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Reader responds to father of "insurrectionist"

By Mike Huckabee

July 30, 2021
|

Yesterday, we wrote about a letter from a newsletter reader whose son is one of those incarcerated in the wake of the Capitol breach on January 6. (His son is one of those who didn’t even go inside the building.) Imagine how it must be to have one’s son being held in jail by the feds, with no bail, for many months (like a murderer), awaiting a trial that might not even happen until sometime in 2022. It’s not even possible for the father to have a private conversation with his own son, as phone conversations are monitored at the jail, and the son isn’t even able to meet in private with an attorney. All of this, I feel compelled to remind you, is happening in America, the land of the free.

In case you didn’t see the father’s letter and our response, here it is.

https://www.mikehuckabee.com/latest-news?id=25AAFBB1-0197-4525-A6F6-CC190FDAB183

After this piece ran, we received a comment from another reader who took exception to what the father had said about his son, saying the son had nothing to apologize for and was even a hero. In fact, her letter ended in a way that seemed downright abusive to the father. (It’s all too easy to get abusive towards people we only talk to online, people we have never met and don’t know at all.) We thought this reader’s questions and observations deserved to be addressed at length. First, here is her letter...

(From Sharon)

Just a couple of questions about the father of the Capitol Hill detainee:

First of all, why would black people not support Trump people?

Because most black people do but then again these were criminals.

Also, the father says what his son did was wrong? Oh? Getting in the way of Goebbels and the Gestapo?

My father saw combat in Korea and Vietnam and if that’d been me he’d have been cheering not saying I’d done wrong.

Mister your son did right and he is a hero and if you don’t stand with him shame on you.

………………..

Dear Sharon:

Thank you for responding; we welcome responses from all sides. But I think some issues here cry out for clarification.

The father, Keith, did mention in his letter that most of the inmates at DC Correctional were black –- as are most of the residents of Washington, DC –- and that in general they were dismayed to have Trump supporters in their midst. That is not surprising and is not the same as saying black people don’t support Trump, only that these particular black people in Washington, DC, did not. And while the black conservative movement is picking up steam in some parts of the country, most black people are still not a part of that. We can deny reality if you would like, but these inmates of the DC Correctional facility, who do happen to be mostly black, are not Trump supporters. Probably some of the white ones aren’t, either; after all, this is Washington, DC. On the bright side, once they learned Alan was a Trump supporter and not a pedophile, they treated him better than they treat pedophiles.

Recall that according to the letter we previously posted from detainee Joe Biggs, some of the black people Biggs met in a Florida correctional facility were struck by what a nice guy he was. They liked him. It wasn’t the black men, but some of the white men identifying as white supremacists, who didn’t want to be associated with him. They said he was “too nice” to be in their group.

In fact, Joe said that one thing he’d learned for sure after meeting real white supremacists in this jail was that he WASN’T ONE.

Sharon, you criticize Alan’s father for saying that what his son did was wrong. We don’t know the details of the confrontation his son had with police and a reporter outside the Capitol Building, but the son does, and if he feels contrite and believes he was in the wrong, I think we should take him at his word. You know I’ve said myself that this confrontation was a bad idea and has had terrible repercussions. I’m not sure you understood me when I said the left is using this for great political benefit. In that sense, anything that was done at the Capitol Building that went beyond peaceable assembly was indeed wrong. If this young man realizes that, so much the better.

You may say he did right to fight against “Goebbels and the Gestapo,” but, again, we don’t know exactly what went down and his part in it. According to his dad, since he’s come to the Lord he’s thought deeply about the kind of man he wants to be. He’s sorry for what he did. His father respects that, and I think we should, too.

The thing that really stood out to me in this father’s letter was the dismay at the two-tier justice system. “I guess if you are a Democrat,” he said, “you can burn a city or burn a federal building with agents inside it; you may be arrested but will be out the next day without bail.”

This young man does NOT deserve to be languishing on a lower rung of our “justice” system simply because he is a Trump supporter, and he absolutely does not deserve to be held for many months with bail denied. As I’ve said, he and the other “detainees” (political prisoners) are being used as political props for the statecraft that is Nancy Pelosi’s investigatory “commission,” when they should be treated with exactly the same rights as any other American. Direct your fury at THAT, not at a father who is hurting and thinking about his son.

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Comments 41-50 of 55

  • Nick Wright

    07/30/2021 02:28 PM

    Do you think the prisoners will be called to testify before the committee? To give an actual eye witness account?
    Do you think the guard who shot Ashli will be called to testify? To give an actual eye witness account?
    Not likely.

  • Donna Whitfield

    07/30/2021 02:24 PM

    I’m commenting on a story you wrote several weeks ago about China purchasing farm land, this isn’t new they’ve been doing it for years and have thousands of acres all over the country. I live in a very small country town in North Florida, Gates purchased a large commercial farm, kept it for a few years, you know a tax right off, then sold it, to a company (China) we also have a cement factory, they had to jump through hoops to get approved, but guess what it has a new owner too (China) I’ve been told even GM is owned by China, unfortunately because of all the legal stuff, it’s not even evident to the some sellers of their property that it’s China that is doing the purchasing, some people might not sell if they knew, but others wouldn’t care! Thanks for being a voice that I can believe!

