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.
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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)
I saw the word and my first thought was Rudy, whatever that means....
good one!
i was just reading that. am not sure it means the presidential run is a “no go”. for one thing, he has known he has had this, and was enthusiastically considering a presidential run anyway. we will have to wait and see what it means. I mean Rudy and McNut have both had cancer, so this puts everyone on equal footing among those 3.
Only in the case of the cancer..........
i meant medically speaking.
Yes, that is the only sense in which those two are on equal footing with Fred.
I would say Venezuela comes close since Chavez can change the law at a whim, and his military police can do whatever he wants them two above and outside of any judicial or legal apparatus.
I see several comments have already been removed from that thread - only a complete loser would say something that needed to be deleted on a thread like that.....
well closer than the US or UK, obviously.
And we’ve never been bereft of losers around here.
Precisely my point :)
Yes. Apparently Pukin Dog made several inappropriate comments and was immediately challenged and reported. I think the mod probably just zapped ALL of his posts.
Iraq, under the former dictator, was a Police State, as is North Korea. I’m so thankful we don’t have to live in fear like they did/do.
;-)
Excellent point Texasgirl.
he has been categorically stating that FDT will not get into the race, and was apparently claiming this was the reason. it doesn’t hold water considering the diagnosis wasn’t a new one, and he has been vigorously pursuing this run of late, clearly knowing he had lymphoma. Seems an attempt to just throw it out there to get it out of the way. there are those who want kudos for being a seer, when it is completely nonsensical.
I heard the police state that I was a trouble maker. That’s not fair. I always get blamed for everything.
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