Student Quiz: What Will Be Stamping on the Human Face, and for How Long?

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

As we look around today at the empty streets, and listen to the TV analysis of the ever-spreading corona virus, and then read the underground press that ridicules the pandemic as a hoax, we should recall that Orwell had a longer vision.

He did not just say, in his book 1984, that Winston would be employed to drop old news clips down the Memory Hole, or that personal relationships, such as his with Julia, would be coming to an end, or that there would be a Two Minute Hate to direct people’s emotions.

Or that the government personnel would speak in Newspeak, or that Room 101 would be the torture center, or that surveillance within the home would be almost total.

Oh no, he got right to the heart of the matter by saying that the purpose of torture is torture, and the purpose of power is power. At the end of the book, O’Brien tells it like it is, for the long term:

“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 — forever.”

The Trends Today

Thank God, a not-too-small portion of the population is aware of the 1984 “dystopian novel” of George Orwell (which was published in 1949). So, we can see things, during the “corona crisis,” even if the mass media tries hard to cover them up. They include:

— Emphasis on government persons, such as Dr Fauci, rather than one’s own doctor.

— An unabashed spy system: you are asked to report persons who disobey the rules

— Social distancing, wow, what a clever thing – you must learn to shun your friends’ presence

— The sense of uncertainty as to what’s next, as the goal post keeps moving

— Publication of frightening “data” such as crowds in hospitals (even when eyewitnesses tell of the emptiness of some hospitals)

— The chastising of dissidents, and those such as David Icke, who conspire about a 5G involvement

Thus, anyone who knows what “O’Brien” said to “Winston” will be alert to the possibility that “the purpose of power is power,” and that a pandemic may have little to do with a virus and a lot to do with a global takeover.

As a Republican on the ballot for the New Hampshire presidential primary, I was invited to address some students in Manchester NH. You can be sure I wanted to get some “conspiracy” points across, but to do so in the context of normal political science., quoting Machiavelli and Orwell.  I am annoyed that the Boston Globe of January 13, 2020, misrepresented what I said, so I now take the opportunity to quote myself.  Of course, this material is too junior for you if you are a steady customer of GumshoeNews.com.

Maxwell’s Speech at the DoubleTree Hotel, Manchester, NH, January 9, 2020

[Note: This is a transcription from my handwritten notes – I may have gone off-notes for an ad lib or two. The time limit was 20 minutes including audience questions.]

Thank you, New England College and red-vested volunteers.  Thank you, wonderful New Hampshire where the state motto is “Live free or die.”

Wordsworth wrote “Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven.” I don’t know if our beloved millennials are in a state of heavenly bliss. As a boomer I’m not. During the Boston Marathon affair in 2013 we had a police state in Massachusetts.  Police entered homes in Watertown, military style, with guns drawn. What about the Fourth Amendment – “no unreasonable searches and seizures”?

The police certainly violated the US Constitution.  What can you do? You should resist. But the Bill of Rights has to be thrown away in an Emergency? No, the Constitution prepares for Martial Law and restrains it. The Founding Fathers were only too aware of tyranny and they cooked up a solution to The Patriot Act, back in 1787.

Shortly thereafter, in 1798, Congress did wrong in passing the Alien and Sedition Act.  States to the rescue! — Virginia and Kentucky passed laws to nullify that act as being repugnant to the Constitution.  Is anyone here from Virginia or Kentucky? [One hand went up.]

Raw power needs to be constrained, confined. Machiavelli taught us, five centuries ago, that a ruler must govern by deceit and by fear if he is to stay in power. It’s up to us to fight power. Look at New Hampshire’s state motto!  One way to fight is by determination, rights, and by numbers.

What are we going to do about Big Brother?  In my high school days, every high school student had to read George Orwell’s novel, 1984. Did you read it too? [Mostly nods from the audience.] This was supposedly so we would understand and despise the Soviet Union.

Some features were: surveillance of your every move – hence lack of privacy; changing of words – war is peace, slavery is freedom. A key point of Orwell is that the ruler in 1984, is called Big Brother, but no one knows his name. (Who is actually ruling us today?) The citizens of Airstrip One (meaning England) had not seen Big Brother and some were not even sure that he exists.

