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A January 6 Detainee Speaks Out
AmGreatness ^ | July 22 | Julie Kelly

Posted on 07/23/2021 12:04:04 PM PDT by RandFan

He corroborates accounts from other detainees, including reports of abuse by prison guards, inedible food, and zero access to the outdoors, religious services, or physical activity.

Joe Biden’s Justice Department notched another victory last week in the agency’s sprawling investigation into the January 6 protest on Capitol Hill against Biden’s presidency.

On Wednesday, Michael Curzio pleaded guilty to one count of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in the Capitol building. The government offered the plea deal to Curzio’s court-appointed attorney in June; Curzio faced four misdemeanor charges, including trespassing and disorderly conduct, for his role in the Capitol breach.

Curzio will pay the government “restitution” in the amount of $500 to help pay for the nearly $1.5 million in damages the building reportedly sustained. (The Architect of the Capitol initially said the protest caused $30 million in damages but prosecutors have set the figure far lower.)

The misdemeanor to which Curzio pleaded guilty carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail. But Curzio isn’t headed to jail any time soon. To the contrary, Curzio actually left jail on July 14.

Because he had already served six months in prison.

Curzio is one of nearly 100 defendants kept behind bars for months under pre-trial detention orders sought by federal prosecutors. (Not all have been housed in the D.C. jail.) In several instances, the defendants, like Curzio, aren’t accused of committing a violent crime.

But the Justice Department, with the consent of federal judges in Washington, D.C., repeatedly seeks to punish Americans for protesting the election of Biden by keeping them in jail awaiting trials that won’t begin until next year or until they accept a plea deal.

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: abuseofpower; bananarepublic; crock; curzio; fake; gulag; michael; michaelcurzio; politicalprisoner; ryan; ryansamsel; samsel; torture
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1 posted on 07/23/2021 12:04:04 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

$1.5 million in damages?


2 posted on 07/23/2021 12:06:27 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: RandFan

Pisses me off no end.
Hank Goober mouth Johnson should be in solitary confinement himself!


3 posted on 07/23/2021 12:07:35 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: RandFan

You’re on your own, bud. No one is going to help you. America turtled up in 2020 after we surpassed the “lockdown for two weeks” mandate without a fight. God can reboot the planet at any time.


4 posted on 07/23/2021 12:09:19 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: RandFan

Hmmm…thinking I remember something about an 8th Amendment that doesn’t line up with the current reality in DC. Must have just a pipe dream…


5 posted on 07/23/2021 12:10:43 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: gundog

A toilet seat costs $500 in the US government


6 posted on 07/23/2021 12:11:57 PM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: RandFan

6 months in the DC Gulag for “parading, demonstrating, or picketing in the Capitol building”. How very Soviet. We all thought “deplorable” was a funny thing, but now there’s another D-word we are called. When I was younger, political dissidents were always associated with brutal totalitarian regimes and tinpot dictators. Now I’m a dissident?


7 posted on 07/23/2021 12:13:57 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: gundog

A million of that was for the pain and suffering by AOC and Nancy Pelosi’s desk.


8 posted on 07/23/2021 12:16:30 PM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: V_TWIN

Nadler probably busts two of those in a week.


9 posted on 07/23/2021 12:17:19 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ETCM

Pretty much at this point. 🙁


10 posted on 07/23/2021 12:18:46 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (RIP my "teddy bear". )
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To: RandFan

Will the young unarmed lady who was shot dead get her life back?


11 posted on 07/23/2021 12:19:27 PM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: ETCM

“Now I’m a dissident?”

Yes.

And our FReeper user names are on their list.


12 posted on 07/23/2021 12:20:09 PM PDT by polymuser (LA socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.p)
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To: gundog

Hey, with COVID, the price of glass has shot way up!


13 posted on 07/23/2021 12:24:45 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Criminal democrats kill babies, folks. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?” ~ joma89)
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To: RandFan

The TX (D) shirkers are doing more to obstruct government business than any of these “insurrectionists” of Jan 6 fame.


14 posted on 07/23/2021 12:25:16 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: RandFan

Free these political prisoners.


15 posted on 07/23/2021 12:28:37 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: RandFan

Just for reference, the capital police and metro police have a process for arresting people on these charges if you are from a preferred group. They arrest, issue a $50 ticket and release in under 2 hours.


16 posted on 07/23/2021 12:31:53 PM PDT by gunnut
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Stolen Election Political Prisoner Ryan Samsel was awakened, had his hands zipped tied, and then was beaten to a pulp. He lost vision in one eye among other injuries.

17 posted on 07/23/2021 12:50:16 PM PDT by Nateman (If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
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To: RandFan

It’s $30 million in damages. The money will be paid to Hunter Biden’s construction company (with half going to THE BIG GUY).


18 posted on 07/23/2021 12:57:10 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Leep

If they both soiled themselves, I’d say it was money well spent. By government standards, anyway.


19 posted on 07/23/2021 1:22:36 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ETCM

Political dissidents are always repressed by brutal totalitarian regimes and tinpot dictators.

Now we are dissidents...


20 posted on 07/23/2021 1:28:25 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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