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May 18, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Help J6 victim John Strand with prayers and support - Prosecuted by the FEDSURRECTION trap!
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Welcome to today's interview on Brighton.com.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighton.
And as you know, we have gone to great lengths to try to bring attention to all of the victims of the malicious prosecution of J6 peaceful protesters who were simply exercising their First Amendment rights.
To, well, voice their grievances against a regime that would not hear them.
And we're joined today by one of those individuals who has been convicted by a Washington, D.C. jury on multiple charges related to January 6th.
His name is John Strand, and he's an artist and was a model at one point, worked in the fashion industry.
You know, he's not...
Wasn't in the military, wasn't in a militia, and nothing like that.
He's a fashion guy, and he's been convicted and is facing some very serious prison time, and his story is just mind-boggling, jaw-dropping.
We welcome him to the show today.
Welcome, John.
Welcome to the show.
Thank you for spending time with us, and we apologize on behalf of the United States of America.
What is being done to you is a grave injustice.
It is a crime against humanity, in my opinion.
But tell us your story and welcome to the broadcast.
Yeah, thank you so much for having me on, Mike.
I really appreciate it.
And it's quite a point in history that we're in.
I'm certainly aware of that, maybe more pointedly than most.
Of course.
But yeah, my story briefly, as you mentioned, I've worked for many years in the arts and in communications.
And in 2020, when Basically, the entire world collectively lost its mind and shut down the entire economies and travel and really livelihoods of so many people.
I was affected by that as well.
I felt called by God at that time to step to the forefront socially and politically and publicly to push back and say that lockdowns are a violation of human rights and that our entire government was hurtling down a trail of tyranny and godlessness.
And the last few years have certainly borne that out to catastrophic proportions.
Yes, clearly.
I was involved in being one of the leaders of something called the Beverly Hills Freedom Rally here in Los Angeles, California.
And during the summer of 2020, leading into the 2020 election, that was very, very impactful and successful, drew tens and tens of thousands of people from all over the country to Southern California.
And over 20,000 people just in the month of October alone, President Trump retweeted the rally.
And so it had a significant impact.
A number of well-known public figures that we had speaking at those rallies included the founder of America's Frontline Doctors, Dr.
Simone Gold.
And so through meeting her and working alongside of her at that time, I then became the creative director at AFLDS, which is my current gig.
Dr. Gold on an East Coast speaking tour in January of 21, that is how I came to be on the ground in Washington, D.C. on both January 5th and January 6th, which were both rallies with government approved permits, you know, to which Dr. Gold was scheduled weeks in advance to participate.
So the long and short of my J6 story is I was actually professionally engaged, providing security assistance to Dr. Gold.
Gold while she gave her or attempted to give her speech on January 6th.
And of course, it became confusing and chaotic during a period where we were trying to get to the northeast corner of the Capitol for those speeches, got swept up in a crowd that then got swept inside the building for a time.
And it was a little confusing, but from our perspective at the time, largely just a rally that got a little weird.
And then we, you know, after some time in the building trying to seek safe, normal public exit out of it, police officers eventually organized the situation and helped us to get out.
So we left peacefully, as we always were.
And from our perspective, that was January 6th.
It was a rally, by and large.
Now fake novel of violent insurrection and all these other hyperboles that are being grounded.
Let me interject here because I think our audience understands this, but it's worth repeating.
We now know in retrospect that this so-called insurrection was just as fake as Hillary Clinton creating the Russian dossier to blame Trump.
It's all contrived.
The FBI ran the operation, clearly, and even Capitol Police opened doors to initiate the crowd being pushed in to try to sweep up people like you.
This was a government operation to create an insurrection in the same way that Joe Biden is right now pushing all kinds of white supremacy narratives to try to criminalize political dissent.
But I want to ask a couple of questions, just to be clear.
Did you damage property in any way?
No, absolutely not.
Did you attack anyone?
Did you commit violence against anyone?
Did you throw objects at anyone?
No, none of the above.
Okay, and did you set fire to any buildings?
Oh, absolutely not, no.
Oh, well then you will not be welcome in Antifa, it turns out.
Yeah.
Because those are the qualifications.
Yeah.
Okay, so we know you're not Antifa at this point, and then you were charged with multiple counts, I assume, trespassing and interfering with official government.
