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China will prosecute the leaders of Falun Gong . A government order excused most followers saying they had been brainwashed into joining a subversive political organization.
The LAT reports that former President Jimmy Carter has been lobbying President Clinton to pardon Patty Hearst, the newspaper-magnate scion who in 1974 was famously kidnapped and "brainwashed" into robbing a bank with her captors (the "Symbionese Liberation Army").
Then again, Republican candidates are now charging each other with endangering Social Security, which suggests that each party has to some extent been brainwashed by the other's propaganda.
The argument was that he'd brainwashed the country with smoke and mirrors, artifice and stagecraft.