Violating Reality: The Left’s Orwellian Abuse of Language

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I can hardly count all of the ways that I find the left to be reprehensible. But what continues to stand for me as one of their most vile and pernicious tactics is their strategy of maligning language by reframing words and ideas. I call it violating reality.

To see many examples of this strategy, go to this google link of all the references to reframing found in the leftest cesspool Daily Kos. Below the fold (in this post) you will find numerous links on the subject that I have collected.

Unfortunately, the left isn’t the only group that deploys this strategy. The traitors in our government, in collusion with islamists, are intent on protecting terrorists by this wretched language legerdemain by attempting to introduce a “terror lexicon” that does nothing less than censor speech and protect terrorists. Not to speak of how such machinations serve to abet the “soft jihad” tactics of islamic scum like CAIR, The Muslim Brotherhood and other enemy entities infiltrating this country.

Fortunately, Congressman Peter Hoekstra has mounted an effort to abort this orwellian move.

…on May 8, 2008, Congressman Peter Hoekstra attempted to add an amendment on the “terror lexicon” to a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence bill on 2009 intelligence funding (House Resolution 5959). Hoekstra’s amendment condemned efforts by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC), and the State Department to recommend a “terror lexicon” that prohibits use of words such as “Jihad,” “jihadist,” “Islamist,” “mujahadeen,” “caliphate,” etc.

From Peter Hoekstra:

“Al Qaeda itself uses these terms to describe its fight against America, our allies, and moderate Muslims around the world. Why then would we prohibit our intelligence professionals from using the same words to accurately describe al Qaeda’s stated goals?”

“Yet that is exactly what some in Washington are attempting to do. I was dismayed to learn that over the past few months, intelligence bureaucrats at the State Department, the Nation Counter Terrorism Center, and the Department of Homeland Security have issued memos imposing speech codes on how their employees can describe al Qaeda and other radical jihadist groups. They won’t even be able to use the words these groups use themselves to describe themselves. These agencies within the intelligence community won’t be able to use those words.”

“Mr. Chairman, free speech should not be controversial, nor should candid, accurate, and fair discussion of the self-professed goals of the terrorists that attack our homeland and have sworn to kill more Americans.”
“I find it more than ironic that some who have complained the loudest about politicization in the intelligence community would oppose this simple amendment to prevent the politically correct politicization of our Nation’s intelligence community. We all know that political correctness can be the enemy of clarity.”

“We also know that radical jihadists have made repeated efforts to stifle free speech in the West, including the murder of Dutch film maker, Theo van Gogh, and frequent death threats against authors, cartoonists, and journalists.”

“Let’s not give the radical jihadists a victory here by imposing a speech code on America’s intelligence community.”

“How will America understand the nature and the character of our enemy if we can’t use the words that they use to describe themselves and we need to come up with a whole new language that is totally out of context with the enemy and the nature of the threat that we face today?”

Though Hoeskstra initial amendment failed, a July 16th vote passed it by a margin of 249-180 (with 10 abstentions). Please click the link to this full article to get the list of the 180 dhimmis and cowards that voted against it. It is dismaying to see how thoroughly compromised this government is.

Whether or not this amendment to H.R. 5959 ultimately is part of an approved bill signed by President Bush, the greatest value of this amendment is that it gets most congressional representatives on the record on their position regarding the efforts of groups to remove any suggestion of Islamic supremacism or Jihad when it comes to “terrorism.” (Source)

See more links to reframing and other Orwellian horrors below. It’s an art form that the mainstream media has perfected.

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• Islamic doctrine in action in Middle East | Northeast Intelligence Network

  
  

• Luntz, Maslansky Strategic Research

  The most prolific proponent of this evil-genius-to-be-copied view of Mr. Luntz is George Lakoff, a Berkeley professor of cognitive science and linguistics. In his 2004 volume, “Don’t Think of an Elephant,” Mr. Lakoff holds up Mr. Luntz as “the right’s language man.” Mr. Lakoff has made a name for himself by telling liberals that all they have to do is, in Luntz-like fashion, find the right words–the right “frame,” in his lexicon–and the public will tag along. This profoundly undemocratic view has won Mr. Lakoff a considerable following among Democratic Party leaders. Blurb contributors to “Don’t Think of an Elephant” include Howard Dean, George Soros and Robert Reich. If they want to consolidate their recent victories, Mr. Luntz’s admirers on the left would do well to see in him the doer behind the cynic and self-marketer. Like focus groups and polling, dial testing is simply a way of listening. And leaders listening are part of responsive government. That’s when words work best. Mr. Judge, a former special assistant to President Reagan, is head of the White House Writers Group in Washington. “Words That Work” is available for sale at the OpinionJournal Bookstore

