Expensive Reader,
I write this letter to you earlier than the solar has made her first look. The moon nonetheless reigns on today, April twenty fourth 2026. At this identical actual time, 5:00 AM, solely two years prior, my spouse Lauren and I have been each awaken dramatically to sirens, flashing lights, and brisk instructions shouted over a megaphone.
“Keonne Rodriguez, that is the FBI, come out along with your fingers up IMMEDIATELY!” was repeatedly shouted. Over 50 armed FBI tactical brokers pointed their assault rifles at our chests. Drones, armored automobiles, assault rifles, males dressed like GI-JOE, all swarmed the quiet humble small city the place we lived. As soon as arrested, handcuffed, positioned behind a police cruiser, Biden’s lackeys descended on my house like a swarm of ants hopped up on adrenaline.
The drone was flown by way of the home first to clear the best way, the GI-JOEs adopted, lastly the military of blue haired DEI hires and the puny males who appeared like they might be defeated by the considered a single push-up shuffled their method in. I knew the tech group the second I noticed them.
They’d be going by way of my arduous drives and USB sticks. I used to be most fearful about my spouse who at this level was nonetheless detained in handcuffs. I used to be relieved after they let her go away and my fear instantly was directed towards my cat who I knew would fairly fortunately make the most of the hubbub and the extensive open doorways to go on one in all her unmonitored adventures across the village.
That’s how my day began on April 24, 2024. Two years later, I begin my day markedly otherwise. I get up at FPC Morgantown. Federal jail. I’m instructed after I can sleep, after I can wake, after I can eat, after I can bathe, what I can put on, and even to some extent what I can suppose.
My days are structured round shouted instructions over a loud speaker and a e-book of laws I’m anticipated to comply with. In jail your id is stripped from you. In right here it’s ‘us and them’, convicts and guards, inmates and CO’s. Don’t get me improper, many of the CO’s are respectable sufficient, they’re right here to do a job, and so they do it properly. Deal with them with respect and don’t fiddle with contraband (principally cellphones and vapes) and they’re going to typically deal with you properly sufficient. However on the finish of the day, they go house and also you don’t. So right here I’m, inmate # 11404-511, a federal prisoner.
Two years in the past right now an overzealous and politicized FBI underneath corrupt management, underneath a corrupt presidential administration, performing underneath a corrupt Division of Justice that empowered a corrupt US Lawyer that delegated authority to deprave AUSA’s; indicted, raided, and arrested me and Invoice, two American software program builders. Simply one other two casualties within the Biden ‘Struggle on Crypto’.
Two small fishes with no political buddies or affect. Two guys who wrote software program and gave away code that labored so properly that they had no alternative however to vary the principles of the sport and go after us with the complete drive and may of america authorities.
And by God, their calculations have been appropriate. Barely anybody cared. Invoice and I couldn’t even increase sufficient cash for our authorized protection. We have been left excessive and dry to fend for ourselves in opposition to an adversary with limitless assets. The federal government took out the one efficient non custodial, open supply, privateness software in all the area and there was barely a whimper of protest. From some corners of the business there was even celebration. This wasn’t a conflict on crypto, in a conflict either side have a combating probability. This was a bloodbath.
There is no such thing as a doubt that the ‘Struggle On Crypto’ was began and waged fiercely underneath Joe Biden. However Biden himself has confirmed to be a ship with out a rudder. He was clearly a person who didn’t know his ass from his elbow. He was nothing greater than a marionette puppet whose strings have been being pulled by aides and henchmen receiving orders in secret from the likes of Elizabeth Warren and her self described ‘anti crypto military’. The Struggle On Crypto really belongs to her.
The Trump administration inherited this conflict, and gained the election partly as a result of the democrats couldn’t steal it in the identical method they did in 2020 – that was a trick that may solely work as soon as – but additionally as a result of Trump appealed to younger males of each race.
A significant motive for this enchantment was 1) His promise to free Ross and a couple of) his promise to finish the conflict on crypto. In some ways he has made good progress. Ross was freed as promised and the administration started to dismantle the levers of energy that have been the massive weapons within the ‘conflict on crypto’. The SEC was reigned in, the tide had begun to show in opposition to the luddite candlestick makers in favor of the electrical lightbulbs.
The deputy lawyer common – now the performing lawyer common – Todd Blanche issued a memo early within the administration supposed to reign in rogue prosecutors, explaining in beautiful element that America doesn’t regulate by prosecution and doesn’t maintain accountable software program builders for the acts of their finish customers. Blanche and the brand new administration drew a line within the sand. The conflict gave the impression to be ending.
What most individuals miss about this ‘Struggle on Crypto’ is that it isn’t an odd conflict. It’s not an us versus them conflict. It is vitally a lot a civil conflict. An us versus us conflict. As such, when Blanche revealed his memo, when Trump ordered the tip of the conflict, the infantry on the bottom tasked with obeying these orders – the road prosecutors, the AUSA’s, the military of unelected bureaucratic lifers – ignored them. Willfully and explicitly.
They continued simply as they’ve all the time completed, maybe change a cost from (b) to (c), or change the language they use to be sure that they get away with blatant insubordination. The administration has been coping with this treachery from day one, in all areas, not simply crypto.
Trump recognized the issue throughout his first time period. He referred to as it the swamp or the deep state. I name it the executive state. The executive state was an issue for him throughout his first time period. It orchestrated the largest election heist ever witnessed in 2020.
It then got here after Trump making an attempt to place him in jail for all times. And it continues right now unabated throughout the second administration. Dismantling of the executive state adopted by the complete scale liquidation of the military of apparatchiks that lord over us, shall be, if he is ready to obtain it, Trump’s lasting legacy.
So the place can we stand now? The ‘Struggle On Crypto’ is half gained. The SEC has largely been reigned in. The DOJ underneath Bondi and now Blanche has not introduced ahead new fees underneath these novel theories conjured up over the past administration, so to some extent Blanche’s memo did work.
Elizabeth Warren and her ‘anti crypto military’ have decidedly misplaced, simply because the luddites did, simply because the horse carriage males protesting the auto did. She was all the time going to lose, it was nearly how a lot harm she may do on the best way down. With the conflict half gained, an issue stays, combatants have been left behind.
One of many US Army’s guiding rules is that no man will get left behind. Heaven and earth shall be moved at extraordinary expense to retrieve a single American behind enemy strains (as has simply been witnessed in Iran).
Properly, within the ‘Struggle on Crypto’, males have been left on the battlefield. Forgotten and left to bleed out. The conflict won’t be gained till Invoice and myself are extricated from behind enemy strains.
The conflict won’t be gained till Roman Storm stops being shot at with ammunition offered by the final corrupt administration and carried ahead by the wolves within the hen home of this administration. After we are all house with the specter of retribution by essentially the most highly effective and mighty state bearing down on us not credible, then we will have fun the victory of this conflict.
Till the crypto prisoners are free, none of us are free.
Write to Keonne:
Keonne Rodriguez
11404-511
FPC Morgantown
FEDERAL PRISON CAMP
P.O. BOX 1000
MORGANTOWN, WV 26507
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