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bipolarber -> When was it...? (9/3/2008 8:07:43 PM)
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It's been raining here all day. The remnants of hurrican Gustav, sweeping over the state, like a huge washing machine. I've been stuck at home, with some bug, and I've been watching the coverage of the GOP convention most of the afternoon. I didn't watch the actual speeches so far tonight, since I've been feeling wrung out.
But, I've had the day to think... When was it, do you suppose, that they began to change the language on us? Words are our primary means of communication, to extend meaning to others... yet, over the last eight years, those words began to change:
When did kidnapping become "extraordianry rendition"?
When did coverups become "redaction?"
When did spying become "domestic surveilance?"
When did torture become "enhanced interrogation techniques?"
Among so many, many other bits of Orwellian doublespeak. Did it happen before 9-11, or was it a little after that? Was it after they began to lie to us about where the anthrax was coming from? Or the lie about yellowcake from Nigeria? Or when they swore to us there were WMD in the middle of a country that we had left in smouldering ruins ...just 10 years before?
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