re: #309 Walter L. Newton

I’m sorry, I thought you were agreeing with Griffin.

In general, I wish people would be much more careful with using 1984 as a mirror for things they see happening in contemporary society.

I consider myself an expert on Orwell and 1984, I did an awful lot of research on my stage adaptation ([Link: newton.acrossthebow.com…] and really, Orwell was writing about something that most of us will never experience, or even come close to.

While I don’t consider myself to be a literary expert on the writings of George Orwell, I the 911truth movement’s views on bin Laden make a fair analog with Emmanuel Goldstein. Griffin’s latest book “Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive?” is all about how the War on Terror is a CIA psychological operation on the American people. In this operation, bin Laden plays the role of tangible enemy. Fake audio and video tapes are released and rumors of “bin Laden sightings” are occasionally reported to bolster public support of the “eternal” war on terror, for U.S. military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, and various foreign and domestic policies.