Patrick J. McShay “People don’t know the value of what they’ve got until it’s gone. Freedom repressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered…Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don’t wait until freedom, is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect, and make the most of it” Marcus Tullius Cicero – Roman orator and writer who spoke passionately against tyrants and was murdered…
Tag: George Orwell
I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then
American Thinker I sure wish I had not learned so much over the last five years. In retrospect, five short years ago seems almost like Mayberry. Here are some important things that I didn’t know five years ago or now. There actually is a deep state and they really do not honor the election results nor the will of the people. There really appear to be lawless elements within the upper echelons of the FBI, CIA, and NSA who are not accountable for their crimes and are thus above the…
Mark Falcoff, George Orwell, Our Contemporary—Almost
By Mark Falcoff Orwell—with all of the differences between his time and ours—speaks to us with authority and with renewed resonance. The current wave of cultural Marxism and postmodernism (amounting virtually to the same thing) that is prominent at our universities now threatens to bleed full-bore into our mainstream culture. This has caused more than one observer to liken the current American scene to something akin to George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Published in 1947, the book introduced several new concepts into the English language, the most recognizable being the reference…
Orwellian Hate Crime Database to be Set Up for “Thought Criminals” in Michigan
Joe Wright Only in a world where the novel 1984 has become the evening news can we get a state’s Attorney General working with the Department of Civil Rights to create a database for people committing “hate and bias incidents that don’t rise to the level of a crime or civil infraction.” This “hate crimes unit” apparently comes on the advice of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which issued a report about a rise of extremism and hatred within the state of Michigan. This itself is more than ironic,…