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