George Orwell Would Be Vindicated--Obama Administration Takes Double Speak To The Next Level

DOUBLESPEAK: IS IT 2014 OR 1984?

Exclusive: Joseph Farah declares, 'Welcome, finally, to the world of Big Brother. It's here'

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In his classic work, “1984,” George Orwell introduced two new terms into the lexicon – double think and newspeak.

Though he didn’t use the word “doublespeak,” it’s an easy leap simply combining the two Orwell terms – and that’s what we are experiencing in the U.S. precisely 30 years after the title date of his peak into the world of Big Brother.

In “1984,” Big Brother and the “party” said “peace” when they meant “war.” They said “love” when they meant “hate.” They said “freedom” when they meant slavery.

Doublespeak is saying one thing and meaning another, usually its opposite.

Orwell did not write the book as a prophecy of a certain future. He wrote it as a warning of a possible future. But you can see that future emerging very clearly in the U.S. today.

In his address to the nation on the ISIS crisis last week, Barack Obama, an avowed peacenik who was elected to the presidency by promising to end two wars tout suite and by telling us we had little to worry about from terrorism and Islamists, explained why the U.S. had to start a massive, prolonged bombing campaign against the group Islamic State – assuring us simultaneously that the Islamic State is neither Islamic nor a state.

The next day, Secretary of State John Kerry, another avowed peacenik who came to fame after coming home from the Vietnam War and harshly denouncing it and his fellow U.S. soldiers who were fighting it, explained in a CNN interview that America was not exactly going to war with ISIS.

The administration’s newly discovered strategy, he said, includes “many different things that one doesn’t think of normally in context of war.”

“What we are doing is engaging in a very significant counterterrorism operation,” Kerry said. “It’s going to go on for some period of time. If somebody wants to think about it as being a war with ISIL, they can do so, but the fact is it’s a major counterterrorism operation that will have many different moving parts.”

Obama and his spokesmen have always been careful to characterize the worldwide phenomenon of jihadists as an aberration of Islam, which he insists categorically is a “religion of peace.” He insists no religion countenances the kind of barbarism perpetrated by ISIS. One has to wonder what the history books he studied had to say about the Crusades and the rapid spread of Islam throughout the Arabian Peninsula in the 8th century and, eventually, throughout Asia, Africa and Europe when it conquered more people and a greater land mass than any previous or subsequent empire in the history of the world.

Neither has Obama’s administration been fond of the word “terrorism,” apart from the link with Islam – unless, of course, it was used to describe people who cling to their Bibles or Constitutions or participate in tea-party activity.

Welcome, finally, to the world of Big Brother. It’s here. And the “newspeak” media march, for the most part, in lockstep to the leadership of Big Brother.

Has anyone taken notice?

In fact, there’s more happening in our world today that compares with the Big Brother world of “1984.”

The U.S. has greatly expanded the surveillance state throughout the Obama administration. Local police have become more militarized and more obedient to the central government.

Simple words that everyone once understood, like “marriage,” have been completely redefined. If you don’t adopt the new definition, the state refers to you as a “bigot.”

All of this was foreseen though in a much earlier classic book – one read by more people than any other in history. That book is the Bible. It was written as a prophecy of the future. It talks about times in the past and in the future when every man and woman would do what was right in his own eyes.

That future is upon us. It’s here – in 2014, or should I say, in 1984.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/doublespeak-is-it-2014-or-1984/#3QA2yp0EYgSIBtdo.99