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   From: zen19725@zen.co.uk   
      
   On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:12:20 +0100, Cynic  wrote:   
   >On 12 Jul 2005 08:15:55 -0700, "dimebag"  wrote:   
   >   
   >>But it's Britain, what do you expect?  I'm an absolutely HUGE fan   
   >>of British author George Orwell's "1984," and rather as a warning   
   >>his fellow countrymen are actually using the book as a model for   
   >>their society.  As you mentioned about sex, remember that in the   
   >>book the Party actually had its scientists working on ways to   
   >>abolish the orgasm.  People enjoyed orgasms and they led to love   
   >>for their sexual partners, and in Oceania there can be no loyalty   
   >>except loyalty to the Party, no love except love of Big Brother -   
   >>all competing pleasures will be destroyed (quote).  Just add this   
   >>to the UK's ubiquitous telescreens, their Terrorist Police who   
   >>arrest and interrogate people without charge, and people can be   
   >>locked up in mental institutions for being too fat.  I used to be   
   >>proud of my British ancestry and the English law that formed the   
   >>foundation of the American legal system, now I just think they're   
   >>fools.   
   >   
   >I agree with you.  But I think you are deluded if you believe that   
   >America is not just as far down the same route.  It's just taking a   
   >slightly different path.  Remember how in 1984 everything the   
   >government stated was actually the reverse of the truth?  "The Land of   
   >the Free".  Hmmmm.  Patriot Act?   
      
   You are unfortunately both right.   
      
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