State Dept. Officer Referred to DOJ for Investigation Because of His Pro-Christian Views
OSI attempted to have Mr. Pemberton criminally prosecuted for his religious speech, personal identity, and personal relationship preferences by referring him to the DOJ's Joint Terrorism Task Force
OSI attempted to have Mr. Pemberton criminally prosecuted for his religious speech, personal identity, and personal relationship preferences by referring him to the DOJ’s Joint Terrorism Task Force
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago, the State Department circulated an “optional” pledge, in which signatories agreed to refrain from attending church.
State Department security officer Mark Pemberton refused to sign the “optional” pledge. As a result, his own agency referred him to the Justice Department for investigation on the grounds that he was involved in “Religiously Motivated Violent Extremism,” or RMVE, according to a lawsuit he filed earlier this month against the State Department.
Pemberton said in his lawsuit that he first told his superior, Diplomatic Security Mobile Security Deployments Office Director Jeff Thomas, he was refusing to sign the voluntary pledge because he couldn’t wave his constitutional rights. Nor could he stop exercising his religious beliefs, he said. Thomas later retaliated by referring him to the department’s insider threat program.
Around that same time, a State Department employee named Kate Shilling reported Pemberton as a “white supremacist” and potential insider threat due to his social media activity, which included posts of a Christian prayer and a photo of a “traditional family” in front of…
Things like this and people wonder why I want nothing to do with their Empire.