how soon will they shoot me?
07:46 | 05-08-2014 | Literature, Politics | 2 Comments
то есть, можно, конечно, вспоминать один закон или другой проект, но какой смысл? все уже сказано:
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. <...> We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
и все повторяется.
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