The Eric Metaxas Show - John Strand (Continued)

Episode Date: August 8, 2024

John Strand shares his story of being imprisoned for J6 charges and his latest book: "Patriot Plea: My J6 Journey as a Political Prisoner in the Divided States of America".

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vanilla. I wopanella. Here comes Eric Metaxis. Folks, welcome back. I continue my conversation with John Strand. You can find him at john strand. So, John, so you're sentenced to 32 months. It was very upsetting for me because I know you.

We were hanging out, I don't know, a year and a half ago, whatever it was here in New York City. And you get sentenced. and you go in, I had the privilege in Colorado of meeting your mom and your sisters and hearing about how you're doing. What happened? I want to hear the story of what happened when you went in. Now, those, what was it like for you, a decent, wonderful young man who believes in what is right and good and true being processed, being in. What was that like for you? It's a great question.

Thank you for asking it. The answer is it was terrible. And I really truly mean that. It was absolutely terrible from start to finish in a multitude of ways, which of course I describe at length in the book, Patriot Plee, which I hope everyone will really share. But the basic answer to why it was terrible is, as you mentioned, I'm a law-abiding citizen and I am deeply connected to the Bible, which I firmly believe is the source of absolute truth. And I am deeply connected to those foundations of virtue, of understanding what is good and evil,

and understanding what is right and appropriate and beautiful and truthful and beneficial to humans and to civilization. So freedom was something we talk about a lot in America, as we should. And I've been a freedom fighter for years now. And surrendering myself to prison was an enormous sacrifice. Again, I had that golden parachute. I could have taken a single misdemeanor with a slap on the wrist, probably a week or a month in jail and been back home two years ago. But instead, I went down this road for a reason because freedom is paramount,

but freedom and truth are directly connected. You cannot have one without the other, right? So I had to surrender my freedom in order to pursue truth all the way to the end, if that makes sense. So surrendering to prison was giving up my freedom, and the first day, it was terrible. You realize very quickly what it means to have absolutely no control over essentially what your mind is telling your body to do. You still have control of your mind, but your mind is supposed to be connected to your body,

which then you walk forward through life. And I was cut off from that. I was, I was constrained. So immediately, I felt like I couldn't breathe. The best way to describe prison generally is that I really believe freedom is literal spiritual oxygen to our souls. So I felt asphyxiated to a certain degree, kind of like most people would have this experience if you're sitting down on a couch and a friend like jumps on top of you and suddenly you're uncomfortable because you can't get a full breath. It was sort of like that, the initial period. It got much worse in prison, which I'll explain.

But just the environment of being incarcerated is you're surrendering yourself to being a slave in a very ugly kind of manner where you shouldn't be. Certainly as an innocent person, your mind understands that this is unjust. This is wrong. Your mind and your soul and your body are all designed to be free. So this is against the design. It's like you got a Porsche that's trying to try to. drive 100 miles an hour, but you chained it to a train going the opposite direction of 300 miles an hour. It's a wreck. Well, how did it, now you said it got worse. I mean, what,

what happened? Because at some point you were put in solitary. What happened? Tell that story. So the book gives all the details, but to summarize it briefly, I was essentially entrapped by staff in the prison who I actually have documented evidence that ties them back to, to the AUSA and the FBI. So there was high level, essentially, deep state influence in targeting me specifically and persecuting me harshly. So they caught me in, essentially what happened is they said, you broke a rule. It was some technicality that I had no idea even existed and they never told me about it. So I said, okay, how do we fix this?

they, by their own policy, the rule involved the use of a telephone. So their own policy says, you know, you restrict the use of the telephone for a week or maybe 30 days at most and then you give it back, something along those lines. But what they were really upset at me for was the fact that I communicated to the public. I did an immediate interview, which was very polite and appropriate. I actually complimented the BOP on the interview. And then I did not even speak about the BOP the rest of the time. I just guided the conversation away from that in deference to their requests that I guard their

safety and security as far as that goes. But they were just very upset that I was speaking boldly exposing the government corruption at the DOJ level. So they persecuted me for that. But what they did was they violated their own BOP rule that says for this particular infraction, you would take the phone privilege away for a week or a month. And instead they threw me in solitary and ended up leaving me there for four months. Now, it takes more time than we have to really explain solitary confinement, but to be brief, you are confined to living in a concrete shoebox, and you never leave.

