During a June 15 press conference, a small band of Republican lawmakers blasted the treatment of “political prisoners” in the “D.C. gulag.”
They presented disturbing cases of mistreatment of defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach and calling on other lawmakers to join them in decrying the situation.
This from theepochtimes.com.
In the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, “Stop the Steal” rally, many supporters of President Donald Trump who entered the Capitol building were systematically rounded up. Many have been held in the D.C. jail awaiting trial for over a year, with numerous reports of horrific conditions inside the facility.
In December 2021 Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who has been one of the most outspoken critics of the treatment of these “political prisoners,” unveiled a report on the situation inside the D.C. jail.
The June 15 group of Republican congressmen including Reps. Greene, Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Troy Nehls (R-TX). They hosted a conference to bring attention to the treatment of these detainees, bringing to light new information about the abuses they have suffered.
Greene and colleagues said upon unveiling their report:
These detainees have faced nothing short of human rights violations.
During an impassioned speech, Greene blasted the treatment of detainees in what she called the “D.C. gulag.”
She said:
January 6 defendants, are being used as pawns to dangle in front of [Americans] to show that if you cross a certain line, if you support a certain president—as in President Trump—or if you dare to speak up against the government or … against an election being stolen, you’re going to be used. This is what’s gonna happen to you. You’re gonna spend your days wasting away in solitary confinement.
Shame on the Dept of Justice. Shame on all these judges here who are allowing this to happen, shame on [Washington] Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Greene has on various occasions sent Bowser letters requesting information and changes to the treatment of these detainees, but these have gone ignored, Greene said.
Greene noted:
Everyone should care about this. You wanna know why? Because it shouldn’t happen in America. This isn’t communist China, this isn’t Venezuela, this isn’t Russia, this isn’t some other country—this is the United States of America.
Citing the summer 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, which caused billions in damage across the United States and resulted in many violent rioters avoiding charges, Greene said that the treatment of January 6 defendants shows that the United States has a “two-tiered justice system.”
Greene said of the rioters:
They got let off, and not only did they get let off—they got bailed out by our now-vice president, Kamala Harris, and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. You haven’t seen Republicans bailing [January 6 defendants] out or paying their attorney fees. But that’s exactly what Democrats did—and they were cheered on.
Greene said of the January 6 defendants:
And here we have these peoples’ rights being abused, and nobody gives a damn.
Greene, who after months of pushing was finally allowed to enter the D.C. jail, described horrific conditions for January 6 detainees.
She reported:
I saw men who hadn’t had a haircut, couldn’t shave, they were filthy, dirty, and disgusting, they looked extremely unhealthy because [they are forced to] choose between going outside an hour a day or calling their family.
Greene said later:
While I was in there, congressman Gohmert and I met people who had been denied medical treatment. I met a man whose finger was broken and turned sideways … I met another man whose entire arm was purple. And [the other defendants] all begged me, ‘Please, if you help anyone help him. He needs a doctor.’
During another speech, Gohmert added:
There’s still very concerning things that are going on [in facilities housing January 6 defendants]. This should concern every American because it could be you next.
For example, January 6 defendants were forced to go into solitary quarantine for two weeks if they meet with their lawyers—allegedly an anti-COVID measure, but one that Gohmert suggested is intended far more punitively.
Not helping the plight of these defendants, Gohmert said, is a “hateful” deputy warden, Kathleen Landerkin, who has in the past posted virulently anti-Trump statements online.
Closing her remarks, Greene said:
[B]y refusing to aid the plight of these detainees, we’re making a mockery of ourselves [as Americans]. What if it was you?
Click HERE for full article to include:
Weaponization of the Court System: Defendants Face Biased D.C. Juries, Deprivation of Due Process, and
U.S. Army Combat Vet, January 6 Defendant Endures Sexual Assault, ‘Horrendously’ Filthy Conditions In Detainment.
During the first hearing, the panel claimed that the January 6 Capitol breach was an attempted “insurrection” against the United States directed and organized by Trump and his allies.
During the second, it moved to challenge Trump’s claims of widespread election fraud as part of its effort to bolster this claim.
However, the treatment of January 6 defendants has not come up in these hearings, and the commission seems unlikely to discuss the issue anytime soon.
God speed to the return of conservatism.
And God speed to the Rule of Law for those unconstitutionally detained in D.C. and the all the perpetrators involved in this travesty.
