In My Not So Humble Opinion - The Blog

1984?

War is Peace.
Love is Hate.
1984's not fiction
It's just 20 years late.

I have a personal feeling about the attack on our country on September 11 of 2001. September 11 is my birthday, not a particularly happy day in my life, as it just means that I am a bit older. But now it seems to mean that the people of my beloved country have not become even a bit wiser.

Am I the only person who sees a slight resemblance of our world today to that of the world in a book most of us had to read in school? I feel that the neo-cons in Washington studied that book even more carefully, and saw their big opening to use ?1984? as a textbook for their takeover of the world. Oh, they had had plenty of practice with Newspeak (all those damned initials that are now ?words?) and had built up a grand media alliance to lull us, and to get their lies and fables our to all.

But now I, at least, am beginning to recognize the way they are cutting off personal freedom, basic human rights and privacy rights. Big Brother (be he any one of the axis of evil in Washington: Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, whomever) has changed the laws so that he can now listen in on my phone calls, check out my bank account, read my email, search my home, check on my library borrowings, whatever. The boys in Washington are slowly eroding our laws of privacy and using their technology and their congress to nip into political opposition and individual privacy.

Ah, yes, and what a wonderful way to confuse, by starting a war...first a ?just? war against the attacking ?terrorists? we ?knew.? Go after Bin Lauden in Afghanistan. Raise lots of money for that one. Then, through brave and loud speeches, get people to understand that there were other ?terrorists? who ?might? attack us, and get the word out on what ?could? happen. Into another war. Keep the people busy ?supporting our brave troops.? Remember how in ?1984? A was at war with B, then suddenly A was at war with C, not B, and it always been thus. The masters of doublespeak at work again.

Perhaps we could find out who the girl with the hammer was in the Apple Computer ad that ran during the half time of the Super Bowl in 1984. Do you suppose she could put that hammer through the Fox News screen now? Or perhaps in a White House window? Then, as the dulcet tones of the voice in the background said, ?Now, 1984 won?t be 1984 again!?
Peg