And in my case, most inmates are supposed to have at least a weekly phone call. And certainly, they are not to be prohibited from connecting with their lawyers, because no one should be blocked from their lawyers ever anywhere under any circumstance, period, or it is not the United States of America. There is zero exception to blocking a human being from their lawyer. Zero. Guess what? They blocked me for my lawyers for weeks and weeks and weeks.

They blocked me from every phone call. I did not have one phone call to my family. I was in a concrete shoebox for four months without any idea when it would end, any idea what was being done to me or why. And I'm explaining the intellectual realities of what happened, but it takes longer to lead you through what happened. to me as a human being physically and psychologically. And trust me, it was horrific. And it's only by the grace of God that I kept my wits and that I kept my sanity. And it is it is only by his grace that

we can go through that kind of darkness, which is what I was referring to at the beginning when we first started speaking, that God really met me in the darkness. And that was an incredible moment in my life and in my faith. And it's something I talk about in the book. And I hope hope to share with the American public, along with many other things, to understand that we're in a very dark time. We cannot accept what is happening. And yet at this present moment, we're surrounded by darkness and we need to understand how God will work through that and how he will lead us through it if we're willing and if we're awake. But we have to be awake and willing. And willing means we have to be ready to accept painful, uncomfortable circumstances as a

result of making the right choice. I want to ask you just specifically, how was it, because you were supposed to be in there for 32 months, what was it? It was a Supreme Court ruling fairly recently that made it possible for you to get out. What happened? Yeah. So like I said at the beginning, before I even went in, I established that I am innocent and appealing all charges. That's been really important to me so that the audience understands I never did anything wrong. I am absolutely an innocent man and I'm defending the rule of law and the sacredness of true innocence for myself and hopefully for the country. And that's my stand and my mission. So I have a fantastic team of attorneys. We have appealed the charges as soon as the sentencing was handed down. In the meantime,

they put me in prison, of course. And then about actually, we were aware of a pending process that would be coming to the light fairly soon. We had actually requested the judge to stay my sentence pending my initial appeal because he never should have put me into prison to begin with. What was the reason for that? There's no reason. Like, we live in a nation of laws and rules and protocols. So there was no protocol that suggested I should be imprisoned immediately just because we weren't sure how the appeal would go. I had a strong appeal even before we'd started. There's nothing in my history that suggests I'm a danger or flight risk. Obviously, I proved that for two years of pretrial. So it was ridiculous for him to put me in to begin with,

but he did. And then we advanced the appeal. of the felony charge primarily through a case called Fisher, which was another J6 defendant who was also charged with the 1512 felony that I was charged with. In fact, that 1512 statute affected over 330 defendants, including President Trump. So hang on one second, John. Before we finish this, we're going to have to go to a break. Folks, I'm talking to John Strand. I want to encourage you to go to john Strand.com.

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Final segment for today with my friend. John Strand. So John, again, it's just chilling stuff. I look forward to reading the book. But you're saying you were describing this Fisher case. And so that went to the Supreme Court and it was the Supreme Court ruling that eventually said you needed to be freed. Yes. The Fisher case dealt with the 1512 statute. The United States Supreme Court on June 28th ruled that the government, government improperly used that statute, which was wildly obvious to anyone paying attention that can read plain English. But thankfully, they did the right thing. So they essentially struck down the usage of it, but remanded it back to the court. So the appellate district still has to deal

with individual cases, including mine. However, it was very, very clear that I had won at the Supreme Court at that point. So in principle, I've been vindicated by the Supreme Court as innocent of the felony that they brought against me. And the rest of my appeal continues, but those are done misdemeanors, which, you know, God willing, I will win, but those were small in terms of the prison time. So once the Supreme Court decision came down on Fisher, it was clear that I should be released on July 24th. Do we know what the Supreme Court ruling, was it six to three, was it five to four? Do you know? I do know. And people should know this. It was six to three, and shockingly, one of the leftist judges ruled in our favor, to her credit,

Katanji Jackson Brown. But that means that one of the quote-unquote conservative justices ruled against us. And that was a shocking and abhorrent. Which justice are we talking about? Amy Coney Barrett should be ashamed. Well, listen, I want to tell you. I'll tell you who should be ashamed. people who don't vote.

