In Support of a Young America First Scapegoat, by Michelle Malkin

Subsequent 7 days, a young school college student will deal with a federal judge in Washington, D.C., at a sentencing listening to above his nonviolent participation in the Jan. 6 Capitol rally. UCLA undergrad Christian Secor was arrested previous February and put in far more than a month in solitary confinement. Imagine about that.

Contrary to the weekly parade of repeat violent prison rapists, robbers, pedophiles and murderers throughout the country with huge rap sheets who take pleasure in a no-bail revolving door, Christian experienced under no circumstances, ever been in trouble with the law just before his arrest.

The un-American Office of Injustice has made lifetime hell for hundreds of tranquil Trump rally contributors — locking them up, throwing away the crucial, harassing their people, withholding evidence and obliterating their constitutional rights to stifle dissent, punish the Democrats’ political enemies and weaponize J6 till kingdom arrive. Never choose my word for it. A D.C. magistrate overseeing some of the cases, Zia Faruqui, decried the gargantuan prosecutions of almost 900 defendants, such as at least two People who were being left to languish in custody following being “lost” for weeks with out scheduled hearings.

“It feels like the authorities has bitten off a lot more than it can chew listed here,” Faruqui complained in March.

Yes, the vengeful federal beast has an insatiable urge for food and bottomless resources to wreck life. The D.C. witch-hunt prosecutors threw a pile of charges at Christian that created sensational headlines, like “assaulting, resisting or impeding officers,” as liberal Countrywide Community Radio claimed. Christian pleaded not responsible to all expenses in March 2021 but, 14 wearying months later on, entered an settlement to plead guilty to a single felony charge of “obstructing a federal proceeding.”

Below is what I wrote to the decide in Christian’s case, the Honorable Trevor McFadden, to share what I know about this bright young guy as he faces up to 20 yrs in prison subsequent 7 days.

Pricey Choose McFadden,

My title is Michelle Malkin and I am composing on behalf of Christian Secor, whom you will sentence on October 19, 2022. I am a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, investigative journalist, creator of 7 textbooks, campus speaker, and mentor to numerous youthful conservative activists across the nation for the past 30 a long time.

In November 2019, I initial fulfilled Christian ahead of offering a speech at UCLA sponsored by the Bruin Republicans. I right away discovered him to be polite, witty, and really clever. He demonstrated broad and deep information of entire world affairs. We share identical perspectives as passionate defenders of American sovereignty and unapologetic nationalism. I observed or communicated with Christian a number of instances in between the tumble of 2019 and the drop of 2020. He was constructively engaged in student activism on campus locally and in aiding to unite conservative learners nationally on immigration and general public wellness and security issues as the pandemic era erupted.

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Recognizing my adore of the outside, Christian despatched me a attractive mountain and rainbow photograph from his summer season 2020 vacation in flyover country. He thoughtfully messaged to would like me happy birthday in Oct 2020. 4 months afterwards, I acquired of his arrest and the stunning 40 days he expended in solitary confinement.

A non-violent higher education child with zero felony file held in isolation for 40 days? This is not the America my immigrant moms and dads from the Philippines considered they ended up obtaining when they remaining an authoritarian regime that jailed political opponents and punished student activists.

Never ever in any of my conversations or interactions with Christian did he at any time convey assist for violence.

Under no circumstances in any of my discussions or interactions with Christian did he ever convey any sentiments of “racism,” “Nazism,” “white supremacy,” “fascism,” or “insurrection.”

As a veteran journalist who has labored in newspapers and on Tv set for the past a few decades, as properly as an Web entrepreneur who founded two influential political information and impression websites, I am deeply disturbed by the distorted media profiles of Christian that have baselessly savaged his character and remodeled him from a peacefully provocative university student activist into some form of unsafe agent provocateur. This is patently untrue and unjust.

I fully grasp Christian has pled guilty to one felony charge of “obstructing a federal continuing.”

I also comprehend that Christian did not bring any weapons, touch an officer, or disregard any law enforcement requests. I comprehend he walked in a doorway that Capitol police opened and then stepped apart. I realize that following moving into the primary Senate flooring, he was instructed by a police officer to leave — and he dutifully complied.

Choose McFadden, I ask that justice be served in Christian’s situation by granting him probation and allowing for this 24-yr-old to go on his instructional pursuits in liberty alternatively of continuing to serve as a political scapegoat driving bars. Thank you for taking into consideration this letter of assistance.

Pray for sanity and justice to prevail in this scenario and so lots of other people nevertheless struggling in solitude and silence. Stop-stage America’s victims are legion.

Michelle Malkin’s e-mail handle is [email protected]