Visitor publish by Joseph Berger
The Lead-up
On February 2nd of 2020, I protested a “Drag Queen Story Hour” on the Exeter Group Public Library. Together with the Catholic group and a few associates who confirmed as much as voice our displeasure with what was seen as an affront to our values.
In case you had been questioning the place the drag supporters stood, the drag queen’s “stage title” was “Annie Christ.” This was not simply leftist efficiency artwork however a deliberate affront to the Christian majority who lived there.
Together with the protestors there was a hoop of “counter protestors” consisting of antifa in “black bloc” some with their faces coated some not. The small city will need to have had most of their cops current in a single kind or one other.
They did their finest to maintain each side separated however appeared further involved that us right-wingers had been going to attempt to block the driveway into the venue as they might pounce if we a lot as set one toe on the pavement.
There was one counter protester who appeared actually serious about us. Watching us together with his arms folded simply a few ft away from us. He quizzed us on our political opinions and beliefs about native Individuals.
At one level he requested if we had been “Proud Boys.” We mocked him and the occasion ended but it surely was not the final that I’d see of him.
The Threats
Quickly afterward, I obtained a non-public message on my Telegram app. The message was an image taken of me at a rock live performance months prior and a cryptic message that “your life is about get much more fascinating.”
I blocked the account and went about my life till I obtained one other message from a special account linked me to a Twitter thread created by a recognized antifa member named Christian Exoo, who posts beneath the display title “Antifash Gordon.”
The thread included my title and hometown in addition to instructions on methods to discover extra detailed private data.
Quickly after, I obtained a letter from Uncover warning me that somebody had stolen my id and tried to open a bank card in my title.
After freezing my credit score accounts, I referred to as the non-emergency quantity for my native police division and made my report back to Officer Jared Knauss of the Bethlehem Township Police Division. Little did I do know that Officer Knauss could have had an ulterior motive…
The Harassment
On January 26th, 2021, simply days after Joe Biden’s inauguration, whereas I used to be at work, two cops rang my household’s doorbell and instructed my mom that they’d obtained a 911 name and needed to enter the house.
Whereas my mother tried to elucidate that there was no 911 name from the home a stream of federal brokers pushed their well past her whereas shouting “FEDERAL SEARCH WARRANT!”
As soon as the mud cleared, I discovered the raid was the results of a search warrant for a solvent entice that had been ordered to the home months in the past.
The warrant was accepted by a decide that was appointed by Joe Biden within the FIRST WEEK of his presidency! To reiterate, these federal brokers executed a warrant to raid a right-wing activist’s house for what amounted to a minor paperwork crime, they usually waited till a sympathetic President appointed a sympathetic decide.
To drive house the political nature of this raid, the pretrial discovery that was offered to me included footage the federal brokers took of Trump memorabilia and Christian lecture CDs.
Federal brokers additionally visited different family members and would ask them what my views on LGBTQ points had been. How this was related to a firearm investigation was by no means defined to me.
After the raid, my household endured a 12 months of harassment within the type of cellphone calls the place somebody would go away a message asking, “Is Joseph there?”
Again and again in addition to folks simply respiratory laborious into the cellphone. We additionally captured safety footage of people carrying all black skulking across the property and photographing the license plates of our automobiles.
On February 7th, 2022, as I parked my automotive within the office’s parking zone and walked towards the doorway a PA State Police SWAT staff disembarked from an unmarked Sprinter van, and inside seconds, I used to be staring down the barrel of about half-a-dozen M4s wielded by state troopers in full battle rattle.
After being placed on the bottom and having my arms zip-tied, two DHS brokers emerged and took all my belongings. This was removed from the tip of my ordeal.
The Defamation
Again in 2019, I accepted a job as a corrections officer at Lehigh County Jail after changing into the primary member of my fast household to graduate school. I noticed it as an opportunity to dip my ft into the legal justice world and as a steppingstone in direction of a profession as a police officer.
