The FBI “Orchestrated it. A review of the Election Fraud Protest of January 6, 2021, in which hundreds were arrested and 34 are still held without trial two years later in what inmates call the DC Gulag, must start with Ray Epps an FBI agent. He texted his nephew, “I WAS IN THE FRONT WITH A FEW OTHERS. I ALSO ORCHESTRATED IT.” In fact, video of him encouraging a crowd to riot exists (X22 Reports hereafter not cited, Ep. 2962b, Jan 3, 2023, 39:17). LibertyUnderFire.com covered his orchestrating it with five other key placed accomplices—none ever arrested, (“Capitol Siege, A Deep State Fed-surrection,” Dec. 30, 2021). When Senator Ted Cruz asked a Justice Department spokeswoman if Epps was a confidential human source working for the FBI she said, “I can’t answer that question” (Ep. 2963b, Jan. 4, 2023, 27:50).
Charles Smith was recently sentenced to 41 months for touching a huge sign that Ray Epps hurled at the Capitol police. Yet Epps who touched and threw the same sign wasn’t arrested or charged (Ep. 2966b, Jan, 6, 2023, 22:12). Why?
New January 6 footage shows someone, with an earpiece suggesting coordination, pulling in protesters at the door. Other protesters complained about being pushed into the Capitol. Were they being set up?. (Ep. 2957b, Dec. 26, 2022, 50:15).
The FBI worked a system where it was the “belly button” of Twitter, with at least 80 agents encouraging flooding Twitter with requests to censor anyone on the right.
Big Tech Censored half of it. With the release of the Twitter Files by Elon Musk, we learned that the FBI was working with Twitter in censoring and managing the 2020 Presidential Election for Joe Biden (Ep. 2957b, Dec. 26, 2022, 25:39). They planted agents in Twitter, paid Twitter, created propaganda narratives and orchestrated January 6th ( Ep. 2955b, Dec. 23, 2022, 1:30). The FBI worked a system where they were the “belly button” of Twitter, which then became flooded with requests to censor others (Ep. 2965b, Jan. 5, 2023, 13:00). Congressman Jim Jordan wrote, “at least 80 FBI agents collaborated with Twitter to help monitor the social media site” (Ep. 2958b, Dec. 27, 2022, 19:00).
“We have the FBI, the CIA, the DOJ and now the White House directly pressuring Twitter execs to sensor Americans’ Speech!” Alex “Berenson sued (and then settled with) Twitter. In the legal process Twitter was compelled to release certain internal communications which showed direct White House pressure on the company to take action on Berenson,” wrote David Zweig (Ep. 2958b, Dec. 27, 2022, 36:29). Congressman Adam Schiff asked Twitter to ban journalist Paul Sperry. It did! (TWITTER FILES, PART 27 also Ep. 2964b, January 4, 2023, 14:30).
But the Deep State censorship empire was not limited to Twitter. Gateway Pundit asks, “Is Obama the architect of the illegal government and Big Tech censoring machine?” And answers, yes. “Evidence shows that it’s not just Twitter and the FBI, the State Department, CISA, Facebook. YouTube and Google are also working to censor and ban the information you receive” (By Joe Hoft, Dec. 23, 2022).
Twitter is but the tip of the iceberg on censoring the right. Evidence shows that the FBI, the State Department, CISA, Facebook. YouTube and Google are also working to censor and ban the information you receive.
“Google currently employs at least 165 people, in high-ranking positions from the intelligence community. Google’s Trust and Safety team is managed by 3 ex-CIA agents, who control ‘misinfo and hate speech.’ Here’s the breakdown. CIA-27, FBI-52. NSA-30, DHS-50, and ODNI-6…Since the 2016 Presidential election, Google/Facebook/Twitter have hired at least 300+ people formerly employed by CIA, FBI, etc. ExCIA agents are heads of Trust and Safety at Google and Facebook. Is it OK that ex-CIA control what ‘misinfo’ is” (Twitter, @nameredacted247, Dec. 26, 2022)? Essentially the Intelligence Community ran Twitter, Facebook, Google and etc.—the country.
January 6 Committee Sealed it. DC-Draino said it best. “Governments do not seal information unless they are guilty of something very serious. Pfizer wanted the jab data sealed for 70+ years. CIA sealed the JFK records for decades. J6 Committee wants their interview records sealed for decades. Ghislaine Maxwell’s client list is sealed” (Ep. 2957b, Dec. 26, 2022, 45:53).
