{"id":8864,"date":"2015-06-06T07:18:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T12:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8864"},"modified":"2015-06-06T07:18:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T12:18:52","slug":"orwellian-language-the-slide-toward-velvet-glove-fascism-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8864","title":{"rendered":"Orwellian Language \u2013 the Slide toward \u201cVelvet Glove\u201d Fascism Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/?p=37789\" target=\"_blank\">Orwellian Language \u2013 the Slide toward \u201cVelvet Glove\u201d Fascism Continues<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Sometimes we get the feeling the ruling elites are investing the laws they enact with a kind of impertinent, slap-in-your-face black humor. How else to explain the Orwellian names given to the liberty-crushing laws that have been put in place since the \u201cwar on terror\u201d started?<\/p>\n<p>The latest example is the misnamed \u201cFreedom Act\u201d, the purpose of which appears to be to make legal what was hitherto plainly illegal \u2013\u00a0<em>inter alia<\/em>\u00a0whole-sale spying by the government on the citizenry. The legislation has been sold to the serfs as absolutely necessary to \u201cprevent terror attacks\u201d. As we have previously pointed out, the average US citizen is statistically far more likely to die from drowning in a bathtub or simply by falling from a chair rather than from a terror attack. No special laws have been proposed yet to save us from the evil of bathtubs and chairs, in spite of the danger evidently emanating from these deadly household furnishings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37793\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/blog\/media\/2015\/06\/editorial-201106021.jpg\" alt=\"editorial-201106021\" width=\"600\" height=\"413\" \/>Many people indeed begin to watch what they are saying once they are aware of being under constant surveillance. As we have previously argued, this undermines an important pillar of civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon via Terrence Nowicki<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the vanishingly small statistical likelihood of actually being harmed by terrorists, it is noteworthy that such laws \u2013 the true purpose of which is highly unlikely to be congruent with their stated purpose \u2013 are enacted even while the government engages in activities that are bound to worsen these statistics in the future. The so-called \u201cwar on terror\u201d so far actually seems to be similarly successful as the \u201cwar on poverty\u201d and the \u201cwar on drugs\u201d. In fact, it appears to be ranking quite high on the list of the biggest government boondoggles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orwellian Language \u2013 the Slide toward \u201cVelvet Glove\u201d Fascism Continues Sometimes we get the feeling the ruling elites are investing the laws they enact with a kind of impertinent, slap-in-your-face black humor. How else to explain the Orwellian names given to the liberty-crushing laws that have been put in place since the \u201cwar on terror\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5728,1491,1235,6167,6170,6168,6169,765,793,827,4810,864],"class_list":["post-8864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-acting-man","tag-fascism","tag-orwell","tag-orwellian-language","tag-pater-tenebrarum","tag-rule-elite","tag-serf","tag-surveillance","tag-terrorism","tag-united-states","tag-usa-freedom-act","tag-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8866,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8864\/revisions\/8866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}