I used to be nonetheless in my probationary interval when a lieutenant angrily referred to as my block, demanding that I come to the lieutenant’s workplace and retrieve the mail for the block. After I obtained right down to the workplace, I used to be then angerly requested why I had deserted my publish.
This was the explanation listed for my eventual termination. Different oddities that occurred to me throughout my transient employment there included:
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- Throughout coaching, the lieutenant instructing us on gang exercise, lieutenant Donati described the Latin Kings road gang as a “Puerto Rican civil rights group” and the Furguson, Mo. Riots as a “common rebellion.”
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- Being instructed by a senior C.O. named Carrion that carrying a rep counter to help in retaining rely of inmates was “carrying contraband” regardless of seeing different officers doing it each as an officer and as an inmate.
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- Being given, (on function in my view), incorrect counts by a senior C.O. and being blamed for them.
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- Accused of being a coward for calling a “code purple” when a struggle broke out on my block and ready for backup to intervene. A now retired lieutenant who interviewed me even incredulously requested, “weren’t you within the navy?” A private insult that took each ounce of my self-control to stop me from lashing out.
After the raid on my home, my legal professional and I went to a proffered assembly with the prosecutor and brokers concerned in my case. That very same lieutenant was sitting within the room carrying a federal agent’s uniform and an enormous shit-eating grin.
I’d allow you to be the decide if my termination had any political motivations or not. As if that was not humiliating sufficient, I used to be then taken to that very same jail after my arrest.
I used to be then put inside a suicide cell for 3 days and topic to taunts and gawking by my former bosses who referred to Biden as “your president.” After three days I used to be introduced into an workplace and compelled to placed on a COVID masks.
I used to be put in entrance of a pill and had a bail listening to. Regardless that I used to be within the workplace on my own, and the listening to was performed over the web, I used to be handcuffed and compelled to put on a COVID masks.
I additionally later discovered that the prosecutor, Anthony Carissimi, had requested for a three-day continuance to arrange for my bail listening to, which is why it took three days to get me in entrance of a Justice of the Peace for a bail listening to.
This was finished in order that I’d get fired by my employer and would stack the deck in Mr. Carissimi’s favor at my bail listening to as my lack of a legal file, lack of violence, drug use or any sufferer in my case made it a troublesome promote to disclaim me bail.
Regardless of my lack of a legal file. A file of regular, legit employment, my honorable 4 years of active-duty navy service which noticed me earn a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal and a Good Conduct Medal.
Regardless of a file of neighborhood service stretching again to my childhood and ties to my neighborhood. Regardless of all of this, I used to be denied bail by decide Pamela Carlos, a Justice of the Peace decide that was simply appointed months earlier than and an avowed leftist.
I’d additionally prefer to level out that inmates are usually allowed to maneuver between areas within the jail if they’re in correct uniform and have a sound cross from a C.O.
Anytime I needed to transfer between areas within the jail, I needed to be in handcuffs and escorted by two officers and a “white shirt”, (a sergeant or lieutenant). Quickly afterwards I used to be taken to FDC Philadelphia by the U.S. Marshal’s service.
I discovered the explanation they did this as an alternative of retaining me at Lehigh County Jail was that they had been afraid their mistreatment of me after I labored there would trigger me to hunt revenge in opposition to them ought to I be allowed to remain there.
These similar officers who accused me of cowardice for wanting backup for a struggle that broke out on my block couldn’t even escort a single handcuffed inmate with out a second officer and a supervisor to assist them. I used to be then taken by the U.S. Marshals to FDC Philadelphia.
The Tried Framing
After my arrest at my office, my household retrieved my truck from the parking zone and introduced it house. Quickly after, federal brokers reappeared at my home and demanded entry to my automotive.
They’d claimed {that a} bomb-sniffing canine had alerted on my automotive and that if my household didn’t grant them entry to my automobile that they might break the window open and enter it anyway.
My mom had the presence of thoughts to contact my legal professional, Eric Winter, Esq., and ask for recommendation. He suggested my mom to demand a warrant and to movie all the search.
