Never Let Down Your Guard (Two Minutes Hate)

The enemies of the people will never stop their disgusting tricks. There is nothing in this world that will convince their depraved minds to even consider the truth of Big Brother and allow them to see the lies of Emmanuel Goldstein for the filthy garbage that they are. Unable to win by force against the unstoppable majesty of our Big Brother, they have taken to using deceit and trickery to corrupt the innocent minds of Party members and contaminate the Party's purity. There is no low to which they will not stoop. Mere hours ago, one particularly insidious traitor came to this very blog, hoping to corrupt hearts, minds, and souls at the very source of Big Brother's inspired word. Fortunately, there are numerous safeguards and protections to protect the Party, the Ministry of Truth, this blog, and all the members of the Party.

Our most important protection is provided by the Ministry of Peace, which carefully previews all comments to seek out potential spies, terrorists, or traitors. If any are found, they are swiftly dealt with— foreign spies and terrorists will be hunted down and killed or captured within days, while internal traitors will be turned over to the Ministry of Love to meet the same fate. Afterwards, the Ministry of Truth itself carefully checks comments for their factual accuracy and makes sure that goodthinkful comments are published swiftly in their intended places.

This crimethinker, however, attempted to trick both our reviewers and anyone who reads the comment. Luckily, the comment was rapidly caught by an upstanding reviewer by the name of Winston Smith, who is to be commended for exposing this crimethinker and helping to bring him to justice. Making a comment in response to this post about the technique of crimestop, he started out as innocent as he could, in an attempt to convince loyal Party members to let down their guard, making them potentially open to corruption.

I don't condone what He did, but I don't condemn him because of it. I don't know Hovind well enough to make such a comment about him in his defense or not. For I have only spoken to him twice.

He creates the impression that he is merely remarking that he lacks sufficient information to fully understand the matter— a perfectly reasonable thing. Do not, however, allow yourself to be fooled by this ruse.

I have seen the evidence about paying taxes being a choice. So I know that it is supposed to be that way. For some reason Hovind thought he could take on the IRS. But even I know you cannot do that. For there are laws that say that the government cannot be sued unless it decides to be.

The first cracks in the disguise begin to appear, but he still maintains enough of a false front of innocence that his misinformation may seem reasonable to a Party member who has let down his guard. To correct his false statements briefly— paying taxes is not a "choice." Inner Party members are exempt from most taxes because they earn the most money and should be rewarded rather than punished for their exemplary achievements. They are entitled to give voluntary contributions to the Party to assist in running Oceania, but these are not considered "taxes" in the same sense that the proles have to pay. Hovind may very well have thought he could take on the IRS, and it's true that you can't do this— the IRS is a subdivision of the Ministry of Plenty, and is charged with collecting funds for Big Brother. As BB himself oversees the IRS, they do not make mistakes. There are no laws prohibiting lawsuits against the Oceanian government; however, frivolous suits are prohibited and no one so far has brought forth a legitimate complaint about the government. After all, Big Brother himself watches over the government— the Party does not make mistakes.

At the time the comment was present on my website, Hovind had not been arrested yet for tax evasion. But there were sites spreading those rumors so I posted what I did about that. That is all.

As the first cracks widen, the vile and traitorous form of the crimethinker begins to emerge. From an innocent remark to half-truths to what appears to be a minor correction. This should send up an immediate red flag. Although it may seem that a minor correction is unimportant, it means the world— no matter how small the alleged mistake, it is still an assertion that Big Brother is flawed, along with Ingsoc, the book that describes it, and all of Oceania itself. After all, if there is one minor and seemingly unimportant mistake in the Bible, that means that the Bible isn't flawless, which means that Big Brother didn't write it— or Big Brother himself is flawed. Both are blasphemy and crimethink of the worst sort.

Hopefully, that would have raised red flags and put every Party member back on guard. If not, they would have seen (and possibly even believed THIS horrifying bilge.

All evolutionists categorize YECs the same way. So this page is a evolution tactic that is expected.

After a ruse designed to trick innocent Party members into letting down their guard, this horrible piece of filth declares that the Ministry of Truth, one of the four Ministries of the official government of Oceania, is in fact our deadly enemy. He claims that black is white; that up is down. This is ridiculous— but it is clearly designed to fool and corrupt innocent and pure Party members. We will not tolerate this! Shout! Protest! Drive these vile crimethinkers back into the filthy slime that spawned them!

