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Hundreds of men and women are staring down a gaping hole of uncertainty and danger, surviving in prison and serving extremely lengthy sentences for crimes they did not commit, alongside murderers, gangsters, rapists, and child sex offenders, for protesting.
Prior to the Biden administration’s unprecedented and brazen weaponization of the intelligence agencies against its political opposition, never had Americans faced the wrath of the federal government for trespassing in the U.S. Capitol building or demonstrating on the Capitol grounds while committing no violent crimes.
Jonathan Mellis endured the brunt of the physical and psychological torture leveled by Biden’s Department of Justices while incarcerated for nearly 3 years in unconstitutional pretrial detention in the Washington DC Correctional Facility, now famously known as the DC Gulag.
After 51 months of incarceration, the government still has its foot on Mellis’ neck.
Now the state of Virginia is threatening the January 6er, who sought to stop the police from beating a woman to death that fateful day, with more prison time.
Mellis, a member of the Proud Boys organization, was finally released from federal custody on September 30. He planned to turn over a new leaf, launch a new career, stay on the straight and narrow, and never look back at the nightmare he just suffered.
Instead, the mental torture of what his future may hold persists as he awaits a decision to be made by President-elect Donald Trump that will determine his fate.
Weeks after his release, an army of local police ransacked his Virginia home. Mellis was out with friends when he returned home a few hours later; the house he just moved into with his longtime friend was left in shambles after the raid.
Mellis had no idea what he may have done to warrant another torpedo by the feds.
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It turns out the state of Virginia decided to prosecute the January 6er for allegedly violating a stipulation of a 2008 charge he received in Virginia, a clause that was evidently hidden in fine print that he had never even heard of.
“I was rearrested on state charges about a month after I was released from federal prison for protesting on January 6 on state charges — I’m not sure this charge will go away after the pardon,” Mellis told The Gateway Pundit in an exclusive interview.
“The local police raided the house that I was living at with my friend. With guns drawn, automatic weapons, they surrounded the house. I wasn’t there that night. I turned myself in the next night.”
Mellis had no idea what he could have possibly done to warrant another raid.
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“In court, days after I turned myself, was the first time I ever heard of this stipulation that was allegedly a part of my prior probation known as ‘Lifetime of Good Behavior.’”
‘Lifetime of good behavior probation’ is a type of probation sentence that requires an individual to maintain good behavior for the rest of their life, meaning there is no set end date to their probation period and they are subject to monitoring and potential consequences for any criminal activity they may commit throughout their lives.
This sort of probation is reportedly reserved specifically for offenses like sex crimes or cases involving repeat offenders. But for Mellis, one brush with the law for a nonviolent crime, prior to January 6, allegedly required him to be on probation for life.
For selling drugs as a young college student in 2008, Mellis was handed a decade in prison. After a 10-year bid in a Virginia prison, he was released in 2018. In 2020, he was told he had completed his sentence including probation.
“I was released from probation two years before January 6 – I served my time, served my probation, completely turned my life around and was living in Nashville, Tennessee.”
Suddenly, the government contends he violated Virginia’s “lifetime of good behavior” stipulation for his role in the Capitol riot.
In 2021, Virginia reformed its law mandating lifetime probation in 2021. Unbeknownst to Mellis, the regulation was still applicable in January 2021, when he traveled from his then home in Nashville, Tennessee to Washington DC to protest the fraudulent election results, and the government is still subjecting him to the outdated regulation.
Punishment for violating the lifetime probation is up to 10 years in prison.
After the 51-month January 6 ordeal, “I was incarcerated for two weeks in Williamsburg, Virginia until I was able get a bond hearing,” Mellis explained. “I wasn’t aware of the ‘Good Behavior for Life’ law.”
“Only when they rearrested me did I learn that my original sentence in Virginia included a stipulation of ‘good behavior for life,’ and it keeps 10 years in prison over my head for the rest of my life.”
Now, every day is trapped with daunting suspense about what the future may hold.
Trump vows to grant pardons to the political hostages on day one. But without superb or at least adequate legal representation, it remains unclear whether a presidential pardon can save him from the state charges.
Chances of a good outcome are less about the truth of the matter vs. a defendant’s ability to lawyer up to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars in a system apparently designed to serve the wealthy rather than the innocent.
“A presidential pardon only affects the federal January 6 charge. The state of Virginia is the jurisdiction in charge of this new violation of ‘good behavior for life,’” he said.
Frightened by the prospect of being subjected to another army of federal agents pointing red lasers at his head, Mellis’ roommate kicked him out.
The roommate was also the employer for the job he was slated to begin and warned Mellis that he is unwilling to risk the liability of hiring a man who is still being targeted by the federal government.
“My friend that I lived with was going to put me to work full-time with the company he owns,” he said. “Now he no longer wants to do that because the government raided his house in the middle of the night with gun straw and automatic weapons.”
“I was also delivering with Uber Eats, and they did a background check on me, and they booted me off.”
