Orwell Update: Freedom is Slavery edition

On a recent edition of Meet the Press, Newt Gingrich offered his suggestions on how to “ensure “the forces of freedom win,” . Among Newt’s suggestions are “…the development of a, of a military tribunal system to lock people up the way Abraham Lincoln would’ve done it,” and the establishment of “…. a nationwide ID card with biometrics so you can actually track everybody in the country.”

There is something seriously wrong with a country where Newt Gingrich can advocate creating a police state and still be treated as a respected elder statesman and a serious contender for the presidency by both the mainstream media and the conservative movement, while Ron Paul is dismissed as a “fringe candidate” who should be silenced.

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7:46 pm on May 28, 2007