Calling George Orwell

From an article in yesterday’s New York Times:

A new, long-term hunger strike has broken out at the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, with more than a dozen detainees subjecting themselves to daily force-feeding to protest their treatment, military officials and lawyers for the detainees said.

I can’t make any sense out of that sentence. Maybe it’s time to re-read “Politics and the English Language.”

2 Responses

  1. I just hate when my prisoners force me to feed them!

  2. [...] 10th, 2007 · No Comments Speaking of George Orwell, The Evening Standard presents an eye-catching graphic illustrating the proliferation of [...]

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