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George
Orwell
1984
by George Orwell
from SparkNotes
Wikipedia:
1984
Along
with Aldous
Huxley's Brave
New World,
and Ray
Bradbury's Fahrenheit
451, it is
among the most
famous and cited dystopias
in literature.
The
term "Orwellian"
has come to describe
actions or
organizations
reminiscent of the
totalitarian society
depicted in the
novel, and the
phrase "Big
Brother is
watching" has
come to mean any act
of surveillance that
is perceived as
invasive.
George
Orwell
Author
of 1984
Winston
Smith
(Main
Character in George
Orwell's Novel 1984)
Animal
Farm
- SparkNotes
by George Orwell
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George
Orwell Quotes
All
animals are equal,
but some animals are
more equal than
others.
All
political thinking
for years past has
been vitiated in the
same way. People can
foresee the future
only when it
coincides with their
own wishes, and the
most grossly obvious
facts can be ignored
when they are
unwelcome.
All
the war-propaganda,
all the screaming
and lies and hatred,
comes invariably
from people who are
not fighting.
As
I write, highly
civilized human
beings are flying
overhead, trying to
kill me.
Big
Brother is watching
you.
But
if thought corrupts
language, language
can also corrupt
thought.
Doublethink
means the power of
holding two
contradictory
beliefs in one's
mind simultaneously,
and accepting both
of them.
War
is peace. Freedom is
slavery. Ignorance
is strength.
During
times of universal
deceit, telling the
truth becomes a
revolutionary act.
Each
generation imagines
itself to be more
intelligent than the
one that went before
it, and wiser than
the one that comes
after it.
Early
in life I had
noticed that no
event is ever
correctly reported
in a newspaper.
Political
language... is
designed to make
lies sound truthful
and murder
respectable, and to
give an appearance
of solidity to pure
wind.
Enlightened
people seldom or
never possess a
sense of
responsibility.
Every
war when it comes,
or before it comes,
is represented not
as a war but as an
act of self-defense
against a homicidal
maniac.
Freedom
is the freedom to
say that two plus
two make four. If
that is granted, all
else follows.
Freedom
is the right to tell
people what they do
not want to hear.
Good
writing is like a
windowpane.
If
you want a vision of
the future, imagine
a boot stamping on a
human face -
forever.
In
our age there is no
such thing as
'keeping out of
politics.' All
issues are political
issues, and politics
itself is a mass of
lies, evasions,
folly, hatred and
schizophrenia.
War
is a way of
shattering to
pieces... materials
which might
otherwise be used to
make the masses too
comfortable and...
too intelligent.
In
our time political
speech and writing
are largely the
defense of the
indefensible.
It
is almost
universally felt
that when we call a
country democratic
we are praising it;
consequently, the
defenders of every
kind of regime claim
that it is a
democracy, and fear
that they might have
to stop using the
word if it were tied
down to any one
meaning.
Language
ought to be the
joint creation of
poets and manual
workers.
Myths
which are believed
in tend to become
true.
War
is war. The only
good human being is
a dead one.
Nationalism
is power hunger
tempered by
self-deception.
No
advance in wealth,
no softening of
manners, no reform
or revolution has
ever brought human
equality a
millimeter nearer.
No
one can look back on
his schooldays and
say with truth that
they were altogether
unhappy.
Not
to expose your true
feelings to an adult
seems to be
instinctive from the
age of seven or
eight onwards.
Oceania
was at war with
Eurasia; therefore
Oceania had always
been at war with
Eurasia.
Patriotism
is usually stronger
than class hatred,
and always stronger
than
internationalism.
People
sleep peaceably in
their beds at night
only because rough
men stand ready to
do violence on their
behalf.
Political
chaos is connected
with the decay of
language... one can
probably bring about
some improvement by
starting at the
verbal end.
Power
is not a means, it
is an end. One does
not establish a
dictatorship in
order to safeguard a
revolution; one
makes the revolution
in order to
establish the
dictatorship.
Serious
sport has nothing to
do with fair play.
It is bound up with
hatred, jealousy,
boastfulness,
disregard of all
rules and sadistic
pleasure in
witnessing violence.
In other words, it
is war minus the
shooting.
Sometimes
the first duty of
intelligent men is
the restatement of
the obvious.
The
best books... are
those that tell you
what you know
already.
If
liberty means
anything at all, it
means the right to
tell people what
they do not want to
hear.
