Has The US Become An Orwellian State?
Oliver Stone To RT: ‘US Has Become An Orwellian State’ -- RT
Americans are living in an Orwellian state argue Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick, as they sit down with RT to discuss US foreign policy and the Obama administration’s disregard for the rule of law.
Both argue that Obama is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and that people have forgiven him a lot because of the “nightmare of the Bush presidency that preceded him.”
“He has taken all the Bush changes he basically put them into the establishment, he has codified them,” Stone told RT. “It is an Orwellian state. It might not be oppressive on the surface, but there is no place to hide. Some part of you is going to end up in the database somewhere.”
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My Comment: That's his opinion .... what's mine .... I grew up in the Soviet Union so I know what it's like to live in an Orwellian state .... and the U.S. is not there (yet). But it is true that the U.S. of today is not the U.S. that I first got to know in the 1980s .... and sadly .... I suspect that I will recognize it even less in the next decade or two.
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