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A blog loosely associated with
The Arkansas Times

by Gerard Matthews
Sun Mar 29
Political speech is largely the defence of the indefensible… Villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification… Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them. George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”