Posted on 04/11/2007 6:03:04 AM PDT by VRWCmember
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
police state • \puh-'lees - 'stayt \ • noun
a political unit characterized by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by police and especially secret police in place of regular operation of administrative and judicial organs of the government according to publicly known legal procedures
Example sentence:
George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four provides one of the best known fictional examples of a police state in all of literature.
Did you know?
(Courtesy of wikipedia) The term police state is a pejorative term for a state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic and political life of the population, especially by means of a secret police force which operates above the normal constraints found in a liberal democracy. A police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism and social control, and there is usually little distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive. The classification of a country or regime as a police state is usually contested and debated. The classification is often established by an internal whistleblower or an external critic or activist group. The use of the term is motivated as a response to the laws, policies and actions of that regime, and is often used pejoratively to describe the regime's concept of the social contract, human rights, and similar matters. Like many pejorative terms, the use of the term "police state" to decry the perceived loss of "liberties" via new laws often diminishes one's argument against such laws to one of infantile complaining, much like the principle that the first one to call the other a "nazi" generally loses the debate.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
Here is my example with WFTD.
Whenever you here somebody calling a civilized western society like the US or the UK a police state, you can be pretty sure the speaker is either a losertarian leaning toward anarchism or an islamofacist who would prefer a jihadi caliphate.
(Shocking accusations) Islamists label UK a police state
Only in a democracy can you cry 'police state'
Britain 'Moving Toward A Police State'
Muslim chief slams 'police state' Britain, like Nazi Germany
No pushing at the door please!
Happy Humpday Everybody!
Morning!
I won't be around much today. VRWCteenboy has a court appearace for a traffic violation that he is contesting and he asked me to go to court with him. (I sure wish xs was here to help -- he didn't run over anybody or anything, but I know she would offer a devastating defense for him.)
I won't be around much today. VRWCteenboy has a court appearace for a traffic violation that he is contesting and he asked me to go to court with him. (I sure wish xs was here to help -- he didn't run over anybody or anything, but I know she would offer a devastating defense for him.)
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I won't be around much today. VRWCteenboy has a court appearace for a traffic violation that he is contesting and he asked me to go to court with him. (I sure wish xs was here to help -- he didn't run over anybody or anything, but I know she would offer a devastating defense for him.)
I won't be around much today. VRWCteenboy has a court appearace for a traffic violation that he is contesting and he asked me to go to court with him. (I sure wish xs was here to help -- he didn't run over anybody or anything, but I know she would offer a devastating defense for him.)
Present!
Contestant number one, police state your name and why you are here.;^)
Good one. Thanks for piping up.
Well aren’t you three the early risers.
Oh.
The socialists want a simple requirement for voting:
“Please state your name, then take a ballot and enter the polling booth” as their only requirement for voter ID.
LOL!!!
NO FAIR!!!!!!!
You copied my homework while I was typing it! No FAIR!!!!!
That’s two words.
Well, then, take your pick.
Police State, what MrLeRoy sees happening to his right to toke up at will.
good luck to you as you go to help advocate in the police state of TX traffic court for your son. i suggest the Clarita defense, whatever he did, needed doing! ; )
I suggest the Claritan defense — blame it on your medication. Worked for one of them Kennedys.
Lordy, will you be dragging the losertarian debate into the classroom today with your word choices... ; ) i wish i had brought in the National Review piece by Noah Goldberg, that goes along with this subject.
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