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To: combjelly who wrote (292043)	6/23/2006 4:46:35 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572766

After all, we tortured a man we knew was mentally ill and treated his "confessions" as real until it became too bizarre to pretend any more. We took trailers built to produce hydrogen and pretended they were bioweapon labs. It is all about lies and pretenses of reality. As I have said before, 1984 was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a handbook. The problem with the 1984 analogy is that there was no real illusion of freedom in the book. It was quite clear that the State controlled everything. In the current scenario, we have the illusion of freedom. We are posting on the internet for all to see; and we are saying what we want to say. True, harris is monitoring our posts and saving those as he sees fit but we are not really worried that he is the FBI or some gov't agent. So when you bring up the book, I think the general reaction is that you are talking an extreme to make a point or to get people's attention. But in many ways, we are in the very same position as the citizens of 1984. A virtual dictatorship, imposed by Bush and the GOP, exists in the US today. They do what they please. They spend how they see fit. They start wars when they want. They control almost every aspect of gov't. They have gerrymandered states so much they have a majority lock on many positions in Congress. The only thing between us and 1984 are the states and their gov'ts. And that's very thin protection IMO.