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There is rising conscious at the abusive and corrupt behavior of the FBI due to its treatment of members of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Figures like Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen were all entrapped in a conspiracy by federal agents seeking to overthrow the duly elected president of the United States. The saga has led to calls in conservative publications to break up the FBI and investigate the extent of their abuses against Americans whose political views they do not approve of.

Fortunately for Flynn, Cohen, and likely Stone, they are now being provided redress. The Department of Justice’s decision to drop the Flynn case is welcome. Michael Cohen and Manafort have been released from prison and will be spending the rest of their sentences under house arrest. Roger Stone, while still battling in court, will likely figure a way out.

But not all people being railroaded and tortured in solitary confinement by the FBI can count the president of the United States as a personal friend.

Below is a list of American political prisoners subjected to similar treatment, with background information and their most up to date addresses for writing them.

1) Jacob Scott Goodwin – 1931215
Augusta correctional center
1821 Estaline Vallet Rd, Craigsville, VA, 24430

Jacob Scott Goodwin attended the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Goodwin and other men had been expelled from Lee Park and obeyed the Charlottesville police’s state of emergency order. He was returning to his car in a parking lot, but was followed by a gang of armed blacks led by Harris. Harris was photographed carrying a weapon shortly before the brawl, which he then used to begin attacking people, including beating an elderly person over the head until he fell to the ground.

The media portrayed the melee as a random racially motivated attack, and in spite of all the exculpatory evidence, Goodwin was sentenced in 2018 to a shocking 8 year sentence.

2) Daniel Patrick Borden – 1920347
Dillwyn Correctional Center
1522 Prison Rd, Dillwyn, VA, 23936

3) Alex Michael Ramos – 1917415
Greensville Correctional Center
901 Corrections Way, Jarratt, VA, 23870

Borden and Ramos were also convicted for defending themselves against Deandre Harris and his gang. Borden was sentenced to 4 years in prison, while Ramos, who notably only threw a single punch at Harris, was sentenced to 6 years.

4) Richard Wilson Preston – 1916593
Coffeewood Correctional Center
12352 Coffeewood Dr, Mitchells, VA, 22729

Richard Wilson Preston also attended the 2017 Unite the Right march. Preston was convicted of discharging a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school — a procedural crime when looking at the context.

A video of the incident shows clearly what happened. After the state of emergency was announced, nationalist demonstrators began to leave the park.

A black man named Corey Long was filmed waiting for the marchers at the exit with a flamethrower, which Preston then responded to by firing a warning shot to scare him away, saving countless young men from being maimed or killed. Preston, faced with a possible sentence of 10 years, pleaded to no contest and was sentenced to 8 years instead.

5) Benjamin Drake Daley – 77036-112
FCI Sheridan
Federal Correctional Institution
P.O. Box 5000
Sheridan, OR, 97378

Benjamin Drake Daley was a small business owner in California who attended the 2017 Unite the Right rally. Federal agents raided his home in 2018 and slapped him and his martial arts club, the Rise Above Movement, with rarely used “conspiracy to riot” charges, based largely on accusations from “antifa” blogs and a documentary by Wall Street funded firm ProPublica.

One piece of evidence used by federal prosecutors to make their case was the supposed “assault” of Don Gathers. Footage from the incident shows Don Gathers attacking Daley, who used self-defense in response. This was of no consequence to politically motivated prosecutor Thomas Cullen.

Members of RAM prosecuted under similar “rioting” charges in California were released by Judge Cormac Carney, who ruled that the statutes were unconstitutional, Nevertheless, Daley was sentenced to 37 months in prison by a Virginia court.

6) Michael Paul Miselis – 77038-112
FCI Herlong
Federal Correctional Institution
P.O. Box 800
Herlong, CA, 96113

Michael Miselis was a UCLA doctoral student in aerospace engineering who also attended the 2017 Unite the Right Rally. His dreams and aspirations as a Northrop Grumman engineer were dashed when federal agents stormed his home.

Miselis was charged alongside Daley under the same statutes ruled unconstitutional in California. He was sentenced to 27 months in prison, despite having no criminal record.

7) Thomas Walter Gillen 77035-112
FCI Manchester
Federal Correctional Institution
P.O. Box 4000
Manchester, KY, 40962

Thomas Gillen was another accused member of RAM, prosecuted for the same unconstitutional “crimes” as Miselis and Daley by the FBI. He is currently serving his 33 month sentence.

8) Joffre Cross III – 023211057
Geo Joe Corley
500 Hilbig Rd
Conroe, TX 77301

Joffre Cross III, a Texan and a nationalist, was swarmed by FBI agents for two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and possessing a kevlar vest. Cross was previously convicted for an alleged illegal sale of body armor in 2007.

The FBI used video of Cross allegedly firing a rifle at a gun range as their evidence. The FBI found Cross’ large collection of World War II memorabilia and posed it for the media to make it look like they had arrested a would-be “white supremacist terrorist.”

Cross, who does not have the money to fight in a federal case, was forced to plead guilty. He will be sentenced on May 27th.

(Republished from National Justice by permission of author or representative)
 
• Category: Ideology • Tags: Civil Liberties, Donald Trump, Judicial System 
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  1. fnn says:

    Conservative John Derbyshire was making essentially the same point the other day:
    https://vdare.com/radio-derb/virtue-signalling-for-goodwhites-politicized-courts-white-lives-don-t-matter-etc

    For the future of American jurisprudence, compare and contrast the cases of James Fields and Jose Garcia-Zarate.

