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Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death
 The Saddam Show: It's the bestest new reality show on TV and yet, I feel as though I've seen (or read about) it somewhere before.
I've been re-reading the George Orwell novel 1984 and comparisons with the present-day United States government and its puppet media are terrifying yet fascinating. Take the recent capture of Saddam Hussein for example: Every news station in the United States was broadcasting pictures of a filthy, bearded and disheveled Saddam on Sunday. It reminded me of the Two Minutes Hate daily telescreen broadcasts in 1984, which always showed the face of Emmanuel Goldstein, Enemy of The People, someone Big Brother and his minions wanted the people to focus their anger on. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH The protagonist of the Orwell novel, Winston Smith, works for the Ministry of Truth - his job consists of re-writing the past, changing novels, newspaper articles, press releases and any and all media, to make the government's present lies reality. Kind of like how the White House website altered Dubya's quote from May, 2003 which stated: "President Bush Announces Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended." On August 19, 2003, that quote was changed to: "President Bush Announces Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended." From 1984: "If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say this or that even, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death." On the Center For American Progress website, you can find all kinds of little tidbits that prove the government is outright lying and re-writing its own past to suit itself. Here is just one of disproven claims from a story entitled, 2003: A Year of Distortion For The American People. WHITE HOUSE CLAIM: "The Bush Administration proposed stringent new rules on power plant emissions." FACT: "The Bush administration on Friday eased clean air rules to allow utilities, refineries and manufacturers to avoid having to install expensive new anti-pollution equipment when they modernize their plants." - CBS News, 11/22/02 FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH If altering the past isn't frightening enough for you, how about the fact that people in the U.S. are just simply vanishing ? US says it doesn't know how many detainees in Cuba From 1984: "People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word." FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH 
As for thoughtcrime, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft (a complete religious fanatic and utter nutcase) has been hard at work, censoring art, media and going after people like Tommy Chong, who was arrested and sentenced to nine months in jail for selling bongs. Chong thinks he was targeted because of the characters he has played in movies and on TV. “They came after me because of the movies, Up in Smoke, Cheech & Chong, and because of my act since 1968,” says Chong. “They took my character to be my real persona.” The writer of an article on Chong in Los Angeles City Beat Magazine described the arrest as thoughtcrime. If you've never read 1984, you really must - Americans especially - because the basic ideas in the book are not just taking form in the present - but will come into being in a big way in the future if you're foolish enough to re-elect Bush in 2004.
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