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“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
Huxley and Orwell were contemporaries. Huxley’s dystopian masterpiece was published in 1932 at the outset of the rise of totalitarianism, while Orwell’s was published in 1949 after 65 million people perished in a World War and Stalin had already murdered tens of millions of his own citizens. Those were dark times. They also coincided with Edward Bernays 1928 publication of Propaganda, in which he revealed the existence of an invisible government who used propaganda to manipulate the minds of the public to insure those controlling the levers of power were able to engineer their desired outcomes.
East Point police on Monday identified four people seen throwing plates, carts and punches in video of a Mother’s Day brawl that went viral.
Devecc Billingslea, 26, Zacarli Dalcoe, 25, Willis Jumario Hall, 26, and Demonte Harrison, 21, were cited for disorderly conduct in connection with the May 8 fight at Kiku Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi Bar on Marketplace Boulevard, East Point police Capt. Cliff Chandler said.
Customers captured video of the chaos on their cellphones.
According to a police report obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Harrison, a busboy at the restaurant, was cleaning tables when a woman berated him for smiling. Harrison told the woman it was his job to smile.
That’s when Hall, the woman’s brother, got up and punched Harrison in his face, police said. Other people joined the fight, but the report does not identify them by name. Billingslea and Dalcoe are relatives of Hall, East Point police Capt. R.C. Popham told The AJC.
Attorney Charles Webb is representing Hall, Billingslea and Dalcoe. He said cellphone footage of the melee does not tell the whole story.
Owner Charlie Son told Channel 2 Action News he lost about $5,000 in business after people got up during the brawl and left without paying.
“The investigation into this incident is ongoing and arrangements are being made for the aforementioned individuals” to pick up their citations, Chandler said.
Hall, Billingslea and Dalcoe are scheduled to appear in court on July 5.
