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Sept. 13, 2022 - Epoch Times
13:46
Lawmakers Lay Out Plan For J6 Prisoners in Solitary Confinement: 'Cruel and Unusual Punishment'
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Right now, it is officially September of 2022, meaning that between today and January 6th of 2021, well, something like 19 or 20 months have passed.
However, unbeknownst to most people, largely because the mainstream media chooses not to cover it, there are somewhere between 40 to 50 individuals who have been sitting in jail, with many of them in solitary confinement, since that day, with many of them awaiting trial for things like trespassing.
And so the big question is, how could this possibly happen?
And so in order to answer that question, while I was down in Texas, I took the opportunity to sit down and speak with two members of Congress, Mr. Andy Biggs from Arizona, as well as Mr. Brian Babin from Texas.
And I asked them very straight on, how could this be happening?
What legal justification does the state have to hold these people pending trial?
As well as whether, if the Republicans were to take back the House come the midterms, will there be any investigations?
Will there be any investigations into how this happened?
Why this happened?
As well as any possible relief for the people who have been sitting behind bars for 19 to 20 months.
Take a listen.
We recently published a documentary called The Real Story of January 6th.
Yes.
And I had a small cameo in it because I called up and I had an interview with a political, well, he calls himself a political prisoner and I tend to agree.
It's a man who's been sitting in jail for 18 months now in solitary confinement for having been there on January the 6th.
What is your opinion on that?
How is it possible that we have so many, 40 to 50 people who are in solitary confinement to this day from J6? It is appalling, Roman.
The thought of some American Who may have misbehaved, okay?
I'm not excusing riotous behavior or anything like that.
But everybody should have due process under the law.
The Constitution guarantees against cruel and unusual punishment.
You cannot have trials delayed for political purposes.
You cannot be put in solitary confinement.
You cannot be denied medical treatment.
You cannot be denied the evidence That is against you.
And some of them haven't even been charged.
And no one was armed.
There was no arms.
They keep calling it an insurrection on January the 6th.
I can tell you that January 6th commission, which is really nothing but a witch hunt, is not to find out the truth about what happened on January the 6th.
They're out to attack the Opponents of the Democrat Party.
That's what they're trying to do.
We even know that some of these prisoners, at least one that I know of, has committed suicide.
And the thought of somebody, for whatever reason, even if he had committed a heinous crime, But for someone to have walked into the Capitol building to be held in solitary confinement and not have evidence shown him and to be denied medical treatment, the thought about that and then have someone to commit suicide, it really tears in my heart.
And I'm outraged what is going on there in this D.C. circuit and also in this D.C. prison.
It's inexcusable.
The Democrats keep saying, the Republicans, they're endangering our democracy.
Let me tell you who's endangering democracy.
It's the Democrats who are doing these types of things that are more fit for the gulags of the old Soviet Union And the Iranians are the red Chinese.
This is what we're seeing in that D.C. circuit and in that D.C. prison for these prisoners of January the 6th.
To keep somebody in solitary confinement more than two weeks violates international law.
So we violate international law.
I've listened to judges sentence a 69-year-old woman with cancer, basically trespassed.
He said, I don't believe your contrition.
You know, I don't believe that you're contrite about this, so we're going to put you in jail for 60 days.
This is a woman who needs her medical care because she's got cancer.
You've got families that have been torn apart.
The individual yesterday sentenced to seven years in prison.
This is disparate.
You ask, how can this happen?
This can happen when the media Outside of you guys and a few others, have been complicit.
And you've got people in Congress like Liz Cheney, Adam Shiv, Lancey Pelosi.
They chose to call this an insurrection.
This was not an insurrection.
The FBI has the largest manhunt in the history of the United States.
For what?
For what?
Some people that were rioters that came into the Capitol.
And is that shocking and bad?
Yes, it was shocking and bad.
But the disparity that we have seen in their treatment And people like Antifa and BLM who rioted.
Or the guy who attacked the police officer in New York City the other day in the subway.
He's out in hours.
The guy who attempted to assassinate Lee Zeldin.
He's out in hours.
And these guys are in solitary confinement.
Some were denied medical care.
This is the outrage of what's happening in America today.
And it's really shocking because, especially the guy I was talking to, I spoke to a few, but the one in the movie, I asked him repeatedly, I said, well, what is the actual justification for keeping you locked up?
Because that's what I'm most interested in.
Because, you know, we can talk about the breakdown of the judicial system, but I'm always interested in, okay, in your specific case, what is their justification?
And oftentimes it's like, well, they're a flight risk or they're a danger to society.
But then you dig into the case and it's such...
I guess the judges have such broad discretion to make such a decision that technically I guess they could make it, but then they're keeping these people locked up for 18 months sometimes in solitary confinement.
It seems like cruel and unusual punishment on its face.
