Anna Morgan-Lloyd, the 49-year-old grandmother from Indiana who strolled into the US Capitol and spent several minutes peacefully walking around, got the same message that was delivered to Chinese dissidents and “bad elements” during Mao’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: confess to thought crimes, embrace the state-sanctioned ideology, and you will be shown mercy. In the case of Morgan-Lloyd, the message was delivered to her by her own defense lawyer, a public defender paid by taxpayers. And it worked. She received three years’ probation, a $500 fine, and no incarceration beyond the two days she had spent in jail following her arrest.
Julie Kelley describes at American Greatness the imposition of an ideological test on a defendant whose own lawyer was in on the brainwashing initiative:
My lawyer has given me names of books and movies to help me see what life is like for others in our country. I’ve learned that even though we live in a wonderful country things still need to improve. People of all colors should feel as safe as I do to walk down the street.”
That passage is part book report, part white privilege mea culpa submitted to a federal court this month by Anna Morgan-Lloyd, one of the more than 500 Americans arrested for her involvement in the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6
Her lawyer, Heather Shaner, also represents other 1/621 defendants, and apparently is recommending the thought reform confessions to toher clients:In an interview with Huffington Post, Shaner explained her belief that “this is the most wonderful country in the world, it’s been great for all kinds of immigrant groups, except for the fact that it was born of genocide of the Native Americans and the enslavement of people.”
Sure sounds like critical race theory to me.
“I have had many political and ethical discussions with Anna Lloyd,” Shaner wrote in her motion agreeing to the plea and probation for Lloyd. “I tendered a booklist to her. She has read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Just Mercy, and Schindler’s List to educate herself about ‘government policy’ toward Native Americans, African Americans and European Jews. We have discussed the books and also about the responsibility of an individual when confronting ‘wrong.’”
Shaner also told the court that Lloyd watched the “Burning Tulsa” documentary on the History Channel as well as “Mudbound,” a story of two families, one black and one white, living on the same property after World War II.
Just affirm that this is an awful, racist country and that you are the beneficiary of white privilege, and you can escape lengthy imprisonment for “parading” in the Capitol. While others at other times have invaded and disrupted hearings, and wreaked far more havoc (The Kavanaugh hearings, for example) with little or no punishment at all, and certainly no requirements for thought reform
This moment is straight out of a struggle session in China during the Cultural Revolution (which closed schools tore down statues – sound familiar?):
During her sentencing hearing on Wednesday, Lloyd broke down while apologizing for her actions. “I apologize to the court, to the American people, to my family,” she told Lamberth. “I was there to support Trump peacefully and am ashamed that it became a savage display of violence.” She said she’s never experienced racial negativity but “realizes many people do.” She was not charged with any racially motivated crime.
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“Savage display of violence”? Yeah, there were some people who broke windows and forced their way into the Capitol, and that is very, very bad, deserving prison time. But the only person against whom violence was perpetrated was demonstrator Ashlii Babbitt, and the cop who shot her dead is being protected, his or her name kept from the public. For violence to be “savage,” don’t living people need to be harmed?
Back during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the required reading list was much shorter: Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book, The Thoughts of Chairman Mao.
Photo released by Chinese news agency in 1969, via Flickr CC BY 2.0 license
Those people were ordinary peasants. For people with bad class origins, or who were tainted by education overseas, it was much worse. In the early 1980s, I interviewed a Chinese scientist who had gotten a PhD at Indiana University working on the study of DNA with Watson and Crick, who discovered the double helix. The eminent scientist was paraded in public, wearing a dunce cap, pelted with garbage, and had his arm broken.
We’re not there yet, but our foes are still gathering momentum. At least the Thoughts of President Biden will be a very short book.
Zorn,
“This moment is straight out of a struggle session in China during the Cultural Revolution (which closed schools tore down statues – sound familiar?):”
That’s the Chinese analogy you said was lacking; yet Lifson made NO references to the holocaust. You seem to have, as I pointed out, a reading deficit. No apology.
In the meantime the Jewish leadership is remarkable by its deafening silence and its support for socialism/communism!
We are of course aware that many Jews contributed to socialism and communism.
History repeats itself again and again and again.
@MIchael S. Your words are too harsh. Be civil or begone, I will ignore you, if you persist in your rudeness. You owe me an apology. And, you missed the point. She compared the singling out and persecution of Trump supporters to the Nazi persecution of Jews which I pointed out is drawing a false equivalence and miinimizing the Shoah even before the mass killing. . A comparison with Communist China would be far more appropriate on more than one level.
@Ted Belman You didn’t read the Wikipedia article on MIschlinge or “part-Jews” under the Nuremburg Laws with subsequent amendments and then regional Nazi variations. The Nazis went back and forth and enforced their racial laws differently in different places. There were loopholes for Jews with one Jewish grandparent under certain conditions and people with fewer than 4 Jewish grandparents were defined as half or quarter Jews. The Law of Return didn’t change the definition of a Jew but it extended refugee status to even the most distant relatives of Jews to be on the safe side, obviously. see
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/an-introduction-to-the-law-of-return
and amended
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/israel-s-law-of-return
@Sabastian
Israel’s law of return was modeled after Hitler’s definition, I believe,. It is therefore enough to have one Jewish grandparent to gain citizenship under the law of return.
Sebastien, I don’t think you even know how to read. The OP was not about the Shoah — Get a Llife!
Concerning the OP, the author was correct about the kangaroo trial. “CRT” aside, it looks to me like American POWs being coerced into signing false confessions, criticizing the US.
@Ted Belman individuals with one Jewish grandparent were sometimes given a pass. They went back and forth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischling
@Sabastia
Actually Hitler identified one as a Jew if he had 1 Jewish grandparent.
But I do agree that “gratuitous Nazi comparisons dilute the outrage rather than transferring it.” I always avoid it.
@Ted Belman The Nazi definition of a Jew was a person with 4 Jewish grandparents. If a future Democrat regime labeled anyone with 4 Trump supporting grandparents as a deplorable to be persecuted on racial grounds, then Linda’s comparison might hold. Otherwise, gratuitous Nazi comparisons dilute the outrage rather than transferring it.
@Sabastian
I disagree. Before the Final Solution ” was adopted in 1941, Hitler was all for forced emigration but nobody wanted the Jews. Out of that impasse the final solution was adopted. Some argue that Hitler appeared to favour emigration at the beginning only to demonstrate that nobody wanted the Jews.
@Linda Goudsmit Apples and oranges. In HItler’s case, the main purpose of the political tyranny was to advance the mass murder of the Jewish people on a racial basis. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/adolf-hitler-s-first-anti-semitic-writing
Infamous.
Trump supporters are to Biden/Obama/Harris regime what the Jews were to Hitler – canon fodder to disguise and advance political tyranny. Buyer beware! Jews who support the Biden/Obama/Harris regime are 21st century useful idiots.