If you don't vote, folks, if you don't vote, President Trump got three Supreme Court justices on to the Supreme Court. It is only because of that, that we have any semblance of the rule of law in America. So there are people out there who do not vote or they don't want to get involved politically. And it's because of those people that we have horrible things happening. So thank God that we had a six to three ruling and that John Strand, you're out. It's just amazing to me. But this is just one example of why you need to vote and be involved politically.

So let's keep going. You were describing nonetheless what it was like to be on the inside. Did you have any communication with other J-Sixers? Very limited. And when I did, so my time and president, was split between two facilities, and that's because of the terrible abuse and persecution they were inflicting on me in my first facility, which was in Miami. So in Miami, I told you that they essentially set me up and entrap me into this technicality where they could persecute me for these

other reasons. But the bottom line was I had given an interview, and I was speaking boldly about government corruption. And of course, they want to shut that up. But another thing they threw at me was there were a couple of J6 defendants also in that prison who I did not have very much interaction with, but I was polite to them and I asked them if they had support because I know many of them don't come from a strong base of support like I do. And they said, no, we don't. So I referred to some nonprofits that I was familiar with that service J6 defendants for that specific reason, just to make sure that they have letters and contact with family and commissary so that they can eat basic human needs, right?

I simply referred the nonprofit to the J6 defendant and that was in. and they tried to criminalize me for that. They tried to accuse me of aiding and abetting rules. Who are we talking about? Because we need to have justice in America. Who are the people behind trying to persecute you in this way? You mentioned a couple of instances. Who is behind that?

It's the federal government. I mean, it's hard to be more specific than that because the federal government is this giant machine wherein everyone says, I'm just doing my job and I'm following the policy. Right? But, Eric, I want to suggest something to you. I think we hear this a lot that, you know, we respect the institutions, but the corruption

the top needs to be dealt with. But we applaud and we support the rank and file. You've heard that many times, right? We've all heard this. Guess what? Do you think it was Hitler that gassed six million Jews? Of course not. It was the rank and file that murdered six million Jews.

Yeah. No, this is why, I mean, this is why when people say that, there are some people in the rank and file who are good people. But I want to be real clear. I was talking, I interviewed James O'Keefe at Socrates in the city a few months ago. And he was talking about this. FBI agents were like, well, I don't want to lose my pension. So you're scum. You're taking money to do evil things. People's always for my family. Yeah, you're doing, it's like committing murder for your family. Good for you. I'm proud of you. Yeah, yeah. So I'm a hit man. So there are people doing wicked things. And when you say that these people are doing these things.

Now, I guess the question is still, who's behind it, who's pushing this? In other words, who's telling them do this to John Strand? I mean, it certainly traces to the United States Attorney's Office. So I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Merrick Garland. In my view, Merrick Garland is an evil human being, and he is really kind of the general leading that department that has been waging a war against conservative American citizens. citizens and Maga Patriots.

Well, John, as I said, I want to have you back, you know, when the book is out officially and I want to have you back to talk about more stuff because we've just got a few minutes left. But where do you see things going from here? I have said many times that by putting all of you, J-Sixters, behind bars, they have radicalized you. They thought this would silence you. It's just the opposite now.

They have radicalized you where I hope half of the J-6ers, when they get out, run for Congress. Are you thinking about that kind of thing? What are you thinking about? I mean, praise God, you spent your time writing a book. Amen. But 100% that's exactly what I'm thinking about. I was considering even in the immediate window of this year running for office, it looks like that's not going to work out just strategically and logistically.

but yes, you can hear it here first that John Strand will be seriously considering running for public office. And that's not something I've ever wanted to do or anticipated I would be doing for a number of reasons. But it's just clear at this point that the stakes are too high and the patriots are too few. So to answer your question more broadly, I am very excited about the book because it addresses and hopefully answers this question. It's called Patriot Plee, which of course was a reference to the fact that I refused a fraudulent plea that would have given me an easy way out in the interest of maintaining integrity and defending the truth and the innocence of people that are being brutalized by a wicked weaponized government. But it's also a plea to the country. John Strand is pleading with you to open your eyes and to understand that is your responsibility, you and no one. one else because God has gifted you with liberty.

