Lawyer: January 6 Clients Are Being Tortured

January 6th, 2021:

• A lawyer for several of the January 6 political prisoners says his clients are being "tortured" by a system of "anarcho-tyranny" that considers them to be a "subhuman, sub-constitutional class of people"
• Because of who they were, however, they were targeted, persecuted, and not given the constitutional protections the much more violent and destructive left-wing rioters were routinely given
• For the first time in U.S. history, the political party in power is hunting down and jailing members of the opposition party for political dissidence

Christopher Quaglin

• An electrician who was out of work in 2020 due to government policies surrounding COVID
• Friends and family have testified that he is not the violent Capitol insurrectionist federal authorities have portrayed him to be
• During the riot, he got into some "shoving matches" with police
• Government prosecutors allege that he was part of the crowd that attacked Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges

The DC Gulag

• Ryan Taylor Nichols is a decorated military veteran who served his country honorably in the Marine Corps, and who has no prior contact with the criminal justice system
• After his military service, he was diagnosed with PTSD, which has been left untreated throughout his incarceration
• Nichols is currently being held in the D.C. Gulag, where he has been since December 20, 2021
• He has lost 45 pounds because prison officials refuse to provide a diet that won't make him sick

Using COVID-19 as a pretext for solitary confinement

• Prison officials continue to put Nichols in solitary confinement despite protests against his treatment
• He has been in custody since January 18, 2021, and spent most of the first nine months in solitary until the ACLU started screaming about it
• The reaction to his protests was more abuse and ridicule from prison guards, who took pleasure in his pain

What makes these violations of basic human rights particularly galling is that liberals historically have championed the rights of prisoners, yet, by and large, have ignored the plight of the J6ers.

• New York last year adopted the Nelson Mandela Rules, the international standard for solitary confinement in the law
• It outlaws solitary confinement for one day for anybody with a serious physical or psychological condition and it outlaws the use of prolonged solitary confinement against anyone for any reason
• Senators Elizabeth Warren and Dick Durbin, as well as the ACLU, Amnesty International, and most other groups on the Left have condemned solitary confinement as a form of torture

Another of McBride’s clients, Richard Barnett, started the tradition of singing the National Anthem every night at 9:00 p.m..

• He was released from the D.C. Gulag last year.
• In 2021, he sent the ACLU and Amnesty International an emergency request for intervention on August 3, 2021, citing seven specific instances in which January 6 political prisoners had ben tortured at the Gulag.

I implored the ACLU and Amnesty International to investigate the allegations of abuse and help the suffering January 6 political prisoners, saying they were fellow Americans in danger of being tortured to death.

• They never even wrote me back," McBride said. "Nobody lifted a finger to help us."

Nichols is being held in violation of his Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution

• His attorney filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus against Attorney General Merrick Garland and D.C. Gulag Warden Michelle Jones on behalf of Nichols
• The U.S. Marshals inspected the facility pursuant to Judge Royce C. Lamberth’s contempt order on October 18, 2021
• Although prison officials barred the Marshals’ entry into the jail until the facility had been cleaned and scrubbed (by the prisoners themselves), they still managed to find “evidence of systemic failures”
• Water and food appeared to be withheld from the detainees for punitive reasons
• Inspectors found that “large amounts of standing human sewage (urine and feces) in the toilets of multiple occupied cells.”

The lawsuit also alleges that Quaglin has been "purposefully exposed to danger by being housed in notoriously hostile parts of the jails."

• "Unlike other January 6th detainees who occupy what is called the 'Honor Pod,' Petitioner is forced to live in dangerous sections of the jail that are notorious for housing the Bloods, MS-13, and highly dangerous Cartel members," the filing says.
• The NCRJ does this to punish Petitioner by making him live in a constant state of fear and anxiety about what may happen to him at any given moment."
• During his discussion with Horowitz, McBride called the disturbing state of affairs a form of “anarcho-tyranny” and said we are living under a regime that “hates God, hates patriotism, hates the United States of America, and views [the United States] as an obstacle to the achievement of global order."

https://amgreatness.com/2022/08/28/lawyer-january-6-clients-are-being-tortured/