On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 17:00:14 -0700, you wrote:
> >Message: 3
> > Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 08:57:55 EDT
> > From: toolgt@aol.com
> >Subject: Bush's Orwellian Address
> >
> >http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0922-07.htm
> >
> >Published on Saturday, September 22, 2001
> >
> >Bush's Orwellian Address
> >Happy New Year: It's 1984
> >
> >by Jacob Levich
> >
> >Seventeen years later than expected, 1984 has arrived.
> >In his address to Congress Thursday, George Bush
> >effectively declared permanent war -- war without
> >temporal or geographic limits; war without clear goals;
> >war against a vaguely defined and constantly shifting
> >enemy. Today it's Al-Qaida; tomorrow it may be
> >Afghanistan; next year, it could be Iraq or Cuba or
> >Chechnya.
> >
> >No one who was forced to read 1984 in high school
> >could fail to hear a faint bell tinkling. In George Orwell's
> >dreary classic, the totalitarian state of Oceania is
> >perpetually at war with either Eurasia or Eastasia.
> >Although the enemy changes periodically, the war is
> >permanent; its true purpose is to control dissent and
> >sustain dictatorship by nurturing popular fear and
> >hatred.
> >
Nah. War is inefficient. Corp-Gov-Media now has inter-ethnic
conflicts/tensions here in the USA that are available to keep the
governed from uniting and throwing off the yoke. You don't see govt's
voiding the will of the citizenry in smaller, relatively homogenous
social democracies like Sweden, et al....
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