What were you charged with, and what have you been, quote, found guilty of with a tainted jury at the helm?
So my co-defendant and I were both charged at the same time with the same set of charges.
That's a 20-year felony for obstruction of justice and for misdemeanors on the side.
That racks up to a total of about 23 potential years of prison time, which is what I'm facing.
And the interesting component...
Of my story and really an interesting component of the J6 situation overall are the fraudulent plea deals that the government viciously and very illegally coerced on almost every J6 defendant by overcharging them with crimes that they did not have actual element, proof of elements to bring those charges.
Specifically, the 20-year felony that I was convicted on is not even the right statute for the context.
It's actually literally entirely the wrong law.
So we'll certainly be appealing that, among other things.
But yeah, 23 years of potential prison, and breaking news as of this week, I just found out that the Department of Justice is pushing for aggressive 23 levels, maybe, of sentencing enhancements to upcharge what they're allowed to put me in prison for, and they're trying to get over seven years.
So...
An additional seven years?
No, no.
The max range is up to 23 years.
That's the max potential concurrent of all the charges together in the worst case possible scenario.
However, the sentencing guidelines use a complex formula based on a number of things.
Obviously, no criminal record.
So that reduces the range.
But they have all these other enhancements that they're bringing based on lies, actually, and the continuation of their false narrative to say, oh, he's really, really dangerous and horrible, and he really deserves to actually be in prison for 7.25 years.
I see.
So this is the weaponization of the Department of Justice, which we've seen applied against all the J6 defendants and in other areas as well.
For example, Alvin Bragg going after President Trump with trumped-up criminal charges.
But this is serious business.
You're facing a government taking away years of your life wrongfully.
For something that you, charges that are, as you said, inappropriately applied.
You've already been found guilty by a jury whose beliefs, I believe, were tainted by a dishonest media, fake news reporting, perhaps witness tampering by the DOJ because they're known for doing that.
You are, you have not been sentenced yet, is that correct?
That is correct.
My sentencing's coming up just in a few days on June 1st.
And also breaking news right now is that we're going to be hosting a Zoom prayer vigil on May 31st, and people can join that by registering at johnstrand.com, and we invite everyone listening to do that, not only to provide...
Holy Spirit coverage and really to just implore God to intervene and work a miracle, which we really hope and pray that he will in this courtroom and in my case right now, but also in the hearts and minds of people across the country.
I'm really praying myself that God would really arrest their hearts and wake them up to the severity of where our country is right now.
In the United States of America, myself, A young man who's never committed a crime in his life and hasn't even considered doing such is looking at a government that's trying to put him in prison for over seven years to serve their lies and political agendas.
It's truly extraordinary.
Okay, so May 31st is the Zoom Prayer Vigil, and folks, you can find out about that at his website, johnstrand.com.
It's spelled just like it sounds, but we'll put it on screen for you.
Here it is.
Here's a link to the Zoom Prayer Vigil.
In addition, John Strand is no doubt facing extraordinary legal costs, and if you feel moved to help support his legal defense, there's a link right here that says support John Strand.
I understand, John, that you are going to appeal.
I would imagine you're already hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to various attorneys, and this is probably going to require more hundreds of thousands.
What kind of costs are you actually looking at simply to defend your innocence here?
I don't exactly know, but they're not cheap, that's for sure.
We're two years in at this point, which is staggering to think about already.
Two years of my life, that's...
It's just been really kind of shredded.
It's been exhausting.
It's been very difficult in many ways, financially and otherwise.
And this is going to go on for, I mean, I'm realistically guessing at least another couple of years.
I was convicted in September.
The sentencing is in a couple of weeks.
And after that point, I really don't know what happens next or when.
But I will appeal every charge.
The appeals at this point are still being held in the Washington, D.C. district, which is one of the primary problems with this whole situation.
So we'll be appealing our motion for a change of venue, among other things, and I anticipate this or other cases for J6 will make their way to the Supreme Court.
So that's a timely and expensive process.
The numbers, I don't even know.
Absolutely.
And there are so many people who have been, I believe, wrongfully prosecuted in a country where we are overrun with criminals on the streets, actual violent criminals who stab people and murder people and rape children and engage in human trafficking.
We have a DOJ focused on people like you who are peaceful, you know, Arts practitioners, models, fashion industry.
You actually have a face for fashion.