  
  

  • This profoundly undemocratic view has won Mr. Lakoff a considerable following among Democratic Party leaders. Blurb contributors to “Don’t Think of an Elephant” include Howard Dean, George Soros and Robert Reich.

• Jihad Watch: Hirabah-Not-Jihad push part of Muslim Brotherhood “strategic disinformation and denial and deception campaign”

  Both Hugh Fitzgerald and I have discussed the (generally successful) efforts by a Washington lobbyist named Jim Guirard to stop military and government officials from using the word “jihad” for the…global jihad. Their contention is that Islam is a religion of peace, that the jihadists’ use of the language of jihad is illegitimate on Islamic grounds, and that Americans and other non-Muslims can help delegitimize the jihadists by employing other Arabic terms for them and their activities — terms which brand them criminals.

  
  

• Beyond 20th Century Professional Powering over People – KnowledgeBoard

  
  

  • who ever writes this shit needs to have their balls stuffed down their throat – god damn freaks
    

  • Brands were one of the most common intangible vehicles navigated into murky waters so that a few vested interests could perpetuate their process models. It is now depressingly evident that many of the powerful ways of performing late 20th century branding, have turned vicious: against customers, employees and pensioner investors. The global forms of these costly brands are also a major cause of conflicts between local cultures around the world.

    However, the newly discovered mathematics of transparency mapping[i] means that managers, economists, policy makers and opinion leaders of organisational systems can now design and steward brands which respect living system dynamics. Win-win is a natural human construct which means that when you make different promises to two or more groups of people, you are doing so knowing how to keep all of those promises because they are mutually reinforcing. Today we can – and must – conceive promotions and deploy media that go well beyond mere image-making lifestyles to represent Total Brand Corporate Responsibility[ii] models of leadership which purposefully focus on reality-making. Will Beyond Branders be in time to reverse the decay of trust between local cultures around the world? Can we promote win-win relationship exchanges between people in ways that connect human inspiration and network greater value? I am reminded everyday of the urgency of this by my father’s chilling 1984 prediction written from his editorial desk at The Economist: by 2005 the gap in incomes and expectations between rich and poor nations was recognised as man’s most dangerous problem. Other system experts have called this mankind’s final examination.

• Bush Administration Gives New Terminology to Terrorism

  
  

• The Tears of Things: More Newspeak From Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser

  
  

  • Jasser and his outfit are listed as possible 910 allies. However, i agree with this writer’s assessment of him
    
  • American democracy is not only compatible with Islam, they are nearly identical, according to this man
  • First: The new Pope is supposed to be a very smart man, but the passages in bold are stupid and wrong. Since when is Islam monogamous? And since when is it dignified for a woman to become a victim of the most horrible crime, which I will not call by its common disgusting designation but will name it what it is: sororicide –murdering female relatives. Some dignity. (And don’t hand me the old saw about cultural, not Islamic. That’s bullshit. These murders are Islamic through and through.) And from the first day someone begins praying five times a day in a single direction, or reciting words they don’t understand, Muslims begin to manipulate human life; they would nitpick your moments down to the subatomic if they could.
  • But Jasser amps it up as if it means something. He, too, knows damn well that millions of Muslim women suffer under polygamy and worse, even in the West, even in the USA. He, too, knows damn well that the absolute rulers all across the Middle Eastern Muslim world revel in a depth of moral decadence that would have the Borgias green with envy. (Camel jockeys, mutigenerational pedophilia, extortion, dhimmitude, slavery, and I’m leaving a lot out.)
  • In the meantime, I remind Dr. Jasser that words have commonly accepted meanings. Don’t try to jam disparate concepts like Islam and democracy together. You have written about the dangers of mixing politics and religion, but again you know damn well that in Islam they are inextricably intermixed, and the policy is to make the world Islam. Muslims need to make clear statements about giving up notions of conquest and about the need for an Islamic Enlightenment, in which Muslims question everything. The rest is either hand-waving or, worse, taqiyya.
  • That’s right, folks. You’ll be looking at the priest’s back as he drones on in the ancient tongue. That’s progress, back to the future that was the past. That’s when the women were required to attend Mass veiled as well, remember? And why wouldn’t that practice be ressurrected as well? Thus the priest can smile with his Muslim brother, contentedly looking down upon the muffled women.

