A letter to the free world:
“This morning, Wednesday August 13th, I surrendered to the Tarrant County Jail on a warrant for yet another bogus retaliatory charge. I have been charged with allegedly interfering with public duty, resisting arrest, and evading detention. These three charges were brought against me TWO AND A HALF YEARS after the fact. This malicious political prosecution is just the result of the state’s anger at my winning a full acquittal in my felony trial last year. The constant effort this farcical prosecutors office must maintain to repress is not sustainable and the cracks are starting to show.
I was targeted and arrested in 2023 for putting my body between the attendees of a drag show and Neo-Nazis who sought to spit on, threaten, abuse, and harm them in the name of so called Christian love. I am no stranger to the swamp of the propaganda machine and their allies in the North Texas Cop-o-sphere. The fascist press and their clout-chasing snitch collaborators have branded me with absurdly laughable monikers for five years in the name of clicks and the vampiric bureaucrats have gobbled up and utilized these lies to justify their self-serving agenda. These paper tigers cannot function without an enemy to hate.
The special prosecutor appointed to subjugate me has made it her hobby to make my life hell through subjection to stalking, constant surveillance, colluding with Neo-Nazis to share information about my family, and consistent deliberate mismanagement/misfilings of my cases resulting in extended red tape, and blatant denial of my right to speedy trials. This latest indictment, earned through state-sanctioned perjury to a grand jury, is just an extension of the facade this abomination of governance must maintain to enforce the cruelty of their agenda, not to mention the innumerable thousands of dollars of taxpayer funding they will expend yet again to lose. Nevertheless, I surrendered to the Tarrant County Sheriff to face these lies head-on.
August is a joyous month filled with all of my children’s birthdays, the new beginnings of settling them into school, and my wedding anniversary with my beautiful wife. Instead of meeting this month with the joy it deserves, we are yet again confronting the existential dread of the full weight of this regime. Still though none of this has ever been about me, I am resolved to be impounded in these colonial chains once more with my head held high and a clear conscience.
I have not been a Quaker all of my life, nor even all of this decade. But it is the principles of Truth, Equality, and Peace that lead me here. If you have known me for more than a week you’ve heard me harken these words to you ad nauseum so forgive me once more.. But I lean on the early friends to express these vital principles to life and the way they are called to these testimonies for which they were prepared to suffer and even die. As one of my few heroes once said:
“I joyfully entered prisons as palaces, telling mine enemies to hold me there as long as they could: and in the prisonhouse I sung praises to my God, and esteemed the bolts and locks put upon me as jewels, and in the Name of the eternal God I always got the victory, for they could keep me there no longer than the determined time of my God.” -William Dewsbury 1688
The social order of this world is designed to paralyze us into inaction by the deluge of unrelenting dread but there is a new world struggling to be born. Though I surrender my body once more, locked and entombed among the men that wander aimless among the chains and bars, my spirit will never surrender to a master in human form. My motivations lie between myself and my God and it is for him I continue this fight against the hierarchal structure the modern world. We are stronger together and it is due to this strength that the mechanisms of power continue to throw absolutely every weapon in their arsenal at me. Please support me and my family in this difficult time, lend us your blessings of strength. Any donations will be used to bring the fight back to these ghouls in their sacrilegious theatre of injustice.”