So what have they hidden? Virtually everything!! Why did these people come from all over America to go into the House chambers—not for insurrection—they brought no weapons? Why did Pelosi refuse Trump’s offer of the national guard if she expected a threat to her personal safety? Where was she during the event? Where is her laptop? Why does she refuse to share her texts before, during, and after the event? Who ordered the FBI to orchestrate the event days or weeks in advance? Why them? Why was Ray Epps and at least four associates working with him not arrested, charged and incarcerated? Why was 1400 hours of video tape of the event not released? Who is the pipe bomber, and why and who bused Antifa members in? Who took down the fences and removed the no trespassing signs along the route? Who unlocked the magnetic doors allowing everyone in? Who shoved and/or pulled the people in?
How come these and other questions remain unanswered? Because this Committee was only interested in portraying this event as an insurrection, hiding the real one the November 3, 2020 election, and in charging President Trump with treason thus forbidding him from ever running for elected office again. The Committee was part of the propaganda show. They failed.
Simply put the Jan. 6, Committee, “never found anything but are still hiding something.” Why else would they seal everything? The Committee “locked up important videos and docs for 30-50 years after they shut down their fake investigation” (Ep. 2964b, January 4, 2023, 38:22).
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. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 696.
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They thought Twitter secure, a place where government (Department of Homeland Security DHS, and FBI agents in particular), Big Tech, Big Media, Democrats, and the Deep State, could speak freely to coconspirators to overthrow the government of the United States, more specifically its popularly serving and elected president. They succeeded in removing Donald J. Trump from the White House—a coup. America would never know and all future elections could be rigged in the same manner preserving Deep State power. Twitter conversations would never be revealed. This is what the Twitter Files, from which this column is taken, document.
Elon Musk’s solution to former Twitter brainwashing!!
One miracle of 2022 was Twitter being bought by an OUTSIDER Elon Musk for $44 billion—an offer too big to turn down. A second miracle, Musk, not a coconspirator, was strong enough to reveal to the world the secret combinations coup plans he found in Twitter. He did not have to do so. There was no profit for him in revealing these tweets. This made him the number one enemy of the Deep State (Combination). The coup had already been accomplished November 3, 2020. He could have remained silent with it and remained rich and favored by them forever.
The Combination (Deep State) upon realizing Musk was opposed to what they did and willing to reveal it, went into overdrive to first discredit him, then next to remove his advertising base for Twitter which would bankrupt him. He still chose to reveal their communications to each other facilitating the overthrow and making himself physically a target.
What follows are the Twitter Files documenting Twitter’s 2020 election rigging. These are best assembled by KanekoatheGreat of Kanekoa News. He synthesized their election interference in 34 Twitter tweets. Column space limitation allows only highlights of his synthesis which follows.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) housed a censorship branch, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), geared to identify what they considered mis or disinformation in the public sector defined as any information outside the narrative of the federal government. Lacking constitutional authority to censor the American public themselves, CISA (the government) was more than happy to team-up with like-minded private sector organizations notably the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) and social media outlets, notably Twitter, to outsource actual censorship—the dirty work—for them.
EIP claimed “every repeat spreader of election misinformation was on the right.” No wonder Trump says the election was stolen.
The EIP formed in 2020 “comprised of four organizations: Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, and Graphika.” Together the secret combination of government and private sector Deep Staters had about “120 analysts to censor millions of social media posts on elections…. [working] 20 hours a day,[enabling their] forwarding tickets of misinformation to be censored” to the obliging social media platforms. These “monitored 15 tech platforms •22 Million tweets [were] labeled ‘misinformation’ •Entire ‘misinformation narratives’ [were] targeted for platform-wide throttling.” Every repeat spreader of misinformation, the EIP acknowledged, “was on the right side of the political spectrum.” They also “flagged popular populist-right YouTube channels, including: @scrowder, @BlazeTV, @JudicialWatch, and even the @GOP War Room, as ‘mis- and disinformation’ spreaders,”—basically the Republican Party. These were/are considered domestic terrorists by the Deep State Joe Biden government. This gave them the win.
Enter Mike Benz, the Foundation for Freedom online @FFO_Freedom. founder who “comprehensively details the US government’s role in outsourcing censorship to this public-private network,” the EIP. Benz “extensively documented the individuals involved and the flow of taxpayer funds ($40M) to domestic censorship” (@MikeBenzCyber). The DHS quietly corrupted CISA’s mission when it designated domestic disinformation as cyber attacks on “critical cognitive infrastructure” (information outside the government narrative). As noted, the “US government cannot sandblast millions of voters off the Internet because of their speech about elections.” But the EIP, their private sector partners, could and did it for them.
