Thanks to Antagonist for posting this link to a Guradian article written by George Monbiot on 16th October 2001...
Selected highlights include
... If we are to preserve the progress, pluralism, tolerance and freedom which President Bush claims to be defending, then we must question everything we see
and hear...
There are plenty of reasons to be sceptical. The magical appearance of the terrorists' luggage, passports and flight manual looks rather too good to be true. The dossier of "evidence" purporting to establish Bin Laden's guilt consists largely of supposition and conjecture...
This could indeed be the work of terrorists, who may have their own reasons for widening the conflict, but there are plenty of other ruthless operators who would benefit from a shift in public opinion...
Democracy is sustained not by public trust but by public scepticism. Unless we are prepared to question, to expose, to challenge and to dissent, we conspire in the demise of the system for which our governments are supposed to be fighting...
All of which contrasts in a somewhat perplexing way with some of George's later works such as this article here and this one here
And today's special project is to write a short, 500 word essay that reconciles the thinking behind all three articles without making any reference to George Orwell, Doublethink and Memory Holes or using the words "shill", "gatekeeper" or "twat"
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