Another thing Orwell said was that government would control the weather. It would make droughts and floods.  That was in 1949 – 70 years ago — so you can be sure that we’ve got the technology for it now. I feel that the fires in Australia [which were happening on the day of this speech] are manmade, not made by gradual climate change.

I think Geo-engineering is responsible for the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, the tsunami in Japan in 2006, and Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana in 2005.  You can say “Mary’s gone off her meds, she’s a conspiracy theorist,” but OK, then you’ll have to call Orwell and Machiavelli conspiracy theorists, too.

Other things that are happening are cruelty, to keep people destabilized, and the destroying of the family.  In Australia, there is legal kidnap of children by judges, and here in the US there is medical kidnap.  Have you heard of that? [A few hands went up.] Congresswoman Martha Roby said “The road from Birmingham Alabama to Atlanta Georgia is a superhighway of child sex trafficking.”

You can get into Congress if you want at age 25.  Those born before 1996 can be elected to House of Reps and born before 1991 can be in the Senate.  You can campaign as a one-issue candidate; you don’t have to know everything.  It’s nice to be a candidate.

You could campaign against the use of torture in Gitmo.  Have you seen Naomi Wolf’s talk to the Libertarians in New Hampshire?  As a journalist she was allowed to tour Gitmo, and noticed that above the prisoners’ heads was a special place for a hornet’s nest.

I invite you to join the Republican Party, the party of Abe Lincoln. It is the anti-war party, traditionally. Also join the Federalist Society.  Join the group that I write for, if you have journalistic leanings. See my books – all free downloads at ConstitutionAndTruth.com.  I’ll help you get nominated for prizes, don’t be shy.

Here was a young hero from the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, Steve Biko. He said the first step for the black man (but I mean every man) to change the status quo “is to pump back the life into his empty shell, and remind him of his complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused and therefore to letting evil reign supreme. He died at age 29 having been beaten on the floor of the local police station.      – end of Maxwell’s January 9^th speech.

The first audience question was “You say the fires in Australia were set”

My reply: Oh no, I didn’t say that, at least I hope I didn’t say that – I said “I feel that they were.”

This led to a bit more exchange and I noted that I had campaigned 14 years ago in NH for a seat in Congress and that my platform was “9-11 is an inside job,” yet I got 11% of the vote…

Billi Baker of the Boston Globe covered the event (six speakers), and reported it, on January 13, 2020, under the headline.  “The weird world of the dark horse presidential candidate.” To wit:

MANCHESTER, N.H. – Lorenz Kraus began his speech by declaring that the reason he was running for president of the United States was to dissolve the presidency. From there he moved on to his platform, a plan to divide the United States into four separate countries in a crusade to break the control of the Deep State, British agents, Rhodes scholars, and the Jews….

“He’s ridiculous,” Stewart Greenstein shouted to the students, who had just responded quite well to his own speech, where he acknowledged that he was never going to win, but said that a vote for an outsider was a way to express that the front-runners weren’t doing it for them..

[The event] was led off by Matt Matern, an anti-Trump attorney from Los Angeles who is on the Republican ballot in 10 states and laid out a moderate platform in which his signature initiative calls for eliminating income taxes for families who earn less than $100,000.

Matern was followed at the podium by a New Hampshire woman named Mary Maxwell, who gave off the vibe of a soft-spoken grandma. She used her 20 minutes at the microphone to calmly explain how the Australian wildfires, Hurricane Katrina, the earthquake in Haiti, and 9/11 were all inside jobs. [End of the quote from Boston Globe]

Well, I defo did not use my 20 minutes on that, not did I “explain” how the fires, floods, etc, were all inside jobs – though I’d be glad to do that in another campaign!

The speeches were all filmed by the New England College, I believe, so the Globe and I can duke it out later.  On another occasion, at St Anselm’s College, we the dark horses were given the name Lesser Known Candidates, and C-Span came to film it.

Clearly today there is a speeding up of the march towards the day when there is a boot stamping on the human face, forever.  I repeat, from 1984 (with emphasis added):

“There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life.

All competing pleasures will be destroyed.

But 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.”