ANGELES,
CA
–
JANUARY
25:
A
copy
of
George
Orwell’s
novel
‘1984’
sits
on
a
shelf
at
The
Last
Bookstore
on
January
25,
2017
in
Los
Angeles,
California.
George
Orwell’s
68
year-old
dystopian
novel
‘1984’
has
surged
to
the
top
of
Amazon.com’s
best
seller
list
and
its
publisher
Penguin
has
put
in
an
order
for
75,000
reprints.
(Photo
by
Justin
Sullivan/Getty
Images)
As
if
the
Ministry
of
Truth
in
George
Orwell’s
1984
now
existed,
with
its
motto
‘Ignorance
is
Strength,’
this
Court
is
now
asked
to
determine
whether
the
federal
government
has
the
power
it
claims—to
dissemble
and
disassemble
historical
truths
when
it
has
some
domain
over
historical
facts.
It
does
not.
—
Judge
Cynthia
M.
Rufe
granting
the
City
of
Philadelphia
a
preliminary
injunction
holding
the
federal
government
must
restore
signage,
displays
and
videos
at
the
President’s
House
site
in
Philly
that
discuss
the
slaves
that
George
Washington
owned
at
that
location.
Attorneys
for
the
Trump
administration
argued,
“the
government
gets
to
choose
the
message
it
wants
to
convey.”
Judge
Rufe
was
not
impressed
with
the
efforts
to
memory-hole
slavery,
characterizing
it
as
“dangerous”
and
“horrifying”
during
oral
arguments.