So “who are these unelected bureaucrats who get to play judge, jury, and executioner and control the thoughts of millions of Americans?” Two main names are identified, business partners Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos. Stamos was “founder of the EIP censorship network,” a CFR member and “the director of the of the Stanford Internet Observatory,” one of the four organizations making up the EIP and today leads the organization. Others standouts include: Kate Starbird, Graham Brookie, and Ben Nimmo. Details of their collusion in the censorship of anything right on the political spectrum by Twitter is given in the Twitter thread presented.
The EIP admits flagging popular populist-right YouTube channels as well, even the GOP War Room–essentially the Republican Party. How can anyone seriously argue that the 2020 election was not rigged?
Essentially the EIP rigged the 2020 presidential election and 2022 mid-terms in three decisive ways: The “EIP defined ‘delegitimization’ as speech that ‘casts doubt’ on the election process or outcome. This accounted for 72% of the censorship tickets and targeted over 99% of the post throttled by narrative, focusing on voting machines and vote-by-mail (@MikeBenzCyber).” The EIP allowed the left “to discuss the vulnerabilities of voting machines after the 2016 election” while banning the right from “discussing those very same vulnerabilities after the 2020 election.” Finally, the EIP “collaborated with its Big Tech partners to systematically censor any delegitimization of vote-by-mail as disinformation. In effect, they sided with the left and pre-banned criticism of vote-by-mail at the narrative level five months BEFOREthe 2020 election.”
The Deep State used the COVID-19 “crisis to push for nationwide mail-in voting, which increased the number of ballots cast by mail from 28.8 million in 2016 to 66.4 million in 2020, a massive 131% increase.” Thus the “percentage of Democrats voting by mail rose from 26% in 2016 to 60% in 2020, while Republican voters only saw a rise from 21% to 32%. In short, the extra 37 million ballots cast by mail during the 2020 election swung the election to the EIP’s preferred candidate” Joe Biden. Thus Twitter confesses rigging 2020 election.
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Swearing allegiance to the Constitution is required of every office holder in our government and every person who serves in the armed forces. The Constitution reads, “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic….” Should there be a penalty for violating this oath? That is now before the Supreme Court January 6, 2023. Did legislators knowingly violate the Constitution by not waiting the 10 day period to assess the evidence of fraud and alleged foreign interference in the election when they knew evidence to that end existed in the 2020 Presidential Election. Some 387 members of Congress voted against an investigation, thus thwarting an investigation.
In November 2020 alone LibertyUnderFire.com published three columns documenting that concern: “Sudden Stop in Vote Reporting Suggests Election Fraud,” “Vice President Biden, Please Hold Back for the Sake of Ballot Integrity,” and “Dominion Software Switched Millions of Trump Votes to Biden.” Virtually all investigations since confirm that election fraud existed.
Brunson brothers Raland, Deron, Loy and Gaynor (not pictured) sue members of Congress for failing to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic….” the oath taken by all members of Congress.
The Brunson v. Alma S. Adams; et al case “alleges that Congress failed in its Constitutional duty by ignoring protection of critical infrastructure (election systems) during a National Emergency.”The Brunson brothers, who initiated this suit, asked, “How do you support, and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign , and domestic? Answer: You investigate. If there are claims that there is a threat, even if you don’t believe there is a threat, you investigate. How else can you determine if there is a threat unless you investigate? You can’t. Were there claims of a threat to the Constitution? Yes. Where did these serious claims come from? 100 members of Congress. What was the threat? That there were enemies of the Constitution who successfully rigged the 2020 election. Is this lawsuit about a rigged election? No, it’s about the members of Congress who voted AGAINST the investigation thereby thwarting the investigation. Was this a clear violation of their oath? YES” (All quotes are from filing documents).
The events leading to SCOTUS accepting the case follow. Loy Brunson files the brothers complaint under his name in the Utah Federal Court, March 23, 2021. On March 31, 2021 the 1st Amended Complaint was processed by the clerk of the Court and served by U.S. Marshalls on 85 defendants, including Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters before being stopped by the Court, claiming it was a “clerical error by the Deputy Clerk”. So the Deep State was very aware of mounting opposition to the denial of requested 10 day review before the electoral count.