  • Michael P. Herriges

    07/30/2021 02:19 PM

    Governor Huckabee,
    I fully agree with your response. It has become way too easy to criticize and malign those we never meet face to face. I think I understand some of her critiques but, as you so aptly pointed out, we don't know the facts of what happened that day in that particular confrontation. Thank you for taking the high road in responding and covering these trying times.

  • Gerry Davis

    07/30/2021 02:14 PM

    I have put this story on every friend, family and asked them to share it. I have asked everyone to pray for this situation. There's an old saying "never judge an Indian until you walk in their shoes." Some people are so quick to judge before they know both sides. I find that today, people pop off and say things they would never had said before and contribute that to the conditions we all have had to live in for the last year and more.

  • Micah Duckett

    07/30/2021 02:12 PM

    Mike (may I call you by your first name), do you think the dog and pony “capitol assault investigation” show with its overkill is a smokescreen to direct our attention away from what is really destroying America elsewhere, like the southern border, voter integrity assault, results of Maricopa County audit, etc.?

  • Keith Byerly

    07/30/2021 01:50 PM

    Thank you for your clarification on my letter. There are new information about Alan. I spoke to his Federal public defender the other day (Federal public defenders are fully funded with investigatorsand paralegals and etc) he was going to speak, VIA video, to Alan on Thursday the 29th and the bail hearing today the 30th (which he was going to request for a postponement for 7 days to better prepare as he has only been assigned to Alan a couple days. As far as the black folk in DC jail there is at least one Trump supporter as he yelled out "Trump won". Alan is quarantine for 5 more days. (kept in his cell 23 hrs a. Day) hopefully then be moved to where the rest of the January 6th people are kept. Thanks again for your prayers 3ft support. For the lady that wrote the reply I love mmy son very much and support him in all he believes in, but breaking the law is worng. Alan knows that. Breaking laws that go against our Constitution is not wrong (like freedom of religion and our 2nd amendment rights etc) Anyway thanks my family and I appreciate you

  • Elizabeth Crouse

    07/30/2021 01:41 PM

    When two senators tried to visit jail, they were not allowed. The security at the Capitol seemed to have written and rehearsed remarks. Fraud. You could see their remarks were not theirs. My Dad was a prison Warden. Everybody can see family and legal help. Evil.

  • Kemala Tribe

    07/30/2021 01:38 PM

    I don't understand why there's even a question about the right/wrong of people entering the capitol building. There were instigators (wrong) and the curious (not wrong). Had I been there, I would have entered, and I'll explain why. Normally, I don't watch the news, but on Jan 6 I watched live coverage for hours -- coverage by Victory News. I watched as cops, or people dressed as cops, moved the barricades to DIRECT MARCHERS TOWARD THE CAPITOL rather than block access, I watched as the peaceful crowd came closer to the building, I watched as peaceful people filled the steps of the building waving flags and shouting "USA" etc... and I watched as DC cops OPENED THE DOORS to invite marchers in. The first cop in the line kept repeating, "I don't agree with this," but the others did not. I listened as Gene Bailey, I think it was, took a call from Lance Wallnau who was on a different side of the building, saying that he could see the guys breaking in through a window, and no matter what was about to be reported by other media, that he could see them and it was Antifa. This was just prior to the intruders actually crawling through the window. BTW, how is it even possible to break into the Capitol Bldg the same way a street-level thug would rob a house when nobody's home? You know there had to be a concerted effort to WITHDRAW NORMAL SECURITY PROTOCOLS that day. So had I been in DC, walking from the rally to the Capitol Bldg, I don't doubt for a second that I would have walked up those stairs and gone in just to see what was happening, thinking, "Cool! We get to go in!" DC buildings have always been open to the public when I've visited there, and I don't think in terms of "breeching security", so I probably wouldn't have had any idea I was doing something "wrong." Especially not with the police presence and the fact that a cop was holding the door open for me. Those holding the detainees (are any of them Democrats, BLM or Antifa -- probably only the GOP members are being held), American citizens, as political prisoners, will one day be on trial themselves. God will rescue our nation. Detainees may have been made to feel they did something wrong on January 6... but in the moment I doubt they realized it.

  • Cathryn Wagner

    07/30/2021 01:22 PM

    I agree with you, Gov. Huckabee. You are always the voice of commonsense, love and kindness towards all. These are qualities that are non-existent in so many people in the US today. Thank you for all that you do, and for this newsletter.

  • Micheal Ellis

    07/30/2021 01:11 PM

    Last I checked we still live in U.S.A. and with that knowledge his son is entitled to an lawyer no matter what. As a father myself I would be a long and loud story on howy sons rights are being blocked.