The
nationalist not only
does not disapprove
of atrocities
committed by his own
side, but he has a
remarkable capacity
for not even hearing
about them.
The
quickest way to end
a war is to lose it.
The
very concept of
objective truth is
fading out of the
world. Lies will
pass into history.
There
are some ideas so
wrong that only a
very intelligent
person could believe
in them.
War
against a foreign
country only happens
when the moneyed
classes think they
are going to profit
from it.
We
may find in the long
run that tinned food
is a deadlier weapon
than the
machine-gun.
What
can you do against
the lunatic who is
more intelligent
than yourself, who
gives your arguments
a fair hearing and
then simply persists
in his lunacy?
We
have now sunk to a
depth at which the
restatement of the
obvious is the first
duty of intelligent
men.
Whoever
is winning at the
moment will always
seem to be
invincible.
Winston
could not definitely
remember a time when
his country had not
been at war.
Who
controls the past
controls the future.
Who controls the
present controls the
past.
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Giuliani
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Firefighters
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July
11, 2007
Great
Article on "Mr. 9/11" Here:
Rudy
Giuliani - Worse Than You Think (with details), part 1
Rudy
Giuliani - Worse Than You Think, pt 2 - The Early
Years
Destruction
of Evidence from Ground Zero at the World Trade Center
For
Gay President - Rudy
Giuliani
-
This is Goin' VIRAL!
Rudy
Giuliani in Drag
Smooching Donald
Trump
Rudy
in Drag - Tells the
Truth
Rudy
Giuliani Makes Fun
of a Parkinson's
Patient
Giuliani
Denies WTC Collapse
Warning
YouTube
Video - What did
Rudy Giuliani say
about the collapse
of WTC
Giuliani
Caught In Bizarre
Building 7 Lie
AMERICAN
FIREFIGHTERS
*AGAINST* RUDY
GIULIANI FOR
PRESIDENT
NYPD:
Rudy Giuliani
"doesn't
deserve to be
president"
Rudy
Giuliani: The
Thug
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Bill Moves To The
Senate
--
"Compromise"
bill represents the
most far-reaching
gun ban in years
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Compromisers
On Capitol Hill
Reviving Brady
Expansion Again
--
Your hard work in
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VA
Tech Shootings Spur
Far-reaching Gun
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Your gun rights
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Everyone who hasn't
read
State
Department Publication 7277 -
Freedom From War -
The United States Program for General and Complete
Disarmament
in a Peaceful World -
September 1961
really should...
The most interesting
section is Section 3 which states the plan:
"In
Stage III progressive controlled disarmament and
continuously developing principles and procedures of
international law would proceed to a point where no
state would have the military power to challenge the
progressively strengthened U.N. Peace Force and all
international disputes would be settled according to
the agreed principles of international conduct...
McCarthy
Bill Moves To The Senate
"Compromise"
bill represents
the
most far-reaching gun ban in years
Gun
Owners of America
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Springfield VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
ACTION:
1.
Please urge your Senators to OPPOSE the gun control
bill (HR 2640) which was snuck through the House last
week by anti-gun Democrats. Some people are saying
this bill is a positive step for gun owners, but
realize this ONE SIMPLE FACT: Rep.
Carolyn McCarthy and Sen. Chuck Schumer are the lead
sponsors of this legislation! These two have NEVER
once looked out for your Second Amendment rights!!!
2.
Please use the
Take Action feature at the bottom of this alert -- and
the pre-written e-mail letter provided-- to help
direct your comments to them, and circulate this alert
to as many gun owners as you can. It
is imperative that we remind gun owners nationwide
that gun control DOES NOT work to reduce crime; that,
to the contrary, gun control HAS DISARMED millions of
law-abiding citizens; and that the answer to tragedies
like Virginia Tech is to REPEAL the "gun free
zones" which leave law-abiding victims
defenseless.
Monday, June 18, 2007
The
Associated Press got it right last week when it stated
that, "The House Wednesday passed what could
become the first major federal gun control law in over
a decade."
It's true.
The McCarthy bill that passed will DRAMATICALLY expand
the dragnet that is currently used to disqualify
law-abiding gun buyers. So much so, that hundreds of
thousands of honest citizens who want to buy a gun
will one day walk into a gun store and be shocked when
they’re told they're a prohibited purchaser, having
been lumped into the same category as murderers and
rapists.
This
underscores the problems that have existed all along
with the Brady Law. At the time it was passed, some
people foolishly thought, "No big deal. I'm not a
bad guy. This law won't affect me."