Obviously, you did some modeling, and I would imagine you would love to return to that.
I would, actually.
Yeah, I would think so.
And it is, again, this is not what America is supposed to stand for here.
This is a grave injustice, and it must be corrected.
Yes, you really nailed the key point, Mike, which is the inequality or it's a total subversion of equal application of the law.
So there's a couple of issues with J6 that are really concerning.
Number one, as you mentioned, there's and this is not a conspiracy theory.
This is hard, cold fact with a lot of proof, including admissions from themselves.
So the Department of Justice is on record in the court admitting over 40 undercover agents involved in the January 6th event acting as agent provocateurs.
Yes, I don't know how much more of a confession you need than that.
And there are many other pieces of evidence to to confirm this is.
Actually, a Fed Surrection type of an event.
It was federal entrapment.
So that's an enormous problem.
But just for the sake of the discussion, I'll put the Fed Surrection entrapment element aside, and I'll just simply address January 6th as an event as it happened.
And if you were to idealistically assume that it was in an innocent event, the government didn't maliciously set it up to happen, which I, like I said, I believe that they did.
But setting that aside, if they just reacted to it, How did they react?
Legally?
Fairly?
Appropriately?
The bedrock of American justice is that, quote unquote, as the Democrats love to say, no one is above the law.
In other words, it's supposed to be an equal playing field.
We're all judged equally according to the law.
And that has not happened whatsoever.
Simply look at left-leaning political protest actions in 2017, 2018, the Summer of Love in 2020.
Many of those happened on federal property, sometimes in the Capitol building, interrupting Congress in session.
That's right.
And destruction of federal property that far exceeded broken windows that happened on January 6th.
And that was all excused and even lauded as social justice.
And those people were made as heroes.
Kamala Harris actually raised money to bail them out of jail.
Many of those people, if they were charged at all, had the charges dropped.
Hardly any of them were actually fully legitimately prosecuted.
And yet they're prosecuting thousands of grandmothers and just decent Americans that simply waved a flag, sang a song and wanted to exercise their First Amendment rights in support of their president and their country.
And they're being railroaded into chaos in total.
I mean, their lives are destroyed.
That is a really important point.
And you nailed it there because we watched in 2020, we watched groups such as Black Lives Matter or Antifa carry out really acts of coordinated domestic terrorism, including we reported on this, how some some of these individuals would shine blinding lasers into the eyes how some some of these individuals would shine blinding lasers into the eyes That's an assault with an optical weapon.
I do believe at least one individual was charged in that case, but that was indicative of the kind of violence hurling blunt force trauma objects at federal agents and so on.
Burning buildings, burning police cars, you know, Molotov cocktails thrown at government buildings.
I mean, yeah, it was obscene.
It was just beyond description almost.
Yes, yes.
But CNN would come along and report that it's mostly peaceful.
Right.
Whereas you, actually peaceful, are labeled an insurrectionist.
Yeah, and the frustrating part is that there were moments of January 6th, everyone's seen them on camera, the selective edits of activity that became violent.
Of course, the problem is all the evidence coming out to show, including the government admitting they did it, that they were involved in inciting the violence.
That's an enormous problem.
The government is held to a higher standard than the citizen.
They are.
So if you work for the federal government, you're a federal agent.
You are equipped with dangerous weapons that can kill people in the course of exercising your duties.
And you violate use of force protocols and you have malicious intent to goad someone into becoming violent or committing a crime.
That's a much bigger crime.
And that's a much bigger problem.
No one's talking about that problem.
Yes, yes, exactly.
A couple of things, but first let me ask you, Dr.
Simone Gold, she already served a sentence, what was it, 30 days or something like that?
Actually, 60 days for a first-time nonviolent misdemeanor.
Okay, 60 days, right.
If she were a Democrat protesting Trump, she would never even have been charged.
She'd be doing the circuit on the view and raking in the ratings and the book signings and all of that.
Right.
So you're facing, I think, more charges than what she faced.
Is that correct?
Yeah.
So that's the interesting part of my particular story, Mike, and that's because we were both charged with the same charges, but Dr.
Gold and most of the other J6 defendants have taken this plea offer from the Department of Justice.
And this is a very interesting point that people don't really fully understand what this means and how it was used in a very insidious way to create the narrative that the government has fabricated and weaponized against all of us.