    James Fields caused the death of Heather Heyer by driving his car into an anarchist mob at Charlottesville, Va. in 2017. His intent is unclear. He was sentenced to life plus 419 years in prison

    Jose Garcia-Zarate, an illegal alien, caused the death of Kate Steinle by shooting her with a handgun in 2015. His intent, like James Fields’, is unclear. He was acquitted of all charges except a picayune federal gun-possession rap, but remains in custody while the authorities ponder, re-ponder, and re-re-ponder his mental state.
    Intent-wise, I can’t see much difference between those two cases. Outcome-wise, however, Fields got a colossal prison sentence after a year and a half in custody followed by a very brisk trial, while Garcia-Zarate’s state conviction was thrown out on appeal over a technicality, and federal proceedings against him, now five years under way, are to be dragged out until everyone’s forgotten about the case, with a couple of years in the funny farm as the most probable outcome.

    That’s our courts: instruments of the goodwhite CultMarx establishment. White guy kills white gal, intent unclear: four hundred years in jail. Illegal alien kills white gal, intent unclear: We’re still working on it, don’t rush us, may let a gun-possession charge go forward.

  2. Thank you for this article and for the names and addresses of these political prisoners. You deserve a medal. This sort of thing has to be nipped in the bud, and the prosecutors who put them behind bars put there themselves.

    I have a lawsuit against the SPLC, which has played a major role in bringing us to this sad place in our history. This article is about their victims. It would be poetic justice if I win the case against them and then use the money from the judgment to bankroll a legal effort on behalf of these victims.

    • Replies: @Craig Nelsen
  3. Biff says:

    You forgot Tommy Chong…

  4. fnn says:

    How much time will this guy get?:

    →BLOW IT UP!!! Time to end this clown's career beating up the elderly! #WWG1WGA – Notify the Michigan's DHS's Adult Protective Services. 24-Hour Hotline: 855-444-3911… Download & Send them the Jadon Hayden Beating Elderly Video: https://t.co/Akikr9Nn9o …Cont'd in comments pic.twitter.com/3POfyPgPBh— Sum Ting Wong (@realsumtingwong) May 21, 2020

  5. TGD says:

    You’ve forgotten Matt Hale, currently the longest serving US political prisoner. His ideas are considered so dangerous that he is locked up for 23 hours per day at the Florence ADMAX prison in Colorado. He’s been in jail since 2005.

    He was set up by Michael Chertoff, who was appointed by George W. Bush to be an assistant attorney general in the criminal division. Chertoff, the son of a Talmudic scholar, was also a co-author of the “Patriot Act” and Bush’s “Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act” of 2007.

    https://ia903005.us.archive.org/0/items/CreativityImages/halechertoff.bmp

    Matt Hale’s address is-

    Matthew Hale 15177-424
    USP Florence ADMAX
    U.S. PENITENTIARY
    PO BOX 8500
    FLORENCE, CO 81226

    • Replies: @Uomiem
  6. anon[185] • Disclaimer says:

    There is rising conscious at

    The English language also rises.

    • Troll: Exile
  7. @Craig Nelsen

    We are in the discovery stage of my suit against the SPLC (just this morning I submitted a request for emails and financials) and funding is an issue, so I am going to go ahead and post the link to my goFundme page for those of you who can help out. If you all will bear with me, it really means a lot. Very encouraging. Even if you can’t contribute, sharing the link on Facebook, or posting it on Reddit, etc., also really helps. A lot of people know who and what the SPLC is and would love to see them lose.

    https://www.gofundme.com/f/nelsen-v-splc

  8. Exile says:

    Thank you Striker for putting these guys back in the news.

    People should be aware that the immense physical risk and psychological abuse these guys face makes solidarity and outside support all the more important. Detainees in similar situations have undergone months-long solitary confinement and other measures that would be considered “torture” by the ACLU if inflicted on a drug-dealer or child-molester. Many have taken pleas based on this abuse as well as the advice of counsel with deeply conflicted interests (such as coordinated attacks on legal counsel by antifa and associated orgs like the $PLC).

    Do whatever you can do to make their lives easier, let them know they are not forgotten and let everyone know that we “remember our troops” fighting oppression and dispossession at home.

  9. They should all be released, and the prosecutors and judges be made to serve the remainder of the sentences in the same jail cells their former victims once occupied.

    James Fields should be given a new trial in a different jurisdiction. He should be released on bail and be given the chance of a proper defense by lawyers who will actually work on his behalf.

    • Agree: anarchyst
  10. Matt Hale is one that I consider to be a political prisoner. He wrote a good book about the Jewish role in 9/11. There are PDFs floating around online. He got thrown in prison for 40 years for allegedly asking an undercover officer to kill a judge. The whole story seemed suspect since he was a bright guy with a law degree and a talent for writing. I always thought that he got thrown in prison to shut him up.

    • Replies: @animalogic
  11. fnn says:

    Just keep in mind what the federal police are like.

    FBI busts a human sex trafficking ring of women and children, however they had to drop the case because too many FBI agents engaged in sex acts with said victims. THE FUCKING FBI, FOLKS.https://t.co/oIf11SdtIp— 🕊 end all wars 🕊 (@Birdiesfav) May 21, 2020

  12. @suicidal_canadian

    I loathe “conspiracy” law. And here (Hale) is a good example why. Utterly disgraceful sentence.

  13. anarchyst says:

    Let’s not forget Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the “silk road” free trade system…

  14. Uomiem says:
    @TGD

    Matt Hale is not a political prisoner. He encouraged a would be assassin to kill a judge. He even provided identifying info.

    He was a fool and WI are better off without him.

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