I guess maybe I'm naive, but I can't see a justification for that on any merits.
It violates the Constitution in multiple ways.
So there are federal guidelines on release, and there are only certain places that you can keep them in.
And these people have been kept in, even though they're not really flight risks.
We know where all these people are.
That's how we found them.
Most of them have jobs or had jobs before they lost them with this unnecessary incarceration.
And it is...
One of these things where you go, how can the judges and the prosecutors and the attorneys be so unreasonable?
And I'm like you.
I've looked into some specific cases.
I've talked to lawyers representing some of these individuals.
And I said, tell me, what is the concern with the statutes, the release statutes pre-trial?
They say, we don't have them.
They can't articulate them.
But they're mad.
They're mad.
They're left-wingers.
This is being done, and the judges have said, we want to teach a lesson to other people so they will never do this type of thing.
Well, I get general deterrence, but the reality is you're violating this individual's rights.
Everybody has a speedy trial right.
You can waive that.
But part of the reason they're having to waive it is because if they want a trial, DOJ is releasing discovery very slowly and very late.
I talked to a guy who was representing somebody at a trial.
They got their stuff just a few days before the trial.
And it was a mountain of information that they had to try and go through before the actual trial.
That's why people are saying, well, maybe the FBI needs a revisit.
Maybe DOJ needs to be revisited and have better oversight by Congress.
And I agree.
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It's incredible that they're getting away with this.
While you're looking at the total double standard of justice, Roman, when you saw for the entire time after the George Floyd incident that you have woke, radical, Antifa, the BLM rioters that are burning whole sections of communities now, murdering Assaulting, doing these terrible things, and if they're even arrested at all, they are sprung immediately with load and no bail whatsoever.
And we even had the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, was raising funds to help go the bail for some of these people that were out rioting and burning down the towns all across the United States of America, while at the same time, people who were unarmed,
People who admittedly should not have gone in, but just walking around, gazing at the scenery inside of our capitals, being held without bail, held in solitary confinement, held without medical treatment, no evidence against them, and even no exact charges filed against them.
How can they square that with fairness?
How does a judge, how does a prosecutor, how do they sleep at night knowing that you have human beings that disagree with them, maybe politically, but allow that to be going on?
I just don't understand that.
They ought to be removed from office.
Come November, if the Republicans take over the House, is there anything that can be done?
Is there any kind of committee that can be formed, any kind of oversight board or any kind of potential investigation that can be launched into this particular case, into the J6 prisoners?
Yeah, I think so.
So, in January, when we actually take the gavels, when we have our chairman, I'm urging our chairman to actually take this up and bring this to the forefront.
I'm hoping to have a gavel.
I'm the senior member on one subcommittee right now.
And that committee would actually have jurisdiction over at least portions of this.
And we would have that kind of oversight hearing if I have the gavel.
I mean, I can tell you that there's going to be a lot of oversight.
There will be hearings by many, many of our committees, not only oversight and judiciary, but a lot of our committees that we serve on to find out the truth of a lot of different things about why the heck this could be happening in the D.C. Circuit to these J6 defendants or what really happened on January the 6th.
We're going to find out some of these things.
That's what's going to have to happen.
We will call hearings which we are not able to do right now.
We will call our witnesses, our expert testifiers, and find out who's at fault.
Why was the Russian dossier known to be a complete fake?
How could that of this information planted in the media illegally by the FBI itself to ruin the lives of a number of Trump supporters and people who are in the Trump administration and go after the president for four straight years and use that as a basis for impeachment of this president totally knowing that it was a fake deal the entire time.
Now, if you'd actually like to go deeper into the plight of some of these prisoners, over on Epic TV, which is our awesome no censorship video platform, I recently published about a 30 to 35 minute episode that's an interview between myself and Jake Lang, who's actually in solitary confinement during the interview.
He basically gets out for about an hour to an hour and a half each day and we timed it out perfectly.
I scheduled the interview via phone call with him such that when he had a break, I called him up and we had about a 30-minute chat and we documented it all.
What's happening to him, how much time he's spending in, why he's spending in, the story of how he got arrested, the story of him on January 6th.
It tells his entire tale.
So if you want to check it out, the link will be right there at the very top of the description box.
And I hope you do check it out because it's not easy to get this type of content out.
Even for Jake, after we had that phone call, he got a letter from the U.S. Marshals saying, hey, you should not be talking to the Epoch Times because if you do, we'll punish you even more.
Which is kind of ironic given the fact that he has been in solitary confinement all this time.
We were laughing about it, me and him, about how they can actually punish him even more.
Would they put him in double solitary confinement?
Would they take away his hour-long break?
Anyway, it's a joke, but at the same time, it's quite a serious situation.
So again, if you want to check it out, the link will be right there at the very top of the description box.
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