• Gates of Vienna: The Rise of Glossocracy

  
  

  • isembowelling oneself to keep someone else happy is so foreign to the European mind that we have to borrow a Japanese word to accurately describe a current European trend
  • hereas the Soviet Union was, in the words of Ronald Reagan, the Evil Empire, perhaps the European Union will be remembered as the Glossocratic Empire, probably the first empire in human history built primarily through the ability to manipulate words. This was achieved by downplaying crucial information and drowning the public in irrelevant information, and by boring people into bureaucratic submission.
  • If you implement your agenda gradually over many years and refrain from openly stating your end goals, you can get away with quite a lot.
  • If language is used to assault Western culture, regaining control over it should constitute our first line of defense. We have a right to resist those who advocate our nation’s self-termination. A policy which deprives us of self-determination and maybe our children of self-preservation is evil, and we have not just a right, but a duty to oppose it, even if it is championed by our own government; in fact, especially then. It is unacceptable that those who put the survival of our countries at risk are allowed to claim a monopoly on goodness.
  • One must give Muslims credit for inventing the term Islamophobia, thus demonstrating that they understand the workings of Western glossocracy better than many Westerners do themselves. While nobody had heard of Islamophobia a mere decade ago, it is now the subject of international conferences and is quite literally treated as a threat to world peace.
  • The real reason behind this passivity is not just that Westerners have been disarmed physically, but more importantly that we have been disarmed culturally, verbally and morally. Cornered linguistically, deprived of words to formulate what we fight for and against and cut off from our historical roots, Westerners have become easy prey for our enemies.
  • “The most effective way of making people accept the validity of the values they are to serve is to persuade them that they are really the same as those which they, or at least the best among them, have always held, but which were not properly understood or recognised before. (…) The most efficient technique to this end is to use the old words but change their meaning. Few traits of totalitarian regimes are at the same time so confusing to the superficial observer and yet so characteristic of the whole intellectual climate as the complete perversion of language, the change of the meaning of words by which he ideals of the new regimes are expressed. (…) Gradually, as this process continues, the whole language becomes despoiled, words become empty shells deprived of any definite meaning, as capable of denoting one thing as its opposite and used solely for the emotional associations which still adhere to them.”
  • According to Huntford, the word “freedom” was almost entirely confined to the sexual field in Sweden:

    “The Swedish government has taken what it is pleased to call ‘the sexual revolution’ under its wing. Children are impressed at school that sexual emancipation is their birthright, and this is done in such a way as to suggest that the State is offering them their liberty from old-fashioned restrictions.”

    He describes a meeting with Dr Gösta Rodhe, the head of the department of sexual education in the Directorate of Schools. She stated: “You see, since there’s a lack of tension in Swedish politics, younger people have got to find release and excitement in sexual tension instead.”

  • The substitution of one word for the other had been accompanied by insistent propaganda in the mass media, so that it was as if a resolute conditioning campaign had been carried out. Very few were able to recognize the indoctrination in the linguistic manipulation; in the real sense of the word, the population had been brain-washed.”
  • Like the Russian intelligentsia of yesteryear, the glossocratic intelligentsia of today’s West is busily uprooting the last remaining vestiges of Westernness. The press is one gardening implement they use; education is another.

