My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

'We didn't ought to 'ave trusted 'em. I said so, Ma, didn't I? That's what comes of trusting 'em. I said so all along. We didn't ought to 'ave trusted the buggers.

But which buggers they didn't ought to have trusted Winston could not now remember.

Since about that time, war had been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. For several months during his childhood there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some of which he remembered vividly. But to trace out the history of the whole period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been utterly impossible, since no written record, and no spoken word, ever made mention of any other alignment than the existing one. At this moment, for example, in 1984 (if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

It's all smoke and mirrors...smoke and mirrors. Again I am reminded of the book/movie 1984. Euroasia? Oceania? Who are we at war with again? Whomever our government tells us we're at war with and if we don't like it we will be punished.

How convenient of the government to find an imminent terror threat that has to have all of these laws changed so we can stop this said threat because our current laws don't allow for it. What a poor excuse - the last time I was doing law - killing, bombing, plotting destruction and/or demise of another was against the law. Of course we have a damn law that let's us stop a possible terrorist attack - hell even talking to a known criminal is against the law under the current laws so why in the hell would blowing up half of a city need a new law passed to stop it?