One propaganda point that has unfortunately surfaced from both Democrats and Republicans lately and again at the Pam Bondi hearing is that Donald Trump shouldn’t pardon “violent” J6ers. What they’re not telling you is that the people in prison for years in horrible conditions aren’t the scattered few dressed like Antifa who smashed windows or had fed ties like Ray Epps. The arrested “violent” protestors were, in a number of cases, trying to stop Capitol police from murdering fellow protestors.
If you’ve read my J6 articles before, you’ve probably heard of Jake Lang, who has been in jail for four years without so much as a trial. A family member posted on his X account that he has once again been put in solitary confinement, this time in a part of the “D.C. Gulag” jail where multiple stabbings have reportedly occurred in the past month.
Lang was accused of violence on Jan. 6, though his case has never gone to trial (which has been repeatedly postponed, including after video evidence undermined one Capitol police officer’s claims of protestors’ violence). But two fellow Jan. 6 protestors testified that Lang saved their lives from police brutality and that he tried to save Rosanne Boyland, who was ultimately beaten and trampled to death by Capitol police.
It is always context worth keeping in mind that numerous pro-Hamas protestors (who also invaded Capitol buildings) and violent Antifa thugs have had their charges dropped, and illegal alien criminals continue to pour across the border with Democrat encouragement. Lang says he was trying to defend individuals being brutalized by police, including Boyland, who was subsequently murdered by Capitol police. Philip Anderson and Thomas Tatum swore that Lang saved their lives in the melee. They have not had a chance to testify at Lang’s trial because that is indefinitely postponed.
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I have been able to talk with and question both Lang and Anderson on this topic, and their testimonies are sobering; certainly, they deserve the chance to testify thus at Lang’s trial. Whatever happened to the Constitution’s Sixth Amendment and the right to a speedy trial? If Lang really is a violent insurrectionist instead of a patriot who only used “violence” in a dangerous situation to defend lives, why are the D.C. authorities so very, very reluctant for Lang’s case to go to trial? Why didn’t they bring their incontrovertible evidence to bear sometime in the last four years? One wonders.
Previous congressional investigations confirmed what Lang and his fellow Jan. 6 prisoners have reported — emotional, psychological, and sometimes even physical abuse, with the prisoners deprived of their rights and sometimes even of basic necessities. For example, one type of handcuff that has been used on some J6ers, including Lang, is the “black box,” which is used for the most dangerous prisoners and has raised controversy before for being potentially abusive.
Lang told me, “The black box goes over your wrist. And what it does is it keeps them at like this crooked angle, so you can't move them whatsoever... it’s this ultra handcuff that puts your arms in a very unnatural position so you end up chafing for hours, and then the chafe can turn into cuts and bleed… I ended up having wrists that were so chafed that there was … blood marks on on my handcuffs… when I took them off, I said, ‘That's my skin on there. That's my blood.’”
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The 1,000+ Jan. 6 protestors have been isolated, denied the ability to practice their Christian religion, smeared, and generally treated as guilty until or even if proven innocent. Every single Jan. 6 protestor has been maltreated and unfairly targeted without exception and that is why Trump should issue blanket pardons. We have seen the Biden DOJ completely and thoroughly biased in targeting J6ers, and polling data reveals the same extreme bias among the D.C. jury pool. It is impossible for a Jan. 6 protestor to have a fair trial. But it will soon be possible for Donald Trump to pardon the political prisoners so unconstitutionally and egregiously abused by a rigged system.
