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I understand totally.

I stopped talking to a friend last week over this. He began by telling me that *Bush is toast* over the Clarke testimony/Condi testimony. He then segued into Rwanda and how he felt so terrible. You see: he worked in the State Department then and he was in Rwanda a few months afterward. And then, he told me that I couldn't *use* this for *political ends*. No. THAT was just too much for such a sensitive intellectual like himself.

I countered him strongly and asked what Clarke and he, personally had done. I got silence in reply.

Since then, he wants to discuss other (nonpolitical) things. Me, I am at a familiar point. Much like I felt in the late 1960s/early 1970s: everything is political.

Only this time I am on the other side. Or maybe not. I haven't changed at all. It is the left that first presented itself as something good and later revealed itself as something monstrous. Today, I don't think they even have a mask. They have some rhetoric designed to disguise what they really are and anyone who calls them on the fact that words mean things is automatically the enemy.

They are correct about that. I am their enemy.

"It is the left that first presented itself as something good and later revealed itself as something monstrous. Today, I don't think they even have a mask. They have some rhetoric designed to disguise what they really are and anyone who calls them on the fact that words mean things is automatically the enemy."

Destruction of the English language is one of their goals. It's just like in Orwell's 1984. "Good" is the new word for bad things, "bad" is reserved for what we have traditionally considered good. The Ministry of Love is a place of torture and brainwashing. Reversing meanings is all part of the game. Or making the words become nonsensical: "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."

They are unashamed in their crusade to destroy language. Once you have control of the media and the educational system, and you have the authority to make any word mean whatever you want it to mean at any time, and the opposite in the next minute (if it suits your purpose), you then don't have to say anything of substance. Just emote. "I feel your pain." People give up on trying to think, or to discuss ideas. It's too difficult in the shifting sands of the new English. All that remains for them is to take power and use force to disarm and imprison those who oppose them. They cannot win in the marketplace of ideas, so they will have to resort to force.

George Orwell understood the principle of control of language to control the minds of people. The Left is implementing it on TV, in movies, in books, and in our schools.

Me, I am at a familiar point. Much like I felt in the late 1960s/early 1970s: everything is political.

Only this time I am on the other side. Or maybe not. I haven't changed at all. It is the left that first presented itself as something good and later revealed itself as something monstrous. Today, I don't think they even have a mask. They have some rhetoric designed to disguise what they really are and anyone who calls them on the fact that words mean things is automatically the enemy.

Man, it's like you read my mind...