In this "new world order", first stated by George Herbert Walker Bush, ironically on September 11, 1990, Orwel's 1984 masterpiece comes alive. Today, a manifesto, published by the Project for the New American Century (click Rebuilding America's Defenses) seems to have become the militaristic, global paradigm for imposing the will of the United States government on the world. In a manner that implies we don't need any friends.

Few Americans today are under any illusion that our government has moved far from its Constitutionally mandated principles and that we are a government of the people, by the people, for the people, Every time an excuse is put forth defending a government failure to promulgate a domestic policy like health care, adequate support for public education or any economic or social policy that favors American citizens, it is a sign that elected officials have surrendered to the influence of money - corruption.

Metaphorically speaking, there is a bell ringing - a bell that tolls the end of democracy and the beginning of a political scheme designed to herald in a government chosen by entities hostile to that founded by more heroic citizens who believed we are all brothers and sisters yearning to breathe free. Our ancestors who risked their lives in revolt against a government hostile to their interests, in favor of those of England's King George III, interests, which, ironically, were corporate trading companies which had much of the early American population indentured (indebted) and exploited them for cheap labor.

Whatever your political stripe or favored ideological view of how government should run the nation, if you value your freedom, particularly the first 10 enumerated in the United States Constitution, you should make an effort to educate yourself on current events outside the influence of mainstream media.

Carl W. Lemieux