can anyone name some good 1984 present day parallels about big brother, totalitarianism, the thought police and all that? anything you can think of now that resembles anything in 1984
2007-03-05 03:22:55 · 2 answers · asked by confuzeduh_kid 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Ernst Zundel was deported from Canada to Germany. He was then tried, convicted and sentenced to 5-years in prison for thought crimes.
Author David Irving was tried and convicted in Austria for thought crimes. He has since been released.
Neither man has committed or advocated violence against anyone or group.
2007-03-05 03:29:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow, where to start with this one..... there are so many it is tough to know where to begin.
Start at the American Civil Liberties Union, Safe and Free Campaign. Numerous examples of civil liberties violations.
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/index.html
Bush/Cheney 1984 website:
http://www.geocities.com/bushcheney1984/why.html
Good editorial on permanent war:
http://www.rense.com/general15/happy.htm
Another editorial on parallels between Bush and BB:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/07/28/IN244190.DTL
Comparing the telephone spying program to 1984:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1963023,00.asp?kc=EWNKT0209KTX1K0100440
Farenheit 9/11 contains many excellent examples. And at the end, Michael Moore actually quotes from 1984.
http://www.fahrenheit911.com/
Just for the record: Ernst Zundel and David Irving are Holocaust Deniers.
http://www.adl.org/learn/Ext_US/zundel.asp?xpicked=2&item=zundel
2007-03-05 11:35:33 · answer #2 · answered by parrotjohn2001 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