Julie Kelly - January 6

Author of The Plot Against the President

J ulie Kellys January 6: How Democrats Used the Capitol Protest to Launch a War on Terror Against Their Political Enemies is a blow-by-blow account from one of Americas top investigative journalists detailing the lead-up to the January 6 protest, the march itself, and the aftermath, including the extraordinary repressive measures the federal government has taken against American citizens.

These measures include: the detention of nonviolent offenders for months on end without bail; postponement of their trials to give prosecutors more time to find evidence of the crimes they intend to accuse them of committing; physical abuse; psychological torture; and demands that the detainees recant their political convictions that is, their support for the candidate from one of the countrys two main political parties, Donald Trump.

In other words, the Biden administration is unlawfully violating the rights of American citizens simply for their political preferences. The 46 th president of the United States has imprisoned supporters of his predecessor.

Thus, Kellys book is also a political testament that documents how an oligarchic confederation comprising corporate and political elites, intelligence services, and the media are determined to transform a constitutional republic into a third-world-style security surveillance regime. With the publication of January 6 , Julie Kelly becomes one of Americas leading dissidents.

Even as the protest was underway, Kelly immediately saw through the medias real-time propaganda campaign. It was not, as they described it then and still do, an insurrection. Rather, the live coverage showed that it was, or started as, a patriotic and at times raucous demonstration in support of a president that many millions of voters believed had been cheated at the polls. Crucially then the protestors Americans from all walks of life, from Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to grandmothers, parents with preschoolers to truck drivers were defending their right to elect the men and women who govern them, by their consent.

The protestors had good reason to question the legitimacy of the 2020 election. First, the press and social media tilted the scales on behalf of Trumps opponent by censoring information damaging to the Joe Biden campaign. Next was the Democratic Partys full-court press for mass mail-in voting. Prior to the 2020 election, Democrats and Republicans agreed that voting by mail was a recipe for fraud, but with the advent of COVID-19 Democratic strategists seized the opportunity by encouraging voters to stay home and overwhelm the system with votes by mail. Further, Democratic Party operatives unconstitutionally altered the voting procedures in various states throughout the country. Finally, on election night itself, in key swing states where Trump held large leads Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan election officials shut down and stopped counting votes. When the lights came back on next morning, Biden was in front in all.

Had any one of these irregularities occurred in a third-world country, the US Department of State would have declared the election illegitimate. Taken together, they gave evidence of systemic fraud. Americans were right to want answers and well within their rights to assemble peacefully and protest the election results. When the violence started in earnest on January 6, it was initiated, as Kelly reports in these pages, by law enforcement officers.

Police used teargas and flashbangs to frighten and disorient peaceful protestors. Demonstrators acting in self-defense were characterized by the press as aggressors. But it was law enforcement in riot gear that left death in its wake. Capitol Hill police officer Michael Byrd shot to death Ashli Babbitt, a 34-year-old Air Force veteran and Trump supporter. Byrd acknowledged on TV that he used lethal force without ascertaining whether Babbitt was holding a weapon. She was not. Bidens Justice Department declined to bring charges. As Kelly reports here, police used truncheons to beat a Trump supporter named Rosanne Boyland senseless, and thus her death at the Capitol building appears also to have been the result of police brutality.

Perhaps the most consequential aspect of Kellys investigation takes up the story of the January 6 detainees. Dozens of Trump supporters held in a Washington, DC correctional facility have endured excruciating punishment at the hands of their jailers who refuse them medical treatment for the injuries theyve caused them. Biden administration prosecutors petition to hold them indefinitely, even nonviolent offenders, and federal judges rubber stamp the Justice Departments draconian and unconstitutional demands to jail defendants who have not been convicted of any crime.

The self-described liberal media abets this madness by labeling Americans who exercised their rights to freedom of speech and assembly as domestic terrorists. Accordingly, domestic US spy services like the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security demand more resources to wage a secret war against the half of the country that didnt vote for Biden. Only a handful of Republican officials have stood to say anything in support of their political base, US voters who have been hunted, penned, and beaten like savage beasts.

And yet the most astonishing thing about the treatment of January 6 detainees is that if it werent for Julie Kelly, we wouldnt know the truth of what the American government is doing to the citizens it holds as political prisoners. She alone has been reporting these events as theyve unfolded over the last year. Shes spoken, corresponded, and met with detainees and their families, and those encounters with men and women broken physically, psychologically, and financially score the pages of this remarkable account with a steely-eyed passion. Kelly doesnt just demand justice; since she first started reporting the stories of the 1/6 detainees, she has fought for it day after day. And so this book, her report of an American nightmare designed by those who seek to crush the spirit of an independent, free and proud nation and revise the country in their ghoulish image, is a pillar of her campaign, on behalf of the detainees as well as the future of our great country.

History is not linear. Instead, it moves by a different logic, driven by those yearning for freedom, their respect for the sanctity of human life, and search for the eternal, God, in their brief walk on earth. Kellys remarkable book reminds us of the inspiration that readers continue to draw from the works of dissidents who were imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain, writers like Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Vaclav Havel, and Nadezhda Mandelstam. In spite of the dark and awesome hell that that threatened to extinguish light, the souls that illuminated those pages kindled hope, pride, and dignity. They broke the darkness, and truth won. Truth does not always win. Its success depends on our courage to escort it into the light.

And that is what you will find in the book you now hold in your hands, the testimony of a witness who brings us the voice of truth. And the voice you hear in these pages belongs to Americans who demand the rights granted by our maker and that no man has the right to deny us. Julie Kellys essential story is about Americans who despite the physical, psychological, and political violence used against them, nonetheless profess an unshakeable faith in freedom. Every night before the lights go off, Kelly tells us, they raise their voice in song and sing the National Anthem. May God bless America and all those who fight for freedom.

Advance Praise for January 6

Julie Kelly is a singularly courageous journalist and indefatigable defender of truth. This is an eye-opening and breathtaking book that should be read by anyone who cares about justice, due process, and Americas future.