After admitting that they didn’t have a warrant, they returned about two hours later and produced one. My mom then gave them entry to the truck and started filming the search. The brokers made a number of makes an attempt to get my mom to cease filming or transfer to an space the place it could be not possible to take action; telling her that she could possibly be prone to being injured by a possible explosion.
With nice braveness, she refused to be cowed and stored filming. After a number of searches of my truck that took over 40 minutes, the brokers had been pressured to surrender and admit that there have been no explosives current.
Together with the bomb squad officers and federal brokers, a white helicopter made a number of shut passes, and all the volunteer hearth division and ambulance service had been positioned on standby at an area drive-in diner.
Quickly after they completed, the brokers whispered to one another that they didn’t “discover” something as a result of my mother was filming.
They then met with an unidentified feminine agent who engaged in hysterical and unintelligible screaming upon studying of the unfruitful end result of the search.
FDC Philadelphia Persecution
Upon admission to FDC Philadelphia, my historical past as a C.O. in addition to the truth that I had not taken the COVID 19 vaccine was used to place me within the SHU, (Particular Housing Unit, principally ‘the outlet’).
Lots of the officers who labored right here had rainbow flag and Black Lives Matter pins connected to their uniform and lots of had an unprofessional look. I used to be stored in solitary confinement for over a month and was then put in with a cellmate who was additionally a Trump supporter named Anthony Nero.
He knowledgeable me that he was arrested for firing his handgun by way of the window of a Democratic occasion headquarters when it was closed, and no person was current. He acknowledged what he did was extremely silly and influenced by alcohol and that he wanted to pay a value for what he did however the therapy he had obtained by the hands of the guards was nonetheless disgusting and unwarranted.
He defined to me that he was initially dealing with state prices and was granted bail. Nonetheless, as he and his household had been exiting the courtroom, he was approached and handcuffed by federal brokers who knowledgeable him that his case was being taken over by the feds.
He then defined that when he was first dropped at FDC Philadelphia he was put inside a ‘suicide cell.’ As individuals who have been jailed the primary time are thought of a suicide danger and it was my first time being incarcerated, I do know firsthand simply how uncomfortable the ‘suicide cell’ is.
Your ‘mattress’ is only a strong concrete block with a really skinny matting on prime and no pillow.
You don’t have any mattress sheets or blanket and lots of discover it extra comfy to sleep on the ground. It’s an uncomfortable and humiliating expertise. After two weeks and a psychological analysis, you might be alleged to be taken to an everyday cell with actual bedding, sheets, and a blanket.
Mr. Nero was stored within the suicide cell for that point and requested to get transferred to an everyday cell. The guards on responsibility instructed him to carry on a minute and went to retrieve a Black, immigrant C.O. and had him stand in entrance of Mr. Nero’s cell.
They then instructed Mr. Nero that they might solely let him depart the suicide cell if he mentioned the phrases “Black lives matter” to this Black C.O. Due to his desperation to flee the suicide cell he acquiesced and mentioned the phrase.
After I requested him why he was within the SHU, he instructed me the story. On an everyday block in FDC Philadelphia, every cell has its personal rest room. Every time somebody needs to make use of the lavatory, they sometimes drape a towel or another overlaying over the cell window to get some privateness.
The C.O.’s sometimes perceive this and can politely ask if somebody is okay with out opening the door when doing their rounds. Sooner or later the guard, a sassy Black lady who was recognized for not liking White Trump supporters, yanked open his door and shined a flashlight in Mr. Nero’s face whereas he was utilizing the lavatory.
When he requested if he may get some privateness she snapped again “no” after which pulled the duvet from his window, crumpled it up and threw it on the ground.
When it got here time for remedy distribution this C.O. then stood on the head of the road and taunted Mr. Nero when he obtained to the top of the road. Mr. Nero then misplaced his mood and screamed obscenities and threats.
