Try getting held without charges for years and see if you change your tune.
Yeah, but it’s still not Orwellian because we’re talking about it right now. No thought police are swooping in and stopping me from --
I wonder if it’s possible to get Candle Jack and the Thought Police to fi--
We were discussing the British situation. How did we suddenly jump to Guantanamo?
Because there were British detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
There is still a huge difference between “corrupt Machiavellian democracy” and “1984″. Or even between corrupt Machiavellian democracy and Nazi Germany/Stalinist Russia/whatever. We’re not even close to China.
Try getting held without charges for years and see if you change your tune.
Yeah, but it’s still not Orwellian because we’re talking about it right now. No thought police are swooping in and stopping me from --
I wonder if it’s possible to get Candle Jack and the Thought Police to fi--
We were discussing the British situation. How did we suddenly jump to Guantanamo?
Because there were British detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
There is still a huge difference between “corrupt Machiavellian democracy” and “1984″. Or even between corrupt Machiavellian democracy and Nazi Germany/Stalinist Russia/whatever. We’re not even close to China.