1984 Foreword "fascistic disposition"

[barbara100 at jps.net]

I still can't believe the USA Patriot Act is a real acronym!
Uniting and strengthening America by providing appropriate tools  required
to intercept and obstruct terrorism.
Pretty clever huh?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Monroe" <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
To: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: 1984 Foreword "fascistic disposition"


> Coming soon to a theater of The War on Terrorism ((c)
> G.W. Bush) near you ...
>
> http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism/hr3162.pdf
>
> --- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> >
> > To me, the real sticking point seems to be that this
> > "dissidence" is fine and dandy when the government
> > is democratic and liberal, as in the U.S., the
> > U.K., Western Europe etc, but under totalitarian
> > regimes like Stalin's, Hitler's, Saddam's etc no
> > such dissidence is possible (or even thinkable, in
> > Orwell's dystopia)....