In this article on the Jan. 6 prisoners a fitting parallel is drawn to the Irish prisoners held by the British due to a failed British army campaign called Operation Demetrius in 1971. The title to this article is the same as an Irish protest song that helped solidify the resistance that eventually brought an end to the British abuses of that day.
Yesterday The American Spectator published The Men Behind the Wire: Voices From the DC Jail, my latest article about the degrading and sadistic pre-trial detention of the January 6 Capitol Hill protesters by the District of Columbia Department of Corrections. The title is based on The Men Behind...
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`Americans are dropping the ball on this and the lack of correction is deplorable. America is not communist China or North Korea and such brutal violations of individual civil rights should be condemned by all Americans and corrected at once. Who would have ever believed a few decades ago that America would descend into such partisan depravity and barbarism as we see taking place today at the hands of fascist democrat mobsters?
In addition to the horrendous conditions found by Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Louis Gohmert (R-Texas) during
their tour of the D.C. Jail, consider the case of January 6 detainee Nathan DeGrave.
(READ MORE from George Parry: A Visit to the DC Gulag)
At the end of January 2021, the FBI arrested DeGrave in Nevada, and, shortly thereafter, he was lodged at the CTF. In October 2021, DeGrave released a
letterthrough his attorney describing the January 6 defendants’ conditions of confinement.
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What follows are extracts from his letter.
The false narrative has been passed around the jail and to corrections officers that we are “white supremacists” (we are not). The inmate population is predominantly black, so we are at risk being here because of this false narrative. The guards are mostly liberal migrants from Africa who have been conditioned to hate us, and hate America. Jan 6ers have been mocked, beaten and ridiculed by guards for singing the National Anthem. The Corrections Officers despise our politics and the love we have for this country. At one point, an officer even yelled “f–k America!”, and threatened to lock us down for a week if we attempted to sing the National Anthem again.
