George Orwell alive and well, page 1

Hmmm...A little graphic on the webpage that MaskedAvatar listed (www.hermes-press.com...)...I wonder where I could get a bumper sticker of that made?

Actually, the fault lies not with merely the Bush administration (Which I like to refer to as Bush & His Bully Boy Gang), but with the entire political system that *allows* people like Bush, Nixon & Clinton into Office with such frequency, compared to others like Lincoln & JFK. Granted, it's likely that neither Lincoln or JFK were *saints*, but it seems clear to me that they did have the intrests of the country & (more importantly) its *citizens* in mind much more than the administrations over the past 5 or 6 decades have.

Originally posted by ADVISORRemember it's the throne or possition of office that has the power not the person. That is why the "People" are so important, and that is where "We the People" comes in.

Absolutely! What do you think is going to happen to the people in these powerful positions if they keep chipping away at the source of their power...The "base of their pyramid"...The PEOPLE? I smell another Civil War coming, although I still hold out the hope (quaintly obsolete as it may be) that widespread public awareness will generate a more peaceful way to get the government restructured.

Originally posted by EstragonOrwell is, ultimately, very bleak: rmember the vision of a jackboot stamping eternally on a human face, that is offered in 1984 as the Party's view of the future?

Actually, the image that comes to my mind more often is the animated image of the marching hammers in the movie based on Pink Floyd's album: "The Wall"...

Originally posted by EstragonMoney-lenders of various sorts manage this daily with a "pop up" or two and the masses beg for more as they hasten lemming-like to debt-slavery.

This is why I merely throw away any credit card offers I see in the mail (real or internet mail) & I'm always contacting connsumer protection agencies to make them take my info out of ther databases: Of course, they merely sell their lists of personal info to another company before they erase it from their own files. This is why I do *not* use any kind of credit card...Not only does it make you pay interest on even the *sales tax* (Isn't that essentially the same as taxing your money twice?) of your purchase, but there's no Consittutional basis for credit to even *exist* in this form of "currency": Of course I use the term "currency" in the context here of something that has no more actual substance than a dream...Or in this case, a nightmare!