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To: goldsnow who wrote (16072)	2/19/2000 6:17:00 PM
From: John Lacelle	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17770

goldsnow, Well...when Orwell wrote about the Soviet Union, he called the book "Animal Farm". That was the Ruskie police state. When he took a look at the future and wrote about a nation that used language to control its subjects, I think he was aiming at England. Note how the English were the most willing to use the language to define the war against Yugoslavia. Remember old Jamie Shay? What a mouthpiece of Orwellian Doctrine. I love some of his one liners...when asked about the attack on a Yugoslavian Television Station and how that constituted a war crime in the Geneva Convention, Jamie Shay simply replied that it was "A Ministry of Propaganda". He could massage the language like nobody I ever saw. After Kosovo was "liberated" by NATO and the Albanians began to attack and kill Serbs, Gypsies, and Bosniacs, a reporter asked Mr. Shay what was going on. Mr. Shay said that the Serbs had "abandoned" their homes (as opposed to Albainians who had been ethnically cleansed of them). Of course, all the Albanian violence against Serbs (and others) since the war has been given the designation of "revenge". The fact is that Albanians had been attacking and killing Serbs, Gypsies, Jews, and other ethnic groups in Kosovo for almost a decade. Jamie Shay is a master of "double speak" and "double think" as the evidence seems to indicate. As for the days in Russia...yea, I don't think I'd last long in a police state...in fact, I would probably be the first to go! -John