Neither Sane Orwell
posted by The Vidiot @ 9:48 AM Permalink "Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.":WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (Xinhuanet)
-- U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld revealed on Thursday that civilians in the United States are under surveillance in a program to protect military personnel and bases.
The "counter-surveillance" program, in line with the Defense Department's responsibility to protect U.S. forces, is aimed at preventing civilians gathering sensitive information and taking pictures of security installations, Rumsfeld said at the National Press Club.
"Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. ":
From the WaPoAs evidenced by the difficulty in rooting out insurgents in Iraq and stopping terror attacks such as those in London last year, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday that the war on terror could last decades and resemble the Cold War's long battle against communism. In a speech to the National Press Club, Rumsfeld laid out strategies for the conflict the White House has dubbed "The Long War."
Mirroring the oft-repeated pleas by President Bush for patience in the Iraqi war, Rumsfeld said the task of flushing out terrorists and battling extremist ideologies is an arduous one, with no clear endpoint in sight.
The Washington Post reported that Rumsfeld extended the Cold War analogy by comparing al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to Nazi mastermind Adolf Hitler and former communist leader Vladimir Lenin ...
"His voice, made metallic by the amplifiers, boomed forth an endless catalogue of atrocities, massacres, deportations, lootings, rapings, torture of prisoners, bombing of civilians, lying propaganda, unjust aggressions, broken treaties.":
And after his confession Bush made a speech:
"No one can deny the success of freedom, but some men rage and fight against it.
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We love our freedom, and we will fight to keep it."
While this has been a constant meme from Bush, it has no basis in reality.
No one rages and fights against freedom. We all want freedom, we just define it differently. Some folks believe freedom means non-believers should be driven from their lands. Others believe in the separation of Church and State. And that's just in America.
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The Sailor Sez: I was emailed this comment from a reader who was having technical difficulties commenting. Without edit or further ado:
Orwell before Orwell (snigger ... )
One of the most profound Orwellian perspectives ever contrived by man is the "modern" concept of "Freedom." THAT point of view is capstoned by the phrase: "Freedom ain't free!" "American" freedom is best defined as "Not having to be responsible for past deeds." It was most accurately described by J. Joplin as being "... just another word for nothing left to loose."
While the word "freedom" is commonly used as a synonym for "liberty," the most insightful progressives (such as those men -- and the women in their shadows -- who actually composed the U.S. Constitution) realize that these two fundamentally distinct goals are certainly NOT the same. What the initial revolutionaries of the "American War for Independence" obtained for themselves with their fight was LIBERTY. What they gave to their posterity was FREEDOM. People who have freedom most often lose it. This is because they never had to pay the retail price of its cost.
DanD
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