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Permalinkdemand that you swear fealty to the system by ratting out loved ones. They
are constantly looking for opportunities to give you to do this, and you are
rewarded greatly if you do it. You are saying "I put the state above my own
blood." The Nazis and Bolsheviks were obsessed with this program. Children
who ratted out their parents were praised as "heroes"
Right, Oleg?
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After Capitol Hill riots, children rat out their right-wing parents to the
media
9 Jan, 2021 17:02
With authorities tracking down the Trump supporters who barged into the US
Capitol, teenagers have eagerly turned in their own family members who took
part in the riot, and the media has encouraged the Stasi-style snitching.
Days after President Donald Trump’s supporters forced their way into the US
Capitol and ran riot throughout the building, police and prosecutors are
working to identify and track down members of the mob. DC police have
already arrested at least 80 people, and Washington DC Attorney General Karl
Racine told ABC News on Friday that his office would scour the internet for
leads and ask the public to send in tips.
However, a number of young people didn’t need to be asked twice. 18-year-old
Helena Duke was profiled by Buzzfeed News on Friday for publicly outing her
own mother, aunt, and uncle after she saw them in a photo from the Capitol.
Duke told Buzzfeed that she ratted out her own family after her mother
forbade her from attending a Black Lives Matter protest earlier this year.
“Hi mom remember the time you told me I shouldn't go to BLM protests bc they
could get violent...this you?" she tweeted alongside a video showing her
mother bleeding from the nose following a scuffle with a black woman.
The tweet earned Duke praise from some liberal commentators but backlash
from conservatives, and the teenager has since locked her Twitter account.
However, she told Buzzfeed that she’s received messages from other teens who
saw their family at the riot and agonized over whether to turn them in or
not.
One of these teenage touts, Robyn Sweet, was interviewed by Buzzfeed a day
earlier. Sweet suspected her father – a supporter of Trump and member of a
militia group – would travel to Washington for Trump’s rally on Wednesday,
and outed him publicly after he was arrested inside the Capitol.
Sweet told Buzzfeed that she was “ashamed and disgusted” by her father’s
beliefs and actions, and said she no longer speaks to him due to his
“conspiracy theories” and involvement in right-wing groups.
Whatever the consequences for their familial relations, the US media has
encouraged friends and relatives of rioters to inform on them to police. CNN
has boosted calls for information from the FBI – while simultaneously
describing the social ostracization that awaits them – and USA Today has
asked its readers to fill out a form if they recognize any of the rioters
caught on camera.
USA Today asks to ID rioters in Capitol invasion. Readers question why
summer unrest was treated differently
Some readers chimed in with information and gloated about the repercussions
the suspects would soon face, but others were troubled by the apparent
“merger between press and state,” as well as the media’s lack of interest in
identifying Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters all summer.
“They don't actually need your help with this,” writer Whitney Webb
responded. “What they want is for you to get used to the idea of ratting out
your neighbors.”
Though calls for information have proliferated in the aftermath of Wednesday’s
riot, along with a draconian censorship crackdown by big tech, the public is
already used to being told to snitch on each other. Amid coronavirus
lockdowns, the British police and government have encouraged citizens to
tattle on their neighbors for breaking restrictions, as have authorities in
Canada, Russia, and the United States.
https://www.rt.com/usa/512032-buzzfeed-snitching-capitol-hill/