I hope you're right. But how many Jowers trials do we need? My unstated point here was that the MLK case shows us that this is as much as we can expect from Big Brother, and it is not nearly enough. Hope, to be real, has to be more than this. It's hard to say this without sounding pessimistic, so I didn't. I would like to say, with people like Alex Jones, "We're gonna kick their asses!", but I'm afraid that's the other extreme. So what kind of hope can we have? I'm still working on that. How about something like "We Shall Overcome"? Sounds corny, but it was good enough for MLK, and I still believe it. After 9/11, at least we know that "we" includes all of us--although we should have known that after JFK and RFK, etc., as well.

Thanks to you and others for reading and commenting!

I guess we don't need to have any foregone conclusions about how successful our efforts will be. Instead, we can simply continue in the direction of truth in our language. Things are different these days. Internet. And we can appreciate more and more Jowers trials, if they are truthful, even if not individually effective to the degree we might want them to be.

Maybe there was some irony in your analysis, because you were talking about purposeful subtleties, meant to sway the audience, in language and then included a direct assumption of impotence of the truth movement and complete control of big brother. This might lead the reader to just give up hope.

Thanks again for writing.