First Jan. 6 Defendant Files Habeas Corpus Petition

There are a great many outrages concerning the gross miscarriage of justice concerning the January 6th protest but none loom as large as the apathy and lack of response by the body politic. Silence is sanction. And this brutal political persecution of Americans exercising their first amendment rights is the end of American freedom.

Back in 2017, I watched leftists destroy and burn D.C. when President Trump was inaugurated. There was no press coverage or indictments or penalty. And America suffered tremendous damage by Antifa and BLM protesters who paid no price, faced no prosecution and jail time.

There are terrible consequences for our lack of will to fight these terrible injustices. And we are beginning now to feel and face them. You won’t like what comes after America.

First Jan. 6 Defendant Files Habeas Corpus Petition

By Zachary Stieber, Epoch Times, April 30, 2022:

A Jan. 6 defendant has filed a habeas corpus petition, alleging his constitutional rights have been repeatedly violated while being held pending trial. He’s the first implicated in the breach of the Capital to file such a petition.

Christopher Quaglin, 36, has been denied necessities like medicine, forced to live in substandard conditions, and prevented from reviewing materials regarding the charges against him, according to the 61-page petition, which was filed in federal court in Washington this week.

Quaglin, a married father of a 1-year-old, has celiac disease, which means he needs gluten-free food.

As he’s been shifted to different jails, Quaglin has regularly been denied adequate sustenance, according to the petition. He’s gone days without food on multiple occasions. To prevent starvation, has spent some $7,500 at commissaries. He has reported losing approximately 68 pounds.

Quaglin has been placed in solitary confinement, kept indoors for months, and housed in cells with black mold, rats, and rusted metal, the petition says. He has been punished for speaking to the press and members of Congress. And he has seen his right to meet with his counsel violated, including having video calls with his lawyer, Joseph McBride cut off, and been prevented from reviewing the discovery in his case.

“You have five distinct claims. Each one of these claims are grounds for him to be released in and of themselves, but the five of them in the aggregate provide overwhelming justification for his release,” McBride told The Epoch Times.

Quaglin was arrested on April 7, 2021, in North Brunswick, New Jersey. Authorities say body camera footage shows a man identified as Quaglin assaulting multiple law enforcement officers outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.

Wearing a blue “Make American Great Again” shirt, Quaglin was captured shoving or pushing three different officers, and striking a different officer, according to the affidavit, which included still images from surveillance footage.

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