thoughtcrimes

It resulted in justice being meted out to thousands for what Orwell called "thoughtcrimes" or for their freely expressed opinions and actions judged hostile to the state under a system of near-vigilante justice by the Paris Revolutionary (kangaroo) Tribunal with no right of appeal.

A Look Back and Ahead In An Age of Neocon Rule 2006

It resulted in justice being meted out to thousands for what Orwell called "thoughtcrimes" or for their freely expressed opinions and actions judged hostile to the state under a system of near-vigilante justice by the Paris Revolutionary (kangaroo) Tribunal with no right of appeal.

A Look Back and Ahead In An Age of Neocon Rule 2006

For me the story is noteworthy for a lot of reasons: Silverberg's society seems more interested in convicting thoughtcrimes than violence or theft (our protagonist is punished for the crime of emotional coldness).

MIND MELD: Memorable Short Stories to Add to Your Reading List (Part 2 of 2) 2009

I thought at once of 'Newspeak', the language of George Orwell's novel 1984, where words are repurposed so that citizens cannot commit thoughtcrimes.

Archive 2007-06-01 Dan 2007

I thought at once of 'Newspeak', the language of George Orwell's novel 1984, where words are repurposed so that citizens cannot commit thoughtcrimes.

Redevelopment 'Forum': When is a forum a forum? Dan 2007

Are they, to use yet another apt Orwellian phrase, to be judged to be guilty of similar “thoughtcrimes”?

James Pinkerton: Newsweek's Newspeak 2008

File under: Hypocrisy « thoughtcrimes and misdemeanors says:

Think Progress » Science Teachers’ Organization Refuses To Accept Copies of Inconvenient Truth 2006

So keep up the attacks on KOS, and someday, we'll have the America we desire--a place where thoughtcrimes are policed by the people.

Archive 2004-03-28 2004

College Republicans in Colorado didn't sit around and whine when a professor repeatedly committed thoughtcrimes in the classroom.

Archive 2004-04-04 2004

College Republicans in Colorado didn't sit around and whine when a professor repeatedly committed thoughtcrimes in the classroom.

03/28/2004 - 04/04/2004 2004