Learning to love Big Brother: George W. Bush channels George Orwell

[Steve Schear]

[Might be funnier if it weren't so true...]

Learning to love Big Brother
George W. Bush channels George Orwell
Daniel Kurtzman
Sunday, July 28, 2002
)2002 San Francisco Chronicle.
URL: 
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2002/07/28/IN244190.DTL

Here's a question for constitutional scholars: Can a sitting president be 
charged with plagiarism?
As President Bush wages his war against terrorism and moves to create a 
huge homeland security apparatus, he appears to be borrowing heavily, if 
not ripping off ideas outright, from George Orwell. The work in question is 
"1984, " the prophetic novel about a government that controls the masses by 
spreading propaganda, cracking down on subversive thought and altering 
history to suit its needs. It was intended to be read as a warning about 
the evils of totalitarianism -- not a how-to manual.