We live in a time when our
government and a compliant press cause words and
concepts to be reinvented whenever convenient. It is a
world Orwell would have recognized. He wrote of a world
where alternative thinking is a crime so the language
has been reduced and meanings altered to discourage
“thought crimes“. One character even says, “It’s a
beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
Just a short time ago the
nation under George W. Bush was racked with
introspection about the legality of using water boarding
during interrogation of 'captured terrorists' or even
the mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
Now there's only silence as
the media's darling inhabits the White House. The
current president quietly applied this newfound right to
dispense the 'ultimate sanction'. Highly partisan
assistance came to defend this new presidential
authority over 'life and death' from the leftwing
academia. We only learned of widespread presidential
assassinations due to outraged whistleblowers from
within the professional Justice Department. We've
learned that this president routinely orders targeted
assassinations around the globe. His primary legal
apologist, a full-time Democrat Party ideologue and
part-time attorney general contends the president
has the legal right to kill any American citizen
anywhere on planet Earth even when that citizen is
residing here on American soil. Suddenly, this president
has morphed into final judge, jury and executioner. He
maintains this power even when an American citizen poses
no immediate threat of harm. Do you see this
quantum leap?
Remember the ceremony when
the body of Chris Stevens and three other Americans were
returned to the United States? You would have sworn the
Syrian ambassador was a close personal friend of Ms.
Clinton and the vice-president. It was “Chris,” “my
friend Chris,” and Chris this and Chris that. You simply
had to conclude these people were close friends; they
might have even had lunch together just a few days
before the ambassador died. Not so: This was the same
man who had tried for six months to get additional
security for the mission in Libya, but his friends had
not even bothered to read their close friend’s Emails.
Orwell’s so called Ministry of Truth couldn’t
have done a better job of obscuring the truth of the
matter. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
currently blames Republican filibusters for any and all
inaction by the US Senate. Mr. Reid was not always of
that mind. A few years ago, Mr. Reid told us, “The need
to muster 60 votes in order to terminate Senate debate.
This naturally frustrates the majority and oftentimes
the minority . . . But I recognize this requirement is a
tool that serves the long-term interest of the Senate
and the American people and our country.” (Congressional
Record, S.11591, 12/8/06) The media’s job when
discussing filibuster seems to be erasing memory of
Reid’s earlier support for the rule, or as they would
say in Orwell’s world — let the earlier statements
disappear down the Memory Hole.
When Mr. Obama or his
minions at MSNBC talk about government, they always talk
of investments in big, grandiose projects. We are
reminded of an earlier age when government built
Interstate highways, developed the Tennessee and
Missouri River Valleys, put a man on the moon and
created the massive infrastructure that now supports a
country of 300 million. Who can forget MSNBC's Rachael
Maddow, with the enormous Grand Coulee Dam as a
backdrop, reminding us of what government spending
accomplished in the good old days.
The White House Press
Office and the main stream media – don’t want you to
know that building great things is not in the cards for
our 21st-century government. As Rich Lowery of Fox News
wrote, “We excel at studying things, and putting up
obstacles to building them. We delay, cavil, and sue. We
protest and micromanage. This is not the age of the
engineer but of the age of the bureaucrat, the lawyer,
and the environmental activist.” So we talk of shovel
ready jobs while shoveling money into the financial
black hole that we call the federal government.
There are two classes of
wealthy people. Liberal billionaires become wealthy only
so they can bestow benefits on society as opposed to
those on the right who become wealthy only to enrich
themselves and to hell with society. It’s not always
easy to tell which category a particular individual
falls and Victor Davis Hanson had that problem when
considering Al Gore. “When watching Al Gore . . . I can
no longer remember whether he is supposed to be a
selfless public intellectual who, at enormous financial
risk, started a new progressive television channel to
promulgate long-needed awareness about politics and the
and the environment, or whether as a rank speculator he
scrambled to push through a secretive deal to sell his
$100 million inflated interest in that channel to an
anti-Semitic, anti-Western news conglomerate, run by an
authoritarian Middle East dictator laden with oil-cartel
profits − right before new higher capital-gains taxes
might lessen his take by 5 or 6 percent.” Have some
sympathy for Hanson, it’s not always easy to tell,
especially when Orwell’s Newspeak is becoming the
language of the 21st Century.
Orwell’s
Thoughtcrimes are mirrored today in the hate crime
designation applied to any crime in which a favored
societal segment is the victim. The Thoughtpolice of
1984 have their counterpart in today’s America but it
comes under the name of political correctness which
holds there are thoughts not fit for publication or
words you simply cannot say out loud and the
self-appointed elite will let you know what they are
from time to time.
Orwell was more
prescient than even he knew. However, the Word of God
tells the story of Jesus Christ, the ultimate
prophet foretelling this current age from more
than 2000 years ago. He's been shown to be 100% accurate
350 different times since Genesis, a record any mortal
man could never hope to approach even 100 years ago. May
Jesus' blessing overflow
your home and
family, I am your servant,
Agape Love,
Michael Curtiss