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Old 12-07-2007   #19 (permalink)
keith.kuslak
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Default Re: Fined for speaking her mind

you have seriously got to stop calling them thought police when you do not even know what the term means. At least read the first three chapters of 1984 as they are defined there. Technically she would be guilty of an act, because she said it aloud. Thought crime refers to something not spoken aloud or even acted towards. It might be a nervous tick... a passing glance... and then you just disappear in the night.

If it were thought crime, then people would be getting fined because they might have shrugged oddly when they passed a black person. Not because they spoke out against it.

I suppose if you want to use a newspeak word of which she is guilty, then use duckspeak. Not thought crime.
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