If a people become truly duped-Orwell style-how long before the People awake? In these days, as the curtain closes on a free society, can we tip the scale? The economic scale is certainly doomed-but the fate of our Republic is much more open to change and influence.
A common consensus (85%) is that we are heading in the wrong direction. More than that eighty-five percent believe corporations have far too much power & influence in government. The people drawing these conclusions are very near to connecting all of the dots...pretty scary proposition for the "power" wielders.
The days are racing forward. One finish line is on the horizon (Nov. 4) and that finish line is the starting line of a whole new marathon. The course of our evolution requires ever more our guiding hand-of the People. By the People. For the People. No other power stands above We, the People.
Orwell and Atwood presented us with possibilities. They constructed tyrannical societies where every word is precious, where the keys to knowledge are closely guarded and complacency ruthlessly enforced. We know that truth is stranger than fiction (just look at the last 8 years). Still, we are not unaware of the parallels between the Big Brother and an ever expanding network of surveillance here in the land of the "free".
These parallels reinforce our resolve. We see deceit where it stands. We know hate speak and doublespeak-we understand the tools of obfuscation. We see the face of grand betrayal and are heeding the call to slay it. The precedent set by the Patriot Act (a truly Orwellian name for this fascist legislation) and all associated "anti-terror" legislation is not only coming straight from "1984", but from every dictatorship to steal power in the last century.
The "War on Terror" is a war on Freedom. If we are hated "for our freedoms" then is giving up those freedoms not handing victory over to the "enemy"
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