That is a gift. It is the most incredible gift you will ever have. And liberty comes inherently with a responsibility to exercise it appropriately, which we, if we are honest and we can't afford to not be honest anymore, we have not been taking care of our responsibilities as a country, certainly as an American church, which I speak directly in this book and as individual citizens of America. Oh, yeah. No, that's become extremely clear to me, and I talk about it virtually nonstop, that it is an amazing thing. I mean, even back in 2016, I came out with my book, If You Can Keep It. And even then, I really didn't have any sense of what is the price to keep the Republic? And when Benjamin Franklin, you know, it almost seems cavalierly, he was asked, what have you given us a monarchy of Republic? He goes, a Republic, Madam, if you can keep it. He really understood that keeping the Republic, free comes with a price. He and George Washington and John Adams and all the other founders

risk their lives and their fortunes and their sacred honor. Some of them were murdered by the British. People gave their lives and we forget that's called reality, folks. If you want to be free, now look, there are a lot of people, they don't care. They'll just go along to get along. They simply don't care. Those people are the enemies of America. They're the enemies of freedom. But there are people who have cared. There are people who are willing to pay the price. And we are where we are now, because for many, many decades, we've forgotten that you have to pay a price.

And we haven't paid the price. And so now we're here. And so I see folks like you who want to lead the way to drain the swamp, to make sure that the wicked officials we're talking about are not in government. that we only have people in government who love this country, who love freedom, who love truth and goodness. Those are the kind of people that we want to elect. Those are the kind of people that we want making the laws and forcing the laws. And so I get excited, John, at the possibility of you running for office. But we need 100 of you.

We need 400 of you. We need a nation of people who are willing to pay the price that we have to pay because it's the right thing. And folks, you know, we're at a time here, but I just want to say you cannot out-give God. When you do the right thing, God is with you. God is with you. And if God is with you, you have more than you need. John, we will have you back. God bless you, my friend.

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And then in 2009, they said their reserves went up by 65%. So actually, they were buying the whole time. But, you know, China is not so deliberate or willing to give out information. So a lot of it has to do with central bank demand. I also think it just comes down to the cost of pulling gold and silver out of the ground has gotten more expensive. So I think it's been a reaction to that. But yes, you're right.

Like your typical bull run and gold would be tied into, you know, lower cheap money. You know, Black Swan, we did have a – we've had a few things happen. We haven't seen your typical events to push gold up. But I think people realize that it's a price that's desirable. I'm telling people the website is noblegoldinvestments.com. Now, if people go there, you talked a little bit earlier, about personal attention, those of people are looking for guidance with the finances. So talk a little bit about Noble Gold investments, how you do that.

So we're a U.S.-based company, and we actually have live people. You're not going to talk to a bot or AI. You're going to get a representative, and they also have a person that's working with them. So Noble Gold sort of trended in the opposite direction of a lot of businesses where they've gone so digital and AI-driven. We have people, which I think people like. So you get a person to talk to. we have gold investment guides, silver investment guides.

The most recent thing that we've come up with and worked on is our Kevin Sorbo masterclass, which is less than an hour. It's video, and that's totally for free, and it's for people that want to learn in a video format. So it talks about, because Kevin has been buying gold since the early 80s, which I found out over the last few years. So we've combined and put a master class together. So we have a lot of free information. So our goal is to educate.

people on precious metals, get them a lot of good information, and then, you know, have a relationship with them over many years. Well, I love that. And I just, we're going to go in a second here, but I was going to say, this stuff is so beautiful. Is this a silver? I mean, is this silver? That's silver, yeah. That's a five-ounce silver, America, the beautiful coin. Now, what is that worth? That's about $180. I can afford this. Okay, I can afford this. I know you're going to not let me keep any of this stuff. Now, you sure you don't want to, like, let me hold on to this for just a couple of months. A couple of months. I think we're at a time. I think we're going to conclude you will let me keep this. Yes, absolutely. And you'll let me keep this.

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