To quote from Orwell's 1984, 'How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?' Winston thought. 'By making him suffer,' he said. 'Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery is torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain. The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self- abasement. Everything else we shall destroy everything. Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from before the Revolution. We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Power/Money. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always -- do not forget this, Winston -- always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- for ever.'
posted
5000 Whites Renounce Their Zimbabwean Citizenship
More than 5000 white Zimbabweans have renounced their Zimbabwean citizenship to take up mostly British and other European passports.
This follows the Government s deadline for all Zimbabweans holding dual citizenship to renounce their foreign passports by the end of the renunciation period early this month.
The Minister of Home Affairs, Cde John Nkomo, told Parliament yesterday that most of those who had renounced the Zimbabwean citizenship were of European origin.
"These people had all along claimed they were citizens of this country and that they had renounced their other citizenship," said Cde Nkomo.
"They were the noise makers who caused confusion because they knew they did not hold any stake in this country. They wanted to draw back the independence of Zimbabwe."
Cde Nkomo was answering a question from Mberengwa West MP, Cde Joram Gumbo of Zanu-PF, who had inquired on the number of those who had met the January 6 deadline to renounce dual citizenship.
The Government abolished dual citizenship after observing that many foreigners were claiming to be helping the country as citizens when in actual fact they were acting against it.
The Movement for Democratic Change even went to court to challenge the legality of asking mostly the British to renounce their Zimbabwean citizenship ahead of the presidential poll.
The opposition party wanted them to be allowed to vote despite their preferred national status.
Some of those who have renounced their Zimbabwean citizenship for British citizenship included Supreme Court judge, Justice McNally and his wife.
It is understood that there are more than 25 000 British passport holders in Zimbabwe, whom the United Kingdom government was promising to airlift out of Zimbabwe in the event that the political situation in the country further deteriorated.
As part of its propaganda campaign, the British Labour government claimed that its ministers had drawn up plans to airlift the more than 25 000 British passport holders to safety amid fears that Zimbabwe s election will descend into violence during the next seven weeks.
The same propaganda was churned out during the country s June 2000 parliamentary elections when the British government first revealed its hidden hand in Zimbabwe s politics.
However, Zimbabwean Government expressed that the British did not need emergency measures to evacuate its nationals but could simply ask them to board a plane to London. But no evacuation took place.
In order to heighten tension ahead of the country s presidential poll, it was being reported that even South Africa was making contingency plans to accept a flood of Zimbabwean refugees who were likely to flee the country before and after the elections.
Two years ago, British newspapers were awash with stories that the European Union had approached Mozambique and South Africa for help in evacuating Britons and others if Zimbabwe s land reform programme intensified.
According to reports from London last week, British officials "believe that the situation is now much more serious and that there is a strong possibility action will be needed." However, less than 10 white farmers have died in Zimbabwe over the past two years while over 1 000 white farmers have lost their lives in South Africa and no emergency rescue efforts have been taken by Britain.
posted
Penis-Mutilating Tampon Puts Rapists Out Of Business - Forever
Jaap Haumann, 72, who now farms near the small town of Clocolan, has designed a "mutilator tampon" designed to lop off the end of a rapist's penis.
Dr Haumann's extraordinary invention was prompted by the fact that rape has become so endemic in South Africa that a rape now is being reported every 26 seconds to police. Dr Haumann said he designed the device after speaking to rape victims -- and said he believed that at least a million South African women would flock to buy it.
"It became clear to me that rape has a devastating impact on the lives of women, physically and especially mentally."
He said in one instance, a rape victim had refused to leave her house, even nine months after she was raped. Her friends did her shopping for her.
"We all know that South Africa has the highest rape statistics in the world. With this device I believe would-be rapists would think twice before attacking any woman in this country."
Dr Haumann said the device is designed to be used in the same way as a tampon. "I designed a hard cylindrical plastic core which contains the spring blade, which slices when pressed against.
"This plastic core is covered by soft material, the same as a real tampon. This is then inserted by the woman. When the rapist attacks the woman and penetration takes place, the point of his penis will touch the section containing the blade and it (the penis), or at least a part of it, is sliced off."
Speaking of the danger of HIV infection from a bleeding rapist, Dr Haumann said because rape was a violent crime, the danger of infection from semen was high in any event.
Many South African women already habitually carry antiretroviral medication with them to prevent HIV-transfer in case they got raped.
"But when a woman wears this device she would not resist and would not be damaged internally. So the chances of being infected by the blood from the rapist are, indeed, also less."
Dr Haumann said the deterrent value of the device would be immense.
"And this is really the idea. If this device makes rapists think twice about attacking women, we have already achieved something."
But some women approached for comment, found the idea of carrying such a "tampon timebomb" absurd.
"I would be extremely uncomfortable. Again the onus is put on the woman. Men who rape women should be jailed for life. Men should not rape, end of story," said one.
Dr Haumann said the device was still in the design stage. "It would cost about R10 to manufacture one such device and I estimate at least a million South African women would wear it," he said
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
Printer-friendly view of this topic