Quickly after he was despatched to the SHU for this incident, the guards opened his cell door to permit a cellmate to maneuver in with him. This inmate as an alternative walked into the bathe and stood nonetheless dealing with the wall.
The guard then sprayed Mr. Nero within the face with copious quantities of O.C. spray and shouted, “STOP FIGHTING”! The guard then commanded him to “cuff up;” which means that he ought to place his arms behind his again and put them by way of the “cross by way of slot” in order that the guards may place handcuffs on him.
Regardless of complying with these instructions, the guards continued to spray him till he was utterly doused with O.C. spray. After placing him on the bottom and handcuffing him, one of many guards whispered into his ear, “that’s what you get for threatening my coworker.”
After spending one other month within the SHU, I went right down to a standard block in order that I may keep in contact with my household extra persistently. For a lot of the time, I used to be handled with dignity and respect, however two incidents caught with me.
At one time there was a sign-up sheet for a presentation by the group “Disabled Veterans of America” to elucidate what advantages had been out there for incarcerated veterans. I signed up and attended solely to seek out out that the individual giving this presentation was the lead agent on my case!
Throughout this presentation, he tried to get everybody to signal a kind permitting them entry to our service information. The second occasion was the place a Black inmate in a leg solid, and crutches invited me into his cell and demanded to know my political and racial beliefs.
After a quick dialog the place I seen that he stored a log e book of occasions that occurred on the block, a typical apply of jail snitches to reveal credibility he then went round to all the opposite Black inmates and lied, claiming I mentioned that “the one factor Blacks are good for is doing my work” and making an attempt to get these inmates to bodily assault me.
Because of the ‘jailhouse lawyer’ work I had beforehand finished for a lot of of those inmates and the nice rapport I had developed with them stored them from taking the bait. I’d later be taught that the suspected snitch was in a leg solid as a result of inmates at one other jail had beat him up for snitching.
Bail Listening to
Three Months after being taken to FDC Philadelphia, I had gotten one other bail listening to in entrance of my district decide. Choose Edward Smith was not solely a Captain within the U.S. Navy Reserves however the Commanding Officer of their Choose Advocates Basic faculty.
Although he was an Obama appointee, I believed that he would see by way of the lies and political nature of my detention, I assumed fallacious. After the usual backwards and forwards between the prosecutor and my legal professional in addition to some testimony from my mom about her want for me to be house as the one able-bodied individual in my fast household.
I raised my hand and tried to elucidate a few of the points I noticed with my arrest and prosecution. I additionally knowledgeable him of my intention to put in writing to the workplace of the inspector common about these points.
Choose Smith them made a spectacle of it; waving his arms and arrogantly bobbing his head backwards and forwards as he dismissed my considerations and claimed that as a result of I didn’t suppose the fees in opposition to me had been legit that he couldn’t belief me to abide by my bail circumstances.
He would additionally extremely agree with the prosecution that my navy expertise made me a risk to the neighborhood I swore to defend! The transcript actually doesn’t do it justice, the one factor I may examine his habits to is former FBI agent Peter Strzok’s testimony earlier than congress.
I couldn’t assist however suppose to myself “oh my God, this man was chosen by a President of the USA and confirmed by a Senate.” Choose Smith would die a quick time later from undiagnosed most cancers and one other Obama appointee, Choose Joseph Leeson would take over my case; however that interplay would go away a foul style in my mouth for the rest of the proceedings.
January 6th Persecution
Throughout my incarceration at each FDC Philadelphia and FCI Loretto I’ve had the privilege of assembly many January 6th defendants which have had comparable experiences to me.
One in every of these was Chris Quaglin who’s at the moment serving 12 years for his involvement. Admittedly he had some harsh phrases for his Trump appointed decide at his sentencing elocution, calling him “Trump’s largest mistake.”
He remembered that his decide had had an envelope handed to him at his sentencing and even expressed shock at how harsh the sentence was; suggesting that it was federal brokers and never the decide deciding what sentence he obtained. He was additionally denied a medically crucial food plan for months and was pressured to eat meals that aggravated his celiac illness.
