5 Feet of Fury

‘Mom… Dad… I’m fine…’ — Looking back at the whole Patty Hearst thing

Stella Moribito looks back:

For several weeks, she was blindfolded, confined to a smelly closet, tormented, periodically raped, and subjected to a coarse Maoist style program of indoctrination and re-education. (…)

The leader Donald “Cinque” DeFreeze and the others propagandized and interrogated her constantly, explaining that “Amerikkka” was a racist and evil society, repeatedly calling her a privileged “bourgeoise bitch” and her father a “pig” of the “corporate fascist state.”

Leading Ed Driscoll to quip:

So pretty much like life at the average elite university…