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Enough Already: Release the J6 Political Prisoners
https://www.americanthinker.com ^ | September 9, 2022 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 10/18/2022 6:22:03 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com

"For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it."

That's Thomas Jefferson, the Father of the University of Virginia, describing his beloved institution's creed to English historian William Roscoe. I think it is a fitting description of the American Thinker community, who often tussle with difficult stories because that is where the truth takes us. Several members of the community recently focused my attention on the plight of J6 political prisoner Jonathan Mellis, who has already spent nineteen months in the American Gulag for the "crime" of protesting against his government.

Mellis is one of hundreds who have endured the wrath of a wayward Washington politburo that has thrown Americans' Bill of Rights and founding principles right out the window. Dennis Prager actually managed to secure a fifteen-minute interview with the incarcerated Mellis on December 22, 2021, and has replayed the disturbing audio for his listeners several times. I encourage anyone who has not already come across it to find a few minutes to concentrate on their conversation.

The thirty-five-year-old Mellis, whom Prager identifies as a native Tennessean, although he was arrested in Virginia, sounds remarkably calm and composed, considering that he had already endured nearly a full year in jail (with no end yet in sight) and was obviously communicating with Prager from behind enemy lines.

His story is similar to those of other J6 political prisoners caught in this abusive, Soviet-style purge, yet his descriptions are unnervingly poignant. Like so many of us who angrily watched as mass mail-in balloting and other pandemic-related voting shenanigans corrupted the 2020 election, Mellis hoped January 6 would stand as a historic day when civic-minded Americans engaging in political protest would successfully convince

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: bananarepublic; capitol; dissent; harassment; jan6th; persecution; politicalprisoners; showtrial
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21 posted on 10/18/2022 10:08:39 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in new Socialist America.)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

To release these POLITICAL PRISONERS………VOTE DEMOCRATS OUT !!!


22 posted on 10/18/2022 10:39:37 AM PDT by Pearfect
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He brings up J6 at his rallies, but he isn’t in the government and the POS media don’t report it.

However, the incumbent and mostly quiet GOP congressmen and senators are in government. They hope to coast to power without upsetting the rat media.


23 posted on 10/18/2022 3:20:43 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
Half agree: Jan. 6 suspects are ‘political prisoners’

Only half?

24 posted on 10/19/2022 10:45:52 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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