Posted on 01/21/2022 7:21:05 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Advocates for inmates arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol have lamented the lack of national attention on the inhumane conditions facing those still in detention.
That changed Jan. 21, when conservative writer Julie Kelly testified about the matter at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
The Jan. 21 hearing followed months of unsuccessful attempts by some Republican lawmakers to find answers on how Jan. 6 inmates are being treated. GOP representatives were interrupted by left-wing protestors while trying to hold a press conference on the matter last July and were barred from a Washington DC jail housing 50 defendants when they tried to check on their conditions days later.
Inmates reported marginal improvement in treatment after a visit by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to the Washington facility, but Kelly told committee members that conditions apparently have backslid since then.
“One detainee I spoke with this week, an Army reservist charged with no violent crime, said the DC jail is on a 22-hour lockdown due to COVID,” said Kelly, a writer for American Greatness.
Kelly voiced the concerns that Jan. 6 inmates and their families have been raising for the past year, among those a lack of access to worship, legal counsel, phones, and basic hygiene.
“These defendants haven’t been convicted of any crime, most have no criminal record, and some don’t even face charges of violence,” she said. “It appears as if the DC jail is a political prison.”
Questions were asked largely along party lines, with Republicans probing the Jan. 6 issue further while Democrats talked to other witnesses about the BOP’s COVID-19 response and other issues.
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Keep the pressure on. Turn it up to 11.
Appears to me that at least in part, this is intended as a warning to any other citizens that defy, protest or otherwise excercise their constitutional rights to protest and speak out publicly if it does not coincide with the left’s agenda.
More importantly, I have no doubt this is how they will treat all dissenters if and when they finally achieve their long sought after one party domination of the nation.
“Appears to me that at least in part, this is intended as a warning to any other citizens that defy, protest or otherwise excercise their constitutional rights to protest and speak out publicly if it does not coincide with the left’s agenda.
More importantly, I have no doubt this is how they will treat all dissenters if and when they finally achieve their long sought after one party domination of the nation”.
You are absolutely correct. They are being made examples of.
Exactly.
We have to reverse that chilling effect.
Maybe have ads showing the “no arrests” Portland, Seattle, Park Avenue NY City and other lootings and burnings in riots.
How is that fair?
That huge yawn you can hear is the sheeple expressing their concern for the suffering of the J6 political prisoners...
The sheep are quietly munching away at the grass... Heads down...
What a feckless cowardly country the U.S. has devolved into!
Tiananmen II has been a huge sucess for our communist masters...
What have YOU done about it?
I agree with that.
this is intended as a warning to any other citizens that defy, protest or otherwise excercise their constitutional rights to protest and speak out publicly >>>>>>>>>
Does that mean there are dozens of BLM and ANTIFA protesters locked up there in the same jail? You know, the ones who committed arson in Kenosha, and in Minneapolis?
The J6 Commission posse is acting like a bunch of drunken Nazis. This isn’t going to end well for the Nazi Feddies.
In my mind, this is all due to the FBI and its exaggerated self-importance.
How I wish President Trump was in charge to fire the leadership of that Agency.
Guess you haven’t been paying attention because BLM and Antifa are the left/DNC’s foot soldiers. Have you noticed that they have been completely silent since Biden became POTUS?
Suggest you try thinking a bit more and pay closer attention in the future.
Guess you haven’t been paying attention because BLM and Antifa are the left/DNC’s foot soldiers. Have you noticed that they have been completely silent since Biden became POTUS?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
They are not quiet, they are organized into gangs of looters
around the country.
And the BLM leadership are busy buying million dollar homes in Califormia.
But wait until the Trump campaign, and they will show up at rallies.
But are there not jails full of their cadres of ANTIFA / BLM MArxist arsonists and looters? Why not? Delineating my point, that the Jan. 6 detainees incarcerated in Washington jail are political prisoners.
Suggest you try thinking a bit more and pay closer attention in the future.
or maybe read this:
“Barrack Obama, The Quintessential Liberal Fascist”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
Good Luck
POWs of Nanzi Pee-Lousy’s war on America.
Caller to Hugh Hewitt Thursday; There are NO political prisoners in DC !
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