Federal

Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt gave us his “New Deal”, the Federal government has been assuming more and more responsibility for the care and welfare of the people, resulting in people becoming more dependent on the government. The same pattern is being following in attempts by corporations to make people dependent on their products. This increase in dependency parallels that described in George Orwell’s book (1984) about Big Brother.

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  1. Baum, Mark R. SSG U.S. Army Infantry (retired) says:
    January 15, 2012 at 12:47 PM

    Politically Correct a.k.a. Newspeak?

    A week ago, I walked into the V.A. Hospital in Lake City Florida for a doctors appointment. I am a seventeen year, medically retired combat veteran. Having served on four continents, and fought in six combat tours, not to preserve only our freedoms, but to help those that couldn’t help them selves. I walked to the volunteers stand where they always hand out a free cup of coffee and a doughnut, if you wish, on my way to the appointment. The volunteer was an older man in his late seventies., with wispy white hair, a kind smile, and the hard blues eyes that almost invariably tell this is a basically good man that has probably spent more time “over there” than was good for him. Believe me, sometimes five seconds “over there” is a lifetime. This man had probably give three hard years of his life to liberate the Jewish people from the Nazis, or stood on a hill during “Task Force Smith”, in the Korean War as fifty thousand screaming Chinese regulars descended on his unit, life the flies of hell.

    He looked at me and politely asked, “How would you like your coffee, sir?”. Being raised in a military family with strong, and at time, overly developed patriotic beliefs, there was only one way to drink coffee. I replied, “Black please.” His bright sharp eyes quickly darted between, a VA customer service rep, a black veteran, and myself. Apologetically he responded, “You mean without cream, sir?”, I was caught off guard, I said ,”Just Black, sir.” Again, this gentleman with the 1st Cavalry hat looked around and said, “We have to be politically correct, sir. It’s ‘without cream’, now”.

    Here was a man, who had spilled his blood, and more than likely, had picked up pieces of his friends and tossed them in a BLACK zipper bag, that said “Remains Un-viewable” in the name of a freedom that he couldn’t exercise. He was not allowed to say the word “BLACK” out loud, even when used in the context of “Black coffee” It enraged me and made me sad that this combat veteran who was volunteering to hand coffee to other combat veterans was not allowed to use the word black even in a sentence that could not be taken any way out of context. I asked him if he had ever read George Orwell’s. “Nineteen Eighty Four”, and he said that he did in high school. I calmly looked at him and said, “Maybe you should read it again. Thank you for the black coffee.” I then went to my doctors appointment, very disturbed.

    POLITICALLY CORRECT = NEWSPEAK

    Shall I dare say “Doubleplus good?”

    submitted by Baum, Mark R., Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army Infantry (retired). spectre_mark@yahoo.com

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