08-11-2007, 10:26 PM
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erika
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: "the high up north"
Posts: 6,127
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Rudy, Rudy, Rudy.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/8/11/16360/0636
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There has to be an Orwell Corollary to Godwin's Law, one that says any discussion of today's Republican Party will invariably lead to comparisons with 1984. That's the easy place to run when trying to sum up the miasma of misdirection and jingoism that passes for Republican speech. But, damn it, when the candidates insist on treating the utterances of the Ministry of Truth as a textbook, what can you do?
Orwell
Giuliani
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"Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do."
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Freedom is about authority. Rudy not only follows the dissimulations of Orwell's fictional ministry, he exceeds them.
By the way, the other two pithy sayings on the side of the Ministry of Truth? "War is Peace" and "Ignorance is Strength."
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