This Christmas, hundreds of peaceful citizens will be spending the holiday in jail due to political persecution. I’m not talking about a third world dictatorship thousands of miles away, but about the Jan. 6 prisoners right here in America.
Murderers and other violent criminals are released on the streets of America every day by soft-on-crime DAs. Illegal aliens are allowed to use their arrest warrants as IDs to fly around the U.S. BLM and Antifa rioters burned down cities almost with impunity. The Bidens face no consequences so far for their foreign money laundering. Two Chinese Communist Party spies who were charged with running an illicit CCP police station in New York City were out on bail almost immediately. But the hundreds of MAGA supporters arrested in connection with the events of Jan. 6, 2021, have been jailed and abused and denied both rights and basic necessities (often without trial, let alone conviction). We all know why. It’s not because they are dangerous insurrectionists or domestic terrorists. It’s because they are political dissidents.
FBI whistleblower Steve Friend highlighted the case of a New Jersey man who was just sentenced for a fraud scheme, according to the FBI, contrasting it to the treatment accorded a Jan. 6 prisoner and Proud Boys leader who wasn’t even in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021! “This subject received an 18 month prison sentence for stealing $1.5 million,” Friend tweeted. “Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for January 6- which he didn’t attend.” In similar abuses of justice, a peaceful Oath Keeper received 18 years in prison and a man was sentenced to 4.5 years in jail after he was photographed with his feet on Nancy Pelosi’s desk on Jan. 6.
This subject received an 18 month prison sentence for stealing $1.5 million. Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for January 6- which he didn’t attend.
— Steve Friend (@RealStevefriend) December 24, 2023
The @FBI is irrevocably broken, politicized, and weaponized. https://t.co/5TercXsdHD
As I previously reported in October, around the time Jan. 6 prisoner Jake Lang passed his 1000th day in jail without trial:
Physical assault. Months of solitary confinement. Filthy cells crawling with cockroaches. That’s been the reality of life for young Jake Lang in Biden’s America. Lang spoke to The Epoch Times, which published his comments on October 19. Lang rescued Philip Anderson from a stampede at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6; the late Roseanne Boyland was crushed under a police-induced stampede that day, so Lang save Anderson’s life. Violent Antifa and BLM activists burned down U.S. cities with few consequences, pro-abortion activists violently attacked dozens of pregnancy centers without any arrests, and a pro-Palestinian group with a history of supporting terrorists just stormed the Cannon building on Capitol Hill to barely any media attention. But Jake Lang? He’s been in jail for three years without trial, in conditions that aren’t fit for terrorist prisoners, let alone peaceful patriots. Yet Lang still firmly believes justice will eventually triumph.
It’s important to note that Lang isn’t the only Jan. 6 prisoner to report terrible conditions. There is a 2021 congressional report about the scandalous situation. Lang, like multiple other Jan. 6 prisoners, described how these patriots have been deprived of family visitation, suffering months of solitary confinement, constant shifting from one facility to another while shackled, spending months with no sun, having lights on all night (thus preventing sleep), and being deliberately denied haircuts and shaves.
This Christmas, many of us (hopefully all of us) will be surrounded by family and friends, free to attend church, exchange presents, visit each other, and enjoy a decorated tree in our own homes. But there are thousands of Americans who have a loved one missing from their holiday celebrations, hundreds of Americans who will see no lights or nativities but only cell walls. Don’t forget our fellow patriots suffering from Joe Biden’s politically fueled persecution this Christmas, but offer a prayer for them to feel the love of the Holy Child of Bethlehem even in prison.
