John strand is a model and actor who went to the US capital on January 6th to serve as a bodyguard for Dr Simone gold of America’s Frontline doctors and like many J Sixers John had served time for going to the capital that day and he was released earlier from prison uh just today at the order of a federal judge they both join me right now along with Steve Baker Blaze media investigative reporter who was also present on January 6th and has helped to write about their story so John can you just describe what it was like today when you walked out of prison this morning it was amazing I was so happy to see Dr gold and uh my team ready to greet me and take me out of a a very painful miserable place and uh I learned a lot God did a lot of great things but it was it was terrible so I was glad to get out of there that’s for sure and Dr gold what was it like for you to be on the other side awaiting him right there’s so much Injustice um from a legal perspective we didn’t know if he would be released as you know the Supreme Court ruled on on June 28th but you still had to await the judges you know saying release and we got that 8 days ago and here we are John obviously I’ve already had the opportunity to welcome you back to real life real let’s talk a little bit about that we don’t need to tell the stories about January 6 that’s been seen at nauseum but you lived through what is the ultimate weaponization of the federal government against you as a citizen of the United States give me a little bit more idea what it was like to be there uh again I’ll use the word miserable um you have a heightened sense of of of pain and of stress and of angst um about everything so it the way I described it was my time in prison was actually split between two facilities the first half in Miami where I was actually viciously abused in an isolation environment for over for about four straight months which was essentially like being waterboarded um and when I was released from there and transferred to another location where it was a little less oppressive it felt like I was trying to breathe the oxygen of Freedom through a straw from underneath the swamp so blae correspondent uh Joe hanaman has covered your story extensively in fact going back a couple of years yes and one of the things that uh I think first brought Dr gold and I into acquaintance was the fact that you were being held in solitary confinement which is essentially torture yeah we’ll start there but what she was most concerned about was that we needed to get this message out but there was a problem with getting this message out yes we get this message out they tend to punish you more is that correct worse that’s exactly what happened to me they fabricated a whole series of ridiculous uh circumstances to put me in isolation for a couple of weeks basically to say watch out you know we’ll Crush you if you look sideways and I was actually just looking to follow all their rules they didn’t even give me the rule book when I walked in the door which is a Bop of policy violation so they were already off on the on the wrong trail but uh the they pulled me out for a couple days and then a story that I had nothing to do with went viral on media Congressman Mar Taylor green reported on me being tortured and abused and they put me in this interrogation room and grilled me about this like I had something to do with it like a scene out of a movie and then threw me back in and I wasn’t seen again for three and a half months and this has been true of uh defendants prisoners who have reported on black mold growing in their cells black um the the water is is Tainted the food is spoiled and rotten and just releasing that information through their attorneys or through their family has caused them to be punished further and thrown into solitary confinement and that’s what you’re describing here right now absolutely the government hates accountability and and and they’ll bite you for it how does a human who is supposed to have Community to be around others to to go through what you did for solitary confinement for 4 months how did you mentally make it through that time I prayed a lot um I I’m a man of faith and my relationship with God is the only reason I even started on this journey and it’s certainly what’s kept me strong through it um but I didn’t feel strong in isolation I I I felt like hell I was in hell that was definitely hell on Earth it’s the closest I ever want to get to hell um but God is everywhere even in hell and he promised me that before I went in and when I was there I was able to kind of meet God in a way I never have before and under I already understood this cerebrally but I I put it into practice and he kind of led me through a process of proving to myself what my faith is about and what um enduring pain and suffering and finding purpose in it and understanding that Joy doesn’t mean that everything’s great or that you feel great you might feel like hell and I did but joy still exists and it’s something we have to choose and strive towards and God leads us through that and he led me out to the other side for both of you what is the most difficult part about this entire Journey Dr gold for me I I mean I wait for our nation I’m a doctor and a lawyer and I’ve watched the corruption of both of my professions it’s incredible the lies from the HHS and the CDC and NIH and the FDA tremendous lies and then I watch the doj lie and the FBI lie and the Bureau of Prison lie and so I’m watching the collapse of my nation and it’s tragic I I almost want to kind of say the same thing actually that the the the abuse that they’re putting January 6 Patriots through is unspeakable actually it’s so egregious it’s it’s so shameful um but what I really what torments me is that so many people who are quote unquote on the right side or the good side still don’t they don’t know they don’t know what’s really happening they they don’t know how easily they’re manipulated and fooled by systems