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ConservativeHQ.com
July 21, 2020
MANASSAS, Va., July 21, 2020 /Christian Newswire/ -- The following is submitted by Richard Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com:
The continued incarceration of former Rep. Steve Stockman, the only over-60 diabetic prisoner remaining at the Beaumont, Texas federal prison facility, is inhumane. Beaumont has the highest per capita COVID-19 infection rate of any prison in the country.
Conservative movement champion former Congressman Steve Stockman's situation grows perilously close to a death sentence by the day. Stockman was told by prison officials he will not be leaving on orders "straight from the top" in Washington!
It's clear someone wants him dead.
There needs to be investigations in Washington into who is ordering that his life not be saved by being released to home detention.
Both Stockman and Roger Stone are/were American political prisoners. Stone's sentence has since been commuted. Stockman's situation has only gotten worse.
As of July 14, the number of prisoners infected with COVID-19 at Stockman's prison facility was 432, up from 180 earlier this month.
Stockman's age (63), multiple co-morbidities (diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, asthma, and more), and the nonviolent, non-sexual nature of his conviction (charges after three grand juries refused to indict him, involving campaign finance and fundraising from two wealthy Republican donors, neither of whom filed complaints) clearly make him eligible for release to home detention, consistent with a March 26 directive from Attorney General William Barr to the Director of the Bureau of Prisons for "at risk" inmates.
Despite the known positive benefits of sunlight to fight off coronavirus, he has not been allowed outside in many weeks. Given his age and health, Stockman is a sitting duck in the COVID-19-ravaged Beaumont prison.
Releasing him to home detention would be a no-brainer. An UCLA COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project reports that over 70,000 people have been released from jail due to the COVID-19 threat, and over 33,000 were released from prison consistent with federal "compassion" guidelines directed by Attorney General William Barr.
Stockman filed and re-filed papers for release to home confinement, including a petition for "Compassionate Release" with Warden F. J. Garrido on April 4. Garrido responded on April 20. Stockman was told he'd be placed in pre-release quarantine on April 24, but was turned away at the door by prison staff.
Several times since, Stockman has been advised by prison officials he will not be leaving on orders from the top.
On May 21, Garrido responded to an inquiry about Stockman's release, noting that Attorney General Barr authorized the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to "maximize appropriate transfers to home confinements of all appropriate inmates" at certain prisons where "COVID-19 is materially affecting operations."
Garrido's letter stated the Beaumont prison "will take swift action to exercise its expanded home confinement authority for any inmate who is found to be at risk for COVID-19 and suitable for home confinement."
Stockman fits the criteria for release to home detention. The directions "from the top" that he not be released are a death sentence.
Dead men, after all, tell no tales.
After various published articles described his unfair politicized treatment in the justice system, Stockman was told by one prison official that he has a "publicity problem."
Once he was sent to solitary confinement. Then he was placed in a jail cell with a notorious murderer.
Why is Steve Stockman being treated in such an obviously discriminatory and almost certainly deadly way?
Writing in The Washington Times, Rebecca Hagelin explained, "The 2018 criminal trial of Stockman has laid bare the underbelly of political targeting by the Obama administration's Department of Justice. As a congressman, Stockman exposed many instances of high-level corruption by Obama officials. His ability to chase down and hold accountable Obama officials is legendary. Stockman called for the impeachment of Attorney General Eric Holder for obstruction of justice and contempt of Congress."
The Epoch Times' Matthew Vadum reported how Stockman's many supporters in the conservative movement describe him as "a victim of a complex, politically motivated runaway prosecution" who "is being punished for his zealous pursuit of Obama-era wrongdoings."
Former prosecutor Rachel Alexander wrote on Townhall.com, "[Steve] was known for boldly opposing President Obama. He was a Congressional whistleblower on Obama administration corruption, with such actions as calling for the House Select Committee to investigate the government's handling of the Benghazi embassy tragedy of lost American lives, exposing President Obama's payment to the Haqqani terrorist network in exchange for the release of Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl, and revealing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's violation of the Iran sanctions to allow the sale to Iran of specialized steel used in nuclear weaponry."
General Michael Flynn's superstar lawyer Sidney Powell was quoted by Michael Tennant at The New American, "It is highly likely [the Justice Department Public Integrity Section] targeted former Congressman Stockman and have been extremely and unreasonably harsh toward him because he was so outspoken in trying to hold Lois Lerner, the Clintons, and Obama accountable."
Stockman's enemies in the Deep State go right to Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. He pushed to expose their ties to Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk.
Pinchuk was the largest non-state donor to the Clinton Foundation, donating between $10,000,000 and $25,000,000 according to ABC News. His Interpipe company engaged in possibly illegal Iranian pipeline transactions under Hillary's watch and approval while she was Secretary of State.
Rory Ross at Newsweek wrote in 2015, "In November 2014 . . . Steve Stockman wrote to the US Department of the Treasury, questioning Interpipe's dealings with Iran."
Newsweek has seen a copy of that letter, in which Stockman refers to a "body of evidence" detailing "exports from Interpipe to Iranian entities" that "may have contravened US sanctions to Iran."
This stinks, and fits with the larger exposure of how the corrupt Deep State under the Obama administration and the corrupt Clinton rein at the State Department used nefarious government tactics to target their political enemies.
Steve Stockman was an outspoken critic of their corruption, and now someone in Washington's Deep State wants their political prisoner to die in jail, when instead he should be released to home detention.
Conservatives take action; protect life, especially for those who can't help themselves.
The entire conservative movement needs to demand investigations into who ordered what is essentially a death sentence for Steve Stockman.
Please reach out to people you know who believe that corruption exists in the Deep State, including Republican senators, and conservative or any honest independent journalists.
Ask them who is executing Steve Stockman? We want names.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr
950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20530
Phone: (202) 353-1555
Chief of Staff Mark Meadows
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
(202) 456-1414
Pease contact the Bureau of Prisons officials below, who may know who ordered that Stockman remain in prison. Tell them that we want names, and that we will push for investigations into major abuses in the prison system.
Hugh J. Hurwitz
Assistant Director, Reentry Services Division
Federal Bureau of Prisons
320 1st Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20534
(202) 307-3198
Juan Baltazar, Jr.
Director, BOP South Central Region
US ARMED FORCES RESERVE CMPL
344 Marine Forces Dr.
Grand Prairie, TX 75051
(972) 730-8600
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