable end result of this type of thinking and rhetoric? How long until you all start really shooing Democrats?
I've had the fuckstain on mute for a week and it's been great. Haven't been tempted to defend myself from his bad faith arguments and boilerplate lies. So far the only people who have replied to his posts are his fellow asshats who are also on mute. You ruined a good thing by responding to him. If you don't mind I'd rather you not respond when he replies to me. It only encourages him.
Yes you have. You keep trying to think you know what arguments are made and bring me up. Always wrong. Which is fucking hilarious. And others are still calling you out daily.
Hiding in your room doesn't make you less of a fascist or make you smarter sarc.
Exactly the public showing of this video is enough to intimidate people to be carefull about posting on Social media. the FBI is laughing right now because what they did is working.
sarcasmic, with respect, lets look at the actual historical record. The Stasi spied on the public. The FBI spies on the public. The Stasi would show up unannounced, and interrogate citizens. The FBI shows up unannounced, and interrogates citizens. The Stasi used threats and intimidation to advance state aims. The FBI uses threats and intimidation to advance state aims. The Stasi would occasionally take people into custody for further questioning. The FBI occasionally takes people into custody for further questioning.
Add to that the FBI spies on Congress, and the FBI certainly has interfered with elections.
sarcasmic, the comparison is fair. I am ashamed, as an American, that our FBI are no better than the fucking Stasi.
The Stasi also disappeared and murdered people. I’m not aware of the FBI doing that. Also, one out of every five or so people was a Stasi spy. Pretty sure our neighbors aren’t reporting on us.
I could be wrong. But I don’t think I am. And I see nothing to be gained by this kind of hyperbole. If the FBI really operated like the Stasi, most of us in the commentariat would have been interrogated, threatened or disappeared years ago.
If you are not aware of the FBI murdering people, you are just not paying attention. Craig Robertson, Lavoy Finnicum, Vicky Weaver...
https://kutv.com/news/local/utah-county-attorney-to-investigate-fatal-fbi-shooting-of-provo-man-craig-robertson-aug9-us-district-court-president-joe-biden-threats-united-states-facebook-posts
Lavoy Finicum was not murdered. He resisted arrest while armed. The goddamn feds treated those welfare queen Bundys and him with kids gloves. That welfare queen had it coming.
Correction: Lavoy was not a welfare queen. The Bundys are, but Lavoy was being payed by Catholic charities to provide a foster home for troubled boys. There was no evidence of abuse or anything, but I always find it suspicious when people like him want to “help” children. It’s ripe for abuse because the kids won’t be believed as easily because of their background. The state took them away during the occupation and he claimed it was his only source of income. They never should of been placed with him in the first place.
They try to portray themselves as independent and hardworking if only the government would stop persecuting them. However, the facts show otherwise.
I'm pretty sure the Weaver's won a huge lawsuit because the FBI snipers murdered his wife and son.
Ruby Ridge
What makes you think you would have access to information that proves that beyond a doubt? All the Russians and Germans had were rumors and suspicions until some kind of toppling of power caused verification to come out.
Heck, even ranking Nazis were kept in the dark regarding death camps like Auschwitz. Why do you think you, a nobody, would have information on constitutionally illegal things the government willfully does?
The Stasi would occasionally take people into custody for further questioning. The FBI occasionally takes people into custody for further questioning.
Oh give me a fucking break. The reason to compare any organization to the Stasi is not based on normal, ordinary law enforcement practices. It is based on what the Stasi were most known for: using fear and terror to keep the public in line.
So this type of dishonest argumentation where you all try to claim that a comparison between the FBI and the Stasi is a fair comparison because both "take people in for questioning", is just dissembling bullshit. It is a way to try to have your cake and eat it too: to try to make an outrageous comparison for shock value, and then to claim it is for some non-outrageous, non-shocking reason. I call bullshit.
Not really more polite. Certainly more self righteous.
"The company received 73,956 requests from U.S. law enforcement"
Seems to me the sort of thing that ought to be looked into and criticized, since one such request represents an issue worth looking into.
Interesting.
A little over 400 requests PER DAY from the FBI to Meta alone.
And they 'respond' to almost 350 of them.
"Three FBI agents came to Abdeljawad's house and said that they had been given "screenshots" of her posts by Facebook."