But what
happens when good guys' names get thrown into the bad
guys' list? That is exactly what has happened, and no
one should think that the attempts to expand the gun
control noose are going to end with the McCarthy bill
(HR 2640).
Speaking
to the CNN audience on June 13, head of the Brady
Campaign, Paul Helmke, stated that, "We're
hopeful that now that the NRA has come around to our
point of view in terms of strengthening the Brady
background checks, that now we can take the next step
after this bill passes [to impose additional gun
control]."
Get it?
The McCarthy bill is just a first step.
The
remainder of this alert will explain, in layman's
terms, the problems with what passed on Wednesday.
Please understand that GOA's legal department has
spent hours analyzing the McCarthy bill, in addition
to looking at existing federal regulations and BATFE
interpretations. (If
you want the lawyerly perspective, then please go here
for an extensive analysis.)
So what
does HR 2640 do? Well, as stated already, this is one
of the most far-reaching gun bans in years. For the
first time in history, this bill takes a giant step
towards banning one-fourth of returning military
veterans from ever owning a gun again.
In 2000,
President Clinton added between 80,000-90,000 names of
military veterans -- who were suffering from Post
Traumatic Stress (PTS) -- into the NICS background
check system. These were vets who were having
nightmares; they had the shakes. So Clinton
disqualified them from buying or owning guns.
For seven
years, GOA has been arguing that what Clinton did was
illegitimate. But if this McCarthy bill gets enacted
into law, a future Hillary Clinton administration
would actually have the law on her side to ban a
quarter of all military veterans (that's the number of
veterans who have Post Traumatic Stress) from owning
guns.
Now, the
supporters of the McCarthy bill claim that military
veterans -- who have been denied their Second
Amendment rights -- could get their rights restored.
But this is a very nebulous promise.
The reason
is that Section 101(c)(1)(C) of the bill provides
explicitly that a psychiatrist or psychologist
diagnosis is enough to ban a person for ever owning a
gun as long as it's predicated on a microscopic risk
that a person could be a danger to himself or others.
(Please be sure to read the NOTE below for more
details on this.)
How many
psychiatrists are going to deny that a veteran
suffering from PTS doesn't possess a MICROSCOPIC RISK
that he could be a danger to himself or others?
And even
if they can clear the psychiatrist hurdle, we're still
looking at thousands of dollars for lawyers, court
fees, etc. And then, when veterans have done
everything they can possibly do to clear their name,
there is still the Schumer amendment in federal law
which prevents the BATFE from restoring the rights of
individuals who are barred from purchasing firearms.
If that amendment is not repealed, then it doesn't
matter if your state stops sending your name for
inclusion in the FBI's NICS system... you are still
going to be a disqualified purchaser when you try to
buy a gun.
So get the
irony. Senator Schumer is the one who is leading the
charge in the Senate to pass the McCarthy bill, and he
is "generously" offering military veterans
the opportunity to clear their names, even though it's
been HIS AMENDMENT that has prevented honest gun
owners from getting their rights back under a similar
procedure created in 1986!
But
there's still another irony. Before this bill, it was
very debatable (in legal terms) whether the military
vets with PTS should have been added into the NICS
system... and yet many of them were -- even though
there was NO statutory authority to do so. Before this
bill, there were provisions in the law to get one's
name cleared, and yet Schumer made it impossible for
these military vets to do so.
Now, the
McCarthy bill (combined with federal regulations)
makes it unmistakably clear that military vets with
Post Traumatic Stress SHOULD BE ADDED as prohibited
persons on the basis of a "diagnosis." Are
these vets now going to find it any easier to get
their names cleared (when the law says they should be
on the list) if they were finding it difficult to do
so before (when the law said they shouldn’t)?
Add to
this the Schumer amendment (mentioned above). The
McCarthy bill does nothing to repeal the Schumer
amendment, which means that military veterans with PTS
are going to find it impossible to get their rights
restored!
Do you see
how Congress is slowly (and quietly) sweeping more and
more innocent people into the same category as
murderers and rapists? First, anti-gun politicians get
a toe hold by getting innocuous sounding language into
the federal code. Then they come back years later to
twist those words into the most contorted way
possible.
Consider
the facts. In 1968, Congress laid out several criteria
for banning Americans from owning guns -- a person
can't be a felon, a drug user, an illegal alien, etc.
Well, one of the criteria which will disqualify you
from owning or buying a gun is if you are
"adjudicated as a mental defective." Now, in
1968, that term referred to a person who was judged
not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity.
