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Language in the North American Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics
Brent Jessop
Knowledge
Driven Revolution.com
Tuesday April 3, 2007
The Security and Prosperity Partnership. What a wonderful name. How
could you oppose something as benign and noble as that? Do you not want
security? Are you against prosperity? What is wrong with you?
I recently wrote a series of articles on the North American Union ID card
(Database,
Data
and Old
Idea; New Sales Pitch) and could not help but notice the deceptive
and changing language used to promote the idea. Back in 1998, they appeared
as “Computerized
Smart Cards”. Are those opposed to that not instinctively stupid?
They have morphed into new driver’s licenses with a variety of names like
“Passport
Lite” or “High-Tech
Driver’s Licences” or "Laser
Visas".
These new cards are nothing like the names would suggest. They are filled
with every
conceivable piece of information about you that you could imagine.
Your fingerprints, retinal scans, DNA, health records, driving history,
a picture of your house, internet habits, etc. All the new cards, regardless
of their name, contain an RFID tracking chip and are connected to a centralized
database for good measure. They are meant to track, trace and catalogue
everything you do from birth to death.
Should we keep calling these cards by their government issued names? Or
should we call them what they are? At least call them a “National ID Card”
or “North American Union ID Card”. Or maybe something more descriptive
like the “Track and Trace Card” or “Human Resource Card" or “Human
Cattle Card” or something with some historical flair like “Your Papers
Please Card”. Would it have made any difference if the Soviets had said
“Your Smart Papers Please”? Maybe something more forward thinking like
“Rations Card” or “Do You Qualify For a Job Card” or “Have You Paid Your
Taxes Card”.
Of course, language is used to deceive and misrepresent in many other
areas as well. “Peace Keeping” is one of my favourite ways of saying war
and occupation. If you don’t believe “Peace Keeping” means war, here is
a
nice article by the Canadian Press doing a really bad job of telling
you differently. They even have “War Games,” I mean “Peace Keeping Games”
or “Role-Playing
Exercises”. But doesn’t “Peace Keeping” sound much nicer then “Occupation”
or “Invasion” or “Regime Change”?
Sadly, language only seems to get any widespread attention during comedy
shows. Jon Stewart recently had
a show about Bush's “reasonable proposal.” The proposal was about
whether or not Karl
Rove and others would be testifying under oath. Bush’s use of the
word “reasonable” is very telling, especially at the end when he almost
forgot to say it. It is a good example of how politicians and other manipulators
choose their words very carefully and repeat them until it becomes someone
else's reality.
In a recent article, Charlotte
Iserbyt proposed that the alternative media stop calling the Police-State
/ Dictatorial behaviour of politicians like Bush, Fascism. I am personally
guilty of pointing
some of these parallels out. She proposes using the term Communism
because of the “leftist” association people have with the word, as oppose
to Fascism which is viewed as being on the far right of the false political
spectrum. The differences between applied Communism and Fascism are minimal,
if not trivial, but the use of the word Communism is much more powerful
when applied to supposedly “right-wing conservatives” like Bush.
When the Europeans were trying to name what eventually became the “European
Union,” there was outrage against the idea of naming it the “United States
of Europe” because the “American” connotation it had. Nobody seemed to
look east to the former “Soviet Union” for some perspective on what
they were getting into.
The alternative media is far behind in its use of language and too readily
adopts the use of terminology used by the “politicians” or “professional
liars” or “smiling puppets” or whatever you would like to call them. Are
more people going to resist the “Security and Prosperity Partnership”
or “Deep Integration” or “North American Union” or “North American Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics”? Personally I think the NA-USSR has a nice
ring to it, and makes a nice acronym too.
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