Well, it’s already happening. Um no, it’s not just another conspiracy. There is absolutely no conspiracy here. It is all public. You can all check the facts. There is no hidden agenda whatsoever. It is clear as day. Funny, in fact eerie that even so, majority of people seem to act as if they have no freaking idea.

Of course, I’m still under a bit of an influence of that book, 1984, and a same named movie I just watched. And yes, out of curiosity and due to knowing how popular this George Orwell’s book seems to be lately, I searched for “Is 1984 coming?”. It seemed like a logical search query and indeed it returned some relevant results, among which is a YouTube video. As I’ve been watching on the trail of these videos I have these two to point to as a good sample of what I’m talking about. They should be quite easy to grasp.

“H.R. 1955 - THOUGHT CRIMES IN THE U.S.”

Countdown: Bush Dissolves The U.S. Constitution Today

The first one is from who seems to be one of the fairly popular video bloggers on YouTube, who says it quite bluntly. The H.R. 1955 bill is law in USA. Correction: It isn’t law yet, but it passed the house and is waiting on senate vote and sign by the president. So there’s still chance to oppose it. The bill, of course, does not specifically mention thought crime, as you would expect, but it does contain just a sufficient amount of ambiguity and relation to what thought crime is, as described in “1984″, for it to definitely apply as a law that can get you lawfully arrested for thinking in radical ways against the state, or at least expressing such anti-state views anyhow publicly.

It might not be surprising that what this law parades as is as a law against what it calls a “homegrown terrorism”. Ah, of course, terrorism the continuous war that America has placed themselves in which can now justify pretty much any violation against its own constitution and its own people - all in the name of defeating the common enemy of the state - terrorists. And who are terrorists exactly? To the current law of USA a terrorist, the enemy, is an increasingly broad number of people - or with this new law, just about anyone!

The second video is even older, and about a bill that essentially puts an end to “Habeas corpus”, or accused “right to petition”, from US law. The title of the YouTube post is obviously quite right. This is against US constitution, the defining document of the USA. But somehow.. that doesn’t feel like “news”. I urge you to watch through the whole video. There are some statements in the conversation it presents which make it quite clear what this means for USA.

And everyone who has been paying even a little bit of attention probably knows by now that these are not the first laws being passed which essentially take the US citizen’s essential rights, one by one, little by little, just slow enough not to be noticed too much and under the guise of the ongoing war against terrorism.

I have to note that in the book “1984″, it is exactly the continuous, essentially never ending war which has and continues (in book’s time frame) to serve as means of intimidating people into accepting even the worst possible de-humanizations (and what else is taking away human rights than essentially de-humanization?)

In very simple terms, what is happening is exactly this. The enemy is terrorism and therefore all who are deemed to be terrorists. They are a constant threat to the safety of the people. It is enough for you to be shown the pictures of 9/11 attacks for you to start feeling anger and perhaps even hate towards this enemy. In such a state you are more likely to accept any solution that is claimed to be anti-terrorist and hence presumably hurtful to this enemy and protective towards you. This is why essentially all laws that decrease human rights, not only in US, but increasingly EU as well, are branded as anti-terrorism laws.

When you realize this, it isn’t difficult to conclude that the anti-terrorism laws are not just against terrorism, but against you as well. In fact, it becomes extremely doubtful whether terrorism has anything to do with it, especially when the law begins to imply its own citizens as potential terrorists. I would dare to say, within this context, that most if not all anti-terrorism laws are ANTI-YOU laws. ANTI-FREEDOM laws.

And those who are not caught supporting such laws due to anger incited in them by the emotional scenes of terror are those who essentially sit and do nothing about it - the ignorant ones, and sadly the ones who are in great majority. They are, as a matter of fact, the fertile ground from which to find real supporters of such anti-freedom laws. Since they are ignorant, they are easily deceived.

But hey.. the good Party says: FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, WAR IS PEACE, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

When all that is in your mind is the terrorist threat, than the only freedom you will care about is freedom from the terrorist. No matter that this will make you a slave, you will have “freedom”. When war is continuous and constant, meant to preserve this state in which you will only care of freedom from The Terrorist Threat, there will be no resistance and hence peace. Or when you simply don’t know, don’t care and don’t want to meddle with this “politics stuff”, you will be cherished as the concrete of the state which you, as such form. They can most strongly rely on you, the ignorant one, to not resist, to not disrupt the new structure of things - the new norm.

“1984″ describes a state in which the revolution that led to such a state is already pretty much done, putting the reader in a rather unpleasant conundrum. The people, being so dehumanized as they have by the above system of brainwashing, become essentially uncapable of opposing the state and in fact grateful that the state is taking care of them so well (even as it objectively isn’t). They are essentially so satisfied with the sore state of things they are in, that they do not want what the reader would call “freedom” and that it would become an invasion, even an unfair invasion, to try to stir their pot and create an opposition.

But we are still here. You are still here. You are still human and you can still feel for your rights and care, or at least I hope you can. All the while there is hope that there is enough people out there who will not frown upon the thought of discussing ideals, politics and freedom as if they were some boring, irrelevant “hippie” topics, we can prevent our states from becoming increasingly and even ultimately Orwellian.

It is just a matter of caring, of putting aside the prejudice towards this topic, of getting off of that drug we call “the norm”, that has efficiently kept you too busy to think of these things (you know, working for mere survival rather than achievement, entertainment for entertainment’s sake, socializing for socializing, being who you aren’t simply because “everyone is” because you “must fit in” - all those things which make you too busy to be nothing but unknowing and unsuspecting and ultimately uncaring for events that essentially strip your rights away).

Everyone who thinks talking about this is “boring politics” or whatever other term you may like to apply to it just to avoid the topic is already putting those who do want to discuss this with you in a conundrum mentioned before.. How can you save someone who doesn’t care to be saved? How can you free someone who doesn’t care to even talk about freedom in a serious manner? You can’t… You even shouldn’t, because it would be against their free will.

I hope it wont be against your free will.

Or else… I’m afraid we’ll just end up in a state where there will be no such luxury as “free will” or “free speech” or even “free thought”.

Or else.. we shall leave you to your slavery and escape to form a free land of our own, if we only could.

Note: You might note I’m mostly citing US cases of increased number of anti-freedom legislations whereas I never even been to USA. The reason is that it will not and already isn’t limited to US. As an influential super power that it still seems to be (at least culturally) it has already influenced other countries in the world to follow the similar foot steps. Indeed, European Union has its fair share of anti-freedom legislation, and it is one union which is devouring an increasing number of states, my own, Croatia, soon to be one of them. And when you have an union there is a danger of further centralization and much greater ease of converting all EU laws into laws of its member states. It essentially becomes quite conceivable for EU to once get where US is today, and transcend, helped by its people’s ignorance, into a type of an Orwellian state.

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- “1984 Is Coming To Town” (October 2007)