Thought crimes and misdemeanors

One could almost draw the conclusion that certain elements of the left were looking for an incident such as what transpired in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend to bolster their momentum in altering our understanding of American history. In what can only be described as a Stalinesque attempt to cleanse America of its ‘shame’ over events of the early 19th Century, the left is doing all it can to destroy any extant memento of the Confederacy, by removing statues, memorials, flags and other reminders of that tragic period in American history because all these artifacts are ‘racist.’ This is tantamount to Stalin having Zinoviev’s and Kamenev’s images removed from official soviet pictorial records.

The ongoing yammering even by reasonable people that ‘hate will not be tolerated’ in our culture is nothing less than the criminalization of thought. Looking at the concept of hate, which is a perfectly normal human emotion much like love, anger, sadness or the myriad of other emotions afflicting the human psyche, the intolerance of hate by the oh-so-tolerant left is a red herring designed to cover what’s really at issue: control over individuals’ thoughts and beliefs. Having recently reread George Orwell’s seminal work, ‘1984’, I was shocked to arrive at the realization that 1984 is in fact today in the here and now, as our ultra-inclusive culture is only inclusive of beliefs and opinions that toe the party line. It’s okay to hate, so long as your hatred has an official seal of approval and those whom you hate are on the approved list of the hated. Tearing down Civil War statues and memorials is a way to erase the past. Certainly Orwell understood the concept very well, when he wrote, "The past, … had not merely been altered, it had been actually destroyed. For how could you establish even the most obvious fact when there existed no record outside your own memory?" Orwell’s understanding of this concept is brilliant: “"Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."” The outrage accompanying the Charlottesville fiasco is selective, to be sure, as other events perpetrated by forces of the left were met with very little outrage, such as was the case in Ferguson or any of the crimes committed in the name of Black Lives Matter. Five dead cops in Dallas readily come to mind.

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The brouhaha over the Charlottesville episode is much more fabricated outrage than it is real

The brouhaha over the Charlottesville episode is much more fabricated outrage than it is real; given the fact that Donald Trump’s victory last November really screwed things up for the establishment and its Deep State minions. And that’s another concept highlighted in ‘1984,’ as written by Orwell nearly 70 years ago: "a ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors." Well, Trump’s victory played major havoc with the ruling group and it looks as though they’re ready to go to any length to attempt to change reality. The nature of reality is such that in certain hands it becomes pliable, as Orwell so aptly demonstrated in his seminal work. It’s our job as freeborn citizens to resist the forces of leftist reaction by passionately defending our God-given liberty. Or, as Orwell quoted the Founders of America, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government ..."