By Harold Pease, Ph.D.
In America, land of “Liberty and Justice for All,” 34 political prisoners, both men and women, remain held indefinitely without bail or trial just short of two years in what has been referred to as Biden’s Gulag. This is in open violation of the Bill of Rights Articles VI and VIII. January 6, inmates now beg for extradition to Guantanamo Bay where real terrorists were housed after bringing down the Twin Towers and damaging the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, killing 2,996 Americans twenty one years ago. In Guantanamo they believe they will be better treated.
Their heartbreaking letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, dated October 2, 2022, listed 70 unacceptable grievances or abuses. They called conditions there hellacious and referred to the facility as a “dungeon of Human Rights Violations.” The food, they said, lacked nutrition, calories, and nourishment contributing to scurvy, loss of head hair and eyesight. Worms were found in salads and rust in the drinking water.
Cell conditions seemingly designed to torment include: black mold found everywhere, denial of “basic cleaning equipment to sanitize living space,” broken sinks, and toilets that won’t flush but flood. Mice and cockroaches infested everywhere. Personal grooming supplies are denied.
Accommodations also seemingly designed to torment include: improper medical care, “arriving months later, or none at all!” The same for mail, “delayed 3-4 months prior to delivery.” Laundry is returned “with brown stains, pubic hair, and or reeking of ripe urine.” Vaccines are mandated for: visitations, visitors, haircuts, religious services, and speaking with lawyers in person. One must be “boosted” for access to the Internet (most opposing the COVID vaccine and boosters are MAGA supporters—thus hated) and reeducation (brainwashing) through education tablets is prominent, these filled with C.R.T. propaganda and racial biased media.
Legal necessities to their defense become tools of control. January 6 detainees have, “No Access to Discovery,” “No Legal Support such as laptops, printers, copiers,” “Legal Mentors,” they lack “Legal Documentation on Tablets.” And, guards prevented them “from attending court dates.”
Guards, mostly black, routinely racially profile detainees, mostly white, prisoners are “repeatedly mocked and or insulted for our skin color or ‘religious’ documentation.” These are threatened, maced, physically harassed, beaten, invaded in the middle of the night, assaulted politically, mocked by staff and verbally assaulted being compared to beasts, dogs and hogs by the guards. Remember DC. Guards are decidedly far left, as is the DC environment thus they view their MAGA detainees as enemies. To help hide these insults and abuses, grievance forms on tablets were removed so nothing could be reported.
If more was needed to control the political prisoners, outdoor recreation was arbitrarily denied as were access to the Internet, attorneys, law library, and worship services. And prisoners are “stuck in cells for 9 days without [a] shower.” If this was not enough they were “sent to ‘the Hole’ if we express any political views whatsoever”—“solitary Confinement for 25 ½ hours or more at a time.” This is still thought by most Americans to be “cruel and unusual” punishment. Trials too were “postponed for at least 6 Months or almost a Year,” seemingly to punish or control.
Why isn’t more said by members of Congress? The prisoners answered, “Entry to Congressmen & Women who came to check on us [was] Denied.” And the Leftist press doesn’t care. Imagine a member of Congress denied access, they serve essentially as the city council for the District of Columbia, it is their shared responsibility to fund and know what is happening in THAT facility.
But this is not all, detainees wrote of “death threats from within the jail” and they received threats upon “our homes and families through the mail.” All this led to their list of abuses and request to Attorney General Garland to serve elsewhere—although not convicted of anything.
Their plea, “We hereby request to spend our precious and limited days, should the government continue to insist on holding us captive unconstitutionally as pre-trial detainees, to be transferred and reside at Guantanamo Bay,” a detention facility,” they maintained, “that actually provides nutritional meals, routine sunlight exposure, top notch medical care, is respectful of religious requirements, has centers for exercise/entertainment for its detainees despite the fact that those residents are malicious terrorists, real members of the Taliban, and few are United States Citizens,” instead, they wrote, “of remaining trapped within the wretched confines of cruel and unusual punishment of the DC Jail.”
Those, signing having experienced all or most of the above were: Brian Mann, Pete Schwartz, Brandon Fellows, Jeffrey McKellop, Andrew Taake, Scott Fairlamb, Daniel Caldwell, Ryan Nichols, Sr., Joseph Padilla, Guy Reffitt, Troy Smocks, Chris Quaglin, Sean McHugh, Shane J. Jenkins, Dominic Pezzola, Edward Lang, Peter F. Stager, James McGrew, William Chrestman, Ronnie Sandlin, Nathaniel Degrave, Jorden Mink, Cleveland Grover Meredith, Alan Byerly, Thomas Ballard, Julian Elie Khater, Marshall Neefe, Jonathan Mellis, Robert Gieswein, Kelly Meggs, Jessica Watkins, Kenneth Harrelson, Garrett Miller, David Dempsey (“BREAKING: 34 US Political Prisoners in DC Gulag Demand Transfer to Guantanamo Bay to Escape Intolerable Conditions in Heartbreaking Letter,” by Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit, Oct. 2, 2022).It has been two months since this heartbreaking request was made. I have waited to hear the other side. They have answered with deafening silence. The beatings will continue!
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Column # 690. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www. www.LibertyUnderFire.org
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