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Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World' Now Being Established Comment by Larry Ross, March 13, 2007
Paul Craig Roberts has that rare ability to sum up in one page what's happened to our world. The US has been taken over by a criminal conspiracy, using the wars they started, and phoney terrorist threats, to establish a de-facto dictatorship in America . They use the familiar words of 'freedom, democracy and liberty' as a cover and justification. Most people are either not aware, deny, or justify this process. They don't know, or feel, the effects of what's happened to their culture. They seldom used their freedoms and rights. Indeed many people regard exercising their rights as a subversive act. Others are hardly aware of their civil rights and their duty as citizens to use these legal rights. So they don't really miss them - at least, not yet. They are able to carry on their lives as usual with few changes, so they can genuinely regard Robert's analysis as not true or exaggerated. They wonder “what's the fuss about”. A virtual media blackout on key facts, issues, and criticism ensures that people do not know what's happened. Or they treat the whole subject as a 'Ho-Hum' issue - not to be bothered with. That is the genius of the Bush neocon administration and its servants. As in the Orwell, Huxley and Kafka's novels below, the majority accept the new situation without question or as necessary and even desirable, in view of the alleged "terrorist threat" which they don't question. An army of Bush regime propagandists and spin doctors ensures that people accept and justify the new rules. The really harsh aspects of the Bush dictatorship, will be felt when the crisis situation he creates, provides the social climate he needs to allow him to enforce his dictatorship and persecute his critics. That crisis climate will likely be after the US fakes an alleged Iranian attack on the US This is called a "False Flag Operation" (Check it out on a Google search) "False Flags" have been used by many leaders (including US leaders) for centuries if they wish to mobilize their sluggish population to make war on a chosen enemy. Bush will use the false attack or provocation, to justify his expected mass bombing attack on Iran and to create the domestic terror and fear climate in the US that develops in the aftermath. That will allow his next steps. Whereas Bush might be stopped now by vigorous impeachment proceedings, he is far less likely to be stopped after he launches his new aggression against Iran. The 'fear and terror' climate will rule out any sober considerations or exposure of the major unthinkable crimes of the Bush Administration. They will get away with it scott-free, as they already have with their deceitful war based on lies against Iraq. The immediate and long term series of horrific consequences will occupy people's attention, utterly confuse and terrify them, and make them open to any new controls of the Bush regime to improve 'security', including the imprisonment of thousands of domestic dissidents as 'enemy combatants'. People have told me that they will wait until a new war develops before they take action. However the crisis will be too great and belief in Bush's explanations that the Iranians have done a terrorist attack on the US will be almost total - even among Congressmen and Senators. The mass media won't allow criticism or exposure of facts that contradict the Bush explanations - let alone accuse him of staging it himself. The few that object or protest will be depicted as 'unpatriotic' and 'helping the Iranian terrorist enemy, etc'. They will also be subject to the probable draconian new anti-terror legislation that Bush will have no trouble getting passed by Congress. Democratic leaders like Hillary Clinton will leap on the Bush band-wagon and fully embrace the new litany of lies about Iran, as she already has in her talks to US Zionist lobby groups, just as she embraced his many and changing lies about going to war on Iraq. A feigned ignorance of the facts is a very well-used political technique in the US to avoid taking any responsibility for events. The Bush conspiracy will rule supreme for the indefinite future, as a de-facto dictatorship for 'freedom, liberty and our democracy,' etc. The crisis will give Bush credibility and the reasons for postponing US presidential 2008 elections. Woe betide the protestors and those who express doubt and questions. After Bush begins the false flag operation and bombing Iran conspiracy, there will be grave risks that the new war will rapidly expand, and will involve some of the other 7 or 8 nuclear weapon nations. That could trigger a series of horrific disasters leading to a regional and then global nuclear war. This is a risk that the conspirators and their pro-war allies are quite willing to take. These people are desperate and condemned as war criminals for instigating illegal wars of aggression based on lies and killing over 650,000 innocent people. Because they are so desperate, and have convinced themselves that these crimes are necessary for the good of the US, they are likely to keep gambling with our future existence until they either conquer and rule the world or create a global nuclear catastrophe.
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The Future Has Caught Up With Us by Paul Craig Roberts,
ICH, March 12, 2007 John Derbyshire is the sole remaining adult writing for National Review. In a recent issue he noted that Aldous Huxley's novel, Brave New World, first published in 1932, now reads like contemporary news. Huxley's fearsome predictions of a 26th century world have all come true six centuries early--in vitro fertilization, genetically modified crops, stem-cell research, promiscuous recreational sex, the demise of marriage and families, and the epidemic use of prescription and illegal drugs to escape from anxiety, frustration and disappointment. |
