The Real George Orwell
What Orwell warns of, in essay after essay, is that the greatest threat to liberty is leftist politics. Some examples include …
In
The Prevention of Literature, Orwell writes, “But what is sinister, as I said at the beginning of this essay, is that the conscious enemies of liberty are those to whom liberty ought to mean most … the direct, conscious attack on intellectual decency comes from the intellectuals themselves.” And “The desire for liberty among the intellectuals themselves is the most serious symptom of all." He states of the left that,” known facts are suppressed and distorted,” and in a line that is comparable to today’s media bias, Orwell writes, “if you possess information that conflicts with the prevailing orthodoxy you are expected to either distort it or keep quiet about it.”
In
Reflections on Ghandi, he discusses the hypocrisy of pacifists, “Nor did he, like most Western pacifists, specialize in avoiding awkward questions. In relation to the late war (World War 2), one question that every pacifist had a clear obligation to answer was: 'What about the Jews? Are you prepared to see them exterminated? If not, how do you propose to save them without resorting to war?' I must say that I have never heard, from any Western pacifist, an honest answer to this question, though I have heard plenty of evasions.”
Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool explores the totalitarian nature of leftist politics, “but they will, if they can, get inside his brain and dictate his thoughts for him in the minutest particulars. Creeds like pacifism and anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right? And the more you are in the right, the more natural that everyone else should be bullied into thinking likewise.”
In
Politics vs. Literature, he analyzes Part IV of Gulliver's Travels, stating that, “This illustrates very well the totalitarian tendency which is explicit in the anarchist or pacifist vision of society,” … “In other words, we know everything already, so why should dissident opinions be tolerated?"
And in the Introduction to
Animal Farm Orwell writes, "At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.”
-Orwell was especially down on what he called “flabby” pacifists, those whose conscience is stirred to action only when it has political purpose, just like we’ve seen here. In a 1944 letter he writes, “You are wrong also in thinking that I dislike wholehearted pacifism, though I do think it mistaken. What I object to is the circumspect kind of pacifism, which denounces one kind of violence while endorsing or avoiding mention of another. Your own failure to make a clear statement about the Russo-German war is the kind of thing I mean. I can respect anyone who is willing to face unpopularity, however much I disagree with him.”
In
Second Thoughts on James Burhham, he says that the left is defeatist and in regards to World War II, just as today, “There was also the disaffection of large numbers of the intellectuals which made it difficult for them not to side with any country hostile to Britain.”
In
Rudyard Kipling he writes, “All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham.”
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Noam Chomsky vs. George OrwellI've only read one of Noam Chomsky's essays, "Notes on Anarchism," and here's some of what I noticed.
For starters, Chomsky glorifies the French Revolution but as a typical pseudo- socialist, ignores all the "innocents" that were executed in the name of freedom. For anyone who uses mouthwash, you can now always remember that Lavoris is named after famous French chemist Antoine Lavoisier http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Lavoisier.html who was beheaded during the revolution for the "crime" of being an aristocrat, betrayed by a jealous scientific wannabe turned “liberator.”
Chomsky also glorifies the Spanish Civil War. George Orwell fought in this war and wrote about his experience in "Homage to Catolonia." What happened was that the rather then "unifying" under the banner of socialism, the anarchists, socialists and communists started fighting each other - a civil war within a civil war. This was the beginnings of what lead Orwell, a democratic socialist, to write a numbers of essays warning of the threat of leftist politics to liberty.
Also, another thing Orwell warns about is the wordiness of leftist writings, and how truth is propagandized and distorted for political gain by what on the surface to the unperceptive appears to be "intellectually" inspired literature. It would be fascinating if Orwell were alive today and see what he would say of Chomsky, since Chomsky's verbosity is the very antithesis of Orwell's call for clarity in political writing.
Pandering to Blacks
Pandering to blacks
Mar 8, 2006
by
Walter E. Williams
... Presidential aspirant Hillary Clinton used Rev. Al Sharpton's Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration to, as Professor Shelby Steele explains, "whistle for the black vote by pandering to the black sense of grievance."
... Sen. Clinton was simply employing the Democrats' political rope-a-dope for blacks. As Professor Steele asks in his Wall Street Journal editorial, "Hillary's Plantation": "Must blacks have their slave past rubbed in their face simply for Hillary Clinton to make a little hay against modern-day Republicans?" Steele also asks, "Does she really see us as she projects us -- as a people so backward that our support can be won with a simple plantation reference, and the implication that Republicans are racist?"