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    Biden Scandal News

    Reader responds to father of "insurrectionist"

    By Mike Huckabee

    July 30, 2021
    |

    Yesterday, we wrote about a letter from a newsletter reader whose son is one of those incarcerated in the wake of the Capitol breach on January 6. (His son is one of those who didn’t even go inside the building.) Imagine how it must be to have one’s son being held in jail by the feds, with no bail, for many months (like a murderer), awaiting a trial that might not even happen until sometime in 2022. It’s not even possible for the father to have a private conversation with his own son, as phone conversations are monitored at the jail, and the son isn’t even able to meet in private with an attorney. All of this, I feel compelled to remind you, is happening in America, the land of the free.

    In case you didn’t see the father’s letter and our response, here it is.

    https://www.mikehuckabee.com/latest-news?id=25AAFBB1-0197-4525-A6F6-CC190FDAB183

    After this piece ran, we received a comment from another reader who took exception to what the father had said about his son, saying the son had nothing to apologize for and was even a hero. In fact, her letter ended in a way that seemed downright abusive to the father. (It’s all too easy to get abusive towards people we only talk to online, people we have never met and don’t know at all.) We thought this reader’s questions and observations deserved to be addressed at length. First, here is her letter...

    (From Sharon)

    Just a couple of questions about the father of the Capitol Hill detainee:

    First of all, why would black people not support Trump people?

    Because most black people do but then again these were criminals.

    Also, the father says what his son did was wrong? Oh? Getting in the way of Goebbels and the Gestapo?

    My father saw combat in Korea and Vietnam and if that’d been me he’d have been cheering not saying I’d done wrong.

    Mister your son did right and he is a hero and if you don’t stand with him shame on you.

    ………………..

    Dear Sharon:

    Thank you for responding; we welcome responses from all sides. But I think some issues here cry out for clarification.

    The father, Keith, did mention in his letter that most of the inmates at DC Correctional were black –- as are most of the residents of Washington, DC –- and that in general they were dismayed to have Trump supporters in their midst. That is not surprising and is not the same as saying black people don’t support Trump, only that these particular black people in Washington, DC, did not. And while the black conservative movement is picking up steam in some parts of the country, most black people are still not a part of that. We can deny reality if you would like, but these inmates of the DC Correctional facility, who do happen to be mostly black, are not Trump supporters. Probably some of the white ones aren’t, either; after all, this is Washington, DC. On the bright side, once they learned Alan was a Trump supporter and not a pedophile, they treated him better than they treat pedophiles.

    Recall that according to the letter we previously posted from detainee Joe Biggs, some of the black people Biggs met in a Florida correctional facility were struck by what a nice guy he was. They liked him. It wasn’t the black men, but some of the white men identifying as white supremacists, who didn’t want to be associated with him. They said he was “too nice” to be in their group.

    In fact, Joe said that one thing he’d learned for sure after meeting real white supremacists in this jail was that he WASN’T ONE.

    Sharon, you criticize Alan’s father for saying that what his son did was wrong. We don’t know the details of the confrontation his son had with police and a reporter outside the Capitol Building, but the son does, and if he feels contrite and believes he was in the wrong, I think we should take him at his word. You know I’ve said myself that this confrontation was a bad idea and has had terrible repercussions. I’m not sure you understood me when I said the left is using this for great political benefit. In that sense, anything that was done at the Capitol Building that went beyond peaceable assembly was indeed wrong. If this young man realizes that, so much the better.

    You may say he did right to fight against “Goebbels and the Gestapo,” but, again, we don’t know exactly what went down and his part in it. According to his dad, since he’s come to the Lord he’s thought deeply about the kind of man he wants to be. He’s sorry for what he did. His father respects that, and I think we should, too.

    The thing that really stood out to me in this father’s letter was the dismay at the two-tier justice system. “I guess if you are a Democrat,” he said, “you can burn a city or burn a federal building with agents inside it; you may be arrested but will be out the next day without bail.”

    This young man does NOT deserve to be languishing on a lower rung of our “justice” system simply because he is a Trump supporter, and he absolutely does not deserve to be held for many months with bail denied. As I’ve said, he and the other “detainees” (political prisoners) are being used as political props for the statecraft that is Nancy Pelosi’s investigatory “commission,” when they should be treated with exactly the same rights as any other American. Direct your fury at THAT, not at a father who is hurting and thinking about his son.

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    Comments 41-50 of 55

    • Nick Wright

      07/30/2021 02:28 PM

      Do you think the prisoners will be called to testify before the committee? To give an actual eye witness account?
      Do you think the guard who shot Ashli will be called to testify? To give an actual eye witness account?
      Not likely.

    • Donna Whitfield

      07/30/2021 02:24 PM

      I’m commenting on a story you wrote several weeks ago about China purchasing farm land, this isn’t new they’ve been doing it for years and have thousands of acres all over the country. I live in a very small country town in North Florida, Gates purchased a large commercial farm, kept it for a few years, you know a tax right off, then sold it, to a company (China) we also have a cement factory, they had to jump through hoops to get approved, but guess what it has a new owner too (China) I’ve been told even GM is owned by China, unfortunately because of all the legal stuff, it’s not even evident to the some sellers of their property that it’s China that is doing the purchasing, some people might not sell if they knew, but others wouldn’t care! Thanks for being a voice that I can believe!

