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User: "Harry Hope"
Date: 23 Jul 2005 02:11:56 PM
Object: '1984' under Bush. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
From The Athens Banner-Herald, 7/23/05:
http://onlineathens.com/stories/072305/opi_20050723031.shtml
'1984' coming close to reality under Bush
By Ed Tant
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
Those were the slogans of Oceania, the fictional country gripped in
the iron glove of "Big Brother" dictatorship in George Orwell's
chilling novel of tyranny, "1984."
Today, those same sentiments could be the mottos and mantras for the
Bush administration and its cacophonous choir of braying, bleating
Bush backers.
Three years ago today, on July 23, 2002, British Prime Minister Tony
Blair met with his war cabinet and heard the news that Iraqi strongman
Saddam Hussein's capabilities to wage war with weapons of mass
destruction were being exaggerated and hyped by a Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld
axis of aggression.
The Downing Street memo that came out of the meeting also said war was
seen as the only option by a Bush regime determined to invade Iraq by
speciously implying the country was somehow involved in the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attacks on the United States and that the timing of
the invasion of Iraq was designed to give Bush's Republicans a "war
party" advantage in U.S. midterm elections.
In spite of the Downing Street documents' blockbuster assertion the
Bush crew lied and flim-flammed its way into an unnecessary war that
has so far taken the lives of nearly 1,800 troops, the memos received
only scant and perfunctory attention in a mainstream American "news"
media seemingly more occupied with constant coverage of the latest
"trial of the month" celebrity circus or emoting ad infinitum about
the plight of the latest missing white girl.
News media, both print and electronic, should be watchdogs against
corporate and government corruption, not lapdogs for corporate and
governmental collusion.
Instead, many in the often compliant and complacent U.S. media have
gone along to get along with a Bush administration that longtime
Washington journalist Helen Thomas so rightly calls the worst
presidency in American history.
It took the jailing of New York Times reporter Judith Miller and the
sleazy scandals swirling around Bush's political pal Karl Rove to
shake the vaunted Washington press corps into finally firing some
aggressive questions in the direction of Bush and his media
mouthpiece, Scott McClellan.
In the typically Orwellian "Newspeak" of the Bush regime, McClellan
told reporters the death-dealing U.S. invasion of Iraq was "about
protecting the American people" after the White House admitted in
January there were no stockpiles of WMD in Iraq, in spite of
administration claims to the contrary used to justify Bush's war.
When Judith Miller was sent to jail last month, Joe Wilson, the former
ambassador and husband of the CIA operative "outed" by someone in the
Bush White House after Wilson wrote an article critical of the
administration, said a "culture of unaccountability infects the Bush
White House from top to bottom."
He added that "the conspiracy to cover up the web of lies that
underpinned the invasion of Iraq is more important to the White House
than coming clean on a serious breach of national security.
"The real victims of this cover-up, which might have turned criminal,
are the Congress, the Constitution and, most tragically, the Americans
and Iraqis who have paid the ultimate price for Bush's folly."
"Folly" is a charitable word for the chicanery, mendacity and pure
old-fashioned evil emanating from the Bush White House.
If a Democratic president had pulled half the stunts the Bush-Cheney
junta have gotten away with since being installed in 2001, crybaby
conservative Republicans would be heard howling from Capitol Hill to
Foggy Bottom.
Instead, as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote on July 15,
"There are now few, if any, limits to what conservative politicians
can get away with: the faithful will follow the twists and turns of
the party line with a loyalty that would have pleased the Comintern."
Welcome to the world of Big Brother Bush.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
______________________________________________________
Harry
.

User: "Harry Dope"

Title: Re: '1984' under Bush. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. 23 Jul 2005 02:32:04 PM

I see that fantasy world of your Harry is in full effect. Now you dems are
so desperate you compare real life to make believe.
--
"Bad" Kennedy girls get lobotomized.
"Bad" Kennedy boys get elected
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From The Athens Banner-Herald, 7/23/05:
http://onlineathens.com/stories/072305/opi_20050723031.shtml

'1984' coming close to reality under Bush

By Ed Tant

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

Those were the slogans of Oceania, the fictional country gripped in
the iron glove of "Big Brother" dictatorship in George Orwell's
chilling novel of tyranny, "1984."

Today, those same sentiments could be the mottos and mantras for the
Bush administration and its cacophonous choir of braying, bleating
Bush backers.

Three years ago today, on July 23, 2002, British Prime Minister Tony
Blair met with his war cabinet and heard the news that Iraqi strongman
Saddam Hussein's capabilities to wage war with weapons of mass
destruction were being exaggerated and hyped by a Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld
axis of aggression.

The Downing Street memo that came out of the meeting also said war was
seen as the only option by a Bush regime determined to invade Iraq by
speciously implying the country was somehow involved in the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attacks on the United States and that the timing of
the invasion of Iraq was designed to give Bush's Republicans a "war
party" advantage in U.S. midterm elections.