... Sen. John Kerry said, in reference to so many more blacks in prison than college, "That's unacceptable, but it's not their fault." Aside from Kerry being factually wrong about more blacks being in prison than in college, his vision differs little from one that holds blacks as a rudderless, victimized people who cannot control their destiny and whose best hope depends upon the benevolence of white people.
... The subtitle to Professor Steele's article is "Hillary Clinton reveals her fear of Condi Rice." He explains that Democrat liberalism has survived decades past the credibility of its ideas because it captured black resentment as an exclusive source of its power. That power will be gone the very day that a significant number of blacks cease to be a people of grievance. This is potentially a Republican advantage. The Democrats and the liberal establishment know that, which is why they vilify high-profile blacks who aren't filled with resentment and grievance.
Complete article at - - ->
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/walterwilliams/2006/03/08/188873.html
30 Worst Atrocities of the 20th Century
By Michael White:
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/atrox.htm(You'll notice the totals killed by Communists are approximately that of both World War I and World War II combined)
Rank Death Toll Event Dates
1) 55,000,000 Second World War (Some overlap w/Stalin. Includes Sino-Japanese War and Holocaust. Doesn't incl. post-war German expulsions) 1937/39-1945
2) 40,000,000 China: Mao Zedong's regime. (incl. famine) 1949-76
3) 20,000,000 USSR: Stalin's regime (incl. WW2-era atrocities) 1924-53
4) 15,000,000 First World War (incl. Armenian massacres) 1914-18
5) 8,800,000 Russian Civil War 1918-21
6) 4,000,000 China: Warlord & Nationalist Era 1917-37
7) 3,000,000 Congo Free State [n.1] (1900)-08
8) 2,800,000 Korean War 1950-53
8) 2,800,000 2nd Indochina War (incl. Laos & Cambodia) 1960-75
10) 2,500,000 Chinese Civil War 1945-49
11) 2,100,000 German Expulsions after WW2 1945-47
12) 1,900,000 Second Sudanese Civil War 1983-(99)
13) 1,700,000 Congolese Civil War [n.1] 1998-(99)
14) 1,650,000 Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Regime 1975-79
15) 1,500,000 Afghanistan: Soviet War 1980-89
16) 1,400,000 Ethiopian Civil Wars 1962-92
17) 1,250,000 East Pakistan: Massacres 1971
18) 1,000,000 Mexican Revolution 1910-20
18) 1,000,000 Iran-Iraq War 1980-88
18) 1,000,000 Nigeria: Biafran revolt 1967-70
21) 917,000 Rwandan Massacres 1994
21) 800,000 Mozambique: Civil War 1976-92
23) 675,000 French-Algerian War 1954-62
24) 600,000 First Indochina War 1945-54
24) 600,000 Angolan Civil War 1975-94
26) 500,000 Decline of the Amazonian Indians (1900-99)
26 )500,000 India-Pakistan Partition 1947
26) 500,000 First Sudanese Civil War 1955-72
29) 450,000 Indonesia: Massacre of Communists 1965-66
30) 365,000 Spanish Civil War 1936-39
? >350,000 Somalia: Chaos 1991-(99)
? >400,000 North Korea: Communist Regime 1948-(99)
Military History: by Michael White
Things That Bush Did While in Office that Benefits African-Americans -
From: Booker Rising
http://bookerrising.blogspot.com/2004/09/challenge-to-kerry-supporters.html 9/20/2004
A Challenge to Kerry Supporters -
Below is a list of things that President George W. Bush's administration has done to promote black progress. Things that an average black voter will like. Every time I rattle off this list to a Kerry supporter - like an uncle of mine this past weekend - they duck and dodge how Sen. John Kerry would be better. I understand why folks voted for President Clinton - I did it twice - but can't fathom why Sen. Kerry is worthy.
So here's the challenge: email a list of what Sen. Kerry has done to promote black progress, and we'll put up the list next Monday. Don't send us an anti-Bush list, as that doesn't tell us why we should vote for Sen. Kerry and why he's the better guy. Don't tell us what Sen. Kerry is gonna do, but what he has done to promote black progress.
From: Black Informant
http://blackinformant.com/2004/09/20/things/Most African-American websites that are anti-Bush are just that–Anti-Bush. They will not do the homework to show their readers why African-Americans should vote for Kerry."
