I’m on a military base with my Chinese wife and she’s busy snapping photos with her phone. Then her Chinese father calls her from China and she’s jabbering away in their chink language, and everyone is giving me the side eye.
Five years ago today, a large group of Americans rallied in DC and sought redress of their grievances over what they believed to be a stolen election.
They were set up. By the government. Two were murdered. Thousands spent four years in an underground jail without charges against them. Many plead to excessive charges just to have certainty in their future. One died in custody.
Trump pardoned them. But no one can give them back their dignity or the years they spent being tortured by the government they loved.