    • Michael P. Herriges

      07/30/2021 02:19 PM

      Governor Huckabee,
      I fully agree with your response. It has become way too easy to criticize and malign those we never meet face to face. I think I understand some of her critiques but, as you so aptly pointed out, we don't know the facts of what happened that day in that particular confrontation. Thank you for taking the high road in responding and covering these trying times.

    • Gerry Davis

      07/30/2021 02:14 PM

      I have put this story on every friend, family and asked them to share it. I have asked everyone to pray for this situation. There's an old saying "never judge an Indian until you walk in their shoes." Some people are so quick to judge before they know both sides. I find that today, people pop off and say things they would never had said before and contribute that to the conditions we all have had to live in for the last year and more.

    • Micah Duckett

      07/30/2021 02:12 PM

      Mike (may I call you by your first name), do you think the dog and pony “capitol assault investigation” show with its overkill is a smokescreen to direct our attention away from what is really destroying America elsewhere, like the southern border, voter integrity assault, results of Maricopa County audit, etc.?

    • Keith Byerly

      07/30/2021 01:50 PM

      Thank you for your clarification on my letter. There are new information about Alan. I spoke to his Federal public defender the other day (Federal public defenders are fully funded with investigatorsand paralegals and etc) he was going to speak, VIA video, to Alan on Thursday the 29th and the bail hearing today the 30th (which he was going to request for a postponement for 7 days to better prepare as he has only been assigned to Alan a couple days. As far as the black folk in DC jail there is at least one Trump supporter as he yelled out "Trump won". Alan is quarantine for 5 more days. (kept in his cell 23 hrs a. Day) hopefully then be moved to where the rest of the January 6th people are kept. Thanks again for your prayers 3ft support. For the lady that wrote the reply I love mmy son very much and support him in all he believes in, but breaking the law is worng. Alan knows that. Breaking laws that go against our Constitution is not wrong (like freedom of religion and our 2nd amendment rights etc) Anyway thanks my family and I appreciate you

    • Elizabeth Crouse

      07/30/2021 01:41 PM

      When two senators tried to visit jail, they were not allowed. The security at the Capitol seemed to have written and rehearsed remarks. Fraud. You could see their remarks were not theirs. My Dad was a prison Warden. Everybody can see family and legal help. Evil.

    • Kemala Tribe

      07/30/2021 01:38 PM

      I don't understand why there's even a question about the right/wrong of people entering the capitol building. There were instigators (wrong) and the curious (not wrong). Had I been there, I would have entered, and I'll explain why. Normally, I don't watch the news, but on Jan 6 I watched live coverage for hours -- coverage by Victory News. I watched as cops, or people dressed as cops, moved the barricades to DIRECT MARCHERS TOWARD THE CAPITOL rather than block access, I watched as the peaceful crowd came closer to the building, I watched as peaceful people filled the steps of the building waving flags and shouting "USA" etc... and I watched as DC cops OPENED THE DOORS to invite marchers in. The first cop in the line kept repeating, "I don't agree with this," but the others did not. I listened as Gene Bailey, I think it was, took a call from Lance Wallnau who was on a different side of the building, saying that he could see the guys breaking in through a window, and no matter what was about to be reported by other media, that he could see them and it was Antifa. This was just prior to the intruders actually crawling through the window. BTW, how is it even possible to break into the Capitol Bldg the same way a street-level thug would rob a house when nobody's home? You know there had to be a concerted effort to WITHDRAW NORMAL SECURITY PROTOCOLS that day. So had I been in DC, walking from the rally to the Capitol Bldg, I don't doubt for a second that I would have walked up those stairs and gone in just to see what was happening, thinking, "Cool! We get to go in!" DC buildings have always been open to the public when I've visited there, and I don't think in terms of "breeching security", so I probably wouldn't have had any idea I was doing something "wrong." Especially not with the police presence and the fact that a cop was holding the door open for me. Those holding the detainees (are any of them Democrats, BLM or Antifa -- probably only the GOP members are being held), American citizens, as political prisoners, will one day be on trial themselves. God will rescue our nation. Detainees may have been made to feel they did something wrong on January 6... but in the moment I doubt they realized it.

    • Cathryn Wagner

      07/30/2021 01:22 PM

      I agree with you, Gov. Huckabee. You are always the voice of commonsense, love and kindness towards all. These are qualities that are non-existent in so many people in the US today. Thank you for all that you do, and for this newsletter.

    • Micheal Ellis

      07/30/2021 01:11 PM

      Last I checked we still live in U.S.A. and with that knowledge his son is entitled to an lawyer no matter what. As a father myself I would be a long and loud story on howy sons rights are being blocked.