One other J6’er that I encountered was Mitchell Todd Gardner II, who instructed me a narrative of how the guards had accused him of ingesting alcohol in jail. They’d given him a breathalyzer take a look at and he had handed.
The guard then went to retrieve a “extra just lately calibrated” system and readministered the take a look at which he, after all, failed. Whereas he finally obtained the write up overturned, it was nonetheless illustrative of how political prisoners are singled out for extra focused enforcement than precise criminals.
One other story I had heard was that of Rodney Milstreed a person whom I used to be cellmates with who relayed to me that whereas he was incarcerated on the D.C. jail was not correctly given post-cycle remedy for the testosterone remedies that he was receiving within the outdoors world.
In consequence, he had gained numerous weight and was creating breast tissue. He had additionally instructed me that he was not the one inmate experiencing these issues and that different January 6th defendants had skilled comparable issues.
Many J6’ers who had been navy veterans additionally reported that prosecutors had been utilizing honorable navy service to painting them as harmful time bombs able to explode at any second.
Lastly, I had been having political literature despatched to me and I had emailed my family and friends that I meant to share such literature with January 6th defendants.
Quickly after, I used to be referred to as into the workplace of the jail’s Particular Investigative Service, (SIS). I used to be requested about these emails and was instructed that sharing political books could possibly be thought of “gang exercise.”
As a former C.O., I knew that literature can solely be denied if it both facilitates escape or creates a safety risk to the establishment. After I knowledgeable them of this, they then implied that different folks may need an issue with my beliefs and that dangerous issues may occur to me in consequence.
I requested them to make clear in the event that they meant different BOP staff or inmates they usually replied “each.” I interpreted this as a risk to my private security, particularly after the incident with the suspected informant at FDC Philadelphia. Fortunately, this occurred only a month earlier than I used to be launched on good habits.
Conclusion
I don’t suppose I’ve to inform any Trump supporter that the DOJ and DHS have been utterly weaponized in opposition to any right-wing, Christian activist who is simply too publicly against the anti-White, anti-Christ insurance policies of the Biden/Harris regime and their Antifa proxies.
I hope my story serves as a warning and a wakeup name to all Trump supporters on the market. I particularly want to attraction to all of the at the moment serving members of the U.S. navy and veterans.
I’ve had my navy service insulted after which used in opposition to me in court docket. My proper to maintain and bear arms, proper of free speech and freedom of faith had been violated. Each federal constructing and jail I went to have a rainbow flag hoisted up the flagpole.
The present regime is within the means of making an attempt to persuade us that our enemies are Russian, Chinese language, and Iranian. Ask yourselves, was it Russians, Chinese language or Iranians who did the issues I’ve described on this article?
Did a Russian ever let you know to “test your White privilege”? Did a Chinese language individual attempt to persuade your little one that they had been a “lady trapped in a boy’s physique” and get them to take feminine hormones and mutilate their genitals?
Have been Iranians those who began banning Christian prayer in colleges and getting DHS to designate you as terrorists? No, they didn’t. With tensions between the U.S. and people nations enhance they are going to want navy males like us because the overwhelming majority of the following technology are totally unsuited for navy service. I say we inform the American regime no.
Not simply say no however yell no! A thousand occasions no! We won’t danger life and limb to assist this corrupt and degenerate regime hoist a rainbow flag over Moscow. We won’t interact within the grueling wrestle of warfare to convey the “joys” of kid drag reveals to Shanghai.
We won’t depart our households and miss their milestones to convey homosexual “marriage” to Tehran. Let the ugly and damaged squeeze their fats butts into uniforms and get PTSD and struggle for his or her disgusting “values.”
Any longer, we are going to solely struggle for our personal pursuits. For a grateful nation that doesn’t simply see us as assets for use up and thrown away. It’s what my World Battle two grandfathers would have finished, and it’s what I’ll do. Our society’s future depends upon it.