Posts by emy the infidel

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abuse towards children by Muslims

by Guest with Questions in

warning: some sites you will find are extremely graphic.

i came across this site this morning looking for a christian artist.

i'm beside myself with grief for these children.

emy the infidel

It starts, "Christian boys, are kidnapped from local villages and confined to stay in muslim schools..."

US troops find this and a lot worse, wish more people knew the truth of who these people are.

Thanks for the post.

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Borg similarities to Animal Farm? Absolutely!

by WingCommander in

jw
friends

i remember having to read george orwell's "animal farm" in 11th grade.

it was a mandatory assignment and after our readings there were discussions.

a few years later, my own mother whom had worked in a local psychiatric unit related to me that she felt the borganization closely resembled animal farm and also 1984. this was truly striking to me, but now more than ever it makes sense on so many levels.

emy the infidel

Inkling--where'd the link go (?) that site is good.

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Borg similarities to Animal Farm? Absolutely!

by WingCommander in

jw
friends

i remember having to read george orwell's "animal farm" in 11th grade.

it was a mandatory assignment and after our readings there were discussions.

a few years later, my own mother whom had worked in a local psychiatric unit related to me that she felt the borganization closely resembled animal farm and also 1984. this was truly striking to me, but now more than ever it makes sense on so many levels.

emy the infidel

Outstanding post WingCommander.

From Wiki:

Napoleon, a Berkshire boar, is the main villain of Animal Farm. Napoleon begins to gradually build up his power, using puppies he raised to be vicious dogs as his secret police. After driving Snowball off the farm, Napoleon usurps full power, using false propaganda from Squealer and threats and intimidation from the dogs to keep the other animals in line. Among other things he gradually changes the Commandments to allow himself privileges and justify his dictatorial rule. By the end of the book Napoleon and his fellow pigs have learned to walk upright and started to behave similar to humans. Orwell modeled him after Joseph Stalin, who set up a dictatorship whose repression and despotism was far worse than that of the Imperial Russian government he supplanted. (In the French version of Animal Farm, Napoleon is called César, the French spelling of Caesar.)

Squealer, a small fat porker, serves as Napoleon's public speaker. Inspired by Vyacheslav Molotov and the Russian paper Pravda, Squealer twists and abuses the language to excuse, justify, and extol all of Napoleon's actions. He represents all the propaganda Stalin used to justify his actions. In all of his work, George Orwell made it a point to show how politicians used language. Squealer limits debate by complicating it, and he confuses and disorients, making claims that the pigs need the extra luxury they are taking in order to function properly, for example. However, when questions persist, he usually uses the threat of Mr. Jones's return as justification for the pigs' privileges. Squealer uses statistics to convince the animals that life is getting better and better. Most of the animals have only dim memories of life before the revolution; therefore they are convinced.

I have a friend who grew up behind the iron curtain, and his accounts of life there were eerily similar to me of life in the borg. Making that jump would clearly have been thought-crime terrority, so I resisted it. Eventually, after the ruin of millions of lives, the Soviet system collapsed under the pressure of it's own weight, I wonder if the wt$ will follow a similar trajectory?

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