    Trump Indictment News

    Reader responds to father of "insurrectionist"

    By Mike Huckabee

    July 30, 2021
    |

    Yesterday, we wrote about a letter from a newsletter reader whose son is one of those incarcerated in the wake of the Capitol breach on January 6. (His son is one of those who didn’t even go inside the building.) Imagine how it must be to have one’s son being held in jail by the feds, with no bail, for many months (like a murderer), awaiting a trial that might not even happen until sometime in 2022. It’s not even possible for the father to have a private conversation with his own son, as phone conversations are monitored at the jail, and the son isn’t even able to meet in private with an attorney. All of this, I feel compelled to remind you, is happening in America, the land of the free.

    In case you didn’t see the father’s letter and our response, here it is.

    https://www.mikehuckabee.com/latest-news?id=25AAFBB1-0197-4525-A6F6-CC190FDAB183

    After this piece ran, we received a comment from another reader who took exception to what the father had said about his son, saying the son had nothing to apologize for and was even a hero. In fact, her letter ended in a way that seemed downright abusive to the father. (It’s all too easy to get abusive towards people we only talk to online, people we have never met and don’t know at all.) We thought this reader’s questions and observations deserved to be addressed at length. First, here is her letter...

    (From Sharon)

    Just a couple of questions about the father of the Capitol Hill detainee:

    First of all, why would black people not support Trump people?

    Because most black people do but then again these were criminals.

    Also, the father says what his son did was wrong? Oh? Getting in the way of Goebbels and the Gestapo?

    My father saw combat in Korea and Vietnam and if that’d been me he’d have been cheering not saying I’d done wrong.

    Mister your son did right and he is a hero and if you don’t stand with him shame on you.

    ………………..

    Dear Sharon:

    Thank you for responding; we welcome responses from all sides. But I think some issues here cry out for clarification.

    The father, Keith, did mention in his letter that most of the inmates at DC Correctional were black –- as are most of the residents of Washington, DC –- and that in general they were dismayed to have Trump supporters in their midst. That is not surprising and is not the same as saying black people don’t support Trump, only that these particular black people in Washington, DC, did not. And while the black conservative movement is picking up steam in some parts of the country, most black people are still not a part of that. We can deny reality if you would like, but these inmates of the DC Correctional facility, who do happen to be mostly black, are not Trump supporters. Probably some of the white ones aren’t, either; after all, this is Washington, DC. On the bright side, once they learned Alan was a Trump supporter and not a pedophile, they treated him better than they treat pedophiles.

    Recall that according to the letter we previously posted from detainee Joe Biggs, some of the black people Biggs met in a Florida correctional facility were struck by what a nice guy he was. They liked him. It wasn’t the black men, but some of the white men identifying as white supremacists, who didn’t want to be associated with him. They said he was “too nice” to be in their group.

    In fact, Joe said that one thing he’d learned for sure after meeting real white supremacists in this jail was that he WASN’T ONE.

    Sharon, you criticize Alan’s father for saying that what his son did was wrong. We don’t know the details of the confrontation his son had with police and a reporter outside the Capitol Building, but the son does, and if he feels contrite and believes he was in the wrong, I think we should take him at his word. You know I’ve said myself that this confrontation was a bad idea and has had terrible repercussions. I’m not sure you understood me when I said the left is using this for great political benefit. In that sense, anything that was done at the Capitol Building that went beyond peaceable assembly was indeed wrong. If this young man realizes that, so much the better.

    You may say he did right to fight against “Goebbels and the Gestapo,” but, again, we don’t know exactly what went down and his part in it. According to his dad, since he’s come to the Lord he’s thought deeply about the kind of man he wants to be. He’s sorry for what he did. His father respects that, and I think we should, too.

    The thing that really stood out to me in this father’s letter was the dismay at the two-tier justice system. “I guess if you are a Democrat,” he said, “you can burn a city or burn a federal building with agents inside it; you may be arrested but will be out the next day without bail.”

    This young man does NOT deserve to be languishing on a lower rung of our “justice” system simply because he is a Trump supporter, and he absolutely does not deserve to be held for many months with bail denied. As I’ve said, he and the other “detainees” (political prisoners) are being used as political props for the statecraft that is Nancy Pelosi’s investigatory “commission,” when they should be treated with exactly the same rights as any other American. Direct your fury at THAT, not at a father who is hurting and thinking about his son.

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    Comments 41-50 of 55

    • Nick Wright

      07/30/2021 02:28 PM

      Do you think the prisoners will be called to testify before the committee? To give an actual eye witness account?
      Do you think the guard who shot Ashli will be called to testify? To give an actual eye witness account?
      Not likely.

    • Donna Whitfield

      07/30/2021 02:24 PM

      I’m commenting on a story you wrote several weeks ago about China purchasing farm land, this isn’t new they’ve been doing it for years and have thousands of acres all over the country. I live in a very small country town in North Florida, Gates purchased a large commercial farm, kept it for a few years, you know a tax right off, then sold it, to a company (China) we also have a cement factory, they had to jump through hoops to get approved, but guess what it has a new owner too (China) I’ve been told even GM is owned by China, unfortunately because of all the legal stuff, it’s not even evident to the some sellers of their property that it’s China that is doing the purchasing, some people might not sell if they knew, but others wouldn’t care! Thanks for being a voice that I can believe!

