Pixelated Semantics

Perpetuating the War on Language with a distinctively American form of torture

Showing the humanity inherent in an administration that perpetuates torture, spokesmen in the US have called recent Gitmo suicides 'a good PR move', and 'an act of asymetrical warfare'. History professor Alfred McCoy (author of the classic The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade) last night labelled that establishment 'an ad hoc laboratory for the perfection of the CIA psychological torture.' ABC News also provides a solid parallel thesis for on the political abuse of meaning:

'One of the less noted aspects of the Bush Administrations' "War on Terror" is the government's simultaneous War on Language, a calculated use of Orwellian double speak. Post 9-11, the invasion of other countries became a "preemptive strike", the capture and torture of civilians "extraordinary rendition".'

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