The J6 Prisoners Need Our Prayers & Letters. Our Righteous Anger Too.
They were arrested for crashing the gates of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the day Congress certified the results of the 2020 election. Many claim they were waved in by Capitol Police. Some were violent, dressed in combat gear, others peaceful, respectful.
Within the last three years, the FBI has cast a wide net, arresting more than 1,200 people on charges ranging from assaults on federal officers to obstructing law enforcement to seditious conspiracy. Many were accusrf of “parading,” the crime of walking around the Capitol. One woman, Rebecca Lavenz, known on Social Media as the “J6 Praying Grandma,” was arrested after praying in the Capitol for 10 minutes. A DC jury deliberated for four days before convicting her. She faces one year in prison and $200,000 in fines. Her lawyer, Roger Roots, says the judge instructed the jury that the First Amendment offered no defense. “We believe the instructions were improper and we intend to appeal her convictions.” Sentencing is scheduled for August 12.
Other J6 prisoners report that they have been abused and tortured, kept in solitary confinement by capricious jailers, their lives restricted, their career choices quashed, by FBI Director Christopher Way’s decision to label them “domestic terrorists.”
Listen to the testimony of former Air Force Lt. Col. Larry Brock. His ex-wife identified him from photos at the Capitol that day and turned him in to the FBI. Jailed for non-violent crimes, he spent 127 days in “the hole,” solitary confinement, for suggesting that political prisoners in Springfield band together. He calls those days “the worst of my life — 23 hours a day in a cell and only one hour out is a horrific punishment.” Now he has been released, and he is chronicling the pain of re-entry.
I fought for this country for over 18 years on Middle-Eastern battlefields, yet I am designated as a terrorist by the government I served. This label empowered the Federal Aviation Administration to revoke my airline transport pilot license. Prior to J6, I was a 737 Captain and the FAA seizing my licenses destroyed a career it took a lifetime to build.
As a “domestic terrorist,” bank accounts have been canceled and I am unable to get new credit. These extra-judicial punishments are additional to the loss of the rights to vote and to bear arms, and the loss of state-issued professional licenses. The most grievous impact on my life however was to be felt by my friends and family.
They say when you enter prison, you go alone, but that is not true. Your family enters with you, and along with incarceration, J6 families endure seeing every aspect of their loved one’s life twisted by a media hell-bent on narrative creation regardless of truth.
Thanks to Julie Kelly — a brilliant investigator whose Substack blog, Declassified, documents “the cruelty, vengefulness and inhumanity of the legal/judicial/penal system weaponized against” Americans, we are learning more about their plight.
And thanks to the Patriot Mail Project, there are ways for us to write them, to send them birthday greetings, to remind them that they are not forgotten.
The shocking thing about the pursuit of anyone who was even near the Capitol that day is that the FBI is still hunting them down, without regard to the severity of their offenses. They are low-hanging fruit to feed a Dem media narrative of insurrection. Just take a look at Martin' Cudo’s description of his case, from Patriot Mail Project.
How ironic that Martin Cudo is even in their crosshairs, given that two facts, long hidden from public view, are coming clear.
First, then House Speaker Nancy Pelsosi has acknowledged she and she alone was responsible for failing to call out the National Guard to protect the Capitol. In video recorded by her daughter Alexandra for a documentary, the speaker turns to chief of staff Terri McCullough as they are being whisked away from the Capitol that day.
“We have responsibility, Terri,” Pelosi said. ”We did not have any accountability for what was going on there, and we should have. This is ridiculous. Why weren’t the National Guard there?”
The second arresting phenomenon now in view is an increasing body of evidence that in 2020, votes were changed, ballots were forged, tallies were impacted. Let us not forget that January 6 was the day Congress certified the election results. Now, it appears, lawmakers may have been premature.
During an election audit in Arizona, 10% of 2.12 million ballots were determined to be counterfeit. From the report, per Rasmussen Reports:
In Pennsylvania, forensics CPA Joe Fried found 202,377 more ballots cast than identified voters when the state certified its election. In the weeks after the election, the voter deficit got smaller. Nearly three months after the election, he said, there were still at least 90,000 more ballots cast than identified voters.
We may never know exactly what happened — was it the voting machines or the election officials who were to blame? were the totals enough to sway the outcome? — but we now know that the heavy-handed pursuit of the protestors by a weaponized FBI & DOJ was a prelude, the launch of An Era of Lawfare, just practicing on the J6 prisoners before sharpening the spear to prosecute President Trump.
Trump seemed to understand that too. In March 2023 he released a recording, “Justice for All,” that featured a chorus of J6 prisoners singing The Star Spangled Banner — interspersed with Trump reading the Pledge of Allegiance. The recording entered Billboard’s Digital Song Sales chart at No. 1, selling 33,000 downloads in one week. All proceeds went to the J6 prisoners and their families.
Watch it here. Then go to Patriot Mail Project. Find a prisoner from your state, or coming up on a birthday, or just appealing to you, and drop them a note.
Because without our shared humanity and patriotism, what really do we have?
Elect Trump so he can pardon those J6'ers that were railroaded by the Biden/O'Bama administration.
Wonderful article. Our poor country needs to get back to protecting and serving our citizens—not railroading them (to serve the people in powers agenda.) This is scary.