    • Michael P. Herriges

      07/30/2021 02:19 PM

      Governor Huckabee,
      I fully agree with your response. It has become way too easy to criticize and malign those we never meet face to face. I think I understand some of her critiques but, as you so aptly pointed out, we don't know the facts of what happened that day in that particular confrontation. Thank you for taking the high road in responding and covering these trying times.

    • Gerry Davis

      07/30/2021 02:14 PM

      I have put this story on every friend, family and asked them to share it. I have asked everyone to pray for this situation. There's an old saying "never judge an Indian until you walk in their shoes." Some people are so quick to judge before they know both sides. I find that today, people pop off and say things they would never had said before and contribute that to the conditions we all have had to live in for the last year and more.

    • Micah Duckett

      07/30/2021 02:12 PM

      Mike (may I call you by your first name), do you think the dog and pony “capitol assault investigation” show with its overkill is a smokescreen to direct our attention away from what is really destroying America elsewhere, like the southern border, voter integrity assault, results of Maricopa County audit, etc.?

    • Keith Byerly

      07/30/2021 01:50 PM

      Thank you for your clarification on my letter. There are new information about Alan. I spoke to his Federal public defender the other day (Federal public defenders are fully funded with investigatorsand paralegals and etc) he was going to speak, VIA video, to Alan on Thursday the 29th and the bail hearing today the 30th (which he was going to request for a postponement for 7 days to better prepare as he has only been assigned to Alan a couple days. As far as the black folk in DC jail there is at least one Trump supporter as he yelled out "Trump won". Alan is quarantine for 5 more days. (kept in his cell 23 hrs a. Day) hopefully then be moved to where the rest of the January 6th people are kept. Thanks again for your prayers 3ft support. For the lady that wrote the reply I love mmy son very much and support him in all he believes in, but breaking the law is worng. Alan knows that. Breaking laws that go against our Constitution is not wrong (like freedom of religion and our 2nd amendment rights etc) Anyway thanks my family and I appreciate you

    • Elizabeth Crouse

      07/30/2021 01:41 PM

      When two senators tried to visit jail, they were not allowed. The security at the Capitol seemed to have written and rehearsed remarks. Fraud. You could see their remarks were not theirs. My Dad was a prison Warden. Everybody can see family and legal help. Evil.

    • Kemala Tribe

      07/30/2021 01:38 PM

      I don't understand why there's even a question about the right/wrong of people entering the capitol building. There were instigators (wrong) and the curious (not wrong). Had I been there, I would have entered, and I'll explain why. Normally, I don't watch the news, but on Jan 6 I watched live coverage for hours -- coverage by Victory News. I watched as cops, or people dressed as cops, moved the barricades to DIRECT MARCHERS TOWARD THE CAPITOL rather than block access, I watched as the peaceful crowd came closer to the building, I watched as peaceful people filled the steps of the building waving flags and shouting "USA" etc... and I watched as DC cops OPENED THE DOORS to invite marchers in. The first cop in the line kept repeating, "I don't agree with this," but the others did not. I listened as Gene Bailey, I think it was, took a call from Lance Wallnau who was on a different side of the building, saying that he could see the guys breaking in through a window, and no matter what was about to be reported by other media, that he could see them and it was Antifa. This was just prior to the intruders actually crawling through the window. BTW, how is it even possible to break into the Capitol Bldg the same way a street-level thug would rob a house when nobody's home? You know there had to be a concerted effort to WITHDRAW NORMAL SECURITY PROTOCOLS that day. So had I been in DC, walking from the rally to the Capitol Bldg, I don't doubt for a second that I would have walked up those stairs and gone in just to see what was happening, thinking, "Cool! We get to go in!" DC buildings have always been open to the public when I've visited there, and I don't think in terms of "breeching security", so I probably wouldn't have had any idea I was doing something "wrong." Especially not with the police presence and the fact that a cop was holding the door open for me. Those holding the detainees (are any of them Democrats, BLM or Antifa -- probably only the GOP members are being held), American citizens, as political prisoners, will one day be on trial themselves. God will rescue our nation. Detainees may have been made to feel they did something wrong on January 6... but in the moment I doubt they realized it.

    • Cathryn Wagner

      07/30/2021 01:22 PM

      I agree with you, Gov. Huckabee. You are always the voice of commonsense, love and kindness towards all. These are qualities that are non-existent in so many people in the US today. Thank you for all that you do, and for this newsletter.

    • Micheal Ellis

      07/30/2021 01:11 PM

      Last I checked we still live in U.S.A. and with that knowledge his son is entitled to an lawyer no matter what. As a father myself I would be a long and loud story on howy sons rights are being blocked.

