[Right_Wing_Mole_In_Seattle]

When I heard about the 100 idiots on the streets of Seattle last night, I immediately thought of this article.

[mdittmar]

Lived in Seattle for 5 years.Sacrifice to these idiots is waiting 10 minutes in line for a latte'!!

[Serb5150]

Orwellian bump

[Illbay]

Orwell: "What about all those preparations that they're making against invasion -- the pill boxes that they're building everywhere, the Local Defense Volunteers and so forth?"

The youth: "Oh, that merely means they're getting ready to crush the working class when the Germans get here...."

Sounds like a whole lotta FReepers I know.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Thought maybe this was the selection where Orwell presented one of my favorites: "That you and I are able to sleep safely in our beds at night owes to the fact the rough men stand ready to do harm to those who would attack us"...or was it Huxley?...

[Grut]

There's a wonderful line from (I think) Reinhold Niebuhr: "In a world where sin is a condition of existence, a pacifist is a parasite who lives on the sins of others."

[ikka]

I pass over the fact that modern dictatorships don't, in fact, leave the loopholes that the old-fashioned despotisms did; and also the probable weakening of the desire for intellectual liberty owing to totalitarian methods of education.

Orwell pegged it. Especially about edukashun in publik skools.