Free speech only goes so far. Truth-telling about the events of 6 Jan violates free speech these days.
“Capitol Punishment” director Chris Burgard described the chilling visit he allegedly got from the FBI after making his movie about January 6and said “if this can happen to me, it can happen to anybody.”
Burgard has been making films for decades, and he told The Daily Wire on Friday that not once with any of those movies, about everything from the Vietnam War to an exposé on our southern border, has he had a visit from the FBI. In his movie, he challenges the media’s “insurrection” narrative and gives protestors, who say they never entered the building, the chance to speak, after being vilified and more, as previously reported.
The director, who lives on a large ranch with a quarter-mile driveway in Texas with his family, said it was his wife Lisa who discovered the FBI agent’s card on the door of her home.
“There was no note attached, so I wasn’t sure, like, was it for Chris, was it for me, was it for the whole family?” Lisa shared with PJ Media. “Were we supposed to call them back? I really didn’t know what to make of it, but it was a warning. I mean, I’ve never had anything like that happen before.”
She called Chris and he said he got an attorney. When they reached out to the FBI, agent Burgard said he told him “that they had a call in to the terrorist threat center that I was a terrorist because I had made the movie ‘Capitol Punishment’ and they had orders from DC I needed to be investigated,” the outlet noted.
“We had to have a family meeting afterwards because, you know, from doing the movie, my daughter knows those other girls that had their house raided, and pulled out into the street,” Burgard said. “One of them was handcuffed. They were flash-banged. And my daughter’s like, ‘Dad, you think they’ll raid us tomorrow? Should I keep the dogs in my room? Cause I don’t want them to shoot my dogs.’ I can’t tell you the stress this caused my family.”
“To call me and my family a terrorist threat …” he told The Daily Wire, mentioning what his daughter said to him, “it’s not stuff that you should have to live with.”
When asked why he thought this happened, he said, “If this can happen to me, it can happen to anybody.”
“But in the United States of America they [someone] can say ‘oh, he’s a terrorist’ cause I made a movie?” Burgard added.
Nick Searcy, INTERNATIONAL FILM & TELEVISION STAR on Twitter: “The @FBI has now targeted the director of this film I produced, Capitol Punishment, https://t.co/keJeSjI5RR This is not America. But this is how it works under Dems like @JoeBiden and Reps like @RepLizCheney.When will the Republicans speak up? https://t.co/WFn9NRnY8w / Twitter”
The @FBI has now targeted the director of this film I produced, Capitol Punishment, https://t.co/keJeSjI5RR This is not America. But this is how it works under Dems like @JoeBiden and Reps like @RepLizCheney.When will the Republicans speak up? https://t.co/WFn9NRnY8w