From this point forward they faced a wall of obstruction: amended complaints, motions to reconsider, even a Writ of Mandamus to the Court of Appeals (10th Circuit) to compel the Federal Court for movement, then a lawsuit against the two Federal Courts, again for action—all to no avail. They were thwarted at every turn and always with the same explanation “the Federal Court will eventually get to it when they can.” After more than a year of the same the court finally “issues the summons for the 388 defendants.” Everyone voting against the measure requiring 10 days of review before the electoral vote received a summons, plus the president. Defendants had 60 days to answer the complaint.
Then the U.S. Attorneys suddenly intervened shielding members of Congress from being personally responsible for their vote by filing a notice of appearance in behalf of all the defendants, making THEMSELVES “the official attorneys on record,” instead of the legislators. The brothers had not sued the U.S. Government, only certain members of Congress who had violated their oath to protect and preserve the Constitution by not adhering to it. They promptly issued a motion to dismiss Loy’s lawsuit “on the grounds that defendants are protected under Title 28 which gives defendants Sovereign Immunity from any lawsuits relating to actions of treason while serving in the capacity of their office.” What!!! Members of Congress have immunity from treason? Our Founders would have never supported this. On July 6, 2022, the brothers file an opposition to the Attorneys’ attempt to dismiss the lawsuit. The defense offered only stonewalling silence thereafter.
Fortunately almost a year before, June 21, 2021, realizing that they could double their chances of getting to the Supreme Court with a second identical suit but under the name of another brother, this time Raland, the brothers sued members of Congress again. But once again the U.S. Attorneys, “acting in behalf of the United States (not the defendants)” ran interference and filed a motion to dismiss Raland’s lawsuit using the same reason as cited for the Loy suit.
The Brothers knew their only hope was to bypass the biased circuit court and it came to them that they could use Rule 11 (National Emergency) to vault over the obstructionist 10th Circuit of Appeals and “go straight to the Supreme Court.” If a fraudulent election with foreign interference was not a national emergency what was? On September 23, 2022 their petition for a Writ of Certiorari (national emergency) was received by SCOTUS. A week later “the Clerk of the SCOTUS calls Raland requesting a revision of the Petition that would include a motion to dismiss and motion to waiver. Having these included in the paper work it is believed bolsters the evidence that defenders had every chance to oppose. The brothers felt pressured to get it in ASAP, they did and their case was docketed October 24, 2022.
“The government hereby waives its right to file a response to the petition in this case,” Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar
The clerk notified the brothers that “they have everything they need.” The U.S. Attorneys had until November 23 “to respond showing why the Supreme Court of the United States should not move on this case.” They provided no defense. Nor did they ask for a motion to oppose, an extension, or a continuance. Nothing! Miraculously all opposition melted away (“Brunson and the Supreme Court Case that Would Fix 2020 and Bring Treason Charges for 388 Officials,” The Pete Santillo Show, Interview with Loy Brunson, Nov. 30, 2022).
A month later “Elizabeth B. Prelogar, the Solicitor General of United States, the official attorney on record for the defendants, and in behalf of the 388 defendants, waived their right to respond to this lawsuit, thus allowing the SCOTUS to move forward!” And it did setting the conference date for January 6, 2023. It requires four votes to have a hearing and five to remove from office all defendants, making this case potentially the most consequential in U.S. history.
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. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 694.
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Yes, election mischief is old news, but with new proofs. (I am using words less likely to trigger algorithms for big tech censorship). Sometimes it takes a few months to catch new methods of manipulating elections. For liberty to survive we have to stop managed elections and we have to punish those corrupting them or we will never again have an honest election.
In the 2020 elections we now know that mail-in ballots, election laws permitting such, multiple days to vote, big tech censorship of conservative views and candidates, and suspected Chinese influence via Dominion voting machines and Konnech administering elections programs were the primary tools of election mischief. We have previously published on these subjects and tools. In many states these methods and tools were still in place and used in the 2022 elections.
We focus on three of the most egregious new, or newly discovered, methods of fraud: databased latency, election manipulation using inactive voters, and Operation Bronze Griffin a secret combination between the federal government, via FBI, and Facebook. All to affect an election.
Four dozen undelivered ballots found at a Florida Post Office. These may or may not be the ones where addresses were changed for a few days ensuring that ballots would come back as undeliverable allowing them to be reused by scammers to affect the election. Then the addresses were changed back. Residents would never know that someone else used their ballot. This fraudulent technique is called databased latency and is commonly used in tight elections.