So I'll break it down for you.
The plea deal, obviously, in general, you are offered a slightly lesser charge and a lesser sentence if you just admit up front, yeah, I'm guilty, I did it, and proceed from there.
They charged me with a 20-year felony and four misdemeanors, but they offered me a plea of a single misdemeanor.
So all I had to do was sign on the dotted line for their plea and agree to their version of events, and they were going to give me a single misdemeanor, which is simply a slap on the wrist.
I would have served maybe no time at all or maybe a week or something, and now I'm facing instead 23 years.
Why did I do that?
Why did I reject the plea?
Simple.
The plea is a lie.
The plea literally is this very detailed, you know, devil's in the details, and if you read the fine print of the government's statement of fact, quote-unquote, for January 6th pleas, it's horrendously false.
It's not just saying, oh, I'm guilty, you know, give me a slap on the wrist and let me go.
They're telling you to swear yourself to their story that you knew in advance all of these areas were restricted, you knew in advance that you were violating the plea.
All of these things that let them tell their story.
So they hold up this rap sheet because when they apply a 20-year felony against these January 6th defendants, that's your life hanging in the balance.
A 20-year felony.
Your life is over.
I don't know if people get that, but if you actually face a 20-year felony and they're going to convict you, they're going to destroy your life.
So everyone, almost everyone, said, yeah, if I can take a single misdemeanor and get on with my life, obviously I need to do that.
But because everyone did it and they had hundreds of plea deals within a minute of opening the gates of this whole debacle, Now the Department of Justice holds up to the court of public opinion and says it's a real insurrection.
All these people are guilty.
They knew it in advance and they just admitted to it.
That's how they sell the lie.
So I wasn't willing to participate in their machinery of creating this ginormous lie and this political weaponry to continue destroying citizens and really undermining our whole system of justice.
I won't participate in that.
So I rejected it on principle because it's false.
Thank you.
extraordinary because throughout history, many people who have, as you've just described, have found the courage to stick to their principles have paid a price in terms of prison or perhaps in, you know, former kingdoms and so on, executions.
And Mike, I want you to know, I want people to understand that they could have threatened me with the death penalty, and I really mean this, It would have made no difference.
This was so clearly a choice between an absolute lie from the pit of hell that a corrupt government is creating and using to acquire power absolutely and tyrannize anyone who dares to challenge them.
Or my other option was to stand up for what actually happened, stand up for who I am, stand up for the truth, And refuse to relent.
And they could have threatened me with capital punishment.
They could have threatened my life.
They are threatening my life in many ways.
And that doesn't matter.
Because My life is founded on the absolute truth of Jesus Christ and that He is God and my Savior and has guaranteed my future and He has called me to only one thing and that is to bend the knee only to Yahweh to serve God and serve His purpose and to speak His truth without apology.
And so that's what I'm doing and I couldn't be more blessed, honestly, in this moment as Insane as that can seem, but it's true.
I couldn't be more blessed and more grateful that God's given me a path to walk and to follow in His grace and goodness, and I'm trusting in Him for the outcome.
Well, amen to that, and thank you for stating that so clearly.
You are an excellent communicator, and in fact, I want to ask you how, you know, God often presents us with circumstances that force us to bring out the best of ourselves, force us to decide, will you have the courage?
Will you take that stand?
Will you stick to your principles?
And frankly, you've no doubt never faced a situation so dire where you had to make these core decisions.
Just as a curiosity, have you looked to see if you could register the website standwithstrand.com?
No, but we could do that.
I would absolutely do that because I think that you are taking a stand for truth and for America.
And standwithstrand.com is easy for people to remember.
And I would be happy to continue to plug that or your existing website.
But just before this goes live, you might check on that and see if it's available.
If not, we'll just edit this part out.
But you could forward it to your site.
We'll make it the hashtag campaign for social.
But definitely the idea of sounding a call for people to stand is absolutely my heart and soul and prayer at this time right now.
I like to tell people that in recent years we came into the 22 election after the debacle of 2020, of course, and everything that happened with J6 and so forth.
And we were looking for this big red wave.
That seemed inevitable because of just the pendulum swinging back, and yet it didn't happen.
And there's a lot of reasons for that, but I've realized that we need to stop looking for a big red wave, and we need to find a thin red line.
Exactly.
