GUEST AUTHOR: Political Prisoner J6 Zachary Alam
Everyone knows me as the kid in the helmet who broke the Speaker’s Lobby window before Ashli Babbitt was shot.
And for that, I was convicted of five felonies, but more importantly, I was demonized by the community itself on January 6.
As soon as I entered the DC jail, I was labeled “Antifa” by other J6’ers because of the black and yellow shirt I wore on January 6th.
Black and yellow are the colors of the Proud Boys, who were ordered by the leader not to wear black and yellow on January 6.
This is done as a sneaky way to identify intruders because Antifa members often disguise themselves as Pride Kids at Trump rallies.
But by coincidenceI wear black and yellow, a meaningful color combination nothing to me at that time.
That and the fact that Ashli was shot dead springing through the window, I broke open, is the source of all the accusations against me by January 6 community.
My problems first started when I arrived at the “patriot pod” from the DC jail, where all the J6’ers were housed.
I was immediately “written up,” a dishonorable act that involves an inmate secretly filing a written complaint with the police to have another inmate removed from the housing unit.
We were studying the Bible when the prison officer told me I needed to go to “medical”.
But when I walked out the door, the police arrested me and took me to a solitary confinement unit, where I spent the next four months.
Then one day I called Vigil. As soon as they found out who I was, they warned me that I was “not welcome here” and “lost my number”.
Vigil is a nightly gathering of civilians outside the DC prison and functions as a support group for J6’ers inside the building.
The people who opened the Vigil let the J6’ers call their cell phones to speak out.
When the J6’ers speak at the Vigil, they are broadcast via podcast, in order to address the large audience, who are asking for donations. The funds go to commissioners and phone time but can also be used to retain attorneys and cover living expenses upon release.
Certain J6’ers have managed to raise six and even seven figures worth of dollars through this method.
Unfortunately, Ashli’s mom has a grudge against me, and since she’s in charge of Vigil, I’m banned.
I’m not sure what the problem is, but I think he blames me for his daughter’s death because of his daughter bold to jump in front of a bullet for me.
I hate it when people say Ashli is mad at me for breaking the window. No, he didn’t.
He would have broken himself had I not stepped up.
Yes, he smacked me and knocked the glasses off my face. But that was because he was trying to stop me from getting shot.
He saw the gunman and knew I was headed right for him. And no, I don’t have all the answers, so stop asking me why he decided to open through the window knowing there was a gun aimed at him.
Ashli will always be my guardian angel.
On Sunday October 15, 2023, I woke up in my jail cell around 10 o’clock and went to my room to make a cup of coffee. Another J6’er rushed over to me from one of the two TV rooms.
“Well, you’re on TV, and it’s not good,” he warned me.
I glanced into the TV room for the first time as I passed. There were about sixteen J6’ers crammed inside with their eyes glued to the screen.
When I stepped into the second TV room, some agitated J6’ers growled and barked at me.
They have been worked hard by ABC7 and what they then aired. On the screen was the same video evidence the government showed at trial. Except this time, a lot has been changed.
It magnifies certain things when a woman tells it. It ended with a brief comment by an FBI agent, who indirectly concluded that I was probably a CHS (secret human source).
This is a fancy term for “snitch” or “rat”, slang for someone who cooperates with law enforcement against other defendants.
Just about below instead of being a CHS in the prison hierarchy being a child molester, and being one can get you killed.
I am willing to bet that the journalist who put the story together was hired and paid by hostile J6’er or J6 organization to put me at risk.
Most J6’ers have no problem with me, and a handful actually like me and have become some of my best friends. However, a small but very vocal minority drowned out the silent majority and persuaded the public against me.
When I returned to the patriot pod, some good J6’ers let me know that I want to get written out again. So what I do is I call it “town hall”.
Supported by J6’s allies, I faced J6’s accusers. I started hollering real loud and every J6’er in the patriot pod gathered around.
A spontaneous trial followed. One by one, they accused me of this and that and gave me the best evidence.
One person stated that I admitted to him that I was Antifa, but since there were no witnesses to support his claim, no one believed him.
Others accused me of being Antifa because they thought I was changing my clothes on the Speaker’s Lobby steps.
But the video evidence clearly does not show me changing my clothes. The recording was in fact viewed at this point by all present, as the J6’ers in the patriot pod had laptops and hard drives containing the relevant January 6 recordings.
Then I announced exactly what I was doing on the stairs: I put a MAGA cap and a winter fur hat in my backpack and put a helmet on my head.
This helmet was given to me seconds before by a Texas J6’er. And it’s good to do – people were shot.
I left the building wearing a helmet and a black and yellow shirt.
The government even played that footage at my trial, just because they wanted the jury to hear me yell “We need guns!” when I ran out of the building. They wanted to make the jury think I was a crazy person who wanted a gun.
People claim I’m Antifa because I changed my clothes on the stairs after Babbit was shot. The government has released a video showing me using it the same clothes when I first appeared on the John Sullivan tape that I was wearing when I left the Capitol building.
As a closing statement, one of my J6 brothers from Arkansas took command and told the pod, “Don’t hurt that guy!”
The votes are then collected and counted. Only 5 out of 34 J6’ers chose to write me out. So I can stay another six months in the patriot pod before I have any more problems.
I am the only J6’er to have been indicted by J6’ers, fought the charges, and won a trial by an actual jury of my peers.
God bless America.
If there’s one thing I want the world to know, it’s that on January 6th, I believe in my heart that I’m doing the right thing. And I have no dishonest intentions, motives, or actions.
I came out as a Trump supporting Christian, Democrat, born in Arizona, America. I should be treated with the honor and respect that a true patriot deserves, who gives his freedom to defend the Constitution.
Sincerely,
Zachary Jordan Alam
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**Editor’s note** Zachary Alam was disowned by his family for his actions on January 6th. Her protest about the stolen election was the straw that broke the camel’s back for her parents. He was on thin ice after getting out of medical school.
Without outside help, Zach, who has been living in the hole of the Washington Correctional Treatment Facility for the ninth month in a row, has no money, cannot afford the costs of prison life, including commissary for food, clothing, and communication outside, let alone a lawyer for appeals .
Now he can barely send an email from his jail tablet.
Alam attended the Save America rally at the Capitol alone on January 6. Friends and mentors were invited to the protest, but did not appear. The man did not testify at the Nature trial because he had been mysteriously maimed and paralyzed after the Capitol riots.
Alam is one of the January 6 defendants who did not receive support from the American public or the newly launched “January 6 community” when they were bombarded with claims that they were government assets or Secret Human Resources. Fellow January 6 hostage Jake Lang, who founded J6 legal aided Alam by holding defense attorney Steven Metcalf.
In September, Metcalf and this reporter discovered during the Nature trial that the US Federal District Court routinely recycled jurors in the January 6 trial, illegally summoning the same individual for jury duty multiple times in a row because the Justice Department maintained 100 percent . the conviction rate of political prisoners in jury trials.
Defense Lawyers Sound Alarm About ‘JURORS CYCLING’ in J6 Trial: ‘What’s going on?’
Judge Dabney Friedrich is scheduled to sentence Alam on August 22. The government is seeking an 11-year prison sentence.