We begin with databased latency as explained by Jay Valentine, a noted authority on election fraud. “In a real-life example, this month, we found a county that changed 31,500 zip codes, yet the voter remained at the same address.” These were changed on September 3, ballots went out that week. Those valid 31,500 ballots are undeliverable but retrievable later for their use. On September 15, those addresses are quietly changed back. The National Change of Address Database will not pick up those address changes. That does not happen because there is no history kept of this quick change. The 31,500 citizens were getting their mail just fine, except for ballots. Ballot addresses were driven by the county mail-in ballot database. The one that was changed, then changed back. The recipient is none the wiser that they never received the mail-in-ballots. They may vote in person. Oops, you already voted. Welcome to database latency” Many states send ballots to everyone allowing hundreds of thousand unused available to scammers (“Here is how they did it: Real-time Election Fraud,” by Jay Valentine, American Thinker, November 30, 2022). This is the fraud equation “taking place across the country…Our teams in Wisconsin and Florida are discovering this scam by the truckload.
How does this method of gaming the system work in practice? “The ballot-gathering scammers know about latency — it’s their ground game!” They“count the in-person votes on election day. Count the early in-person votes. Shut down the system (Atlanta water leak, Maricopa County, everything). Bring in undeliverable ballots gathered when you changed voter’s names addresses. zip codes, then change them back. Determine the votes you need to win. Press the win button. Wait for the Republicans to file lawsuits months later.” Fait Accompli!!
Valentine continues, “floating ballots are the lifeblood Democrats need to win; and win they will. Ballot gatherers know Republicans use dumb technology — relational databases, SQL, NCOA, Melissa, all non-real-time, highly latent systems. Bad guys are happy to watch Republicans waste time finding ones and twos while the real action takes place by the thousands, invisible to these batch, latency-prone systems.” So this is how they get away with it (Ibid.).
Facebook shares users’ personal information with woke FBI without user’s consent or subpoena
Next we look at utilizing the inactive voters ballots. Liz Harrington reported that a “Lawsuit filed in Maricopa County reveals ‘steroid-like injection’ of 225,171, ‘inactive’ voters just before November 8.” This resulted in several things: “An inflated turnout rate, headaches for those deemed ‘inactive’ at the polls. possibility of throwing out votes if the arcane Election Procedures Manual, written by Katie Hobbs, was not followed by poll workers who were not trained on inactive voters.” She asked, “Who was put on the ‘inactive list? Might they be inclined to vote Republican?” (Liz Harrington@realLizUSA, December 1, 2022). People who seldom or never vote suddenly surfaced, a quarter of a million of them in one county.
The 1050 paged whistleblowers report claimed that FBI leadership demonstrated a pro-Democrat political bias and “alleged that it accepts private users information from Facebook without the user’s consent or the legal process. The FBI otherwise would need to independently pursue such user related information. Furthermore, according to the whistleblowers, the information, the types of users content Facebook provides, have a partisan focus only concerning users from one side of the political spectrum. The FBI’s willingness to accept this political speak information from Facebook outside the routine investigative pathways further threatens America’s constitutional rights” (“Whistleblowers: What their Disclosures Indicate about the Politicization of the FBI and Justice Department,” Republican Staff Report, Committee on the Judiciary, US House of Representatives, November 4, 2022).
Serious election mischief has and now exists more than ever. It can no longer reasonably be denied in 2020 or in 2022. America will not survive if we don’t demand election reform NOW.
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. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 692.
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The indefinite detention of the January 6, 2021 participants is the most egregious violation of Bill of Rights Amendments V, VI, and VIII in U.S. History. Regardless of where readers stand on detainees’ guilt or innocence, no political party, president, or congress can justify the length of detainment without bail or trial gave January 6, detainees. None can say they follow the Constitution!! The presumption of innocence as the base of our judicial system has been shattered by the political party presently in power. Worse, the inhumane treatment of suspects, THOSE NOT CONVICTED OF ANYTHING, could become the precedent for the rest of society. Indefinite detention without trial is now designed to punish before guilt is established.
No political party, president, or congress can justify the length of detainment without bail or trial given January 6, detainees!! None can say they follow the Constitution! Some 34 men and women remain indefinitely incarcerated under hellacious and cruel conditions. The Bill of Rights Amendments 5, 6, and 8 was discarded for these Americans.
