I'll have to give you some follows.
Unfortunately, I have to refute your post from what I know:
- Wells, Huxley and Orwell were all insiders. I don't think they were warning us so much as distracting/prepping us.
-Robinson had an earlier suspended sentence. From what I heard, he was not using discretion, someone who in his position, needed to exercise to the utmost. He had already gone through a trial and was under a suspended sentence. Under that sentence, he was not allowed to do at least the journalism he was engaging in. Therefore, he need not have been convicted by a jury as it was a procedural matter.
All that being said, I do not wish him any harm in prison.
RE: 1984 was supposed to be a warning... not an instruction manual...