Reply #9: I don't mind that so much, as I do the constant reframing

[tom_paine]

which is Orwellian and pervasive AND persuasive.

It goes straight to the unconscious. You really had to wonder how long it was before someone took all of the research on psychology, advertising, public relations and mold it into a really efficient and scary mind-crushing machine.

Within the context that what t he Busheviks have constructed isn't quite to that level yet, it is damned close.

Poor Coretta Scott King. Poor ANYONE who gets in their way, who dares to die and to have someone speak about the things that were relevant in their life.

Basically the trick is, to flog the media and lash it with nosie, spray octopus ink all over with the swhrieking and false outrage that all discussion is vortexed up.

We are witnessing the birth of a new and monstrous form of Totalitarianism. Where it will end, no one can be sure. We hope not with concentration camps and millions of dead, but of course Halliburton just got the contracts for domestic detention facilities.