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)
I would have been unaware, except that our neighbor had driven past our house and saw the bears right on our cornor....his wife made him call to warn us not to let the dogs out.......I made my husband come home from work (after ten last night) to walk them himself. I called one neighbor and emailed another.....the bear stories were the talk of the village this morning....I heard the police called on the scanner a couple of times about the bears last night....they have been on the upper far end of the neighborhood since last fall......this is the first they have come over to our street.
I believe the bears are on the protected list in NY. (sigh) I am sick of them, this is the second year for the nuisance. MMM....bear speidies. Sounds good.
Who would want to date any one who spends her time on a shrill harpy site like that anyway?
which you know i have never seen...
Probably not.
Oh you have such a dirty mind...... ;^)
When y’all get a minute could you say a prayer for my friend Sue’s husband, Wayne. She made him go to the doctor this morning because he started having chest pains on Monday.......he left the doctor’s office in an ambulance on the way to aheart specialist in a Maryland hospital.
He’s only a year or tow older than me, but has diabetes and had heart surgery a couple years ago.
OH Gabz that is scary.... thanks for telling us - prayers up!
will definitely pray for him.
thanks. Wayne asked Sue to go get Becky from school before she followed the ambulance, and she said she would have me get her and keep her here. The doctor wrote her a note to take Becky out of school. Apparently Wayne is realy scared this time.
Was the previous heart surgery for a blockage?
To be honest, I don’t know.
Done.
...I count three there.....they are feasting on birthday cake according to the article.
I don’t envy you that group of interlopers~!
You can keep them :)
Interloper, anteloper, riding on a telescoper
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