Posted on 01/23/2025 5:39:56 AM PST by MtnClimber
"I'm eating my breakfast in bed in my hotel room—I’m enjoying life so much!” J6 political prisoner Jake Lang gushed Wednesday morning after being set free. “I’ve got butter, pancakes, blueberries …”
About 36 hours earlier Lang had been “swarmed and assaulted” by prison officials at the DC Gulag as he peacefully waited for his release. Monday night at 9:30 p.m., about seven officers, led by Lt. Telly Allen, burst through the door, assaulted him and forced him back to his cell, Lang told American Greatness during a telephone interview Wednesday.
“They violently twisted my arms behind my back and scuffed up my wrists and hands,” he said. “They physically picked me up and threw me in my prison cell.”
It wasn’t the first time Lang had been abused by prison guards, but thankfully, it was the last.
On January 20, President Trump pardoned over 1,500 January 6 political prisoners, and Lang was among over 250 still in jail anxiously awaiting his release. He spent the last four years in prison without a trial, and like so many others, was subjected to beatings, solitary confinement, and other forms of torture.
Lang said he spent one more cold night at the DC Gulag, because, thinking he would be released immediately, he had given his mattress and blankets away to other prisoners. Despite this, he said “I slept like a baby knowing that in a few short hours I would be released.”
According to Lang, the U.S. Marshalls showed up on Tuesday at about noon, and he and about five other J6ers were put in a waiting pen for eight hours without food or water or access to the bathroom, while they were “processed.”
Lang said he suspected they were pouring over their records to see if there were any detainers or parole violations that would allow them to keep them locked up.
“They just wanted to get the last pound of flesh out of us,” he said.
While still incarcerated, Lang founded “The January 6 Life Rebuilding Project” to help financially devastated and emotionally scarred J6ers restore their shattered lives.
“We’ve endured four years of cruel and unusual punishment. Now, as we finally taste freedom, many of us will be homeless and penniless. We cannot rebuild alone—we need your help,” he said.
The J6 Life Rebuilding Project is focused on “supplying these men with the necessities to resettle into society: First months rent, a cell phone, clothing and some groceries to hold them over until they begin working again.”
Lang told American Greatness to stay tuned for the “$50 billion lawsuit” that was coming.
Lang was arrested on January 16, 2021 and charged on January 29, 2021 with “Civil Disorder; Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers; Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers Using a Dangerous Weapon; Obstruction of an Official Proceeding; Aiding and Abetting; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Act of Physical Violence in the Capitol Grounds or Buildings.”
Lang, who was photographed wearing a gas mask, and wielding a shield and baseball bat, pled not guilty to all the charges.
He told American Greatness that he didn’t go to the rally with any of those items, explaining that he had been at a boardroom meeting the day before, and had attended the rally wearing business attire.
Like thousands of others who attended the rally, Lang said he had come to protest the rigged 2020 election. He ended up at the brutal battle scene outside the entrance to the tunnel on the lower west side of the Capitol building, where police viciously attacked the protesters and beat Rosanne Boyland to death.
After Boyland died, Lang said he “accumulated the gas mask, the riot shield and the baseball bat” and used them “as defensive measures against the murderers.”
“I wasn’t willing to have any other unarmed women or elderly men be pummeled and brutalized to death,” he said. Boyland had died, he said, “virtually in my arms.”
Lang told American Greatness that he found the gas mask on the ground near the tunnel. The shield and baseball bat, he said, were being “passed around.”
“About a dozen defendants were charged with using that same baseball bat,” he explained, adding that he had been standing there with the riot shield trying to defend himself and others around him from the pepper spray when a suspected antifa agitator handed him the baseball bat.
Lang said he went on to use the baseball bat like “a caveman” would use a torch to ward off “a pack of wolves.”
“I used the bat in this sweeping motion to kind of push back and keep at bay the advance of the Capitol Police that were on a baton death march to kill people,” he said.
During his four year, five day incarceration, Lang said he was moved 17 times to various federal prisons in New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington DC and Brooklyn. “It’s a torture tactic known as “diesel therapy,” he explained. The tactic, he said, “is designed to unmoor and disillusion those who are in pretrial detainment in order to break down their conviction and resolve to maintain their innocence and make them accept a plea deal.”