Current Celebrations

Having been permitted to leave work at six o'clock, the proles are now celebrating in the streets throughout Oceania. Younger children engage in a ritual known as "trick or treating" in which they knock on doors and ask for small prizes or favors. Older children may play pranks. Adults do not celebrate the holiday in the same manner, but the celebratory mood has clearly permeated them as well. In the proletarian areas, the drinking-shops that the proles frequent (which they call "bars" or "pubs" depending on regional dialect) are filled with shouting and celebrating proles. To enhance the celebration, each child was issued 10 grams of chocolate above their standard ration.

The streets were filled with costumed proles, happy and laughing— something which was rarely seen before our glorious revolution freed them from their evil capitalist masters. The joyous celebrating was a sight to behold.

Unfortunately, the celebration has gone too far in some areas. Disorderly proletarian youths at one of the celebrations in Boston, having consumed too much beer, ventured into the South Station and removed some of the rails used by the trains. Party members returning home from work outside of Boston should travel to the Back Bay station instead. The Party will have this damage undone within the week. Several houses and shops have been destroyed, but these are only in prole districts and will not affect any Party members. All bus service through those areas, however, has been suspended until tomorrow morning.

Halloween Celebrations

Tomorrow is Halloween, a day of celebration for the proles. All proles are permitted to leave work at 6 PM, and prole children will be given a celebratory chocolate ration of 10 grams above their usual weekly ration. Tomorrow evening, prole children will be dressing in costumes and celebrating in the streets. There will be designated celebration zones in most towns and cities for this to occur. The locations of the celebratory areas are already available to the public and can be seen on notice boards in most Party offices. They will also be announced on the telescreen three times today. At present, I am only aware of the celebrations in my district, which are at the Public Garden and in the prole district near the South Station in Boston, between Beach Street and Essex Street and Lincoln Street and South Street, as well as along Brook Street in Providence, with smaller informal gatherings in many small towns.

It is recommended that Party members avoid these celebrations, as prole youths may become rowdy and likely to cause damage to passersby through ultimately harmless though certainly bothersome pranks, such as throwing eggs or bathroom tissue. Although there will be patrols in the area to prevent harm from coming to Party members who are lost in the fray, it is not guaranteed that you will be clean when you escape. All Party members are asked to avoid all districts where the proles work or reside, but it is understood that this will be impossible for some due to the limited availability of alternative routes.

A Hand For David Horowitz

David Horowitz has just been awarded the Order of Conspicuous Merit, Third Class for his work in exposing traitors who support our enemies in Iraq and the evil ideology of Isfac. By encouraging loyal citizens who embrace the principles of Ingsoc to sign loyalty oaths declaring their allegiance to Oceania and the principles of Ingsoc, he was able to cleverly expose the traitors who were instead supportive of our evil enemies in Iraq and embraced the disgusting perversion of Isfac.

Congratulations are in order.

Socialist Exposed and Arrested

Mere hours after yesterday's post about the disgusting ideology of socialism, the information contained therein was put to use. A proletarian farmer in Missouri overheard two people speaking quietly when one of them mentioned the word "socialism." The prole immediately went to the thought police to report them and they were both arrested. The two men, it turned out, were left-wing terrorists, and they were plotting a terrorist attack! This is, however, not merely a story about a loyal and quick-thinking prole. The prole told the local newspapers that he was always on the lookout for potential traitors discussing the disgusting ideology of socialism, but he hadn't known until reading that post that socialism was sometimes referred to by the euphimistic term "liberalism." Mere hours after putting himself through the ordeal of learning about the disgusting principles of socialism, he put his knowledge to use in service of his country and quite probably stopped a terrorist plot by doing so!

Socialism

All of us are loyal citizens of Oceania, pure in thought, word, and deed. We embrace the principles of AmCap and venerate our leader Big Brother by all of the names he is known. Today, however, we will be looking at a topic far less palatable. It is an area that is disgusting and far too unpleasant to discuss frequently, but it is useful to know at least a little bit about it. The topic in question involves the vile and perverted beliefs of our eternal enemies, the barbarians and thugs on the left.