um and they’re not fully connected to in a source of truth that’s immovable um because I I’m subjected to all those things too but I never let go of the source and so that the lies are what that they they destroy everything and I think that for all of us sitting here the the paths that we have taken we love America and what it stood for and what we thought it was when we were growing up how do you look at your country now after what you have gone through in your time in prison so I am energized I am doubled we are not living in China yet we are not we can still speak out we can still fight back there are more people that feel patriot patriotic love for our country our inalienable rights and we still have an opportunity to push back John is out of prison if he had been in China he wouldn’t be out of prison so the answer is you got to keep pushing back keep pushing hard you got to vote you got to vote in November elections matter also I I will say so the subtitle of my book which is called Patriot plea is my j6 journey as a political prisoner in the divided States of America and of course I say that very intentionally and describe what I mean by that in the book but the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and hoping you get a different result and I think we have a little bit of insanity on both sides of the political spectrum and we need to kind of have a reset to understand what what what’s missing what’s what’s off kilter so that we can actually hit the target we’re aiming for and I understand you wrote that while in prison yes I did so you were using your time very effectively then you’re you’re you guys it’s it’s incred ible to just sit here and listen to your story and just to say oh there’s still hope there’s the fact that there is positivity coming out of you that you’re a man of Faith like that is encouraging to me to say this is something that we can get through and come through to the other side so when I look at you guys I just want to say like this this is a hopeful conversation and do do you feel that way today that this is the day that you’ve been waiting for and praying for for so long 100% this is the day that the Lord has made I will rejoice and be glad in it you know we have a much longer more extensive interview coming out um within a couple of days uh that we were able to conduct today with you right after your release and then of course we got our story coming out that I’m working on with Joe hanaman but you went through the fire as you said you went through the hell do you have any regrets for choosing the path because you did not have to choose this path you went up against a DC jury a no- win scenario and you chose that instead of a plea deal regrets no never not for one single second for three plus years and and in my case the government gave me a golden parachute they were holding a 20-year felony half a million dollars of fines over my head and they said if you bend the knee to the government we’ll give you a single misdemeanor I could have gone home with a slap on the wrist two years ago and been living my life but the plea deal was a lie and it wasn’t just a lie about me it was a lie about a whole swath of American citizens and it was a tool of the devil to be friend Frank and I said I’ll have no part of that and um I I refused Americans on the left and the right need to understand that you two did not commit any crimes that day no we were victimized by a government that that committed egregious crimes against their citizens on January 6 there’s a there’s a half of this country that wants you water boarded in Guantanamo Bay for the rest of your life simply because you were exercising your first amendment uh privileges in fact Dr gold she was scheduled to speak on the capital grounds that day at a legally licensed permitted event most people don’t even know that those were happening that day and you were her bodyguard and that’s how you ended up there exactly but the H that half of the country that wants us water bordered or tortured or whatever what we said earlier was that the problem are the lies right those people have been lied to they’ve been lied to so much that they have lost touch with what’s true at all so the the lies become the only truth they can hear and according to the story that they’ve heard for ad nauseum for three plus years would equate to seems like those people should be in prison if they led a premeditated Insurrection to try to take down the government which is the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard we just want to emphasize of course we were not violent of course we were only walking through you know the Taurus ropes and being peaceful and all that and people who are hearing our voice now need to understand that our American government is putting people into prison who are absolutely not peaceful who are you know speaking up for free right you know Free Speech Etc so yes it’s it’s an important point and meanwhile you can see like literally today and every other day pretty much that there are violent actions taking place on other protests that are just sort of oh put that in the box and won’t touch that so so what’s next for you John the book is next I’m very excited about Patriot plea you can get that at John strand.com uh I don’t know when it’s coming out but as soon as humanly possible I would like to see it out before the election um my mission right now is to really advocate for the j6 hostages like praise God that I free and out uh but many of them are still being tortured and abused and it’s absolutely shameful it’s a stain on this country and I am passionate about bringing that to the American people’s attention and also advocating for president Trump of course our true president who is uh the strongest leader and strongest uh potential we have to rescue these hostages and also to rescue the entire country from the control of the uh the left
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