J B Shurk at American Thinker is horrified at the continuing
violations of First Amendment rights and due process protections:
Several members of the [American Thinker] 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 up 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 Congress and the courts to take a hard look at the
suspicious irregularities tainting the election. He is undoubtedly a
fiercely patriotic American who loves his country and would sacrifice anything
for it. He speaks as a man committed to America's foundations in
liberty. He does not sound as if malice has blighted his
heart. He arrived in D.C. to defend America's standing as the
"Land of the Free." He expected to rectify an electoral
injustice. He wanted D.C.'s permanent bureaucracy to visually see
the resolve of millions of Americans' moral conviction. He expected
triumph. And he has received little but despair. . . .
Read the rest here.
Where are the GOP members of congress? Why is it Dennis Prager or Julie Kelly (see,
for example, here and here – both at American
Greatness) banging on the doors to get these people out of jail.
RELATED: Prisoners are getting assaulted.
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