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Word For The Day, Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - police state
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary ^ | 04/11/2007 | The Janitor

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 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)


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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; xsmommy

Afghanistan, under the Taliban, was a police state and further was a police state that sponsored international islamofacist terrorism.


41 posted on 04/11/2007 7:09:13 AM PDT by VRWCmember (Go Rudy Go! (And take McCain with you!))
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To: NeoCaveman; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; xsmommy
The USSR for decades was a police state. Thank God and Ronald Reagan, that isn't the case anymore.


42 posted on 04/11/2007 7:11:36 AM PDT by VRWCmember (Go Rudy Go! (And take McCain with you!))
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To: VRWCmember; NeoCaveman
and to quote Fred Thompson:

"I am one of the lucky ones. There are many lucky ones today. And for all of our diversity, we share one thing in common—a deep appreciation for the fact that we live in the United States of America and have the best medicine and the best doctors the world has ever known."

the US, far from a police state, is the best country in the world. which is why we have every stripe of foreigner begging, borrowing and stealing their way in here.

43 posted on 04/11/2007 7:27:34 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

No doubt about it.


44 posted on 04/11/2007 7:30:07 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Giuliani: A strict constructionist judge can come to either conclusion about Roe against Wade.)
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To: xsmommy; Gabz; Texan5

—on a lighter note......the neighborhood bear population is up to four......phone calls and emails last night alerted everyone on our street.......they were spotted - all four of them frolicing in the recycle bins and the garbage in the yard three doors down from me......two doors down they toppled the tiki lights (my friend was glad to see those destroyed) and right across the street they ripped down the bird feeders......I cannot wait till buffet night tomorrow night.....(garbage cans will line the streets)


45 posted on 04/11/2007 7:33:28 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

so are you having the dogs go to the bathroom in the house?? how could you put the poor pups out to be an horsd’oerve for a bear???


46 posted on 04/11/2007 7:35:51 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: tioga

Good gravy!!!!


47 posted on 04/11/2007 7:36:27 AM PDT by Gabz (I like mine with lettuce and tomato, heinz57 and french-fried potatoes)
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To: tioga

So what does bear taste like? And how much usable meat does one bear yield?


48 posted on 04/11/2007 7:37:22 AM PDT by VRWCmember (Go Rudy Go! (And take McCain with you!))
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To: tioga; Texan5; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

those 4 sound like a bunco group gone awry... ; ) pinging the bunco-ites in the class....


49 posted on 04/11/2007 7:40:17 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy; tioga

May do I have stories of my bunco group frolicking in the front yard..... ;^)


50 posted on 04/11/2007 7:41:54 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (I won't settle)
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To: xsmommy; tioga; Texan5; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
The next thing you know, they'll have there kids panhandling at intersections to support their bunco habit.


51 posted on 04/11/2007 7:50:12 AM PDT by VRWCmember (Go Rudy Go! (And take McCain with you!))
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To: tioga; martin_fierro
Ti, don't miss the spaceHO update. martin is keeping me abreast of the situation!
52 posted on 04/11/2007 7:50:13 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: VRWCmember

I would’ve expected this word to have a more Russian sound, based on its definition.


53 posted on 04/11/2007 7:50:15 AM PDT by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: secret garden; VRWCmember
i am thinking Vast doesn’t have have the Cyrillic alphabet on his computer or he might have tried posting it that way ; )
54 posted on 04/11/2007 7:52:29 AM PDT by xsmommy
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55 posted on 04/11/2007 7:52:50 AM PDT by VRWCmember (Go Rudy Go! (And take McCain with you!))
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To: xsmommy
Russians? I think the Germans were there first.

Polizeizustand

56 posted on 04/11/2007 8:00:47 AM PDT by SoothingDave (Eugene Gurkin was a janitor, cleaning toilets for The Man)
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To: VRWCmember

Is that your Woody?


57 posted on 04/11/2007 8:01:33 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (I won't settle)
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To: xsmommy
Wow! Talk about your police states: German Army tries to Draft 4-week-old Baby
58 posted on 04/11/2007 8:04:39 AM PDT by VRWCmember (Go Rudy Go! (And take McCain with you!))
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Don’t you think that’s a bit personal?


59 posted on 04/11/2007 8:43:04 AM PDT by Laura Earl (Fitness is a journey not a destination.)
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To: Laura Earl; VRWCmember; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

vast is probably flattered someone is showing interest... ; )


60 posted on 04/11/2007 8:58:51 AM PDT by xsmommy
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