Deadly.
That's what Scott Horton's latest "No Comment" article in Harpers is.
Room 101 was the place that sealed the deal - forever ending free will in Orwell's 1984. Included in the Horton piece is a link to an {unauthorized} 13 part run of the movie on U Tube.
But Scott says it best, below:
Revealing the Secrets in Room 101
On Thursday the spirit of George Orwell visited America, three times.
The first visit can be found in four memoranda prepared by Bush Administration lawyers which gave the actual go-ahead for the use of specific torture techniques on specific individuals, thus demolishing forever the absurd contention that the torture lawyers were ever only engaged in some abstract exercise without any direct application to incidents of torture. Here, we discover that Room 101 of the Ministry of Love (Miniluv) has been faithfully recreated by the Bush Team. In Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Room 101 contained whatever a prisoner feared most, which would be let loose against him in an act calculated to inspire pure terror in the victim, to break him as an individual and to produce human material suitable for reconditioning. As a reminder, here’s the way the disclosure of Room 101 is realized in the excellent film version directed by Michael Radford (it begins at roughly 3:20 in the clip):
1984 on U Tube
What is so chilling - increasingly - are the parallels - so painfully exact... (and drawn so well by Mr. Horton) between Orwell's notion of social control and those our previous leadership utilized.
A Must Read for every Kossack (exclamation point seems frivolous, but emphasis is intended).