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J6 Political Prisoners and the “Mainstream Media”

Making the decision to speak with reporters has been incredibly difficult, and I know many other January 6th patriots are grappling with the same dilemma. The mainstream media, often referred to as the “liberal media,” has seemingly forgotten a key principle it once upheld. When I was growing up, news outlets competed to deliver information first, without injecting their biases into the story. The goal was to inform the public, and people had far more trust in what they saw on television because they believed the news was simply reporting facts.

Reporters today must consider the impact of their actions and the reputation they build through their reporting. The consequences of biased spins and misleading narratives are profound, as they can erode the trust of those who might otherwise speak to them. After January 6th, when I found myself incarcerated, reporters reached out to me. They offered to come visit me in jail, and if I agreed to speak with them, they’d share my side of the story. But honestly, do you believe they would have given me a fair opportunity to tell my side of the story? Or was their primary interest in capturing footage of me in an orange jumpsuit, twisting my words, and further exploiting my situation for their own narrative, ultimately doing more harm than the injustice I had already endured?

I was asked why I agreed to do the interview, and the answer is simple: I did it for all the January 6th patriots. People need to hear the truth about that day. The reality is that most of us did nothing wrong, and many of us were treated unfairly. My own experiences have made me realize that there were others that day who were subjected to even worse circumstances than I was.

For the past four years, I’ve felt like I was taken advantage of in every possible way. Despite all that, I remain hopeful that I will emerge from this stronger, with a deeper compassion for others. The experience has reshaped my perspective in ways I never expected. Now, I can say I’ve been to prison and, surprisingly, I met some truly good people there—individuals who, though they made poor choices, are absolutely capable of redemption if given the opportunity to be rehabilitated and set on a different path.

Unfortunately, I also witnessed things that were deeply troubling. Some of the prison guards and staff I encountered seemed just as corrupt and morally bankrupt as the worst inmates. Prisons, as they stand now, need serious reform. While I was incarcerated, I learned that the warden at Dublin Women’s Prison had been arrested for sexually abusing inmates. It was reported that he had even engaged in grotesque “competitions” with the Chaplain, involving impregnating inmates. At least five staff members were reportedly involved. I’ll write more about this later, but I bring it up now to emphasize a crucial point: there are good people in places where we least expect it, and there are bad people where we may assume everyone is good.

Ultimately, we are all a mix of good and bad, and as the saying goes, “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” That truth is something we all must come to terms with.

My hope in writing this article is to touch people’s hearts with the need for healing and the need is everywhere. As much as prisons need to be reformed to rehabilitate offenders, News Media needs to be reformed to report without their opinions. The victims of people in prison include themselves and we get nowhere by merely punishing them with prison and then letting them out angry caged animals to do worse things than they did to get locked up. When inmates are released they should have to pay a pennants to their society and to their victims. To give back what they took is to heal themselves.