On December 22, 2022, at about 9:30 in the morning at my home in Sherman Oaks, California, I was under full frontal tactical assault by the United States Government. The FBI busted open the front door to my home, shot out the sliding glass door in my upstairs bedroom and shot out the skylight above the hall outside my bedroom. SWAT had guns drawn on me from the adjacent property. I was surrounded by a swarm of armed government law enforcement personnel which looked like a military. After flying a drone inside my home and throwing in tear gas and a flash bang, they put me in handcuffs and took me to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles and a month later moved me to the DC Department of Corrections in Washington DC (the Gulag, as it was dubbed). They charged me with two misdemeanor counts (1752 - restricted grounds) with a felony enhancement. On August 8, 2023, the judge convicted me of everything. On December 1, 2023, at sentencing, I was released from the Gulag with time served. I had been abducted for a total of 11 months and 10 days. All this for attending the “Stop The Steal” rally on January 6, 2021 in Washington DC and exercising my 1st amendment rights. After I got home, I was placed on probation where I was forced to submit to the following invasive abuses and harassments: 200 hours of community service, drug testing through urine analysis, monthly financial reporting, monthly mental health counseling, home visits by creepy antagonistic probation officers. I was also denied my 2nd amendment rights to own a gun. The raid on my home caused damage to the inside and outside of the home including the roof. I also became victim of theft because of the incarceration.

Although I qualified for bond through the Bail Reform Act, I was denied it several times, once in Los Angeles, and twice in DC. At trial, the judge stopped my Secret Service expert witness from testifying and forced him to leave the courtroom. The judge invented law from the bench and attached a felony enhancement to the already bogus misdemeanor charges. The prosecutor even used against me a text I wrote after J6 where I quoted the Declaration of Independence.

My attorney is appealing the conviction. I am home now trying to deal with the destruction of my life and the destruction of my home. I was working at a local bank before the arrest. I had a 20-year career in the commercial mortgage industry as a portfolio manager. What I went through was a living nightmare as a political hostage and I am still tied to that nightmare through supervised release (probation) and a criminal conviction which makes it harder to get back on my feet. After working my entire life, California Employment Development Department denied my unemployment insurance claim. After appealing that decision, the Administrative Judge, reversed the decision and approved my 6-month benefit. Although it helps it’s not nearly enough and will run out soon. I send out tons of resumes and seems like by the time I get a response the job has already been filled. I haven’t even gotten to the part where I have to discuss J6 and felonies with an employer. Don’t know how that’s going to go.

Update: I started working again in November of 2024 and thanks in large part to the California Fair Chance Act (liberal states do have their benefits sometimes).  The appellate court decided, right after Trump's pardon, to vacate the criminal charges and dismiss the criminal case, thanks to my attorney, Carolyn Stewart, who filed an appeal after the unlawful conviction.  I am no longer a felon and I have a clean record again.  I am so incredibly blessed in so many ways.  As I look back, Jesus was with me the whole way through.  J6, The Epiphany, was all part of the plan.  Free Will is in control and God who raised Jesus from the dead has the ultimate power.

Thanks,

Eric Christie

ericchristiej6@yahoo.com