Freedoms Curtailed In Defense Of Liberty
Declan McCullagh
declan at well.com
Thu Oct 11 08:12:59 PDT 2001
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
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