On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 10:00:14AM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:

The scary thing, or course, is that this is so close to current government rhetoric that intelligent, observent people have to look twice realize that (for the moment) it's satire.

Life is starting to imitate art. Too bad the artist is Orwell.

In that particular story, art is not imitating life, but quoting from it. The Onion story: http://www.theonion.com/onion3736/freedoms_curtailed.html "all Americans -- not just outspoken talk-show hosts like Bill Maher -- must watch what they say" The WH spokesman's real quote: "There are reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do, and this is not a time for remarks like that; there never is." -Declan