"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory
beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."--George
Orwell, author of the novel ‘1984’
We have our neoConservatives being outraged to the level of
corruption of the Liberal’s government as the auditor general Sheila
Fraser has been disclosing the $100 million scandal of federal
sponsorship program.
Tony Clement, Ontario former health minister and leader candidate
for the neoConservatives, has been accusing Prime Minister Paul
Martin of being either implicated in the scandal or incompetent as
"Paul Martin was the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of this
terrible and crooked enterprise."
Our newspeak politicians are reducing our language to the new
reductionist jargon of the few and privileged, our government is now
an enterprise and its head is the CEO.
Privatisation and the economic gospel of looking after ‘number
one’ are the root problems of political corruption and our Canadian
situation is no different from today’s political corruption in the
United States or France.
The Bush administration is using the terrorist traffic lights to
scare Americans and convert governmental policies to the
reductionist gospels that the war against Iraq brings peace and that
tax cuts bring prosperity. But the war against Iraq has brought more
violent terrorism and more business corruption, and the tax cuts
have brought bigger deficits and less jobs. In France, we have the
conviction of President Jacques Chirac's friends for money
laundering and corruption.
Referring to the home front of Saskatchewan we fair very poorly.
Saskatchewan politicians follow into the footsteps of their
brotherly Saskatchewan prosecutors since the wrongful conviction of
David Milgaard in the late 60ies. Today, the Government of
Saskatchewan apologises in private to the Klassen family for their
malicious prosecution, and yet the government doesn’t want to accept
the consequential liability.
I wonder how to label Calvert’s government as it is the
representation of a socialist party speaking the new language of
Newspeak and preaching the new gospel of Doublethink.
References
Pertinent articles published in Ensign
Orwell, George, The Principles of Newspeak ‘Newspeak was the
official language of Oceania, and had been devised to meet the
ideological needs of Ingsoc, or English Socialism.’ 1948, http://sami.is.free.fr/Oeuvres/orwell_1984_newspeak.html
Galloway, Gloria Clement clips Martin (PDF)
February 16, 2004 The Globe and Mail, http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040216.wclem0216/BNStory/Front/
Associated Press French politicians convicted in money-laundering
(PDF) February 16,
2004 The Globe and Mail, http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040216.wfran0216/BNStory/International
Steele, Sheila Richard Klassen postpones his family's occupation
of the legislature for one week: It is Day 49 since Judge Baynton
released his findings of malice February 16, 2004 Injusticebusters,
http://www.injusticebusters.com |