Two days ago in the U.K. five men were arrested by armed police in an active counterterrorism operation.
They were arrested on suspicion of PREPARING A TERRORIST ACT nearby US servicemen.
The next day, ALL FIVE MEN WERE RELEASED ON BAIL.
The USA will hold its own citizens in solitary confinement for months without evidence on behalf of the U.K.
The UK will let alleged terrorists on BAIL the day after they're caught in cars full of equipment near a military base.
What is going on??
I have spent 73 days in solitary as of writing this letter.
No evidence has been shown to me or my legal team and the DOJ is asking for the "evidence" against me to be hidden from the public.
This is not American!
Tate brothers' Lawyer Joe McBride and Fitness Professor Alex Stanciu on what Federal Detention is doing to Andrew and Tristan’s bodies. 😔💔
“I’m not going to lie… they don’t look good at all.”
“They only recently had access to enough calories for a normal person, never mind somebody their size.”
“No training. No sunlight. Highly processed food filled with carcinogens.”
“Think about the worst cafeteria food you’ve ever had in your life, and then sprinkle some dog food on it.” 😳
“That’s what they eat every day.” #FreeTheTates 🙏
There is no treasure waiting for you at any destination.
The only reason the destination exists, is to motivate you to undertake the journey.
The journey is the gold.
I was in a hotel room in Brasov, Romania. It was about 7 p.m. I was sitting on the bed and I was due to commentate on an MMA show at 9 p.m.
My phone rang. It was my Mum. I picked it up and she said, “Your Dad is dead”.
I said, “Okay, I'll call you back”. I hung up.
A girl who was in the room with me at the time. She said, “What happened”? I said, “My Dad died”.
Tristan was on the other bed. He said, “Dad's dead?” I said, “Dad's dead.”
And then we just sat there quietly for about 10 to 15 minutes.
And then I said, “Tristan, let's get ready and go do this show.” He said, “Are we still doing it?” I said, “Yeah.”
I didn't see the advantage of cancelling our commentating contract, when they flew us there from England.
We commentated on the entire show. After the show, we went back to the room. The girl I was with was like, “Oh, is there anything I can do?” I was like, “No.”
I was very irritable. She kept asking me if I was okay and it was pissing me off.
I was like, “Can you just sleep somewhere else? Just leave me alone. You can't resurrect my father and you just keep asking me questions and you're pissing me off.”
She left the room.
Dad died of a heart attack in a chess tournament. Literally died on a chessboard. Best way to go for a professional chess player.
Tears ran down my face, but I did not cry.
There were tears in my eyes, but I don't know if sad is the right word for how I felt.
I felt more anxious.
Imagine every police officer on the planet just evaporates. You’d be like, “Well, what happens now?" You're nervous, on edge, scared, worried.
That's how it felt. I didn't feel sad. I understood mortality well enough. It was more like, “Okay, well, Dad's gone.”
So now what? Like, “T, what do we do? Dad's gone. We're the bosses now. We don't get told what to do anymore.”
This is weird. That's how it felt. A strange anxiousness.
And the weirdest thing about this is that the day before he died, I had messaged him.
I was in a nightclub in Brasov. We talked on Facebook every few days. I messaged him randomly:
“Dad, my chi feels off. Are you here?”
It's the last message I sent him. He never read it.
And then he died.
The next day I woke up and my inbox on Facebook was flooded with stories from people who knew my Dad. It was very nice for me to read these stories of people I'd never heard of.
People were like, “Hi, you don't know who I am, but I was in the military with your father.”
“I met your father at a chess tournament.”
They told me all these amazing stories of my father doing incredible things.
A guy sent me a message saying, “Nobody is going to understand when you tell people how smart your father was. But I just want to tell you a quick story that when I joined the military, I was already fluent in Russian, and I lived with my Russian wife. And within two weeks, your father was correcting my Russian.”
It was the Air Force record for the fastest assimilation of a foreign language.
It was incredible. Everyone called him E-T, like an alien. They told me all these stories.
A kid in Africa contacted me, said, “I can't get hold of your Dad. He's not responding.”
I'm like, who are you? “Your Dad was sending me money and paying for my chess lessons.” I didn't know my Dad was sending this kid money.
So I sent this kid some money.
It was sobering but refreshing for me to read all these nice stories about him. To know that he made an impact on so many people's lives.
And the fact that he died while playing chess gave me huge solace. I was happy that he died at a chessboard. That's how he should have died.
A hero’s death. A warrior’s death. That's the best death I could have ever hoped for him. On the battlefield.
Now I want to affect as many people's lives as possible and die a hero's death.
I would hate to die peacefully in my sleep. I can do better than that.
If this story ends with me pissing off the government so much that eventually I get drive-by shot somewhere, I wouldn't be disappointed with that ending.
I pissed them off and I upset them and I broke The Matrix and I told the truth and they had to assassinate me. I'll take that.
My father was 57, which is still quite young. But that's still 20 more years for me.
In 20 years from now, I'll be kind of tired. I'm already bored of the women. I'm bored of the cars. I'm bored of the money. I'm bored of the diamond watches.
I understand if I continue down the trajectory I'm continuing down, that the end result is going to be me getting into a lot of trouble. And getting killed.
I'm ready for the bullet. Dying a hero's death is far better to me than a few extra years of consciousness and dying peacefully in your sleep.
A hero's death is the best thing a man could ever hope for. Men used to go out looking for it.
My father died a hero's death, He left a massive impact on people's lives.
And isn't it a son's job to follow in his father's footsteps? Isn't that the whole point of it? I mean, I do have his name.
Today, after 62 days in jail, a member of staff rushed up to me with forms on how to use the phone.
I've been here for over 2 months without any access to a phone call and have been ignored every time I ask, but after this tweet, they panicked and brought me phone instructions within 30 minutes.
I should have had a phone call on day one.
Imagine every man held here before me.
If I were just a normal American citizen here without a global voice, they would have ignored me forever.
Is FDC where men get thrown in holes and can’t contact their families, based on accusations from another country? Events that supposedly happened 15 years ago?
This is how FDC Miami is treating American citizens being held in prison PRE-TRIAL. UNCONVICTED.
There are thousands of men in this building who do not have a large enough Twitter account to get their rights respected.
The jail is reading every post. They are afraid. They are breaking laws daily and they know they are.
It is time for somebody senior at @OfficialFBOP to visit and audit this facility URGENTLY.
Anyone who ignores what is happening here is culpable.
Most of the men in here, whether innocent or guilty of alleged crimes, are UNCONVICTED.
If it is innocent until proven guilty, there are innocent Americans in these conditions.
They have reduced my food to half a tray, stone cold. They’re trying to punish me.
I would never kill myself.
We sat in court for the bail hearing and listened to them
Tell us that the conditions the brothers were facing are lies they didn’t even complain just simply explained what it was… it’s now been reported by the media you “trust”.. believe it now?
FREE ANDREW TATE NOW!
The US Government is locking 2 US citizens in the SHU for 60 days on a foreign warrant.
No U.S. crime.
No conviction on Earth.
If the 8th Amendment bans the government from inflicting cruel and unusual punishments, then this a clear cut example of violating the 8th.
Crazy how accurate Andrew Tate was about influencers losing influence to AI long before his arrest… 😳😱
Now we’re seeing Neon all over the place as the first streamer using AI for a full stream. Tik. Tok.