So LINK TV is doing another fundraiser and that means they show their most proactive and interesting documentaries. Right now I'm watching Walking the Line. You have to laugh to keep yourself from crying. A group of guys with too much time on their hands decided to form a citizen's militia to fight illegal immigration on the Mexican border. It's just nuts! One of these guys described America like this:
Okay, America is a only so small. The rest of the world beats their women. Rapes their women and pedophilia is the norm. America is absolutely perfect. When is this going to end?
So, he doesn't watch the news, I imagine. Statistics don't bother him, either. I remember some time before Hurricane Katrina, the police discovered a church in Louisiana that was forcing children to have sex with the adult church members and animals. I kid you not. There were 500 counts of bestiality, child pornography and every other sick thing imaginable. Alhamdulillah, it wasn't Muslims because that would have been on every piece of published paper in the US, Canada and Europe. "Experts" would scan the Qur'an for justification of such a horrible act. But since it's not Muslims, the story gets buried in the back of the paper. Mr. Boarder Control doesn't take these things into account.
They (the militia) would like for us, the viewers, to think their mission is noble but its hard to think that when they call people wetbacks. One guy stated that the Mexican government has launched La Reconquista, an attempt to take back all the lands that have previously belonged to Mexico. The illegal immigrants are doing this by slow illegal immigration. Okay, man, whatever. I know the immigration debate is controversial but vigilantism can't be the answer.
But watching all these documentaries, especially George Orwell Rolls in His Grave, caused me to finally read George Orwell's 1984. In school, we only read Animal Farm. I thought it was too heavy for the 7th grade. Orwell's trying to explain the evils of totalitarianism through animals. :-/ I liked it but I didn't appreciate it until I grew into political consciousness. I also have Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Many anti-war and civil rights activists refer to these times as Orwellian. I'm about 61 pages into the book and I can see what they're talking about, especially when we think of our eroding human rights and the invasion of our privacy. But…if what I know about Huxley's Brave New World is true, then his version of the future is much closer to our own present day society than Orwell's version.
In 1984, Orwell writes of a society, constantly at war with others and itself, the complete monitoring of all its actions and the threat of Big Brother looming over his subjects. Orwell's characters are motivated to comply to Big Brother's directives with pain, torture and execution. Huxley's characters, on the hand, willingly submit. His characters are too drugged, too distracted and too consumed with pop culture to see they're being controlled. Orwell's soceity prohibits sex and all the sensual pleasures of good food, art or literature. In Huxley's society, promiscuity is the norm and all the sensual delights are there to keep them satiated and asleep. Huxley seems to be more on the mark. If you want, you can read the books or watch these film adaptations. The producers have taken many liberties with the films, but if you like Richard Burton, his last performance was in 1984 and it's pretty frightening.
I'll have to continue this later and write about the short program called It's My Country, Too: Muslim Americans. If you watch this, you'll get to see the Muslims for Bush in action. Pretty scary stuff!