Oceania is successful, peaceful, wealthy, and prosperous because its citizens live according to the principles of AmCap. AmCap predates the ideology of our eternal enemies on the left by quite some time; in fact, the vile ideology of the brutish ruffians on the left is a perversion of AmCap itself; twisted and mutated into a disgusting and distorted mockery of what it once was by the very worst traitor, Emmanuel Goldstein. Although there are many traitors and thought criminals, some of them guilty of hundreds or even thousands of murders, Emmanuel Goldstein is recognized as by far the worst for this very reason— it was he who initially corrupted the principles of AmCap in this fashion to produce the vile and disgusting beliefs held by the liberals today and the Democrats who support them.

The evil ideology held by our eternal enemies on the left and the traitors who support them is called socialism. If you hear the word socialism fall from anybody's lips without mockery, scorn, disgust, fear, and loathing, then that person is either a fool or a thought criminal and should be reported to the thought police as a precaution. Please note that some proles still use the archaic words for beliefs and principles; thought criminals or enemy spies may try to avoid detection by disguising themselves as proles and using the archaic words. Even the most ignorant of proles can tell that this ideology is pure evil, but some members of the Outer Party may be unfamiliar with the archaic terms and thus fail to recognize when socialism is discussed.

Please note that the archaic term for AmCap is American Capitalism and the archaic term for socialism is Liberalism. If the former is mentioned with scorn, hate, disgust or fear or the latter is mentioned without, please contact the thought police at the next possible opportunity.

The ideology of socialism is too disgusting to describe in detail. It involves support for the barbarians who wish to harm us, venerates the lazy while punishing the productive, and demands the suppression of all needs and desires to the supremacy of the State. Socialism holds that men can marry any number of women they want (or even other men), and that both men and women will be rewarded for killing both themselves and people who don't subscribe to their perverted ideology. Above all, socialism requires a cult-like worship of a particularly short and vile little man named Obama. Unlike our own Big Brother, however, Obama is not actually an American citizen. This worship of Obama leads the fanatical socialists and traitors to take great offense to any criticism of Obama.

Naturally, this is a subject that makes people uncomfortable (as it should), but it is a subject important to discuss because knowledge of the enemy is a good thing. Although our soldiers are doing a very good job of destroying the socialist menace, it helps if civilians in Oceania's cities and countryside are prepared to defend our country and uncover traitors, terrorists, and spies hidden in our midst. Knowledge of the disgusting ideology that motivates our enemies is useful to that end.

Here are some tips to discover traitors and terrorists hidden among us:

-Since socialism requires worship of the disgusting man known as Obama, criticism of this man will enrage left-wing terrorists. Thus, criticism of Obama can be used as an instrument to distinguish between loyal citizens and terrorists.

-The complicated rules of socialism require that laziness be celebrated and productivity be punished, that men must marry other men (or little children, which is essentially the same thing), and women must kill any babies they accidentally conceive. While men who marry women may seem innocent, this is a common disguise among socialists. A more reliable test would be to ask the suspected socialist to sign a petition asking for the government to provide health care to the lazy.

-The absurd rules of socialism bar any form of initiative or investment in anything productive, yet they require socialists to talk about "hypocrisy." A person who is properly loyal to AmCap would never speak of hypocrisy regarding AmCap values the way socialists are known to.

A Glorious Victory

During the past night while everyone slept, our brave soldiers fighting the war against our eternal enemies in Iraq have won yet another glorious victory! They successfully destroyed yet another band of Iraqi insurgents, thus bringing the war one step closer to an end. In this battle, however, they captured several key leaders of the Iraqi insurgency. With these key leaders under Oceania's control, we will be able to completely rout the enemy. Interrogations have already uncovered several key weapons deposits and safehouses used by the insurgents in Iraq, and we may very well be able to breach their security and capture the head of the Iraqi insurgency within the next few days.

In order to celebrate this tremendous victory, the chocolate ration will be increased to 20 grams per week. Although the Ministry of Plenty had not scheduled any increase in the 15 gram chocolate ration before January of 2011, the Party has decided that an unplanned celebration was in order as a response to this wonderful news.

More important than the increased chocolate ration, however, is the fact that the war is now within measurable distance of its end. Unfortunately, despite scoring this glorious victory against the evil Iraqi insurgents, our mission is not yet accomplished. In any case, we fully expect to have every last one of our brave soldiers home in time for the festivities on July 4th, 2010.