To decide what they believe is true, and to stand up for it, and to never back down from that thin red line of what they know is right and wrong.
That's it.
And we really are in a place.
I mean, the government is incredibly corrupt and a lot of people are incredibly evil and powerful and that seems overwhelming.
But it didn't happen overnight.
All of this happened very slowly and gradually until it happened suddenly and it's falling apart.
But it all happened as an extension of all of us making micro decisions over time where we took the easy road instead of the righteous road.
And, you know, that sounds cliche, I guess, but I'm seeing it in very hard practical terms in my own life right now.
And I just want to really encourage people that we all can aspire and commit to drawing that thin red line and standing up to defend what we know is right and just.
Well, you are exactly on point to also mention the community and all of us here.
This is about all of us because, folks, if John Strand is not safe, none of us is safe because the DOJ can simply fabricate accusations against anyone at any time for any reason.
And we're already seeing actually the groundwork being laid for that.
They can go back to your entire history of everything you ever texted on your phone, everything you ever posted to social media, every email you ever wrote.
Because, of course, if you use Gmail, it's all been scanned and it's archived by the NSA. And if you ever said anything that could be perceived as, let's say, anti-government or anti-vaccine or anti-whatever, Yeah.
simply to lock you away.
It's clear they're exercising that kind of power right now, or misappropriating it, against you, John.
And they will do it some more.
They just convicted the Proud Boys, which was obviously a well-known case in January 6th, for seditious conspiracy.
Some of these guys never even were in the building.
Some of them, I think, weren't even in the city, but are involved in that militia group.
That's right.
They were convicted of a thought crime.
They were convicted of this alleged idea that they intended to do something, which they didn't do, and which they didn't intend to do if you simply ask them honestly.
Right.
And their written communications actually support that.
They talk about Remaining peaceful and obeying police orders and keeping people out of harm's way and so on and so forth.
It's a complex case, but it's fairly simple, ultimately.
They just misrepresented these people's words in text message channels and said they were thinking about committing a crime, so we're going to put them away for 20, 30, 40, 60, 80 years of prison.
Well, and John, we also just found out in recent news that undercover agents working for the FBI created false IDs in order to infiltrate online vaccine skeptics groups.
They created fake names, and they would go into the vaccine groups and try to conduct surveillance on vaccine people.
And the way it works, folks, is very simple.
You join some online group, maybe it's a Second Amendment group, let's say, and then the FBI has an agent come into the group, and then they say something crazy, like, oh, it's Waco time, or whatever.
They say something crazy, and then, oh, all of a sudden the whole group is tainted with this radicalization language that came from the FBI. This is how they roll.
But the FBI is invisible, so they just float wherever they want.
Yeah, but I mean, you can be completely innocent and not even supporting such actions or talk or whatever, and not endorsing at all, but just the fact that you participated in that group can get you arrested and charged.
Yeah.
It's hard to describe how egregious Our institutions have been subverted and corrupted, and they are shamelessly being used to destroy innocent people and to just advance a political agenda for those who are in power and are addicted to that and seek to retain it absolutely.
And they have no morals.
I mean, they've been purposefully, strategically stripping away God and And godly ideals and morals and moral boundaries.
And we're seeing that in every avenue of society.
Everywhere you look, every topic, every conversation, every platform.
It's just a race to see how chaotic and really evil things could become and what we'll let ourselves get away with.
That's why it's so critical that you join us here and that you have the courage and I thank you for your courage and to be able to speak so eloquently about these issues.
You're obviously very well informed.
You've been steeped in the details of your own prosecution now for several years.
But I also think that you have an extraordinary future.
As someone who has been put through this, no matter what your sentence is, if it's zero days or 30 days or a year, whatever, or nothing, whatever it is, you are among very few people who have been raked through this system and you are in a position to speak about it and to awaken others.
What do you plan, if you can even talk about it, how has this changed your plans for the future?
I love the question, Mike.
Thank you.
And I know that God has definitely prepared me for such a time as this, and I know that he has a really exciting and powerful and important future for me to continue surrendering my heart and soul to him, to continue seeking his will in my life, and to continue stepping forward with boldness and And with passion and enthusiasm for his kingdom and the ideals that his kingdom is built on.
And those are the ideals that the United States of America was built on.
It was built on the fundamental truths of the Bible.
