As liberals like Matt Damon, Ed Franken, and Garrison Keillor get loaded into the tumbrils by the committee of public safety I love hearing their protestations of innocence. I love even more their public confessions.
IMO they are pretty innocent but still ....
https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/12/06/the-warlock-hunt/The Warlock Hunt
CLAIRE BERLINSKI
The #MeToo moment has now morphed into a moral panic that poses as much danger to women as it does to men.
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For that matter, isn’t anyone else a bit spooked by the ritual tenor of the confessions that always follow? The most profound mystery of the Moscow Trials was the eagerness of the victims to confess. What prompted them to say things like this?
I once more repeat that I admit that I am guilty of treason to the socialist fatherland, the most heinous of possible crimes, of the organization of kulak uprisings … as will be clear to everybody, that there were many specific things which I could not have known, and which I actually did not know, but that this does not relieve me of responsibility. … I am kneeling before the country, before the Party, before the whole people. The monstrousness of my crimes is immeasurable especially in the new stage of the struggle of the U.S.S.R. May this trial be the last severe lesson, and may the great might of the U.S.S.R. become clear to all.