It's Obama vs. "The Ministry of Peace"

If there's one page every Democratic blogger should read this year--perhaps many times over until they have it memorized by heart--it is THIS OVERVIEW!

Please consider this diary a direct request from me--BEGGING YOU--to read this. Know your enemy!

If there's one group that is the focal point of all things evil that Dems are fighting this year, it is Freedom's Watch.

If ever there was a quasi-governmental entity f**king around with our perceptions en masse--just about everywhere there's an opportunity to do that--and interfering in our political processes unlike any other in the history of this country, it's an organization that some now compare to George Orwell's "Ministry of Peace."

Swiftboaters were child's play compared to what these folks have in store for us in coming weeks and months.


Orwellian "Ministry of Peace"

The Armchair Generalist compares Freedom's Watch to George Orwell's Ministry of Peace:[49]

"In George Orwell's 1984, there was an organization known as the Ministry of Peace, whose purpose was to promote perpetual war. The Wiki definition[50] explains that 'If the citizens of Oceania have a well-defined enemy, Eastasia or Eurasia, then they know whom they hate, and constant homeland propaganda helps to convince them to vent all their unconscious rage for their own country against the opposing one. Since that means the balance of the country rests in the war, the Ministry of Peace is in charge of fighting the war (mostly centered around Africa and India), but making sure to never tip the scales, in case the war should become one-sided.'

"That definition has come into fruition with Ari Fleischer's 'Freedom's Watch' organization. While not a government agency per say [sic], certainly it is doing the White House's bidding by overtly connecting the war in Iraq to 9/11[51] in an attempt to influence the American public into 'staying the course'," the Armchair Generalist states.[49]




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Ministry of Peace my ass. n/t (2.00 / 3)


by bobswern on Fri Jun 13, 2008 at 05:17:33 AM EST

Thanks for the tip (none / 0)

rec'd. Now I go sleep. a little.


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by lizardbox on Fri Jun 13, 2008 at 05:25:06 AM EST
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From what I understand.. (none / 0)

Both candidates want to increase the Pentagon budget. I guess McCain wants us in more wars, longer, and maybe Obama wants to do something else?

What? Could we lease get some clarification on that?

Schools are disintegrating, infrastructures are crumbling. We need smart people, not smart bombs.


Universal healthcare IS a core Democratic value
Without a REAL committment to it, we WON'T win in November.
by architek on Fri Jun 13, 2008 at 08:56:09 AM EST
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Improving pay for military professionals (none / 0)

would seem like a no-brainer. Cutting expenditures on Star-wars projects that were of questionable value seems to make a lot of sense. Also, IMO, countries like Japan and (South) Korea should be able to handle their own defense by now. (3rd and 6th largest economies in the world, last I looked)

Robotics, high tech, and surveillance have their uses, but our priorities are skewed away from boring, but IMO more important bread and butter issues in a dangerous way. And the military folk we have are being stretched to their limits.

Rearranging the budget would make more sense than increaasing it, IMO.

More for fundamentals, less for pie in the sky.

Important things we need to do here like universal healthcare, healthcare in general in the emergency preparedness sense, federal student aid, OSHA and NIOSH code enforement budgets, (worker safety) protecting people from toxic chemicals and food, and a million other important things, are hurting..


Universal healthcare IS a core Democratic value
Without a REAL committment to it, we WON'T win in November.
by architek on Fri Jun 13, 2008 at 10:02:25 AM EST
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Re: Ministry of Peace my ass. n/t (2.00 / 1)

War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. John McCain is an acceptable alternative to Barack Obama.

My ass indeed. Rec'd.


Grumpy, reluctant, sore-losing, unhappy, irritable Hillary supporter for Barack Obama 2008
by DemAC on Fri Jun 13, 2008 at 08:56:12 AM EST
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