    Election 2024 Coverage

    Reader responds to father of "insurrectionist"

    By Mike Huckabee

    July 30, 2021
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    Yesterday, we wrote about a letter from a newsletter reader whose son is one of those incarcerated in the wake of the Capitol breach on January 6. (His son is one of those who didn’t even go inside the building.) Imagine how it must be to have one’s son being held in jail by the feds, with no bail, for many months (like a murderer), awaiting a trial that might not even happen until sometime in 2022. It’s not even possible for the father to have a private conversation with his own son, as phone conversations are monitored at the jail, and the son isn’t even able to meet in private with an attorney. All of this, I feel compelled to remind you, is happening in America, the land of the free.

    In case you didn’t see the father’s letter and our response, here it is.

    https://www.mikehuckabee.com/latest-news?id=25AAFBB1-0197-4525-A6F6-CC190FDAB183

    After this piece ran, we received a comment from another reader who took exception to what the father had said about his son, saying the son had nothing to apologize for and was even a hero. In fact, her letter ended in a way that seemed downright abusive to the father. (It’s all too easy to get abusive towards people we only talk to online, people we have never met and don’t know at all.) We thought this reader’s questions and observations deserved to be addressed at length. First, here is her letter...

    (From Sharon)

    Just a couple of questions about the father of the Capitol Hill detainee:

    First of all, why would black people not support Trump people?

    Because most black people do but then again these were criminals.

    Also, the father says what his son did was wrong? Oh? Getting in the way of Goebbels and the Gestapo?

    My father saw combat in Korea and Vietnam and if that’d been me he’d have been cheering not saying I’d done wrong.

    Mister your son did right and he is a hero and if you don’t stand with him shame on you.

    ………………..

    Dear Sharon:

    Thank you for responding; we welcome responses from all sides. But I think some issues here cry out for clarification.

    The father, Keith, did mention in his letter that most of the inmates at DC Correctional were black –- as are most of the residents of Washington, DC –- and that in general they were dismayed to have Trump supporters in their midst. That is not surprising and is not the same as saying black people don’t support Trump, only that these particular black people in Washington, DC, did not. And while the black conservative movement is picking up steam in some parts of the country, most black people are still not a part of that. We can deny reality if you would like, but these inmates of the DC Correctional facility, who do happen to be mostly black, are not Trump supporters. Probably some of the white ones aren’t, either; after all, this is Washington, DC. On the bright side, once they learned Alan was a Trump supporter and not a pedophile, they treated him better than they treat pedophiles.

    Recall that according to the letter we previously posted from detainee Joe Biggs, some of the black people Biggs met in a Florida correctional facility were struck by what a nice guy he was. They liked him. It wasn’t the black men, but some of the white men identifying as white supremacists, who didn’t want to be associated with him. They said he was “too nice” to be in their group.

    In fact, Joe said that one thing he’d learned for sure after meeting real white supremacists in this jail was that he WASN’T ONE.

    Sharon, you criticize Alan’s father for saying that what his son did was wrong. We don’t know the details of the confrontation his son had with police and a reporter outside the Capitol Building, but the son does, and if he feels contrite and believes he was in the wrong, I think we should take him at his word. You know I’ve said myself that this confrontation was a bad idea and has had terrible repercussions. I’m not sure you understood me when I said the left is using this for great political benefit. In that sense, anything that was done at the Capitol Building that went beyond peaceable assembly was indeed wrong. If this young man realizes that, so much the better.

    You may say he did right to fight against “Goebbels and the Gestapo,” but, again, we don’t know exactly what went down and his part in it. According to his dad, since he’s come to the Lord he’s thought deeply about the kind of man he wants to be. He’s sorry for what he did. His father respects that, and I think we should, too.

    The thing that really stood out to me in this father’s letter was the dismay at the two-tier justice system. “I guess if you are a Democrat,” he said, “you can burn a city or burn a federal building with agents inside it; you may be arrested but will be out the next day without bail.”

    This young man does NOT deserve to be languishing on a lower rung of our “justice” system simply because he is a Trump supporter, and he absolutely does not deserve to be held for many months with bail denied. As I’ve said, he and the other “detainees” (political prisoners) are being used as political props for the statecraft that is Nancy Pelosi’s investigatory “commission,” when they should be treated with exactly the same rights as any other American. Direct your fury at THAT, not at a father who is hurting and thinking about his son.

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    • Nick Wright

      07/30/2021 02:28 PM

      Do you think the prisoners will be called to testify before the committee? To give an actual eye witness account?
      Do you think the guard who shot Ashli will be called to testify? To give an actual eye witness account?
      Not likely.

    • Donna Whitfield

      07/30/2021 02:24 PM

      I’m commenting on a story you wrote several weeks ago about China purchasing farm land, this isn’t new they’ve been doing it for years and have thousands of acres all over the country. I live in a very small country town in North Florida, Gates purchased a large commercial farm, kept it for a few years, you know a tax right off, then sold it, to a company (China) we also have a cement factory, they had to jump through hoops to get approved, but guess what it has a new owner too (China) I’ve been told even GM is owned by China, unfortunately because of all the legal stuff, it’s not even evident to the some sellers of their property that it’s China that is doing the purchasing, some people might not sell if they knew, but others wouldn’t care! Thanks for being a voice that I can believe!