One time, he added, he was put on a plane and flown all the way to Oklahoma, and then put on another plane and flown right back to the East Coast.
Lang explained that once he would get his bearings at a new facility, he would get busy working on his case, organizing, and going on conservative podcasts to talk about the prison abuse. This activity, he said, would cause prison officials to “lose their minds,” and move him again.
Lang said the tactic is also used to thwart a prisoner’s ability to defend himself.
“Any legal evidence you accumulate at whatever facility you’re at, the legal work you’ve done, the research, the videos, the hard drives—all that is left behind when you have to move to a new facility and so you have to start from scratch on your case every time they move you,” he explained. “And your lawyer doesn’t know where you’re at for weeks, your family is incredibly worried, thinking you disappeared off the face of the earth, that they brought you to some underground CIA bunker and are waterboard torturing you. He said the prisoners’ families had no way of knowing what was happening.
“They had us marked as domestic terrorists and wanted to bury us under the jail,” Lang declared.
In 2021, prison officials illegally coerced J6ers to get the experimental COVID injections by withholding religious services, family visits, lawyer visits and hair cuts to prisoners who refused.
“They basically put a gun up to our head and said you can pull your own trigger or live in abject tyranny for an unlimited amount of time,” he explained.
“I was rocking it out, with a full Unibomber look,” Lang told American Greatness. He said he never broke down and got the jab.
“If the government tells you, ‘take this it’s free,’ run!” he explained.
After Trump won the 2024 election, the prison guards who had been tormenting the J6 prisoners for nearly four years “did a complete 180,” Lang said. “They knew—’oh crap, these guys are now going to be in positions of political power to hold us accountable for our torture’—so they really tried to kiss up to us,” he explained.
“The very same guard that assaulted Ryan Samsel—brutally, almost killing him—walked me out of prison that day, thinking he could chum it up with me and I would forget the torture he did to my brother,” Lang said. He named the offending officer, spelling out his last name for me: “Corporal H-a-y-e-s.”
In March of 2021, Hayes allegedly beat Samsel at the DC Gulag until “his eye popped out of his head.”
Samsel’s attorney, Elisabeth Pasqualani, told ABC News in April 2021 that two guards had come to his cell in the early morning hours, ordered him to put on zip-tie handcuffs, and took him to a nearby cell. Pasqualani said Samsel told her that one of the officers then proceeded to “punch him, hit him, kick him” as he lay on the ground.
According to Pasqualani, Samsel was taken to a hospital and suffered a broken nose and a fractured orbital floor in his eye socket, and that he still cannot see out of his right eye, which “might be permanent,” she said.
The D.C. Department of Corrections Director Quincy Booth claimed a department probe cleared its officer of any wrongdoing.
Samsel was relocated to a separate facility after Pasqualani requested his transfer following the savage assault.
Lang said after the political winds shifted, Hayes tried to show “favoritism toward us to hide his prior crimes.”
“I told him as I was leaving, this isn’t the last you’ll see of me. One day, we’re going to be either in a congressional hearing or a courtroom and I’m going to be at one table and you’re going to be at the other,” he said.
Lang, a former club promoter, said he had once led a “galivanting” life of sin in places like New York City, Miami, Beverly Hills and Paris. He said that during the COVID shutdown in New York City, he was “delivered” from his playboy life.
“God wrapped ahold of my heart and I was delivered from my shallow lifestyle,” Lang told American Greatness, adding that he was “born again” and baptized in the holy spirit one month before January 6, 2021.
With the zeal of a new convert, Lang said he went on to evangelize his fellow prisoners.
“I baptized over two dozen men while in prison, did bible studies every night at 9:00 pm for years in 17 different prisons,” he said.
Lang told American Greatness that he felt blessed to have been freed from both the spiritual and physical chains in his life.
“I’m like a double resurrected man,” he declared.
Publish the names of every prison guard and all info about each of them. They must all be brought to justice!!!
Every single last one of these “guards”/prison staff/prosecuters/legal aides/judges/jurists and anyone else who was involved in violating the J6 victim prisoners Human and Constitutional Rights need to be prosecuted for EVERY CRIME THAT THEY COMMITTED ON THE PRISONERS AND THEN SENTENCED TO DEATH !!! And toss nazipelousy and upchuckyschlepter and the rest of those who set this situation up.