"Shibly says that he doesn't know which Facebook post caught the agents' attention, and that it was the first time he had heard of Facebook's parent company, Meta, preemptively reporting posts to law enforcement."
So they were 'given' screenshots, but wouldn't show them?
Meta refused to comment; that means they were afraid repeating their policy of only responding to requests would be a lie?
The FBI refused to comment; meaning they have something to hide, per FBI reports of other people doing evil.
I can still remember people calling me a right wing conspiracy guy decades ago when I said "they" would do to the first amendment what they were then doing to the second.
Final thought. Why THREE agents for ONE female?
In the name of diversity, was one of them Muslim? One female? What else?
In the name of diversity, was one of them Muslim? One female? What else?
This was real life, not the CBS show.
I hate those fucking shows. I don't even watch them but the commercials are so smarmy they make me physically ill.
One was female. No POCs.
So bad when it's against Muslims, good when attacking Trump supporters.
Oh, good.
Add Thought Police to the duties and responsibilities of an FBI agent.
"It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will,"
You know what would give me ill will? Being harassed by the FBI at my door.
yea the "ill will" part is the scary part that can be interpreted as think like us or else.
I actually was going to link this story today but Reason beat me to it. I linked a Tucker Carlson interview a week or so ago about the DOJ prosecuting a black nationalist in St. Louis. Many here have posted about anti abortion and J6 protestors harassed and prosecuted. And "right wing" journalists threatened and imprisoned by the regime. It's a fair criticism to say that Reason rushes to support leftists and Muslims while ignoring those abused on the other side. But the larger issue is that this is not really a partisan issue. This is anarcho tyranny that targets anyone who threatens the ruling class. The goal is intimidation and it's working very well.
I saw this video on X, it was very creepy. Definitely worth a look by everyone. The three agents were just driving around in a Nissan with regular state plates. There was nothing identifying them as FBI. They refused repeated requests to show ID or even give their names. They had this weird vibe about them, all smiles but completely off the wall statements.
If THIS is what the FBI is actually up to, no wonder we have a crime wave.
The FBI agent said:
“We do this every day, all day long we talk to people, it’s just an effort to keep everybody safe, make sure that nobody has any ill will or bad intent or anything like that,” responds one of the agents.
What law has been violated by this woman? Where is the probable cause? What is the crime? If this is what the FBI is doing now they have way too many agents and we need to urge our congressional representatives and senators to cut their budget. This is outrageous. And P.S. I am diametrically opposed to this woman's point of view on Israel & Hamas. But she has every right to peacefully espouse her views.
Disband the FBI now. It is little more than a Cheka without torture prisons (yet) at this point.
without torture prisons
The J6 hostages would beg to differ.
” But none of the posts on her feed call for violence.”
People often delete posts. The leader of CAIR praised the 10/7 attack, so it would surprise me in the slightest if this volunteer made violent threats, then took the post down.
Shoot, shovel, and shut up.
(And Mr. FBI Agent, if you are screen-shotting this, fuck off)
its not like no one is going to notice when FBI agents don't show up from their last appointment. We used to say the 3s's for bears and mountian lions and wolves but now they have trackers on them and know when they go missing.
For the past week, she has made multiple angry posts per day about the war in Gaza, referring to Israel as "Israhell." But none of the posts on her feed call for violence.
Contradict yourself some more, Reason.
If you are supporting Hamas (especially while you're expressing hatred towards Israel), you are calling for violence. And not just violence - rape, murder, terrorism, and genocide. You don't get one without the other.
"If you're Muslim and/or pro-pal consider all your media accounts, Google searches, mail, messenger, local mosques & political events monitored."
Well you people have a bad habit of getting worked up into a frenzy and then killing lots of innocent people. And when you express solidarity and support for known terrorists who are actively engaged in doing so, folks start to have questions.
It's just like how everyone knows CAIR is a front for terrorism in America. Nobody's buying your crocodile tears about rights and freedoms, because we know you don't support them and want only to exploit them.
Screw this lady. Throw her in a hole with the J6'ers.
I feel the same way, screw this lady for supporting Hamas. However, the problem is, this is still 1A protected activity. She didn’t make a specific threat of violence against anyone – it would be the same thing if she generally supported Nazis or the KKK. Not illegal in and of itself, and that's how it should be.
