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I don't think I want to be American much longer. Does that make me a terrorist?

The Ministry of Love Department of Homeland Security has now labeled those who provide anonymous free access to the internet as "terrorists". Next thing you know, soup kitchens (which can be used to provide bodily nourishment for terrorists) will have mandatory ID checks in order to only feed Good, Honest American Citizens™. Beware those that do things without regard for profit - they could be terrorists.

I'm going to do a minor act of civil disobedience here and put online a book which every American (and citizen of any country siding with the US) should read. This book has yet to have its copyright expire, thanks to fairly recent legislation designed to keep Mickey Mouse copy protected, but I'm putting it up anyway. I imagine Orwell would be spinning less in his grave at the violation of a copyright than the reality that what he warns in the books is coming true.

If you haven't read it at all or recently, I highly recommend you read George Orwell's 1984. It's a story about a government that loses touch with the people it represents and starts waging war with other countries. At first the wars are bloody and with obvious, clear goals. As time goes on, the wars lose their meaning and become background noise that causes just enough terror to keep people worried that they won't end if they're not supportive of them. The wars are always there, but no one really knows why they're fighting the other country or if they're actually fighting at all. In fact, the only reason ever given by the government is that the countries aided a very evil (yet hard to find) person, Emmanuel Goldstein.

If this doesn't sound insanely familiar to a certain large country's recent actions, replace the name "Emmanuel Goldstein" with "Oslama Bin Laden" and try reading that paragraph again.