Why? Why do this?
Because as things in this country get worse and worse the govt is going to have to be more repressive to quell dissent,
We are heading to collapse and everyone w two brain cells knows it
stop asking so many questions and just pay your taxes slave.
Is what it reminds me of:
” . and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.” Daniel 7:8
That has been my question. Why spy on people? Why destroy the U.S. freedoms? What does it get them? Power, and ultimately money? They then become what they pretend to hate. When all is said and done, the whole mess just leads to depravity and evil. I guess they do it for Satan.
“Why? Why do this?”
Here’s the answer OBrian gave to Winston Smith as he was torturing him.
Of course, Smith wanted to know why. (Why not just kill him.)
Elsewhere in the book OBrian defined “power”: (it sounds like tautology, at first) “Power is the power to make others suffer.”
OBrian:
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. 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. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
Our O’Brians are now welcoming illegal aliens—although they violate federal immigration and naturalization law by doing so—while planning to fly hundreds of surveillance drones to keep tabs on the rest of us.
They have been depleting our treasury—and credit—as fast as they can (just today I read about Obama wanting to send 4-5 billion freshly printed tax dollars to Asia, for their own Solyndras) and they have nationalized the automobile manufacturing, insurance and are on track to nationalize the health care industries, etc., all the while planning and implementing a raft of new repressive business regulations.
Nations are destroyed from within, not from without. Gibbon, Lincoln.
Obama and his friends see the USA as a capitalist, neo-colonial, imperialist power that should be run (as Socrates put it) by “those who know” as a socialist state.
We can joke that they are using the book `Nineteen EightyFour’ as a guidebook, like North Korea, but like North Korea they are anything but “democratic”.
Next on their agenda would be seeking out those like yourself and myself, on whatever charges they thought might stick (in `Oceania’ there were no laws, there was only thoughtcrime ; today, `racism,’ `insensitivity’ et cetera) and anyone who betrayed a thought of wanting to know why things had become the way they are, and if they were always this way, and if they could be changed was singled out and eliminated.
They seek power for its own sake. They are hardcore statists and barely concealed fascists. They want to make us suffer. That’s why they are doing this. Okey dokey?
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Because they're a lot of those "bitter clingers" in flyover country.