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"Now, I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this: The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you  will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past, in  that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian  Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even  believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be  free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with  the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does  not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the  revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is  persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.  Now, do you begin to understand me?"

-George Orwell, 1984

In 2014, the "Party" is still working tirelessly for the same ends.

These people will never give up. They will never stop. They will never be satisfied. They will never be satiated. They will never rest until every free human is made their slave. You can't reason with them, you can't convert them, you can't share with them, bargain with them, talk to them, trust them.

Their need and desire for power over others is a terrible lust, a compulsion, an addiction. They are out of control, they have no limiting virtues or morals or principles. They have no governors on their impulses and drives.

They are brutes of the worst sort. Conscience-less, compassion-less, heart-less, mercy-less. Hungry, devouring, ravenous, covetous, greedy, rapacious, plundering.

In the end, I fear the only way to deal with them will be to kill them.

Will we have the stones to do it?

The Gunslinger