In spite of the Downing Street documents' blockbuster assertion the
Bush crew lied and flim-flammed its way into an unnecessary war that
has so far taken the lives of nearly 1,800 troops, the memos received
only scant and perfunctory attention in a mainstream American "news"
media seemingly more occupied with constant coverage of the latest
"trial of the month" celebrity circus or emoting ad infinitum about
the plight of the latest missing white girl.

News media, both print and electronic, should be watchdogs against
corporate and government corruption, not lapdogs for corporate and
governmental collusion.

Instead, many in the often compliant and complacent U.S. media have
gone along to get along with a Bush administration that longtime
Washington journalist Helen Thomas so rightly calls the worst
presidency in American history.

It took the jailing of New York Times reporter Judith Miller and the
sleazy scandals swirling around Bush's political pal Karl Rove to
shake the vaunted Washington press corps into finally firing some
aggressive questions in the direction of Bush and his media
mouthpiece, Scott McClellan.

In the typically Orwellian "Newspeak" of the Bush regime, McClellan
told reporters the death-dealing U.S. invasion of Iraq was "about
protecting the American people" after the White House admitted in
January there were no stockpiles of WMD in Iraq, in spite of
administration claims to the contrary used to justify Bush's war.

When Judith Miller was sent to jail last month, Joe Wilson, the former
ambassador and husband of the CIA operative "outed" by someone in the
Bush White House after Wilson wrote an article critical of the
administration, said a "culture of unaccountability infects the Bush
White House from top to bottom."

He added that "the conspiracy to cover up the web of lies that
underpinned the invasion of Iraq is more important to the White House
than coming clean on a serious breach of national security.

"The real victims of this cover-up, which might have turned criminal,
are the Congress, the Constitution and, most tragically, the Americans
and Iraqis who have paid the ultimate price for Bush's folly."

"Folly" is a charitable word for the chicanery, mendacity and pure
old-fashioned evil emanating from the Bush White House.

If a Democratic president had pulled half the stunts the Bush-Cheney
junta have gotten away with since being installed in 2001, crybaby
conservative Republicans would be heard howling from Capitol Hill to
Foggy Bottom.

Instead, as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote on July 15,
"There are now few, if any, limits to what conservative politicians
can get away with: the faithful will follow the twists and turns of
the party line with a loyalty that would have pleased the Comintern."

Welcome to the world of Big Brother Bush.

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.

______________________________________________________

Harry

.
User: "robw"

Title: Re: '1984' under Bush. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. 23 Jul 2005 07:40:53 PM
Yr realise yr the only response to yr own post?
"Harry Dope" <HD@earthlink.com> wrote in message
news:UWwEe.41801$3j2.1182605@twister.southeast.rr.com...


I see that fantasy world of your Harry is in full effect. Now you dems

are

so desperate you compare real life to make believe.




--
"Bad" Kennedy girls get lobotomized.

"Bad" Kennedy boys get elected

"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:sj55e1tk76htt0dvhph9opejer84ck9fng@4ax.com...


From The Athens Banner-Herald, 7/23/05:
http://onlineathens.com/stories/072305/opi_20050723031.shtml

'1984' coming close to reality under Bush

By Ed Tant

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

Those were the slogans of Oceania, the fictional country gripped in
the iron glove of "Big Brother" dictatorship in George Orwell's
chilling novel of tyranny, "1984."

Today, those same sentiments could be the mottos and mantras for the
Bush administration and its cacophonous choir of braying, bleating
Bush backers.

Three years ago today, on July 23, 2002, British Prime Minister Tony
Blair met with his war cabinet and heard the news that Iraqi strongman
Saddam Hussein's capabilities to wage war with weapons of mass
destruction were being exaggerated and hyped by a Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld
axis of aggression.

The Downing Street memo that came out of the meeting also said war was
seen as the only option by a Bush regime determined to invade Iraq by
speciously implying the country was somehow involved in the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attacks on the United States and that the timing of
the invasion of Iraq was designed to give Bush's Republicans a "war
party" advantage in U.S. midterm elections.

In spite of the Downing Street documents' blockbuster assertion the
Bush crew lied and flim-flammed its way into an unnecessary war that
has so far taken the lives of nearly 1,800 troops, the memos received
only scant and perfunctory attention in a mainstream American "news"
media seemingly more occupied with constant coverage of the latest
"trial of the month" celebrity circus or emoting ad infinitum about
the plight of the latest missing white girl.

News media, both print and electronic, should be watchdogs against
corporate and government corruption, not lapdogs for corporate and
governmental collusion.

Instead, many in the often compliant and complacent U.S. media have
gone along to get along with a Bush administration that longtime
Washington journalist Helen Thomas so rightly calls the worst
presidency in American history.

It took the jailing of New York Times reporter Judith Miller and the
sleazy scandals swirling around Bush's political pal Karl Rove to
shake the vaunted Washington press corps into finally firing some
aggressive questions in the direction of Bush and his media
mouthpiece, Scott McClellan.

In the typically Orwellian "Newspeak" of the Bush regime, McClellan
told reporters the death-dealing U.S. invasion of Iraq was "about
protecting the American people" after the White House admitted in
January there were no stockpiles of WMD in Iraq, in spite of
administration claims to the contrary used to justify Bush's war.

