Another Letter from a J6 Prisoner

By Armando Simón / Christopher Grider

            In March, I offered a letter from one of the J6 political prisoners. Recently, on August 1, I received another letter from him written on June 29, postmarked July 30, which I would like to once more share (you, too, can correspond with other political prisoners, and what is more important send them money they can either buy food in the commissary or forward to their families).

“Dear Armando,

I had some good news yesterday! The Supreme Court finally gave us J6 prisoners some relief. The problem is going to be in accessing it. This should reduce my sentencing guidelines to somewhere between one and two years, but they are already trying to find ways to thwart the Court’s ruling. They could do it by stacking my smaller charges or by just going above the guidelines. I hope my lawyer finds a way to ask for release pending appeal or something like that. There are over 300 of us that are all going to need to go to court at once for resentencing and this could clog up the courts for months or more, so I hope that I can get some kind of bond while I wait.

I got to see my daughter walk for the first time today in the prison’s visiting room. She has just turned one year old and has my blonde hair with her mother’s curls. Of course, I would have like to have seen her first steps that she took at home, but this was still such a special day. It comes right after the other good news from the court, so I am riding high right now.

Then there was that debate, if you can even call it that. So sad. The president looked like an empty shell, a husk. Trump could have really rubbed his nose in his situation but held back. It al seemed like it was planned to get rid of Biden so the democrats in power could remove him and replace him with someone else who would not be forced to go through the democrat primary voter scrutiny of an election. A lot of things are happening right now, we will see what Monday brings.

I’m just doing my time here like usual. I’m teaching a class right now on critical thinking and next month I will be teaching public speaking. I’m reading Epoch Times, sharing it with other inmates. There is a chain of inmates that it goes through, after I read it I pass it through half a dozen other sets of hands. I have been doing some watercolor paintings but until last week the prison commissary was out of pens, typewriter ribbon, and writing paper so I have not written as much,

Thank you for your support as always.

Christopher Grider”

Armando Simón is originally from Cuba, is now a retired psychologist, author of Very Peculiar Stories and The Cult of Suicide and Other Scifi Stories.