George Orwell back in 1949 in his *Nineteen Eighty-four*, saw that the reduction of all language to a simple, authorized form, effectively eliminates the freedom to think outside these official, ideologically-pre-determined forms.
*Dont you see that the whole aim of New-speak is to narrow the range of thought ? In the end, we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten ... The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect* [ Penguin, 1970, P 44 ].
And Obama April 2010 outlaws the word *Jihad* and *radical Islam* and *Islamic terrorism*.
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