Mellis has already spent a staggering $100,000 in legal fees following his February 16, 2021, arrest for protesting to save America in the nation’s capital. Without divine intervention, left up to the court-appointed lawyer currently representing him, the government would likely get away with stealing away another ten years of his life.
“The public defender is not effective at all – he is lazy, he doesn’t return my calls, and he doesn’t have any strategy for court,” he said. “Now I am scrambling to come up with another $15,000 for a lawyer on top of the nearly $100,000 I paid to a federal lawyer for my January 6 case.”
“The President could get rid of the federal case, and with a private attorney in the state, I could leverage the presidential pardon to get a better deal with my state case or, hopefully, get it thrown out. I need a lawyer who’s willing to fight for me for that to happen. It’s my only option.”
“I have faith the charge will get it thrown out when we are pardoned, but Virginia is notorious for treating people badly in the justice system. That’s why I need a good lawyer.”
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While detained, Mellis steadfastly assisted over a hundred January 6 defendants with exposing the truth about their cases to the American public, assisting them with authoring scores of detailed articles to be featured in news publications.
“It was the greatest honor of my life to not only suffer alongside these great men in the DC Jail but to be able to help them get their voices heard and help them fundraise directly into their own bank accounts. I love my brothers.”
Raising public awareness about what was happening to the Americans who were arrested for protesting Joe Biden’s election theft, Mellis spearheaded an effort from inside the jail to raise funds for the legal defenses of his fellow J6ers.
He also managed to produce a documentary series featuring interviews with his “J6 brothers,” creating a platform for the others held hostage in the DC Gulag under the Biden regime.
On January 6, 2021, Mellis’ became irate as he was confronted by police indiscriminately clubbing people to death, bashing them with direct blows to the head remorselessly with nightsticks.
Mellis alongside men he would go on to be caged beside in solitary confinement, sought to save the life of Roseanne Boyland, a young women that was mercilessly clubbed to death by the cops.
“I went to January 6 to support President Trump and to protest a stolen election. While I was there, the police started firing into a peaceful crowd, and in the area that I was in,” he recalled. “On the other side of the building, the police opened the doors and were escorting people into the building. But on the part of the building that I was in, the police started launching flash grenades and people were getting shot in the face.”
“After watching women and old people getting hit in the heads with batons, tased, shot with rubber bullets, shot with flash bangs, people broke the police line.”
Officer Lila Morris is seen in footage ruthlessly beating Boyland’s unconscious body. A month after the murder, on February 7, 2021, Morris was awarded recognition at the Super Bowl LV for her actions during the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
“I witnessed the trampling and beating to death of Roseanne Boyland at the mouth of the hallway, and I intervened, as well as about a dozen other men, and we all went to prison it, for ‘assaulting officers,’” Mellis said. “Roseanne Boyland died that day right in front of us.”
Mellis contends the excessive force employed by police against non-violent demonstrators on January 6 was the hot war waged by the left against the American people following the invisible police state instituted throughout every aspect of the United States government and culture leading up to the protest of the fraudulent election results that fateful day:
It was a day that the American people were abused for peacefully protesting after a stolen election – and that didn’t even happen in a vacuum. It was a year of COVID restrictions; ripping up our Constitution; confiscating our church, taking our jobs, taking our right to assemble, and then forcing us online; isolating us from hanging out with our family and friends, which was the only public square; and silencing us conservatives and censoring our speech online.
We dealt with multiple abuses of the federal government in the year leading up to the stolen election. January 6 was a day where We The People showed up in DC to protest the swamp and the corruption, and were fired upon by police when we were peacefully protesting. So we didn’t take it anymore.
People spiraled out of control, and it became what we know of it as now, but it was truly the voice of the unheard, screaming out to be recognized.
The rally was used by tyrannical government to round up American citizens and smear every political opponent of the Uni-party in Washington and torture us, literally torture us in the DC jail and in other jails around the country.
About 6 weeks after I watched police murder innocent people, the FBI raided my house with dozens of militarized FBI agents, automatic weapons and armored truck in a pre-dawn Raid, like I was Al Qaeda.
The first 13 months of Mellis’s bid in the DC Gulag were consecutively in solitary confinement. The men held in the cell block that would become known as the Patriot Pod were permitted out of the “concrete box” for less than an hour a day, if at all.
“My J6s brothers and I were regularly injured by hateful and abusive jail guards. Our cells were covered in black mold,” Mellis said, describing the torture that will likely spell a lifetime of post-traumatic stress. “The smell of feces reeked across the cell block with only brown water pouring out of the sinks.”
Propaganda disseminated by the mainstream media assured the “jailers” in the city of Biden voters viewed the J6ers as ‘Nazis’ and ‘terrorists.’
“They would pop open the doors in the middle of the night, zip tie them and beat them, spray mace in men’s faces.”
“Anytime that we brought attention about the torture to the jail or court, we faced retaliation: our food would be spiked with cleaning chemicals the next day; the bit of [recreation] we were permitted would be restricted.”
“I’m so grateful that President Trump has come back and made the greatest American political comeback in history and to hopefully bring justice to the people who tortured us, American citizens, for years while depriving us of a fair trial.”
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