    • Michael P. Herriges

      07/30/2021 02:19 PM

      Governor Huckabee,
      I fully agree with your response. It has become way too easy to criticize and malign those we never meet face to face. I think I understand some of her critiques but, as you so aptly pointed out, we don't know the facts of what happened that day in that particular confrontation. Thank you for taking the high road in responding and covering these trying times.

    • Gerry Davis

      07/30/2021 02:14 PM

      I have put this story on every friend, family and asked them to share it. I have asked everyone to pray for this situation. There's an old saying "never judge an Indian until you walk in their shoes." Some people are so quick to judge before they know both sides. I find that today, people pop off and say things they would never had said before and contribute that to the conditions we all have had to live in for the last year and more.

    • Micah Duckett

      07/30/2021 02:12 PM

      Mike (may I call you by your first name), do you think the dog and pony “capitol assault investigation” show with its overkill is a smokescreen to direct our attention away from what is really destroying America elsewhere, like the southern border, voter integrity assault, results of Maricopa County audit, etc.?

    • Keith Byerly

      07/30/2021 01:50 PM

      Thank you for your clarification on my letter. There are new information about Alan. I spoke to his Federal public defender the other day (Federal public defenders are fully funded with investigatorsand paralegals and etc) he was going to speak, VIA video, to Alan on Thursday the 29th and the bail hearing today the 30th (which he was going to request for a postponement for 7 days to better prepare as he has only been assigned to Alan a couple days. As far as the black folk in DC jail there is at least one Trump supporter as he yelled out "Trump won". Alan is quarantine for 5 more days. (kept in his cell 23 hrs a. Day) hopefully then be moved to where the rest of the January 6th people are kept. Thanks again for your prayers 3ft support. For the lady that wrote the reply I love mmy son very much and support him in all he believes in, but breaking the law is worng. Alan knows that. Breaking laws that go against our Constitution is not wrong (like freedom of religion and our 2nd amendment rights etc) Anyway thanks my family and I appreciate you

    • Elizabeth Crouse

      07/30/2021 01:41 PM

      When two senators tried to visit jail, they were not allowed. The security at the Capitol seemed to have written and rehearsed remarks. Fraud. You could see their remarks were not theirs. My Dad was a prison Warden. Everybody can see family and legal help. Evil.

    • Kemala Tribe

      07/30/2021 01:38 PM

      I don't understand why there's even a question about the right/wrong of people entering the capitol building. There were instigators (wrong) and the curious (not wrong). Had I been there, I would have entered, and I'll explain why. Normally, I don't watch the news, but on Jan 6 I watched live coverage for hours -- coverage by Victory News. I watched as cops, or people dressed as cops, moved the barricades to DIRECT MARCHERS TOWARD THE CAPITOL rather than block access, I watched as the peaceful crowd came closer to the building, I watched as peaceful people filled the steps of the building waving flags and shouting "USA" etc... and I watched as DC cops OPENED THE DOORS to invite marchers in. The first cop in the line kept repeating, "I don't agree with this," but the others did not. I listened as Gene Bailey, I think it was, took a call from Lance Wallnau who was on a different side of the building, saying that he could see the guys breaking in through a window, and no matter what was about to be reported by other media, that he could see them and it was Antifa. This was just prior to the intruders actually crawling through the window. BTW, how is it even possible to break into the Capitol Bldg the same way a street-level thug would rob a house when nobody's home? You know there had to be a concerted effort to WITHDRAW NORMAL SECURITY PROTOCOLS that day. So had I been in DC, walking from the rally to the Capitol Bldg, I don't doubt for a second that I would have walked up those stairs and gone in just to see what was happening, thinking, "Cool! We get to go in!" DC buildings have always been open to the public when I've visited there, and I don't think in terms of "breeching security", so I probably wouldn't have had any idea I was doing something "wrong." Especially not with the police presence and the fact that a cop was holding the door open for me. Those holding the detainees (are any of them Democrats, BLM or Antifa -- probably only the GOP members are being held), American citizens, as political prisoners, will one day be on trial themselves. God will rescue our nation. Detainees may have been made to feel they did something wrong on January 6... but in the moment I doubt they realized it.

    • Cathryn Wagner

      07/30/2021 01:22 PM

      I agree with you, Gov. Huckabee. You are always the voice of commonsense, love and kindness towards all. These are qualities that are non-existent in so many people in the US today. Thank you for all that you do, and for this newsletter.

    • Micheal Ellis

      07/30/2021 01:11 PM

      Last I checked we still live in U.S.A. and with that knowledge his son is entitled to an lawyer no matter what. As a father myself I would be a long and loud story on howy sons rights are being blocked.

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