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[Rick Welykochy]

Brendan Scott wrote:

> The problem with the theft wording is it is deliberately political and deliberately anti-factual in an attempt to justify a particular ideological position. 

I suspect it is even more sinister than that.

It is a conscious effort by those with vested interested, i.e.
big corps and their puppet governments, at what Orwell described
as newspeak. Change the language and you change how people
think.

Restrict the terms of discourse and the issues become childlike
and simple to handle.

Some examples come from the far right in neo-con land:

"tax relief" as if paying taxes was some sort of burden
that requires a saviour;

"climate change" as if the direction of the change could
be either cooler or warmer;

"mutual obligation" as if the government is already
keeping its part of the bargain;

"core promises" as if the elected government can cherry
pick its mandate according to whatever it fancies today;
[this one made it into wikipedia with full credit to LJH]

To quote from http://www.citizinemag.com/culture/culture-0507_raffellis.htm ...

    War is for peace, deadly missiles are peacemakers, aggression
    is preemption of aggression, invasion is defense, terrorism is
    fighting terrorism, and goose-stepping agreement is patriotism.
    And soon to enter your consciousness, if not already there:
    dictatorship is democracy. If you dare publicly dissent to any of
    this, why, as everyone knows, you are an unpatriotic, yellow,
    commie, terrorist-consorting, pinko radical who should go live
    in some other repressive country.

To end:

"piracy" as if there was a victim who is plundered and left for dead,
bereft of all worldly possessions.


cheers
rickw



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