January 6ers trade PRISON stories following political persecution



Everyone knows the iconic photo of the smiling man holding a lectern on January 6, but not everyone knows his story — particularly his prison story.

And as Dallas filmmaker and January 6 protester Luke Coffee awaits another prison sentence for his participation on that fateful day, “Lectern Guy” Adam Johnson feels inclined to share.

“The cooking’s the best part of it,” Johnson tells Coffee and BlazeTV host of "Prime Time with Alex Stein" Alex Stein.

“You work throughout the week, and then the weekends come and everyone comes together. You cook food, cheesecake," Johnson says.

“Where I was put first sounds a lot worse than where you were. We didn’t have any cheesecake and we had hooch,” Coffee says, adding, “I was in a condemned prison in the middle of Texas, like in small-town Texas, and I was the only J6er in there, with, you know, all high-level felons, so it was a little different story.”

“That sounds more of like a country club experience,” Coffee tells Johnson. “So I’m hoping for that.”

Coffee's time served was anything but a country club experience.

“My guard was ‘Meth Mouth,’ like he was passing drugs the whole time, and there were eight of us in there. Eight of us in a 15x30 cell and it was still COVID, so we didn’t get tablets,” Coffee explains. “We got to go to the yard six times, and it was mainly brothers, and my Mexicano brothers too.”

While Johnson had a different experience, it was tough for him at times as well.

“You know, the rest of the week is awful, but you get those little moments where you feel like maybe you’re not in prison for 15-20 minutes. You’re cooking, you’re talking about sports,” Johnson says, to Coffee's surprise.

“I think you have God in your heart ‘cause you have a joyful attitude,” Coffee comments, while Stein agrees.

“100%,” Stein says, adding, “He’s the most positive guy that I’ve seen when it comes to January 6.”


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Boeing is ‘unable to find records’ for repairs made to Alaska Airlines plane — security footage ‘overwritten’: NTSB



Boeing is “unable to find records” for the repairs made to the Alaska Airlines plane that experienced a mid-flight exit door panel blowout earlier this year, the National Transportation Safety Board told the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday, the New York Post reported.

NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy wrote a letter to Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) confirming that Boeing had failed to provide documentation for the September work to the aircraft, which involved removing and reinstalling the door plug to perform rivet repairs.

“To date, we still do not know who performed the work to open, reinstall, and close the door plug on the accident aircraft,” Homendy wrote. “Boeing has informed us that they are unable to find the records documenting this work.”

In addition to failing to provide records of the repairs, the airplane manufacturer also says that the security camera footage from its facility in Renton, Washington, where the rivet work took place, has been erased, according to the NTSB.

“A verbal request was made by our investigators for security camera footage to help obtain this information; however, they were informed the footage was overwritten,” Homendy added.

Homendy explained that the NTSB has been unable to speak with the facility’s door crew manager because, at the advice of his attorney, he cannot provide a statement “due to medical issues.” She noted that the lack of records and security footage would further complicate the government agency’s investigation into the incident.

“Boeing gave NTSB names of individuals who may provide insight regarding the work performed to open, reinstall, and close the door plug in September 2023,” she noted.

Homendy stated that she called Boeing Chief Executive Officer David Calhoun to request the names of all the employees who performed the door plug work.

“He stated he was unable to provide that information and maintained that Boeing has no records of the work being performed,” her letter to the senators read.

Boeing said in a statement last week that it has cooperated with the NTSB’s requests for information regarding the ongoing investigation. The company also implied that it lacked documentation for the September repair work.

“With respect to documentation, if the door plug removal was undocumented there would be no documentation to share,” Boeing stated.

Repair records must be retained in the event documentation needs to be provided to auditors and investigators, according to regulatory requirements.

The NTSB’s preliminary report revealed that the exit door plug may have been missing all four bolts that secured it in place before the aircraft was delivered to Alaska Airlines.

“I have become increasingly concerned that the focus on the names of individual front-line workers will negatively impact our investigation and discourage such Boeing employees from providing NTSB with information relevant to this investigation,” Homendy told the senators, noting that the agency is not seeking the names of the employees for punitive purposes.

Boeing explained that the security footage that captured the repair work was overwritten because the facility’s camera systems maintain footage on a rolling 30-day basis.

“We will continue supporting this investigation in the transparent and proactive fashion we have supported all regulatory inquiries into this accident. We have worked hard to honor the rules about the release of investigative information in an environment of intense interest from our employees, customers, and other stakeholders, and we will continue our efforts to do so,” Boeing said in a statement, the Post reported.

The Alaska Airlines plane that experienced the panel blowout, which forced the pilots to make an emergency landing, was scheduled for maintenance later that same evening, according to the New York Times.

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Experts say passenger-loaded Boeing 737 may have crashed and burst into flame due to 'human-induced event'



Some experts believe that this week's Chinese plane crash may have taken place as a result of a "human-induced event."

China Eastern Airlines flight 5735 crashed Monday with more than 130 people on board after it plummeted to the ground in just minutes from an altitude of nearly 30,000 feet.

Rescue crews have yet to locate any survivors at the time of this reporting.

What are the details?

Australian aviation expert Neil Hansford told news.com.au that he cannot fathom how the plane would have vertically crashed into the ground without some sort of human interference.

“Even with total loss of power, no aircraft plummets to the ground from 20,000 feet in two minutes with an event at 8,000 feet,” Hansford reasoned. “I think aircraft technical failure can be ruled out and it will be an external event ... I would get on a Boeing 737-800 in an instant with an Australian carrier, so my suggestion would be it won’t be Boeing or aircraft technical related.”

He added that he believes it is "very unlikely" that a pilot would have passed out during the trip, "as the non-flying pilot would have been able to very safely take over the flying" and safely land the aircraft in some kind of emergency.

“Likely scenarios include pilot suicide, aircraft mid-air collision with military aircraft (they don’t have transponders like civil aircraft), [the flight] was struck by a missile or an on-board explosion," Hansford continued. "My tipping is a human-induced event or bought down by rogue missile. Debris looks like MH117 over Ukraine, and the Chinese are providing too much information this time which is uncharacteristic.”

Sally Gethin, a United Kingdom-based expert, added that she believed it was “really hard to ascertain at this point in time whether the aircraft was entirely intact" when it "dropped so suddenly.”

“I would tend to think that there had already been a catastrophic incident on board for it to be able to drop so dramatically in that way,” she explained. “But at the same time, it could also be a problem that the pilot was struggling with and finally lost control.”

She added, “[It] will be revealed in their communications with the radar control, with their traffic management side, and that will be revealed in the voice recorder. [The plane] was at nearly 30,000 feet – which is cruising altitude – and from the ground that would look like a dot up in the sky,” she said when asked about footage showing the crash. “It fell from that height – nearly 30,000 feet – suddenly perpendicular. It maintained some stability, it paused and then several seconds later it then dropped again suddenly. That footage captures it in that second phase, where it drops completely vertically to the ground.”

The International Business Times reported that ahead of its steep descent, FlightRadar24 showed the aircraft plummeting from 29,100 feet to just 9,075 feet in approximately two minutes. Just 20 seconds later, the aircraft's altitude was 3,225 feet and contact was lost.

The report noted that such a landing would typically take approximately 30 minutes.

A Tuesday Reuters report stated that extensive damage to the aircraft would ultimately make it quite difficult to pinpoint the precise cause of the crash.

Zhu Tao, director of aviation safety at the Civil Aviation Administration of China, told reporters that "investigations will face a very high level of difficulty" due to the condition of the airliner.

"Given the information currently available, we still do not have a clear assessment of the cause for the crash," Tao added.