October 4, 2007
by Volt and Electra Penn

Don't blame Eric Arthur Blair if he couldn't pinpoint the exact year for his prediction of Big Brother. It came to pass that 'on "Baghdad's bloody Sunday" a heavily armed State Department convoy, guarded by Blackwater USA, cut down dozens of Iraqis in Nisour Square without provocation.' 1984 finally arrived.

Take a page out of the novel by Blair (pen name George Orwell), and read how the protagonist, Winston, writes about a news film depicting Oceania mercenaries terminating insurgents. "...great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him, first you saw him wallowing along in the water like a porpoise, then you saw him through the helicopters gun sights, then he was full of holes and the sea round him turned pink and he sank as suddenly as though the holes had let in the water."

Written in 1949, Orwell's fictional account imitated reality on September 16th   2007,when innocent Iraqi civilians were blown away by paid mercenaries. According to UPI, 'A man, woman and child in a small white vehicle tried to flee from an armored personnel carrier, but round after round of .50 caliber bullets drilled into the vehicle and soft flesh until at last the car burst into flames. After the inferno had engulfed their vehicle the blackened bodies of the mother and child were melted together in death's embrace'.

Another excerpt taken from Winston's diary, said "...middle-aged woman with a little boy about three years old in her arms. little boy screaming with fright and hiding his head between her breasts as if he was trying to burrow right into her and the woman putting her arms round him and comforting him although she was blue with fright herself, all the time covering him up as much as possible as if she thought her arms could keep the bullets off him. Then the helicopter planted a 20 kilo bomb in among them terrific flash and the boat went all to matchwood."

Executions happen every day in Iraq, but the carnage perpetrated by Blackwater USA is done in we the people's name. 'At least four Blackwater sport utility vehicles stopped in lanes of traffic that were entering the square from the south and west. Some of the guards got out of their vehicles and took positions on the street. As though their bodies could stop the bullets, Iraqi men covered women and children. But in the ensuing bloodbath not only were the protectors mercilessly gunned down, so too were those they tried to protect'.

This is what the NeoCon's war has come to - cold-blooded murder occurring on the streets of Baghdad. There's no sense going into the particulars of how and why armed mercenaries were hired to kill innocent civilians. That topic has already been hashed and rehashed elsewhere. What's surprising is that nobody in this country really gives a damn what Blackwater USA does while hiding behind our 'we the people' name. Are the atrocities so far away the paid killers will never gore our ox? Don't bet on it.

Is this what the world expects from a nation once looked upon as a beacon of freedom? How does it feel to be scorned as dreaded pariahs? Isn't this land your land, my land, and all our land, where our liberty-loving forefathers imagined a shining utopia guided by 'we the people'? Then why have 'we the people' let America become a dystopia of oppressive social control and murder, Inc.?

Twenty-three years after Orwell's fictionalized 1984, Big Government IS watching you and me, everywhere! Camera eyes scrutinize your every move from every corner, inside, outside, and overhead from outer space. Their eyes are planted in your own hometown, in schools, in churches, stores, and bars. What could the Governmental watchdogs be looking for? Illegal aliens? Child molesters? Terrorists? All of US?

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Look pal, even if you mind your P's and Q's, your're still on profile. There's a permanent record. And guess what? Big Brother's baby sibling Neo Brother not only watches, he likes to taser first and ask questions later.

It won't be long before every TV shipped to the states from China will be bugged. Remember the big plasma telescreens hanging on the wall in Winston's claustrophobic apartment? Our 21st century TV's are computer loaded and ready to listen in. Then, while a talking head drones on about the daily pig iron report, and the ticker tape merrily rolls along at the bottom of the screen, our every snorting fart will be recorded on feedback cable to a Time Warner black box.just in case.

Why are the Corporate Overlords so interested in all our mundane chatter? Is it for the same reason that they demand our zip code, driver license number and social security number for each transaction, transgression or transmission? Hey, the free flu shots this year are a deal, probably because a chip's been included in the bargain - a hi-tech GPD floating around in your bloodstream to monitor what position your position is in.

Believe it. Orwell's time has finally caught up with us and everybody better be paying attention. Anybody sticking one toe over the government's line might wind up in George Bush's Ministry of Love - Gitmo. That's where torture is traded for information, reeducation and indoctrination. Once in, you never come out because at Gitmo the motto is: 'We're going to love you to death'.

What a coincidence. Here's more 1984's catch phrases that fit neatly into 2007 sensibilities.

War is Peace = Mission Accomplished.

Freedom is Slavery = Freedom or the Firing Squad.

Ignorance is Strength = Intelligent Design is the Truth.

We already have a Ministry of Truth called the Corporate Media of TV Hucksters, where one hand waves a Bible, while the other riles the proletariat with stories of racial bigotry, celebrity sleaze and pornographic violence. Fear and loathing pour from every corner of the speakers. Mangled bodies of our soldiers get airbrushed by an editor from Playboy, and as always, things are made palatable for the masses. For years the radio airwaves have been Limbaughed, then sold and traded to the highest Murdock.

As predicted in 1984, we also have a Ministry of Peace and it's located in one of the five points on the Pentagon's star - a Little-Putin' kind of place only Jonathan Swift or George Orwell could have imagined. As in all Little-Putin' lands, to justify their importance, the generals have ascertained that peace can only be attained through endless war, a ludicrous concept that has proved fatal for every would-be emperor looking for some new rags.

For a long time it was slicked over, but by now we know who started this never-ending war and why they did it. If not, just ask Alan Greenspan - I bet he gets it now. And it goes without saying that 'we the people' know who is paying through the nose so the generals can hang out in Little-Putin' and finalize plans to bomb Iran.

We're all mad as hell and don't want to take it anymore, but who among us is brave enough to stand up and stop the madness? Otherwise it's put up the rat-eaten synthetic tree, buy more useless Xmas junque, then we can all go caroling and sing, 'Oh, you better watch out, better not cry, better be good, I'm telling you why - Big Brother is watching You. forever!'

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Have Penn they'll listen. Volt Penn writes speeches for Progressive Populists and reasoned arguments for those on the left of center. He has also written speeches for anybody who has read his work. You can reach Volt Penn through his artist friend, b.b.kemp, at bbkemp@bbkemp.com

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