Creating Alternative Reality
We've just participated in a war, fought for shifting reasons, designed to bring freedom to a people now gunned down for protesting.
We've learned of Iraqi "news" for the past 12 years from a television station that admits to reading government propaganda and not reporting reality so it could retain access to the area.
Last October, Tommy Thompson, secretary of health and human services, received a letter from several House members which read, in part:
"...a pattern of events at the Department of Health and Human Services suggesting that scientific decision-making is being subverted by ideology and that scientific information that does not fit the Administration's political agenda is being suppressed... Scientific information that does not serve the Administration's ideological agenda is being removed from HHS websites."
We have a department of education that apparently removes content from its Web site if it does not support the current administration's policy, which includes initiatives such as: the No Child Left Behind campaign and faith-based initiatives.
We have a department of defense that purchased exlusive rights to images of Afghanistan from a privately-operated satellite. After reports of heavy civilian casualties near Jalalabad, the department shut down access to those satellite images.
The mottoes of Big Brother's part in George Orwell's 1984 appear prophetic: war is peace; freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength. Beware the Thought Police.
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