The Bulldog Manifesto has an excellent piece on the Orwellian aspects of the current war against Iraq as well as the Newspeak that has spread throughout government and media. I could not agree more and urge you to read it:

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” – George Orwell, from the book 1984, published in 1949.

In the book 1984, the totalitarian government known as “Big Brother”, uses high technology and cleverly crafted language known as “Newspeak” to control the minds of the masses. In that fictional world, any person thinking about notions of freedom or revolution was punished with torture or severe brainwashing. You see, in that world, thinking about true freedom was considered a “thoughtcrime”. So Big Brother used “Newspeak” to get people to think in narrow terms, limiting the range of thought, in order to make “thoughtcrime” impossible.

I’m getting sick and tired of the Orwellian Newspeak. Just turn on the television, all you hear is Orwellian Newspeak. Nothing is as it seems.

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