LTISD Info

One of the most systematic practices of totalitarian regimes is the systematic falsification of official documents to fit into the ruler’s particular agenda.

LTISD “Gang of Eight” photograph prior to 7/11/2011 and the “Gang of Eight minus One” as we see them portrayed today:

Reminds me of the Soviet Union and their standard practice of making someone an “unperson,” except they did a better job of airbrushing someone out of existence than the LTISD did using Photoshop.

Unperson: A person who had been vaporized, and all records of him/her had been wiped out. All other party members must forget that the unperson ever existed, and mentioning his/her name is thoughtcrime. (The concept that the person may have existed at one time, and has disappeared, cannot be expressed in Newspeak.) Compare to the Stalinist use of erasing people from photographs after their death.

-George Orwell, 1984