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Orwell's heir Christopher Hitchens reports from liberated Iraq:

"I mean all the difference in the world, there were smartly uniformed, well organized policemen directing traffic," he said. "At dinner there were eight different kinds of lamb and five different kinds of scotch."
(via The Standard-Journal)

So this is Hitchens' new notion of freedom: Cops and plenty of booze. Not exactly "from each according to abilities," but then again, 9/11 changed everything, as we know.