On to Supreme Court - DOJ sends White, Catholic Male to Federal Prison, but not Antifa
Justin Haggerty | The Daily Knight
For two long years, I have been entrenched in a battle with the U.S. Department of Justice, for an action I took in the defense of the Catholic Faith and Christendom. Upon the guidance of my family and counsel, I have remained silent about my struggle. But, as I prepare to start my 12 month and 1 day sentence in federal prison, for which I must self-surrender on June 15th, I find it my patriotic duty to illustrate the corrupt and politically biased condition of our judicial system that currently wages a war against conservative, ethnically European, Christian men.
Antifa and BLM, marxist domestic terrorists, are protected by the government to loot businesses, burn down our cities, assault and murder police officers, and attack our Churches. In the past two years, most vandals and terrorists have had their charges dropped by liberal, George Soros backed, district attorneys. In fact, in Portland alone, 47 of 96 federal cases have been dismissed by making ‘deferred resolution deals” with known antifa members, who clashed with police, federal agents, and attempted to burn the federal courthouse.
I have not wanted to talk much about this issue with those close to me, yet alone on a public forum; however, I feel, after much prayer and contemplation, that I must speak out in conjunction with my legal fight, as we challenge the constitutional violations of the federal government to the Supreme Court of the United States.
In the subsequent article, I will address the marxist, anti-Catholic violence that sparked my action that resulted in my arrest by the FBI, my legal fight with the DOJ, the government’s violation of the 5th Amendment, the failed appeal to the 5th Circuit, and our appeal to the Supreme Court.
Marxist Revolution and Anti-Catholic Violence
2020’s marxist revolution has been brewing in the shadows of our inner cities and universities for some time, but in 2016 it began to violently operate in public. What first started with stoking a false race war, enabling BLM and other anarchists to incite violence, attacking the police, and threating to remove confederate statues and monuments, quickly took a turn against Christopher Columbus and St. Junipero Serra, who both spread Catholicism to and throughout the New World. It was also the beginning of rampant vandalism against Catholic Churches and statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Two men of God and sons of the Church, Columbus and St. Junipero Serra represent everything that marxists hate; and it was in the attacks against them that showed the true nature of Antifa and BLM. The world has seen their kind before during the revolutions of 1789 (France), 1848 (Europe), 1905 (Russia), 1917 (Russia & Mexico), 1919 (Germany & Italy), 1927 (China), 1936 (Spain), 1945 (South Korea & Vietnam), 1953 (Cuba), 1968 (United States) and 1999 (Venezuela). From Karl Marx to Saul Alinsky, both who dedicated their souls and works to the diabolical, communists have attacked the faithful and the Church in each violent and bloody revolution since the Reign of Terror in Paris. This recent revolution in America is and has been no different.
Via the lies of ‘critical race theory’ and the mainstream media, Columbus and St. Junipero Serra were painted as colonizers, rapists, slave traders, and murderers, who committed crimes on genocidal levels and forced the Catholic Faith and European culture on native peoples. The violent thugs and vandals in American cities took their marching orders to start attacking public imagery of Western history. The operation was calculated and far more than an attack on confederate monuments or the memorials of our founding fathers, President Abraham Lincoln, President Ulysses S. Grant, and Catholic saints would have been left alone. Hundreds of Catholic statues were defaced with red paint, graffiti, damaged by blunt objects, decapitated, and torn down. The worse violence was inflicted on the West Coast.
My Offense on Columbus Day
During the summer of 2017, very similar to the anti-Catholic attacks today, there were some weeks where every evening I would see a new attack posted on social media. Living in El Paso at the time, stationed as a U.S. Army Captain at Fort Bliss, we were very aware of the anti-Catholic sentiment being shared from California in the media and on social media. A spree of anti-Catholic attacks against local Churches was worsening between Las Cruces and El Paso, and various groups and socialists were openly discussing Spanish and Catholic statues that should be targeted and removed. The local celebration to remove and replace Christopher Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day was very loud and charged with anti-Catholic hatred.
Frustrated that no one was speaking out about this violence, not even the Knights of Columbus or the clergy, I let my anger get the best of me. I wish I would have chosen to speak out in a more academic way or formed a group of Catholic gentlemen to help defend Catholic statues and Churches, but I failed to do so. As St. James the Greater is my Confirmation saint, I am often too zealous for my own good. On the eve of Columbus Day, 2017, I threw red paint on a newly erected Indian statue and placed a wooden Cross, which read ‘Columbus,’ in front of it. It was a countersign to their marxist attempt to “redwash” all Western and Catholic culture.
Fast forward to May 2019, I have an amazing job as a Plant Manager outside of Atlanta, a growing young family, an amazing relationship with a new parish, and the FBI raids my house one morning at 6:00am. Like I was some domestic terrorist or violent criminal on the most wanted list, nearly a dozen FBI agents, guns drawn, surrounded my house and scared my wife and children half to death.
My greatest fault was that I was completely transparent and honest with the FBI. My West Point education and Catholic upbringing led me to believe that if I cooperated with law enforcement that I’ll be let go to attend to my family and that the punishment wouldn’t be as severe. I was greatly mistaken, and I regret my naivety.
Legal Battle with the DOJ
Although I was blessed to be let out on bail in Atlanta, I was shocked to learn the severity of the charges and the unjust intentions of the government. Originally, the DOJ and the Civil Rights Division of the FBI sought hate crime charges; thanks be to God that they were unsuccessful. Manipulated by political motives, it was in 2019 that a man was charged with a hate crime and sentenced to 15 years for burning a gay flag that was hung from a Methodist church in Ames, Iowa. How is that a just punishment?
In my case, the prosecution was unable to prove to a grand jury that my action was made, due to any personal hatred or reservation against Native Americans. Nevertheless, it was clear, according to the interactions that my attorney had with the prosecutor, that the DOJ, Department of Indian Affairs, and the Civil Rights Division of the FBI were displeased with losing the hate crime and wanted the next highest federal charge.
Since the statue was on native land, of which I was unaware at the time, the property fell under the protection of federal land and maritime laws. As a result, I was charged with a felony for Malicious Injury of Property Located on Indian Country 18 U.S.C. § 1363 and 18 U.S.C. § 1152. The government was not willing to back off the felony, which has its lifetime implications, like voting rights (some states), employment issues, holding certain federal offices, military service, and Second Amendment rights.
A lifelong felony seemed much for having an unblemished record, serving my country, and for my crime of $1,800 in damages, which was the cost to pressure wash the paint from the statue. Even worse, my attorney, who was often ignored by the prosecutor, was unable to get the government to agree to probation, home confinement, or work release; simply put, the DOJ desired time in custody.
Before my sentencing on March 4th, 2020, we had gotten the government to agree on several variables of the federal sentencing guidelines. Firstly, the prosecution agreed that the statue was not a cultural heritage item, since it was new; secondly, we agreed that the damages would be recognized as the undisputed $1,800 pressure washing cost; and thirdly, that the sentencing guidelines projected 0 to 6 months in cust