In a nutshell, the memo warned that what the Intel Analyst called “Radical – Traditional Catholics” (RTCs) presented a domestic threat because they espoused ideas that showed a “frequent adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, and white supremacist ideology.” The memo offered no facts to support these observations, only dotted lines to those claims based on “sources” suggesting Catholics who reject the notion of Vatican II, or valued the Latin Mass, (among other generalizations,) were subject to these ideological notions.

The memo is still available online — the Internet never forgets — and it is worth reading just for its shocking constitutional ignorance. …

Don’t for a second believe that no one in the government sector isn’t seriously considering the adoption of a “social credit system” in the United States. The Richmond memo is the type of building block that such a system would be based upon.

I fear the Richmond memo is not a “one-off” aberration. There will be more to come.

[This one’s definitely worth the read. And consider subscribing, because Crew is using the subscriptions to defray the costs of defending January 6 defendants, which are considerable. — Ed]