There are quite a few stories like this I have heard about J6 prisoners. They way people respond to how other humans are treated by the state makes me sick. When we have people that abuse children and even taking lives not receiving this kind of treatment.
Four years ago, I received an email: Jon Schaffer is in trouble, and he's going to need legal help.
It had to do with January 6th, when Jon had entered the Capitol.
Jon was the guitarist and songwriter for the metal band Iced Earth, and as it happens I actually knew him a little bit.
For one thing, Jon spent three months in solitary confinement -- in a cell in which he could walk a total of three paces -- and Marc got him out.
it looked as if the feds had Jon dead to rights. He hadn't been violent, and nobody was accusing him of having been violent. But he'd brought bear spray with him for protection (he had deliberately not brought his gun, so as not to violate D.C. gun laws), and as it turns out bear spray is considered a lethal weapon in D.C.
So he brought a "lethal weapon" into a federal building. Open and shut.
I have not looked into every J6 case. I would not be shocked if there are some bad people that were given pardons. But if nothing else stories like this should be instructive of how the government treats those it frames as a threat to their power. Regardless of the actual crime or threat.
I'm reminded of Ross's case and how the judge wanted him to think about his dangerous ideas (freedom/libertarian ideals).
The state is not you. I don't care what the Constitution says. It is not your friend.