A response to these agents could have been:
1. Do you have an arrest warrant against me?
2. Do you have a valid search warrant for this property?
3. Do you have probable cause that I have committed a crime?
If NO to these three questions then "Leave this property immediately." Expletives at your discretion.
And if the answer to the first question is "yes" then you say "I don't want to talk to you and I want my attorney."
It's safer to say nothing, do nothing, and if they insist, avoid resisting at all costs. Unless you're a Branch Davidian ... then go for it!
Might it be a point of honor to be harassed by the FBI?
If we aren’t perhaps we’re not trying hard enough.
You don't really have to try very hard. Just post a few Words You Can't Say On Facebook and you're on the list.
FBI are scum but conveniently left out of this article is Abdeljawad calling for the scalping of Jews on Facebook.
Consider the name "CAIR", the Council on American-Islamic Relations". The very name suggests that Islam is not compatible with America and therefore must negotiate some kind of "relationship".
Supporting Hamas is not the way to freedom. It is an absurd belief that Hamas is not supported by the vast majority of the "Palestinian" people. Who else teaches their children that the highest moral attainment, one that guarantees happiness in the afterlife, is to destroy the lives of the innocent?
The Palestinians are a creation of a particularly vicious form of Islam for the purpose of building an army of sacrificial stooges who will commit vile acts for which their creators can avoid blame.
This does not mean that the principle of free speech does not apply to deranged people. On the contrary, it is the deranged whose rights must be defended to protect liberty. If your goal is to destroy freedom you don't begin with the best of people, you begin with the worst. Eventually, the distinction between greatness and depravity will evaporate, and all freedom will be lost.
President Jefferson was plagued by "relations" with the exact same mystical whackjobs. Back then they were known as the Barbary Pirates. Now they at last invented some pretext for invading, kidnapping and murdering in Israeli territory, and are shocked, SHOCKED and unrepentant that Israel has responded the way Jeffersonian America responded in 1805. Perhaps if Israel were to respond the way Truman's America responded to Japanese aggression, a lesson might eventually sink in. It's like that old saying: "In order to train a mule, you first have to get his attention!" Mule trainer joke (https://bit.ly/3QpGuKk)
Good point. I'm a free speech supporter and this is a bit concerning. But even the most likely watered down version of this person's posts is borderline racist. I recently stumbled on a pro-Palestinian rally in Los Angeles Well, that's what they called it. It was openly anti-Israel, anti-Jew with hundreds spewing nothing but hate towards people because of their heritage. I'm in my 60s and I have never experienced so much open hate. But as much as I am disillusioned that open hate is being normalized, especially by the new fake left, free speech is more important. But this story wasn't about stopping speech, it was about monitoring folks with open hate in their hearts. And I think monitoring that is a pretty valid thing to do.
Very linguistically informative. "If you're Muslim and/or pro-pal..." (like ISIS, HAMAS and Bin Ladin) translates, in idiomatic English, to "If you're Christian and/or pro-life..." (like the KKK, the Army of God and Robert Dear). The common denominator is this invisible pal, buddy, incubus or father-figure--undetectable to the four forces of nature--but realer than reality and dear as death to minds twisted since birth by superstitious indoctrination. That these mental cases provide the FBI with work enough for a lifetime is a good argument for repealing all victimless vice laws, thereby freeing them up to do the forcible restraining that clearly needs doing.
That's not how it translates to English, idiomatically or otherwise.
Gibberish.
BTW, there are hardly any klansmen left, but those few that are still here are unlikely to be pro-life as this stance would require them to oppose the very, very high rate of abortion among African Americans.
On the other hand, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was quite frank in her assessment that people hoped legal abortion would winnow out the poor and minorities.
Obviously, the FBI's budget is too large. This is a completely ridiculous waste.
If she called for the scalping of Jews (a commenter said this), that's a problem, but not one for law enforcement.
Although it's true that you don't have to talk to law enforcement and, in fact, it's a very bad idea to do so, remember that law enforcement officers can with impunity kill you on the spot and claim that they feared for their lives. So Americans are screwed at this point in history either way and any way you look at it. Things show little sign of improving and are very likely to get a lot worse very soon.
'Abdeljawad told agents that she didn't want to talk and asked them to show their badges on camera, which the agents refused to do. She wrote on Facebook that she later confirmed with local police that the FBI agents really were FBI agents."
So we still don't know if they were FBI or just poseurs.