In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Big Brother restricted people’s ability to think by eliminating words from the language.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Newspeak_words
I love the one that says, “Um, excuse me, experts. We no longer refer to foreign people in such derogatory terms.” BWAHAHAHA!! “Chinks in armor” BWAHAHAHA!! Yes, I can just imagine the terrible time the Army is having with all those itty bitty Asians infesting their spec ops armor. BWAHAHAHA!