1. Black child poverty hit all-time low (30%), and remains near the low
2. Small Business Administration loans to black entrepreneurs up 75%
3. Black homeownership rate at all-time high (49.3%)
4. increased funds to historically black colleges 30%
5. increased AIDS in Africa funds
6. increased funds for diabetes research (diabetes disproportionately affects blacks)
7. faith-based initiative provides grants to community-based churches to run social services
8. expanded Africa Growth and Opportunity Act to increase African goods access to U.S. consumer market
9. More black appointed to Cabinet positions - many in non-traditional roles - than any president in U.S. history
10. school vouchers options in No Child Left Behind legislation (last Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies survey shows 57% of blacks support school vouchers)
11. eliminated marriage penalty tax (which disproportionately affected married blacks because each spouse was likelier to earn similar income)
President Bush Deserves The Black Vote On Election Day
By Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele
... Many people ask me how any African American can support President Bush. Short answer: He has done significantly more for African Americans than his challenger, Sen. John Kerry, ever did or has promised to do.
... Look at where African Americans were 40 years ago and where we are today. During the Civil Rights Movement, our struggle was about gaining access to the lunch counter. Today, our struggle is about owning that lunch counter. This president gets it.
... For the first time in nearly a generation, we are creating jobs in our neighborhoods and communities, as more and more small minority business owners have greater access to capital and credit. The Bush administration is lending a hand. The Small Business Administration reports that loans to African Americans are up by 75 percent from last year.
... Sen. Kerry accused President Bush of not funding education. The truth is, President Bush has spent more in three years on K-12 education than the previous administration did in eight years.
... Sen. Kerry accused President Bush of reducing financial aid for college students. The fact is, President Bush has encouraged minority enrollment in higher education institutions and has increased student aid 55 percent to more than $73 billion, thereby making college more affordable for America’s low- and middle-income families.
Michael Steele, a close adviser to President George W. Bush, is the first-term lieutenant governor of Maryland and highest ranking elected state official in the nation. He was the keynote speaker at the Republican National conference in late summer.
Complete article at: http://africanamerica.org/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/4746007/m/4821004351<><><><><><>
"George Walker Bush—he’s tough-minded but he’s tender-hearted. He’s trying to reclaim that glory of that American Dream for all Americans. He put African-Americans in top policy positions higher than any president. He took two people, black, and put them in charge of 300 million people for their security. Even the racists and the extremists and all those who are untoward and un-American, we’re protecting them, too. This is a devastating blow to the color barrier." - Don King 08/09/2004
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/9583/<><><><><><>
"As an African-American, I was raised in a tradition in which voting Republican was simply not done, and in my mature life I have—traditionally—voted Democratic or Independent. Yet this year, I am coming to realize that the George W. Bush administration is the most promising for black advancement in 35 years." -
John H. McWhorter, Spring 2001
http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_2_why_blacks.html
Torture Images - Communist China
From:
http://www.chinasupport.net/site.php?page=buzz30Published by the China Support Network (CSN). Begun as the American response group in 1989, CSN represents Americans who are "on the side" of the students in Tiananmen Square -- standing for democratic reform, human rights, and freedom in China. For dissident news; to support a stronger China policy; or get more information, see http://www.chinasupport.net.
America Supports Free-Speech Washington, DC
February 24, 2006
Danish Embassy - Washington, DCI had the good fortune, to participate in my second rally in support of Free Speech in front of the Danish Embassy, in less than a week.
This one, organized by writer Christopher Hitchens, was all pro-freedom, with none of the hate-filled rhetoric that spewed forth from the mouth of New Black Panther Party leader Malik Zulu Shabazz, at last week’s Anti-Free Speech Rally.
Those who arrived early today (the event was from noon-1) were treated with the offer of a free Danish pasty. Many of us who received one, choose to hoist these aloft, along with the signs and flags, as we chanted and cheered our support for the Danes.
One of the signs was made of Legos and read, “Free Speech.” It’s owner was enthusiastically cheered along as he brought it up the hill into our sight.
The police presence was minimal, mainly to help the various delivery and work trucks navigate through our crowd. The officer nearest me was smiling a lot, which was in stark contrast to the grim expressions the police had last week.
There were lots of media around, conducting interviews and taking pictures as we chanted “We LOVE the Danes,” and other slogans.
When Hitchens arrived, there was already a considerable group gathered. He was modest about his presence, quietly speaking to everyone near him, letting the group honor Denmark in a free and spontaneous manner.
The only time he addressed us as a group was at the very end, when he stood upon one of the white rocks in front of the embassy, speaking briefly about the importance of defending Free Speech and thanking us for showing our respect and support. He mentioned that maybe there needs to be peaceful assemblies in front of other embassies as well.
With that, he told us he had promised the Danish embassy that we’d depart at 1pm … And since it was that time, we, in groups, and as individuals, slowly began the trek down the street.
(photos by G.F. Spicka)
"Stand by Denmark ...
... Stand for Liberty"
"We are all Danes now!"
"Lego my Freedom of Speech"
"Kierkegaard Rules"
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