Our founders were deep Christians and intelligent lawyers and men of substance and men of intellect and men of character.
And so I'm very excited for the future.
My message to those listening is that your future is limitless.
When you surrender yourself to God and you fully understand your identity in Him, your confidence in Him, and that He's given us a spirit of, not of fear, but of power, love, and of self-control.
And in that truth, we have nothing to fear.
So stepping forward in that boldness, you know, even at this time, like I said, it doesn't matter if it's a day, a year or if they take my life.
That doesn't matter.
What matters is what God's called me to.
And every day that I embrace that calling more authentically and more earnestly and with courage, the more God rewards that and establishes your path.
And so I'm very excited to continue wherever God leads me, certainly in many avenues of communications and content creation and the work that I do with America's Frontline Doctors.
Goldcare.com is another very exciting project that I'm a part of that you'll be hearing more about.
And so there's no shortage of opportunities to build the kingdom of God and really impact the United States of America in a positive direction if you know what you believe in and you stand up for it without apology and without fear.
Well, you are always welcome here, John Strand.
Let me just put that on the record.
So, of course, we will repeat the prayer vigil message between now and the end of the month, and we will be watching.
If you are sentenced to any time in prison, when would you have to actually serve that time?
That's an excellent question that we don't really know.
We will hold a press conference immediately after the sentencing on June 1st, and that's held in Washington, D.C.
So we'll know more at that time.
And we will be submitting a request to the court, giving details on how I've really been a model citizen and completely and faithfully abided by all of their rules and regulations in terms of pretrial release during this period giving details on how I've really been a model citizen and Completely and faithfully abided by all of their rules and regulations in terms of pretrial release during this period.
And of course, I will be appealing every charge and just requesting for them to suspend any sentence while we continue the appeal process.
We'll just continue to be diligent and pursue true justice under the law.
Well, they can imprison your body.
They can imprison my body, but they can never take your mind, your heart, your soul.
That's right.
And so, any action they take...
It seems to me that so many of these efforts by what I would consider to be evil forces in our society, they backfire.
It's almost like they make you more powerful by sentencing you to more time.
You know?
It's like...
If they wanted you to be less effective, they would just have no sentence and hope that you go away.
If you serve one day in jail, then you have that element of the experience to relate with authenticity to the audience that will be increasingly listening, especially as we move into the 2024 election.
By the way, I've interviewed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
I have not interviewed Trump.
But I've interviewed people on his team, and both of those men, I believe, are outraged at this J6 prosecution.
And rightly so.
And rightly so.
And no matter what happens, if RFK becomes president or Trump becomes president...
We will publicly call for a full pardon for all the prosecutions of the J6 victims.
A full pardon.
President Trump has already committed on the record that he will absolutely do that.
I believe RFK Jr.
would as well, and it's the right thing to do.
It's the only way to restore justice and heal the country on this point, and it's a seminal moment that we're facing, so yes.
Yes, Robert F. Kennedy is a healer.
He brings people together.
And I completely agree that one of the first things he should do is pardon if he were to win the White House, which, of course, the Biden people don't want him to do.
But if RFK were in the White House, he should, on day one, pardon the J6 prisoners, eliminate all the felony charges so that you can get back to your life without a felony record.
Because that also makes it difficult for you.
I mean, it's a travesty to fraudulently apply such a mark to a person.
And of course, I'm not the only one.
There are so many, hundreds and thousands at this point, of January 6th defendants who have been mischaracterized viciously, just totally falsely, and had their lives, their reputations, their characters, their jobs, their futures, just shredded and tattered.
And it's truly an evil.
It's a stain on the United States of America that we will never forget, but we can overcome and we must overcome.
Yes, well said.
Well said, John.
You're a great inspiration.
You have incredible courage and heart and truth.
You explain it well.
I really want you back on no matter what happens.
Yes, sir.
I would love to be involved with you in whatever projects you're working on.
I appreciate that so much.
Let's continue that for sure.
Okay, let's definitely do that.
So any final message before we wrap this up today?
Sir, thank you so much for your courage because what I've noticed, especially in the beginning, thankfully we're starting to crack this open a little bit, but over the last two years, which is a really long time to be having your life turned upside down and being viciously attacked by a very powerful government,
over that two-year saga, There have been so many dark times and moments of anguish for myself and many other J6 defendants as we have felt very entirely abandoned and despised by the vast majority of Americans from any side of the political spectrum.
