Intelligent Discontent

• Written by: PogieDecember 23rd, 2005
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• Category:Iraq War, The Media, US Politics
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The Oakland Times has an idea for a great set of gifts: sending copies of Orwell’s 1984 to members of Congress, President Bush and Emperor Cheney:

We think it’s time for Congress to heed the warning of George Orwell.

To that end, we’re asking for your help: Mail us or drop off your tattered copies of “1984.” When we get 537 of them, we’ll send them to every member of the House of Representatives and Senate and to President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

Feel free to inscribe the book with a note, reminding these fine people that we Americans take the threat to our liberties seriously. Remind Congress that it makes no sense to fight a war for democracy in a foreign land while allowing our democratic principles to erode at home.

Remind President Bush that ours is a country of checks and balances, not unbridled power.

Perhaps our nation’s leaders can find some truth in this fiction and more carefully ponder the road we’re traveling.

I’m sure someone, maybe his good friend Jack, can read it to Senator Burns.