• Tattered Cover Book Store

  
  

• George Orwell: Politics and the English Language

  
  

• Gates of Vienna: War is Peace

  
  

  • Thus fact and truth are central to morality within Christianity.
  • It subordinates truth and falsehood to political considerations, and is thus much more fundamentalistic in its mindset than even fundamentalist Christianity,
  • Since truth and falsehood are not part of the value system it is impossible to disprove PC under the PC system. It’s also impossible to prove it. That’s where the perverted faith of PC comes into play.
  • By adding massive amounts of bureaucratic regulation to the structure of society, the PC regime effectively ends the rule of law. When laws proliferate as they have in recent decades, virtually everyone is a lawbreaker. Enforcement becomes capricious, allowing the State to exert legal pressure against those elements which are most threatening to its hegemony.
  • Selective enforcement of the rules means that there are no rules.
  • The silly euphemisms, apparently harmless, but forever dripping to wear away common sense — the naïveté of the phrase “a caring force for the future” on Remembrance poppy trays, which suggests that the army is some kind of peace corps, when in fact its true function is killing.
  • The continual attempt to soften and sanitise the harsh realities of life in the name of liberalism, in an effort to suppress truths unwelcome to the PC mind; the social engineering which plays down Christianity, demanding equal status for alien religions.
  • selective distortions of history, so beloved by New Labour, denigrating Britain’s past with such propaganda as hopelessly unbalanced accounts of the slave trade, laying all the blame on the white races, but carefully censoring the truth that not a slave could have come out of Africa without the active assistance of black slavers, and that the trade was only finally suppressed by the Royal Navy virtually single-handed.

• American Thinker: How We Will Lose Our Freedom of Speech

  
  

• ChronWatch Reader Forum :: View topic – Media Bias studies/artices-approx 700 sources (to be posted)

  
  

• Counterterrorism Blog: U.S. Congressional Representatives’ Stance on Jihad and the War of Ideas

  
  

• DIVERSITY WATCH – Ryerson University School of Journalism

  
  

  • utter morons who should simply be shot
    

• The Reference Frame: Doris Lessing on political correctness

  
  

  • Those of us who have lived through communism can surely recognize a few clichés such as the “interpenetration of opposites”, a universal principle of Marxist dialectics. Lessing argues that many Western journalists have been writing in a purely Marxist style without realizing it. Needless to say, many more journalists and sociologists are doing so today.

    Another part of the communist or politically correct writing is that the journalists assume that every writer (or everyone) should be doing the same thing – when they ask “What should writers do…?” A popular universal cliché from the Marxist discourse is “commitment” and its newer variation, “raising consciousness”. Lessing uses exactly these words. It just happens that the IPCC and Al Gore have received a Nobel prize for “raising consciousness” yesterday. Only Lessing and a small percentage of enlightened readers of the New York Times realize that these are Marxist mind-deadening, propagandist pseudoideas.

    Al Gore should get a proper thrashing rather than an award for these methods.

• Rushdie: Freedom of Expression

  
  

• News Bias Explored

  
  

• site:www.dailykos.com reframe – Google Search

  
  

9 Responses to “Violating Reality: The Left’s Orwellian Abuse of Language”

1. Ligneus says:

   July 26, 2008 at 11:28 pm

   I’ve heard tell that Stalin slept well.
   No. Happiness or otherwise
   Shows no sign of Heaven or Hell,
   Nor what craft lurks behind the eyes.

   Or, more succinctly, WTF?
2. Ligneus says:

   July 26, 2008 at 11:58 pm

   Well my comment was in response to another comment that has disappeared, in case anyone thinks it’s in response to the post! Something about not believing a man’s unhappiness, ask him if he can sleep, if yes then all’s well. Like I said, WTF?
3. Congress Check says:

   July 27, 2008 at 9:17 am

   Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.GeorgeBernardShawGeorge Bernard Shaw
4. Ligneus says:

   July 27, 2008 at 9:27 am

   GBS is so ’90′s. [As in 1890's.]
5. zee says:

   July 27, 2008 at 11:35 am

   Hi Lig…all these comments showing up from “congress check” are spam. I have been deleting them as I find them – so that is why the one you commented on disappeared.

   Sorry…
6. Ligneus says:

   July 27, 2008 at 11:57 am

   Aha! I wondered about that, though when you go to Congress Check it looks like a legit site, didn’t bother to check it out properly.
   I won’t waste any more time on them.
7. Congress Check says:

   July 27, 2008 at 8:41 pm

   [Dictators] lose any sense of balance as they pursue their obsessive ambitions into a world of unreality.BenitoMussoliniBenito Mussolini
8. Ligneus says:

   July 27, 2008 at 9:03 pm

   Well if it’s spam, at least it’s somewhat interesting spam!
9. karl marx says:

   August 8, 2008 at 1:52 am

   Orwellophile – Someone who is fascinated by the vision of George Orwell’s dystopia.

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