Word: orwellianisms
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Many conservatives want to decrease crime by increasing the size of police forces, bolstering police resources, and giving police greater legal license to enforce the law. They seek to increase the police's ability to protect the right of citizens. However, a police force which would have near. Orwellian power over individuals in the community. A government controlled police state would preserve freedom at the cost of freedom. Such a prospectus perhaps funk, but it is not satisfactory...
Ross Perot returned to the airwaves Sunday night, continuing his endless presidential campaign and spreading his egomaniacal brand of Orwellian doublespeak. What makes Perot even more frightening than Big Brother, though, is that when Boss Ross describes his demagogic and self promoting propaganda as "democracy," the crowd goes wild...
...take the place of balanced scholarship as a required academic credential. For CCR, which claims to champion civil rights, to endorse her candidacy reflects utter hypocrisy. No civil right is more important than free speech, and few are more precious than the equal protection of the law. Only Orwellian doublespeak can justify granting a bigoted censor tenure under the guise of promoting civil rights. Who will CCR support for tenure next? Leonard Jeffries? Hans Bader Second-Year Law Student
...This Orwellian logic makes sense to Peggy Tishman, one of many New York Jewish leaders willing to sacrifice truth for the greater good. As she told The New Republic: "There are a lot of truths that are very necessary. This is not a truth that's necessary...
...ends stated by Schaefer and other concerned officials are indisputably desirable; a smaller underclass, which means less suffering in general and less burden to the state. But using Norplant as a means of social control is at the least questionable and at most conjures up a nightmarish Orwellian scenario...