The Appeasement-Breasted Finnish Moonbat is a curious, cold-blooded creature, with an affinity for George Orwell’s 1984 and an aversion to America that borders on pathological: The Ministry of Truth on the loose in Iraq. (Hat tip: sfrey.)

And we complain about American media.

Orwell’s dystopian vision of the future was brought sharply back to mind some days ago when my eye was caught by an article in the Boston Globe (5.12.2004) about the Iraqi city of Fallujah, to which the American forces are restoring peace.

North Korea also came to mind, but a North Korea in which electricity and infrastructure actually work.

In Internet weblogs, some of the more hot-headed bloggers have made comparisons between Fallujah and Warsaw during the Second World War, more specifically the suppression of the Ghetto Uprising of 1944.

According to the Boston Globe, the Americans plan to make Fallujah into a “model city”. The residents who fled the largely-razed community are to be returned to their homes via so-called “citizen processing centers”, where their identities would be added to a database through the taking of fingerprints and DNA samples, and the scanning of their retinas.

The author, Pekka Mykkänen, has had a thrillingly scary close encounter with the Orwellian forces at work behind the scenes, when he entered the United States, actually entered the belly of the beast … and was … the horror! … fingerprinted. Totalitarian thoughtcrime double plus ungood!

I could see myself relating on a personal level to the content of the Boston Globe piece, since my very personal fingerprints have been deposited in the U.S. database at Logan International Airport in Boston. [Logan International is, of course, the airport from which Mohammed Atta departed on the morning of September 11. —ed.]

I was not guilty of any greater misdemeanour than that I happened to travel to the United States during the era of the War-on-Terror, for which “WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” is admirably suited as a motto.

A few goose-pimples of astonishment were raised by the fact that there appears to have been no significant fall-out over the Fallujah plans in the United States.

George Orwell, so beloved by this Finnish knucklehead, is also famous for another compelling quote: “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”