My son Josiah Robert Fornof has been unlawfully incarcerated in federal custody continuously since August 19, 2010 and is due to be released on May 29, 2019. For all but the first year or so of that time, Josiah has been unlawfully held in federal prisons in other states. I have not seen him since his trial in August 2011. Even when he was in a federal prison an hour away from home, he would not allow us, his family, to come and visit him.
“You don’t go to a concentration camp to visit somebody,” Josiah said, “You go to get them out.” He has maintained that posture throughout.
This morning I was reminded of a telephone conversation that Josiah and I had on or about July 9, 2017. He had been talking about the relevance of President Trump’s firing of James Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which occurred on May 9, 2017. Transitioning from that topic to another, Josiah said:
So, that’s big news too. Now, here’s another thing. There was a, they did a big, massive shakedown yesterday with one of the region and the warden and other higher officials here. They went to every cell… They went to every single cell except for mine. They walked around that. And then later the officer had the captain sign a paper that I could see had a seal in the upper left-hand corner with blue, from the distance I was at, it could have very possibly been, what it reminds me of, what I thought of at the time was possibly an injunction letter, for them to stay away from it, because of the evidence of treason that might be in there, and they wanted to keep them from…
The call cut off there, apparently because the 15-minute limit on the call had run out.
A short while later, Josiah called back. At the beginning of that conversation, I told him that he had really buried the lede when we had spoken previously. He was not familiar with the term, and I explained that he had saved the most important part until the end.
At that, Josiah laughed out loud and said, laughing, “It’s just an evolving part of it!” Laughing even harder, he said, “I don’t think we’ve gotten to the most important part yet,” and he hastened to add, “which is the lawful conclusion,” and he laughed some more.
The evidence of treason that Josiah referred to is the evidence that he has against the traitors, of course. Among the FBI paperwork that Josiah has obtained he has found very interesting and relevant details. We discussed his unlawful arrest in 1999 and details of the State Trooper’s misconduct (including never reading Josiah his Miranda rights, and brutalizing Josiah). Yesterday Josiah asked me if I know who was the supervisor who signed off on that State Trooper’s misconduct back then? I said no. Josiah said it was one of the two men who had unlawfully trespassed at our home on July 6, 2009, the detective who later bore false witness against Josiah in trial in August 2011.
When Josiah was talking about the shakedown at the prison, he remembered something, “Oh, that reminds me is where I was talking about…” and he named the detective, former supervisor of the state trooper. “It putting into question the reliability was the word I wanted to use, the reliability of his conduct.”
“As a witness,” I added.
Josiah agreed and said, “Yeah, his investigative evidence gathering. So that would seriously put into question that, including that in that conversation,” where he was referring again to his August 17, 2010, conversation with the FBI via their confidential informant, “I specifically cited that his failing to take it” the paperwork Josiah and later I attempted to give to him, “was consistent with treason. And so, trust me, nothing what I’m doing now is separate or new from anything that hasn’t [sic] been going on all along leading up to my unlawful arrest in this federal case, on up to date. So, that’s preserved as far as the President’s warning that Comey better hope that the conversation wasn’t taped. Well, this one was!”
Now, as we prepare for Josiah’s release from his unlawful incarceration, August 19, 2010 to May 29, 2019, we continue to hope for and work toward the lawful conclusion. We believe that many others are working with us and not in any manner against us, because God is God, and he is doing what he does.
Romans 11:1-4 New International Version (NIV)
The Remnant of Israel
11 I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to God against Israel: 3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me”? 4 And what was God’s answer to him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
God has reserved to himself those who have not bowed the knee to Baal, and has also received to himself, those who have done so, but have then repented and come to him in order to fulfill the purpose for which they have been made.
Such faith is why my family and I, including my son Josiah of course, can laugh in the face of genocide, treason, war, and more. Such as that is no laughing matter, but when you know the way the story is going to end . . .