Jake Lang rescued Philip Anderson from a stampede at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Courtesy of Jake Lang)
Posted on 10/19/2023 9:50:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Jake Lang rescued Philip Anderson from a stampede at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Courtesy of Jake Lang)
On Oct. 12, Jake Lang passed a milestone: 1,000 days in jail without a trial. To mark the anniversary, he wanted to share with the American people "the horrific conditions of confinement," which he says he and many of his fellow Jan. 6 prisoners have had to endure.
"During this time, I've done 20 months of solitary confinement," Mr. Lang told The Epoch Times. "For 15 months of that, I wasn't allowed to have a haircut or a shave."
This was intentional, he said, to make Jan. 6 prisoners look like "homeless vagrants" or "deranged terrorists" during video court appearances.
Jan. 6 prisoners are frequently denied family visitation, Mr. Lang said. They spend months with no sunlight. Lights in their cells remain on at night, depriving them of sleep.
His account aligns with first-hand reports from other Jan. 6 prisoners, detailed in a Congressional report in 2021.
Troublesome prisoners are subjected to "diesel therapy," where inmates are shackled together—frequently with violent gang members—for long bus or plane rides to another facility. The trips can take hours, days, or weeks. Fights are frequent. Personal belongings and discovery for their trials—family photos, exculpatory documents, and notes related to their cases—are often lost.
Family members lose track of them.
The 28-year-old Mr. Lang (full name: Edward Jacob Lang) has been charged with several counts, including an "obstruction" charge, for which he could receive a 20-year sentence. As reported by The Epoch Times, Mr. Lang has challenged this charge with the Supreme Court.
Following his arrest on Jan. 16, 2021, Mr. Lang has been shuttled from one prison to another. In New York, he was moved to three different facilities, including the MDC Brooklyn where Jeffrey Epstein was held.
Then he was taken to an airport in Newburgh, New York, put on a plane with about 200 convicted felons, and transported to Oklahoma, he said.
He was moved to Northern Neck Regional in Warsaw, Virginia, and then to the DC Jail, known to Jan. 6 prisoners as "The Gulag."
Confined to his cell for 23 hours and 15 minutes each day for three months, he was frequently physically assaulted. The first time was on Sept. 18, 2021, before a rally in the DC mall in support of Jan. 6 prisoners.
About 6 a.m., he said "around 70 officers began banging on the cell doors" of Jan. 6 inmates, ordering them to get dressed and grab their mats. They were being moved to "a more secure location," they were told.
Guards were shouting. Inmates were confused and scared.
"Some thought we were being taken outside to a firing squad," he said. "They thought they were going to kill us."
To ease their fear, he began singing the national anthem.
A guard threw him against the wall and punched him in the ribs.
They were all taken to the basement and placed in cells with no windows, no sinks, or toilets.
The ordeal lasted eight hours.
Mr. Lang was then "tossed in the hole."
"It's disgusting down there," he said. "The walls are wet. There's vermin and cockroaches, and there's a little slot in the door that they feed you through like a dog."
About 10 months later, Mr. Lang was brought back up to the pod—an independent section within the facility that holds a small number of prisoners. His fellow Jan. 6 prisoners gathered at his cell door to greet him.
"One of the guards yelled for them to get away from my door, just arbitrarily enforcing a rule that didn't exist," he explained. "He called the sergeant, who opened the door and unloaded a whole can of military-grade pepper spray directly into my eyes."
Naked and in cuffs, an emergency response team dragged him from the cell and brought him to a shower. Female guards watched, "laughing hysterically" at his pain.
He wasn't given soap, so the oil ran down his body to his groin where the burning became excruciating. In his cell, the burning oil transferred to his mattress. He woke from nightmares thinking he was on fire.
When he was thrown back in "the hole," he went on a 12-day hunger strike that cost him 30 pounds.
Negotiations for ending his hunger strike included a haircut, family visitation, and a Congressional investigation into the deaths of Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland.
He was then moved to Alexandria Regional Jail and placed in solitary.
After reporting his treatment to the press, he was sent to a federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
After more press interviews, he was moved to Rappahannock Regional Jail in Stafford, Virginia.
One month and multiple interviews later, he was back at Northern Neck. A week later he was once again at Lewisburg, and then landed back at the DC jail, where he has been for the past six months.
"Friday, October 13th marked my 1,000th day in prison. But God's grace has supplied me and the rest of the January 6 prisoners with strength, endurance, perseverance, and hope, knowing that we will have vindication from this political persecution. One day, from all over the country, more than 200 of us will emerge from these prisons and gulags. We will be redeemed and restored and all of the things they've done to us will all be washed away."
