You forget the barf alert.....
Posted on 02/08/2007 1:42:13 PM PST by Eleutheria5
This book starts where 1984 left off, and is a chilling tale that seems all too real. Frankly, this Orwellian story ends with Bush in his Fourth term, and if you don't think that is a possibility, then you are a naive member of the DLC or DNC (of which there are far too many).
Fascism creeps in on cat's feet sometimes, as it has been encroaching upon our Constitution and civil liberties under four years of the Bush administration. Now, as Bush begins the next four, we will move from Torquemada Ashcroft to the Torturer's Apprentice Gonzales as our head of the Department of (In)Justice. It just gets worse with each passing day.
This is a novel by a largely unknown author who has accomplished the most difficult task for a novelist: writing a sequel, with skill and verisimilitude, of another person's work. As the website for "America 2014: An Orwellian Tale" notes:
Picture a totalitarian United States just ten years from now: With no end in sight to the War on Terror, a fourth-term President George Blush rules without restraint. The Constitution has been replaced with a "Patriotic Citizen's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities" and America has been renamed "God's United States." The Blush Administration has finally "freed" America of its "treasonous" opposition party, "subversive" media and "obstructionist" judges.
In this starkly terrifying political thriller, Winston Smith is a young, successful producer of patriotic commercials for the Department of Homeland Security. While working to fulfill his dream of making a contemporary film version of "1984," he runs afoul of government censors, is forced to stand trial in a nightmarish courtroom, and faces brutal execution in a privatized prison. Rescued by a mysterious, powerful young woman and a band of teenaged computer hackers, he joins the Resistance and becomes swept up in a deadly struggle to undermine his government's stranglehold on power and information.
We receive many books that are not bestsellers, and we try to give them all a chance. But we only offer three premiums a week. So we only occasionally get a chance to promote such books.
This book, however, we couldn't put down. It is just too close to the truth, just a couple of turns of the screw away from what America is becoming.
Tom DeLay, Grover Norquist, Antonin Scalia, John Ashcroft, and countless others of the Busheviks have been unabashed in saying their goal is one-party rule of the self-described (albeit Uber hypocritical) "morally righteous" Republican Party.
Dominance of the communication media is the tool by which they are achieving their goal, along with stolen elections, a federal court stacked with pre-enlightenment creationist loyalists to the Bush Cartel, and gerrymandered congressional districts.
But at the heart of their control on the psyche of America is their near complete ability to disseminate propaganda through a docile, corporate media, at a time when the entertainment, news and political worlds have nearly merged into a single entity.
Winston Smith created lies for the Ministry of Truth, visual images and ads that were narcotics for the misled citizens of America. This is his story in the age of the Orwellian Bush Cabal.
At the end of the book, you will find a "The Revised Constitution of the United States of America," ratified by the one-party Republican state in 2009. We are almost there in content and in years. Indeed, it may arrive ahead of schedule.
For those who consider such talk alarmist, read this book. It's a little gift from a patriot who penned a fitting counterpart to Robert Kane Pappas' "Orwell Rolls" (DVD).
The party that controls the means of mass communication controls the nation. And the Busheviks believe they rule by divine decree, not by the choice of the voters. As Orwell predicted, such rulers will use endless wars against personified enemies to keep the masses lobotomized.
It is the end of the American revolution. These are not patriots who control our government. They are pre-enlightenment fascists.
And if the "F" work makes you shutter because it sounds so extreme, then you haven't yet understood what is happening here.
BUZZFLASH REVIEWS
I'm just waiting on cover art and a release date. The ISBN is 1-4241-5273-9. Publisher is PublishAmerica.com. Order it now through your local book seller.
But back to Blair's book. Orwell spoke of a totalitarian society built on the principles of socialism, in which the government completely controls all information and distorts the English language to manipulate the masses. Fascism is a form of socialism. It is national socialism, or the confiscation of the private property, life and liberty of one nation in favor of another. Hitler and Mousolini practiced it. So did Saddam Hussein. The only difference was the particular nation that they favored at the expense of all others. Fascism has as much in common with George Bush and the "Christian Right" as pear juice does with hiking boots. But Blair's misuse of the term is a prime example of Orwell's "newspeak". It is an oversimplification of language designed to hide its true content.
Mr. Buzzflash, for that matter, is Blair's fellow cretin. Before he compares 1984 to another, lesser book, he might try reading the former. He can read, I hope. He wrote that article, so I assume he is literate. Of course, it is possible that he really did read Orwell, but failed to understand it. Some people do have trouble understanding complex thoughts without the aid of hand puppets.
The fact that this got published should inspire the terminally retarded everywhere.
That is without question the most idiotic thing I have ever heard of in my entire life.
I am now dumber for having read this.
It's amazing that the left even thinks that Bush could go that far right.
There is certainly an Orwellian nightmare taking shape. It comes from the left -- the Bush-haters who love to spin fantasies of right-wing plots. They're the ones who are taking over our society and destroying both freedom and civilization.
I wish things had turned out this way.
"Rescued by a mysterious, powerful young woman and a band of teenaged computer hackers"
This line had me laughing out loud. This kind of crap doesn't really get published, does it? And whoever owns the copyright to "1984" should sue.
Leftists see fascists everywhere except where it really lives - in themselves.
I think both the author and the reviewer are nuts. Happy they found each other. It's hard to know what to make of a World where people talk about these fantasies in conspiratorial tones. "Watch out, Bush is gonna get ya!"
Karl Rove will get sent to Room 101 to have a starving James Carville caged to his face.
Um, I think I'll pass.
No, they are off their meds.
No, you weren't the only one. But I think that "President" would not be enough for her, she will get herself crowned "Empress";)
Technically, fascism is still left as it is totalitarian. The most extreme 'Right' would be anarchy- no government involvement. The most extreme left would be an extreme version of Communism (N. Korea type) with total government control over everything. It's always been a myth that fascism is 'right wing'.. it was only called 'right' because when these terms were coined, it was 'right' of Communism.. but it is still far left of our system of government.
Oh yeah, I see it happening.
For me, Emperor would not be enough either. There have been emperors before. I would craft a new title for myself, perhaps something postmodernist like "Historical Prism."
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