Posted on 09/25/2018 2:11:56 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Truth, due process, evidence, rights of the accused: All are swept aside in pursuit of the progressive agenda.
George Orwell’s 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is no longer fiction. We are living it right now.
Google techies planned to massage Internet searches to emphasize correct thinking. A member of the so-called deep state, in an anonymous op-ed, brags that its “resistance” is undermining an elected president. The FBI, CIA, DOJ, and NSC were all weaponized in 2016 to ensure that the proper president would be elected — the choice adjudicated by properly progressive ideology. Wearing a wire is now redefined as simply flipping on an iPhone and recording your boss, boy- or girlfriend, or co-workers.
But never has the reality that we are living in a surreal age been clearer than during the strange cycles of Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
In Orwell’s world of 1984 Oceania, there is no longer a sense of due process, free inquiry, rules of evidence and cross examination, much less a presumption of innocence until proven guilty. Instead, regimented ideology — the supremacy of state power to control all aspects of one’s life to enforce a fossilized idea of mandated quality — warps everything from the use of language to private life.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
More like Stalin’s purge or Mao’s cultural revolution where innocent people were dragged from their homes, accused of various crimes, and then executed. The left is rapacious, and to them the end justifies the means. They have no soul.
They have souls. Their souls belong to either God or satan. I say satan owns their souls. There’s no third choice.
The means are the end.
And meanwhile in China, the government now maintains a social justice score on all its citizens and if their score is too low, they are denied certain rights and privileges.
“The issue is not the issue...........”
“The issue is not the issue...........”
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These confrontations are going to get a Republican Senator or Representative killed!
I know you meant Orwell, but 1984 was a pretty good year. Reagan. You could get an engineering degree and pretty much rule.
Van Halen put out 1984, which was a soundtrack for that part of my life.
Very good times. California wasn’t completely hosed.
I don’t understand what to “do” with National Review or Weekly Standard articles like this. On the one hand, they are telling me what I want to hear. On the other hand, they have shown themselves to be NeoCon, Globalist, Anti Trump Co-conspirators. Thoughts?
Good post from yesterday, anything is acceptable as long as it is in support of the party apparatus:
ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Vyshinsky#Procurator_General_and_Soviet_law_theorist
In his Theory of Judicial Proofs in Soviet Justice (Stalin Prize in 1947) he laid a theoreticial base for the Soviet judicial system, based on Marxist–Leninist principles, giving it a strong bias towards dialectical and collectivist thinking. Vyshinsky recommended that investigators and judges consider “the wider social perspective” of each individual case in the context of class struggle. As a result, an actual committing of a crime was not required for conviction: people could have been convicted for being perceived as bourgeois (”class responsibility”) or simply if that was considered to be beneficial for the Communist Party, for example in the “educational” role of the judicial system (thus, the importance of show trials, even with completely false accusations).
8 posted on 9/24/2018, 7:36:58 PM by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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These degenerate, having no grounds in reality accusations by the democrat party should sicken any free thinking American citizen.
Hanson was a Trump skeptic who has come over to the Right Side.
The rest of them - probably good for toilet paper.
... while back in America, the media, academia and leftist “social media” companies are slowly taking over the Internet and imposing their own unofficial “social justice” score ...
...they must be stopped through government action (I can’t believe I actually typed that) to enforce freedom of speech and declare the “social media” companies to be public forums (which they in fact, de facto, ARE already) ... then apply the Bill of Rights to their operations ...
Exactly. It is no simple matter to distinguish our friends and enemies today.
I would go Kafka, or maybe Lewis Carroll. Maybe some weird mixture of Orwell, Kafka and Alice in Wonderland...
Confront we must!
It's nothing like a purge, in many ways much worse. In an overt purge, we deplorables could use up some ammo. In the 1984 approach, its subtle and harder to notice until late.
Are we still fighting Eastasia?
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