When Judith Miller was sent to jail last month, Joe Wilson, the former
ambassador and husband of the CIA operative "outed" by someone in the
Bush White House after Wilson wrote an article critical of the
administration, said a "culture of unaccountability infects the Bush
White House from top to bottom."

He added that "the conspiracy to cover up the web of lies that
underpinned the invasion of Iraq is more important to the White House
than coming clean on a serious breach of national security.

"The real victims of this cover-up, which might have turned criminal,
are the Congress, the Constitution and, most tragically, the Americans
and Iraqis who have paid the ultimate price for Bush's folly."

"Folly" is a charitable word for the chicanery, mendacity and pure
old-fashioned evil emanating from the Bush White House.

If a Democratic president had pulled half the stunts the Bush-Cheney
junta have gotten away with since being installed in 2001, crybaby
conservative Republicans would be heard howling from Capitol Hill to
Foggy Bottom.

Instead, as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote on July 15,
"There are now few, if any, limits to what conservative politicians
can get away with: the faithful will follow the twists and turns of
the party line with a loyalty that would have pleased the Comintern."

Welcome to the world of Big Brother Bush.

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.

______________________________________________________

Harry




.


User: "Marcus Aurelius"

Title: Re: '1984' under Bush. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. 23 Jul 2005 07:39:20 PM
'Long Live the Republicrat Party!" "Long Live the Republicrat Party!"
The smartest animals were pigs. As a result, they led the party and headed
the Ministry of Truth. ANYTHING THAT CRITICIZED THE REPUBLICAT PARTY WAS
EVIL!
The people were the sheep. They had sheep like faces and shaked their heads
and clapped in approval as the Ministry of Truth head pig stated:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Then the head pig of the Ministry of Equality stated:
"The primary commandment of the Republicrat Party is:
1. If it is white and male, it is bad.
2. If it is non-white it is good.
3. If it is female it is good.
LONG LIVE THE REPUBLICRAT PARTY!
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!"
Then one of the pigs stood up and delivered a Two Minute hate speech
directed at white males and the enemies of the state in Eurasia.
The sheep were worked into a frenzy!
BAAAA!BAAAAA!BAAAA!
They bleated like sheep,screamed and shook their fists.
Then a picture of Big Brother slowly came onto a scream behind them with a
soothing voice stated:
Trust the Republicrat Party. Trust and Support the Republicrat Party.
The sheep became quiet and many tears were in their eyes because Big Brother
was protecting them.
After all of the sheep were quiet, a new sign flashed on the screen behind
the Pigs representing the Ministry of Truth and the Ministry of Equality.
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!
John Whitmore left the meeting and said to himself over and over:"I HATE BIG
BROTHER. I HATE BIG BROTHER! I HATE BIG BROTHER.'
( From George Orwell's books "1984" and "Animal Farm."
.
User: "XTS"

Title: Re: '1984' under Bush. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. 24 Jul 2005 04:02:36 AM
"Marcus Aurelius" <shaw2082@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:YqBEe.2357$9D1.922@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net...

'Long Live the Republicrat Party!" "Long Live the Republicrat Party!"
The smartest animals were pigs. As a result, they led the party and headed
the Ministry of Truth. ANYTHING THAT CRITICIZED THE REPUBLICAT PARTY WAS
EVIL!
The people were the sheep. They had sheep like faces and shaked their

heads

and clapped in approval as the Ministry of Truth head pig stated:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Then the head pig of the Ministry of Equality stated:
"The primary commandment of the Republicrat Party is:
1. If it is white and male, it is bad.
2. If it is non-white it is good.
3. If it is female it is good.
LONG LIVE THE REPUBLICRAT PARTY!
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!"

Then one of the pigs stood up and delivered a Two Minute hate speech
directed at white males and the enemies of the state in Eurasia.
The sheep were worked into a frenzy!
BAAAA!BAAAAA!BAAAA!
They bleated like sheep,screamed and shook their fists.
Then a picture of Big Brother slowly came onto a scream behind them with a
soothing voice stated:
Trust the Republicrat Party. Trust and Support the Republicrat Party.
The sheep became quiet and many tears were in their eyes because Big

Brother

was protecting them.
After all of the sheep were quiet, a new sign flashed on the screen behind
the Pigs representing the Ministry of Truth and the Ministry of Equality.
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!

John Whitmore left the meeting and said to himself over and over:"I HATE

BIG

BROTHER. I HATE BIG BROTHER! I HATE BIG BROTHER.'
( From George Orwell's books "1984" and "Animal Farm."


You do Mr. Orwell a great disservice and make a complete fool of yourself
when you try to paraphrase him.
The Book are seperate for a reason. If he wanted a conjoined effort, he
would have done it. And, he certainly would not have asked you for help.
.

User: "Bishop The"

Title: Re: '1984' under Bush. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. 23 Jul 2005 07:44:02 PM
Too many pills. Sad.
.



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