Re: Torturing Terrorists Works

The name "Goldstein" is German Jewish, just as is Trotsky's original
surname Bronstein. The first name Emmanuel means "God with us"; his
whole name would be a metaphor for a Messiah character. His name can
refer to Emma Goldman, a notable anarchist. Emmanuel may be a
reference to Rabbi Emanuel Rabinovich, a nonexistent orator that was
used as a source to fuel antisemitic propaganda, much as Emmanuel
Goldstein was to be the common focus of anger for the society in the
novel.

"Goldstein is the Osama Bin Laden figure in Orwell's novel, an
extremely elusive person who is never seen, never captured, but
believed by the leadership of Oceania to be still alive and hatching
his conspiracies: perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the
protection of his foreign paymasters. Since Goldstein is never
captured, the battle against his crimes, treacheries, sabotages must
never end."
Drawing parallel's between Goldstein and Osama Bin Laden began a week
after the September 11 Attacks, when professor William L. Anderson at
Frostburg State University wrote a column for LewRockwell.com entitled
"Osama and Goldstein".
The legal scholar Cass Sunstein in his 2009 book Worst-Case Scenarios,
coins what he deems the "Goldstein Effect", describing it as "the
ability to intensify public concern by giving a definite face to the
adversary, specifying a human source of the underlying threat."
According to Sunstein, since the U.S. War on Terror has so heavily
associated terrorism with Osama Bin Laden, the outrage has intensified
in similar ways as displayed in 1984.

On May 3, 9:14 am, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> So says the Government. Good thing they NEVER lie.
> Regard$,
> --MJ
> As usual, the face of Emmanual Goldstein, the Enemy of the People, had flashed on to the screen. There were hisses here and there among the audience. The little sandy-haired woman gave a squeak of mingled fear and disgust. Goldstein was the renegade and backslider who once, long ago (how long ago, nobody quite remembered), had been one of the leading figures of the Party, almost on a level with Big Brother himself, and then had engaged in counter-revolutionary activities, had been condemned to death, and had mysteriously escaped and disappeared. The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party's purity. All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. Somewhere or other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters, perhaps even -- so it was occasionally rumoured -- in some hiding-place in Oceania itself. -- George Orwell, 1984

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