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if the fbi wasn't around, he would have figured out how to buy gasoline or fertilizer on his own, or he would have hooked up with a genuinely malicious crew

And you know this how? Isn't this the concept of "pre-crime"

if you INTEND to do harm, stopping you from following through on your intent is doing good in the world, and removing you from society for being a murderous asshole is doing good in the world

So we should prosecute "thought crime" should we?

it's not entrapment. it does not fit the definition of the concept, which you don't seem to understand

And you just showed that your reading skills are poor. I agreed that it did not fit the legal definition of entrapment.

understand intent. understand entrapment. then comment on this topic. you don't seem to have the moral or social faculties to comment intelligently at this time, as you don't seem to understand the concepts involved

The refuge of the weak of mind: an ad-hominem argument.

The pomposity of your writing suggests that you are a literature professor ...

Pomposity of his writing? He wrote three not-quite sentences, namely:

Partly correct,

Followed by a lengthy quote, then:

Also partly incorrect

Followed by another lengthy quote. And finally the attribution for the quotes:

source for both quotes http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/articles/1984-background-info.htm

I think you missed something.

No it wasn't. Orwell wrote 1984 after beeing delusional on how the communists behaved during the Spanish civil war, where he inititially fought for the communists.

Partly correct,

In his essay Why I Write, Orwell clearly explains that all the "serious work" he had written since the Spanish Civil War in 1936 was "written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism". [1] Therefore, one can look at Nineteen Eighty-Four as a cautionary tale against totalitarianism and in particular the betrayal of a revolution by those claiming to defend or support it. However, as many reviewers and critics have stated, it should not be read as an attack on socialism as a whole, but on totalitarianism and potential totalitarianism.

Also partly incorrect

His work for the overseas service of the BBC, which at the time was under the control of the Ministry of Information, also played a significant role as the basis for his Ministry of Truth (as he later admitted to Malcolm Muggeridge). The Ministry of Information building, Senate House (University of London), was the Ministry of Truth's architectural inspiration. The world of Nineteen Eighty-Four also reflects various aspects of the social and political life of both the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Orwell is reported to have said that the book described what he viewed as the situation in the United Kingdom in 1948, when the British economy was poor, the British Empire was dissolving at the same time as newspapers were reporting its triumphs, and wartime allies such as the USSR were rapidly becoming peacetime foes ('Eurasia is the enemy. Eurasia has always been the enemy'). In many ways, Oceania is indeed a future metamorphosis of the British Empire (although Orwell is careful to state that, geographically, it also includes the United States, and that the currency is the dollar). It is, as its name suggests, an essentially naval power. Much of its militarism is focused on veneration for sailors and seafarers, serving on board "floating fortresses" which Orwell evidently conceived of as the next stage in the growth of ever-bigger warships, after the Dreadnoughts of WWI and the aircraft carriers of WWII; and much of the fighting conducted by Oceania's troops takes place in defense of India (the "Jewel in the Crown" of the British Empire). The party newspaper is the times, identified in Orwell's time (and to some degree even at present) as the voice of the British ruling class — rather than, as could have been expected, a publication which started life as the paper of a revolutionary party (like Pravda in the Soviet Union). Note the lack of capital letters in the name. This is a feature of newspeak, the official party language. O'Brien, who represents the oppressive Party, is in many ways depicted as a member of the old British ruling class (in one case, Winston Smith thinks of him as a person who in the past would have been holding a snuffbox, i.e. an old-fashioned English gentleman).

source for both quotes http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/articles/1984-background-info.htm

Let them take away the right to say "Fuck" and you've given up the ability to say "Fuck the Government."

That's not the problem. As Orwell points out in the appendix to "1984", where he discusses "Newspeak", one could say "Big Brother is doubleplus ungood" in Newspeak. But the language for saying why wasn't available. So no one could make a convincing argument against Big Brother. "In Newspeak it was seldom possible to follow a heretical thought further than the perception that it was heretical: beyond that point the necessary words were nonexistent."

Watch for this phenomenon. It's real. Especially on talk radio.

Now that's just a conspiracy theory. Clearly, you are a nut, for only nuts react with anything for disdain and mockery when presented with a conspiracy theory.

Let them take away the right to say "Fuck" and you've given up the ability to say "Fuck the Government."

That's not the problem. As Orwell points out in the appendix to "1984", where he discusses "Newspeak", one could say "Big Brother is doubleplus ungood" in Newspeak. But the language for saying why wasn't available. So no one could make a convincing argument against Big Brother. "In Newspeak it was seldom possible to follow a heretical thought further than the perception that it was heretical: beyond that point the necessary words were nonexistent."

Watch for this phenomenon. It's real. Especially on talk radio.

Only in the USA I think. It's public domain in many countries:

http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/books/1984.htm

http://wikilivres.info/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/index.html

http://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt

... or in other words, I fully agree with what the parent post says. To se an extreme fiction exploration about this (scaringly close to reality sometimes...), please read the appendix in the book 1984 about Newspeak .

(* Both George Orwell and Douglas Adams have written about making tea, stressing this point -- the latter suggesting that the reason most Americans prefer coffee is that they've never had a good cup of tea, for this very reason!)

My own favourite, in case anyone's still reading, is chai, a spicy Indian tea. Here is one good place to find it. (Disclaim, disclaim.)

For those who doubt, follow the link http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/articles/col-ocpa sses.htm and research the events and works it describes.

What a marvellous idea! Here are a few pointers, how to make English language as efficient as possible: http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/books/1984-Append ix.htm

I deem you a doubleplusgood duckspeaker.