So that's actually another stain on the United States of America that we have abandoned our own in a moment of such conflict and such...
I almost want to say clear confusion in a moment where the stakes couldn't be clearer.
And confusion is the weapon that's applied against all of us, and yet we're called to rise above that confusion.
We are called by God to have a clear mind, to know what's true, to test everything against God's word, which is our standard.
And if we're doing that diligently, we're going to quickly understand what the confusions and the lies are.
And then we're going to know what God's called us to do, which in terms of the January 6th defendants is to support them, is to come around side of them and to help them to heal.
And so we're getting to that point.
But for two years, we've been largely ignored, shunned, abandoned.
And that's a shame.
That's a stain that we need to that we need to repent of and as a society and culture and to recover.
And so I would urge people to really invest in J6 personally.
Find a defendant.
Find a family.
Support them.
Pray for them.
Help them with the practical needs that they have.
Their lives have been destroyed.
And so this is a viewing process that we really need to participate in, I believe.
Well, I can only drop this hint right now, but I'm working on a project right now that would assist many, many, many worthy people in many ways.
And I'll leave it at that.
And you are an extraordinary individual.
I'm proud to count you as a fellow American.
And I do believe that the truth will emerge.
Justice will eventually be served.
And we will.
We will not forget you, John Strand, even if they throw you behind bars.
We will say your name, and we will also give credit to the others that are talking about this.
For example, the Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoff, deserves tremendous credit.
He has never.
Yes?
Darren Beatty.
Darren Beatty, exactly.
Revolver.News.
There are many people, and we intend to continue to remind the American people of exactly what is happening as much as we can.
And by the way, John, one of the things, one of the tactics of the deep state is they keep us all occupied with so many emergencies all at the same time.
Absolutely.
I mean, that's what they do.
I mean, every day, bank failures, World War III, the potential for nuclear terrorism, false accusations, defamation.
I've suffered, of course, extreme financial blacklisting.
They've tried to make it impossible for us to conduct business selling food.
That's how evil they are.
It's death by a thousand persecution paper cuts.
That's exactly it.
Yeah.
And of course, I've been blacklisted from every platform for a very long time, which is why I had to build Brighteon.
So although I don't face exactly what you're facing in terms of prosecution, I have faced this since 2014 at a level that no one understood, except maybe Alex Jones.
Right.
So we do share a lot.
We both know what it's like to be persecuted falsely by a tyrannical regime.
Yes.
And as you said, fortitude and courage and perseverance is so necessary.
And so, you know, thank you, Mike, for what you're doing and continuing to do.
Thank you for having me on.
And, yeah, let's continue to urge and encourage others to stand up, stay strong, continue pushing and fighting for what's right, building those new channels, platforms, opportunities that are based on God's truth and Judeo-Christian values, because that's how we restore this country to becoming great again and the because that's how we restore this country to becoming great again and the greatest country that it should have Well said.
Well said, John.
Okay, thank you again.
And the website, folks, is johnstrand.com.
And join the May 31st Zoom prayer vigil.
When you do join that, please mute yourself so that there's not a thousand background noise elements in that call.
Just thinking ahead for you there, John.
I've been part of these things before, and that's usually what happens.
But also consider making a donation to John Strand and his legal defense.
You can support him there on his website, johnstrand.com.
And also, it's not just about John Strand.
It's about all the J6 defendants.
They need our support.
The truth needs to continue to come out.
So please support all of us in the independent media and our platforms and our freedom of speech to the extent that we can.
And keep pestering Elon Musk to stop blocking brighttown.com video links, by the way.
He claims to support free speech, and yet this video will be blocked on Twitter.
Nevertheless, we post it on Rumble and other platforms that are not blocked on Twitter.
So once again, we're being singled out even by Elon Musk.
So think about that.
But thank you for watching today.
God bless you all, and God bless you, John Strand.
We appreciate you very much.
Thank you so much, Mike.
God bless.
Okay, take care.
And for all of you watching, share this video.
This is really critical.
Get this out to as many people as you can.
You can repost this also.
You can repost this video on YouTube or other platforms.
You have our permission to do so.
And just give credit to johnstrand.com.
Thank you for watching today.
God bless you all.
Mike Adams here, the founder of brighteon.com.
Take care.
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