"I realize now that I am a running dog capitalist and I have betrayed the Party and the People. I deserve my punishment, that I may be a lesson for others."
Posted on 06/26/2021 5:16:05 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
D.C. attorney H. Heather Shaner says that books and movies about the uglier parts of American history are “a revelation” for some of her Capitol attack clients.
Capitol defendant Anna Morgan Lloyd told the judge that she watched "Burning Tulsa" on the History Channel.
This week, Morgan-Lloyd will become the first of nearly 500 defendants arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to face sentencing. She wants a judge to know she’s changed, and her book report-style filings are meant to illustrate that growth.
“I’ve lived a sheltered life and truly haven’t experienced life the way many have,” Morgan-Lloyd wrote to the judge. “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.”
The remedial social studies program that Morgan-Lloyd is following was created by her D.C.-based lawyer, H. Heather Shaner. Defense attorneys in the nation’s capital aren’t exactly a core part of Trump’s political base, as many have made clear in court filings in which they’ve blamed Trump for leading their clients to the edge by convincing them that the 2020 election was stolen.
Shaner is one of many D.C. lawyers assigned to represent Capitol defendants who can’t afford their own attorneys . In addition to representing her clients in court, Shaner has seized an opportunity to try and educate them on the history their teachers glossed over.
Shaner decided to take an intensive approach with her Capitol clients, who were part of another ugly, historical event in American history.
“Reading books and then watching these shows is like a revelation,” Shaner told HuffPost. “I think that education is a very powerful tool ... So I gave them book lists and shows that they should watch.”
Shaner said her clients had poor educations and knew very little about the country.
“Both my women are like, ‘I never learned this in school. Why don’t I know about this?’” Shaner said.
Now, Morgan-Lloyd says, she accepts President Joe Biden as the nation’s leader, and she’s learning some lessons about the uglier parts of American history she’s just learning about.
Shaner told the court the process helped Morgan-Lloyd “educate herself and to learn the American history she was not taught in school.”
Shaner also occasionally teaches at her granddaughter’s school, where she says she’s spoken frankly about America’s origins.
“I told them what my mom always told me, that this is the most wonderful country in the world, except for the fact that it was born of genocide of the Native Americans and the enslavement of people.”
A teacher at her granddaughter’s school, Shaner said, told her afterwards that she was overcome with emotion to hear a white person acknowledge that the country was funded through genocide and enslavement.
“To be clear, what the Defendant initially described as ‘the most exciting day of [her] life’ was, in fact, a tragic day for our nation — a day of riotous violence, collective destruction, and criminal conduct by a frenzied and lawless mob. ” Assistant U.S. Attorney Joshua S. Rothstein wrote
The judicial system had one more lesson for Morgan-Lloyd. President Joe Biden had just signed a new law: the court was closed for Juneteenth.
The judicial system had one more lesson for Morgan-Lloyd. President Joe Biden had just signed a new law: the court was closed for Juneteenth
Now, Morgan-Lloyd says, she accepts President Joe Biden as the nation’s leader, and she’s learning some lessons about the uglier parts of American history .
Is this serious?
Sounds like the Defense attorney is successfully convincing her clients that they are guilty and deserving of punishment for acts done by others.
Someone took her to “Room # 101” apparently
“...accepts President Joe Biden as the nation’s leader...”
Nope, he’s POTUS, but not much of a leader.
Groper Man Bad. [Much like all of the Orange Man Bad stuff...]
“He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
Solitary confinement is an insidious form of prison torture.
Also, Washington D.C. prisons are the TRUE re-education camps.
Oh BS.
Tulsa was a riot caused by BOTH races - that’s why it’s “glossed” over.
I’m sure this lawyer - who should be disbarred for this malfeasance and unprofessionalism - doesn’t even begin to understand the REAL ugliness of American history when the GOVERNMENT abused its powers to murder people.
Yknow… like Waco and Ruby Ridge.
Nope - it’s all that systemic racism garbage right?
Looks like someone is about to find out that you can’t apologize to the left.
I would bet the lawyer is trying engender sympathy from the court.
It will not work. They left will kill the woman to make an example of her.
Re-educationn camp. How very Maoist.
"I realize now that I am a running dog capitalist and I have betrayed the Party and the People. I deserve my punishment, that I may be a lesson for others."
Sometimes you gotta say what you gotta say.
But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
I think I may be sick.
Disgusting
don’t buy any of this. fake leftist media and even faker leftist lawyers get zero trust from me.
let’s hear **directly** from the client. no filters. i’ll reserve judgement on her until all these isolated political prisoners are allowed proper access to people we trust and to their families and friends.
Sounds like a good strategy to get light sentences from the swampdweller judges in D.C. Obama packed that court and Trump wasn’t able to make much of a dent in it. Tell them what they want to hear and avoid jail time.
Because if there is one thing us right wingers need it is remedial lessons in US history. Why we don’t even realize the basic fact that whatever the Left doesn’t feel in Constitutional is magically Constitutional. Instead we waste our time reading conspiracy theory nonsense like th actual Constitution and even the kooky Federalist Papers which are totally irrelevant to what is or us not Constitutional.
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