Consider the Amendments noted above beginning with Amendment V. No persons may “be deprived of…liberty…without due process of law.” Due process of law mandates completion of a process—accused, arrested, and sometimes detained for a short time, tried, guilt or innocence established, then freedom or incarceration—each a part of due process. Never is infinite detainment, and/or punishment while detained, without due process acceptable.
Amendment VI is essentially removed from the Bill of Rights. “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.” After nearly two years of confinement, no one can argue that this was speedy. It also violated the Speedy Trial Act of 1974 and, as amended, August 2, 1979, which placed time limits defining speedy trial on the prosecution. These too were ignored by the Joe Biden government. In this case, the accused is denied a trial at all. When a public trial is convened, if ever, the amendment requires that the accused “be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.”
From the start legal necessities for a prisoner’s defense became tools of punishment and control. January 6 detainees have, “No Access to Discovery,” “No Legal Support such as laptops, printers, and copiers,” No “Legal Mentors,” and they lack “Legal Documentation on Tablets.” Also, guards prevented them “from attending court dates.” How can any prisoner believe that those confining him will take seriously his “compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense?”. (“34 US Political Prisoners in DC Gulag Demand Transfer to Guantanamo Bay,” By Harold Pease, Ph.D., LibertyUnderFire.com).
But Amendment VIII may be the most violated. “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” We know of no bail or fines implemented for any of the remaining 34 January 6 detainees. Respecting cruel and unusual punishment, certainly the seven paged letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland by the 34 remaining Jan. 6 detainees, noting 70 abhorrent violations of human rights in their nearly two-year imprisonment without bail or trial, testifies of such. Their treatment was so bad that they unanimously requested a transfer to Guantanamo and argue that non-citizens, those who killed nearly 3,000 Americans on 9-11, received better treatment than they in the DC Gulag.
Detainees believe their confinement and torturous treatment is largely punishment for their support of Trump in the Electoral College vote count—that is why they were in the House chambers. They believe themselves American political prisoners. Indeed, MAGA supporters are subject to reeducation (brainwashing) through education tablets, these filled with C.R.T. propaganda and racial biased media. Guards, mostly black, routinely racially profile detainees, mostly white, and prisoners who 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 from which they came, thus they view their MAGA detainees as enemies.
Those able to get messages “out to the public tell of their long-term solitary confinement without cause, sleep deprivation techniques, beatings at the hands of guards while in restraints, and threats of harsher treatment for speaking to the media (“Ignore the Dissidents of Our Time at Your Peril,” by Sarah Corridor, Homefront Crusade, October 13, 2021).
Nathan DeGraves One of the 34 DC Gulag January 6 political prisoners requesting to be transferred to Guantanamo because the treatment for those who killed almost 3,000 Americans, they believe, is better than what they have gotten in the DC Gulag.
Nathan DeGraves, one of the 34 demanding to be sent to Guantanamo, after four months in the Gulag was able to smuggle out a description of the conditions he suffered. “The conditions here are inhumane,” he wrote, “DC’s Gitmo January Sixers experienced daily lockdowns for 23 to 24 hours before being allowed to leave our small 120 square-foot cells. The physical and mental anguish that results from this kind of severe isolation has caused many people to go on a rapid mental decline. As a result, a large percentage of us are heavily medicated with anti-anxiety and anti-depressant drugs, which help to cope with the psychological and mental abuse we endure. Many times the little recreation we do receive is stripped away if our cell isn’t up to the standards of the guard on duty. This changes from day to day.” All this is both cruel and unusual punishment.
“January Sixers have lost recreation time, and out-of-cell activity time, for any news interviews about the jail when they are aired on TV, when people speak up about our conditions, or rallies are held in our name. We’ll probably have a lockdown upon the publishing of this letter. So I have already warned those I know in advance” (Nathan DeGraves: “An American Political Prisoner,” By Harold Pease, Ph.D., LibertyUnderFire.com).
If we do not stop the injustices and human suffering surrounding us, someday we too may suffer the same.
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. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www. www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 691.
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.
The first of several pages written to Attorney General Merrick Garland by the 34 remaining Jan. 6 detainees, noting 70 abhorrent violations of human rights in their nearly two year imprisonment without bail or trial. They requested transfer to Guantanamo and argue that non-citizens, those who killed nearly 3,000 in 9-11, received better treatment than they in the DC Gulag. Garland, the Democratic Party and press ignored it.
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 Subscribe now for free columns at this address. Help preserve our Republic while we still can.