Mr. Lang's trial had been set to begin Oct. 10, but was postponed pending an indication on his Supreme Court petition.
Human Rights Watch and the National Lawyers’ Guild are being rather quiet these days, aren’t they?
If what Lang says is true, the Jim Jordan should now announce that one of the House Committees will investigate every jail/prison, their leaders and identified guards/staff reportedly involved in this.
Other prisoners should also be subpoenaed to testify.
Payback is a Bitch and “Dingo-Dong the Bitch is Very Alive and Hungry”.
Hopefully one day every one of these scumbags involved in these bogus prosecutions ends up in front of a firing squad.
So he got beat up by a thug for singing the National anthem on Sept 18, 2021... a day the corrupt leaker /Democrat activist / FBI jackass Andy McCabe, the guy with the wannabe Virginia politician for a wife, was all worked up about.
Andy McCabe was also the guy who was alleged to have been harassing a federal employee who was investigating the disappearance of retired FBI agent Levinson, whom the Iranians had nabbed shortly after he ran into an expatriate American who had been a former assassin for the Iranian regime and had since been working for Iran TV. McCabe shut down the investigation of Levinson’s disappearance and got in a vindictive mood since one of the people supporting Gritz’s harassment case was a retired general working for the Trump campaign on the matter of a UN resolution concerning Israel.
McCabe’s wife was the pick of Hillary’s running mate, who was deep in the pocket of radical Muslims in Virginia.
Capitol riot: Ex-FBI official (McCabe) says law enforcement needs to take upcoming ‘Justice for J6’ rally in DC ‘very seriously’ (September 18)
CNN via MSN ^ | 9/06/21 | Paul LeBlanc
Posted on 9/6/2021, 11:45:01 PM by Libloather
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said Monday evening that law enforcement needs to take the upcoming right-wing rally in support of jailed January 6 rioters “very seriously” as concerns mount about more potential violence on Capitol Hill.
“I think they should take it very seriously. In fact, they should take it more seriously than they took the same sort of intelligence that they likely saw on January 5,” McCabe, a CNN contributor, told CNN’s Poppy Harlow on “Erin Burnett OutFront.”
Law enforcement members in Washington are steeling themselves against possible unrest at the “Justice for J6” rally — planned for September 18 — which aims to support the insurrectionists charged in the riot.
The event, organized by a former Trump campaign staffer, has prompted security concerns on Capitol Hill, and some precautionary measures will be in place.
How can this happen?
Actual criminals are released all the time here in Los Angeles by a democrat DA.
There is a totalitarian aspect to such persecutions. Lawyers might be afraid to vigorously take on such cases, as they themselves could be followed up by the state. It does not even have to be political - being sent for several tax audits, for example. There are many ways for the state to make life miserable for an individual.
This is like the stories of prisoner abuse in the USSR.
We need our Own Homeland !
I had no idea that Americans were capable of such evil.
Indeed
A good reason to not be taken alive.
I couldn’t take a thousand days.
The Justice Department thinks they can deny citizens their rights and get away with it.
BlackVell wrote: “Lawyers might be afraid to vigorously take on such cases, as they themselves could be followed up by the state.”
Or, they may be making a lot more money by stretching out all this BS... Motions don’t come cheap, these days.
1000 days? Don’t worry, bub, all We need to do is elect more ‘conservative’ (R)N(C) members *spit*
It is amazing what Jesus Christ gives his servants endurance to overcome. This dear man's testimony reminds me of what Richard Wurmbrand experienced in the USSR after standing up for Jesus against the Communists. I don't want to be incarcerated, either, but we must try very hard not to allow their tactics to make us live in fear. We must not silence ourselves to avoid persecution.
Please, Lord Jesus, set the January 6 prisoners free. May they love you so much, and serve you so well, that even their captors become slaves of righteousness and turn away from evil.
How could this be? Where is his lawyer? His constitutional right to a speedy trial surely has been violated.
They’re not “Americans”, at least not in the sense that most of us think it means to be an American.
We’ll continue to believe we live in a Constitutional republic.
Just keep voting. Pretend it matters.
Joesph Stalin would be so proud of our rotten government.
A couple months ago the wife and I went to this formal dinner event and we were sitting at a table with three other couples we didn’t know. The husband of one of the couples told the table that he recently retired from the DOJ, but would happily go back if he could prosecute the Jan sixers. I replied across the table that I was at the mall on January 6th and asked him if he wanted to prosecute me. It got pretty quiet after that and wife wasn’t happy with me.
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