I am having a hard time with what was done to these Innocent People...
Pissed off doesn’t even come close to the feelings that I have right now.
It sounds like something out of Shawshank Redemption.
An absolute disgrace, clearly it was (is) systematic - not just a single prison.
People need to be behind bars.
They don’t have to be found guilty to be ruined. I’d contribute to the legal fund to do just that. Bankrupt them and bury them. Destroy their lives from bottom to top. It could take a long time but I think taking the high ground is overrated. God will forgive if He wants to but we have a score to settle and points to be made and enemies to destroy.
I know a couple white guys who said that the black prison guards were awful to the white prisoners.
Course the same is known to happen the other way around.
It needs to stop. That kind of abuse of power is wrong to its very core.
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This whole prisoner / prison guard scenario is somewhat similar to what real nazi guards did to innocent captives back in WWII. These J6 "guards" are of the same character as their scum nazi predecessors.
I hope these innocent folks get to realize retribution of some sort on these criminals. If not in this world, certainly in the next.
“I know, how do we get these people?”
Step 1 is congress needs to relocate the DC Circuit and remove all political cases from their jurisdiction based on their politicized conduct and ongoing abuses.
It seems the Senate is at all times far too busy to ever hold even a single power-mad ‘judge’ accountable through the impeachment process.
In the past four years we witnessed countless DC judges, city judges, state acting justices and of course the utterly contemptible judge Bruce Reinhart who approved the search warrant at Mar a Lago.
Only judge Cannon was reasoned in her conduct and she was chastised endlessly for it by the DC media whores.
Engoron, Merchan, Reinhart, Chutkan, Howell, et al, should be impeached, prosecuted and publicly hung by the neck until they be dead for their political abuse of under color of law.
Tar and feathers would be too kind for the likes of Smith, Bragg, James, Willis, Wade, Colangelo and a host of others.
How many of the J6 prisoners just released were never brought to trial?
This guy was held longer than Jefferson Davis!
pic.twitter.com/QlKrSrGwBc— Ultra 🇺🇲🄼🄸🄲🄷🄰🄴🄻🇺🇸 (@Heart_1958) June 11, 2022
For all the people who say “it cant happen here..”, IT DID HAPPEN HERE.
Sadists and thug lurk in the dark corners of every nation.
We had better get a full congressional hearings and DOJ investigation into the conduct of the J6 prison guards, the exact circumstances that led up to the incident-including testimony by Congressional representatives that had first hand knowledge of the event, review of DC prosecutors and judges conduct with respect to procedures, validity of evidence used against defendants, forced plea deals, all records from Capitol police and FBI and of course J6 committee, audit of money spent on the political prosecutions.
What else have I left out?
If any of this is swept under the rug, the media will continue to use the false narrative to deceive the people into thinking that Trump and MAGA staged a coup d’état.
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NOI , all of the guards , i bet.
remember the reports of the gulag , for recreation gave them a room , a tv, and taped lessons on islam and the koran ?
Yup, Nation of Islam and the muslim brotherhood , i would bet money on it.
I wonder how many they will insist can’t be found - lost records etc. This is going to impact the entire country as well it should. Rabid animals posing as prison guards on the payroll!! Unbelievable!
Who is who in that picture?
Sorry but he looks like he should be on the other side of the bars!!!!
Hopefully one day he will be
“Rabid animals posing as prison guards on the payroll!”
And how perfect is the job of “Prison Guard” for a sadist or sexual sadist?
I have met people here in TN who work with abused animals. They’ve said that it’s incredible how many sadists want to get jobs working in pet shelters, because the victims are right there in cages for them to abuse.
It’s hard to think about.
Every last one of them should sue the pants off anyone involved in their prosecution and incarceration. Unfortunately, taxpayers will end up footing the bill, but these people must be made whole!
Those are directly responsible for the abuse of the American justice system should face criminal prosecution.
The vast majority of citations and charges against George Floyd protesters were ultimately dropped, dismissed or otherwise not filed, according to a Guardian analysis of law enforcement records and media reports in a dozen jurisdictions around the nation.
Why did he never get a trial? His right to a speedy trial was violated.
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