George Orwell’s “1984″ Is Here
by Ian Mosley
In George Orwell’s futuristic novel “1984″ (well, it was futuristic when it was written in 1948) a totalitarian world is monitored at all times by two-way television sets called “telescreens,” and every conversation and action by citizens is subject to being eavesdropped, spied on and recorded by the Thought Police. A similar situation now exists in Great Britain, where every street and every tube station and every public area are scanned by cameras leading to the local police station. Now George Orwell’s telescreen is on its way here to America.
Orwell’s future police state tightly controlled the news. (Anyone who reads this website or the European press will discover that the mainstream press gives Americans only a fraction of the news on certain key issues.) Orwell’s tyranny was in a perpetual state of war, which provided a convenient excuse to sacrifice rights for “security.” (Thanks to the Bush and Clinton crime families America has been at war every year since 1989.) (more…)