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Originally Posted by kenoc7
I'm not. just referring to this post but all those that criticize the removal of the glorification of men who were traitors and fought against the United States of America.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?”
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
“Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense.”
“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
--1984 (George Orwell)