My son Josiah Robert Fornof has been unlawfully incarcerated in federal custody continuously since August 19, 2010 and is due to be released on May 29, 2019. For all but the first year or so of that time, Josiah has been unlawfully held in federal prisons in other states. I have not seen him since his trial in August 2011. Even when he was in a federal prison an hour away from home, he would not allow us, his family, to come and visit him.
“You don’t go to a concentration camp to visit somebody,” Josiah said, “You go to get them out.” He has maintained that posture throughout.
This morning I was reminded of a telephone conversation that Josiah and I had on or about July 9, 2017. He had been talking about the relevance of President Trump’s firing of James Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which occurred on May 9, 2017. Transitioning from that topic to another, Josiah said:
So, that’s big news too. Now, here’s another thing. There was a, they did a big, massive shakedown yesterday with one of the region and the warden and other higher officials here. They went to every cell… They went to every single cell except for mine. They walked around that. And then later the officer had the captain sign a paper that I could see had a seal in the upper left-hand corner with blue, from the distance I was at, it could have very possibly been, what it reminds me of, what I thought of at the time was possibly an injunction letter, for them to stay away from it, because of the evidence of treason that might be in there, and they wanted to keep them from…
The call cut off there, apparently because the 15-minute limit on the call had run out. Continue reading “Big News”