Well, that
was 1968. By 2000, President Bill Clinton had
stretched that definition to mean a military veteran
who has had a lawful authority (like a shrink) decree
that a person has PTS. Can you see how politicians
love to stretch the meaning of words in the law...
especially when it comes to banning guns?
After all,
who would have thought when the original Brady law was
passed in 1993, that it would be used to keep people
with outstanding traffic tickets from buying guns; or
couples with marriage problems from buying guns; or
military vets with nightmares from buying guns? (See
footnotes below.)
So if you
thought the Brady Law would never affect you because
you’re a "good guy," then think again.
Military vets are in trouble, and so are your kids who
are battling Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD).
Everything that has been mentioned above regarding
military veterans, could also apply to these kids.
Do you
have a child in the IDEA program -- a.k.a.,
Individuals with Disability Education Act -- who has
been diagnosed with ADD and thought to be susceptible
to playground fights? Guess what? That child can be
banned for life from ever owning a gun as an adult.
The key to understanding this new gun ban expansion
centers on a shrink's determination that a person is a
risk to himself or others.
You see,
legislators claim they want to specifically prevent a
future Seung-Hui Cho from ever buying a gun and
shooting up a school. And since Cho had been deemed as
a potential danger to himself or others, that has
become the new standard for banning guns.
But
realize what this does. In the name of stopping an
infinitesimal fraction of potential bad apples from
owning firearms, legislators are expanding the dragnet
to sweep ALL KINDS of good guys into a permanent ban.
It also ignores the fact that bad guys get illegal
guns ALL THE TIME, despite the gun laws!
So back to
your kid who might have ADD. The BATFE, in an open
letter (dated May 9, 2007), said the diagnosis that a
person is a potential risk doesn't have to be based on
the fact that the person poses a
"substantial" risk. It just has to be
"ANY" risk.
Just any
risk, no matter how slight to the other kids on the
playground, is all that is needed to qualify the kid
on Ritalin -- or a vet suffering PTS, or a husband
(going through a divorce) who's been ordered to go
through an anger management program, etc. -- for a
LIFETIME gun ban.
This is
the slippery slope that gun control poses. And this is
the reason HR 2640 must be defeated. Even as we debate
this bill, the Frank Lautenbergs in Congress are
trying to expand the NICS system with the names of
people who are on a so-called "government watch
list" (S. 1237).
While this
"government watch list" supposedly applies
to suspected terrorists, the fact is that government
bureaucrats can add ANY gun owner's name to this list
without due process, without any hearing, or trial by
jury, etc. That's where the background check system is
headed... if we don’t rise up together and cut off
the monster's head right now.
NOTE:
Please realize that a cursory reading of this bill is
not sufficient to grasp the full threat that it poses.
To read this bill properly, you have to not only read
it thoroughly, but look at federal regulations and
BATF interpretations as well. For example,
where we cite Section 101(c)(1)(C) above as making it
explicitly clear that the diagnosis from a
psychologist or psychiatrist is enough to ban a person
from owning a gun, realize that you have to look at
Section 101, while also going to federal regulations
via Section 3 of the bill.
Section
3(2) of the bill states that every interpretation that
the BATFE has made in respect to mental capacity would
become statutory law. And so what does the federal
code say? Well, at 27 CFR 478.11, it explicitly states
that a person can be deemed to be "adjudicated as
a mental defective" by a court or by any
"OTHER LAWFUL AUTHORITY" (like a shrink), as
long as the individual poses a risk to self or others
(or can't manage his own affairs). And in its open
letter of May 9, 2007, BATFE makes it clear that this
"danger" doesn't have to be
"imminent" or "substantial," but
can include "any danger" at all. How
many shrinks are going to say that a veteran suffering
from PTSD doesn't pose at least an infinitesimal risk
of hurting someone else?
FOOTNOTES:
(1) The
Brady law has been used to illegitimately deny
firearms to people who have outstanding traffic
tickets
(See
http://www.gunowners.org/ne0706.pdf).
(2)
Because of the Lautenberg gun ban, couples with
marriage problems or parents who have used corporal
punishment to discipline their children have been
prohibited from owning guns for life
(See
http://www.gunowners.org/news/nws9806.htm).
(3)
Several articles have pointed to the fact that
military vets with PTS have been added to the NICS
system
(See
http://tinyurl.com/ytalxl
or http://tinyurl.com/23cgqn).
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