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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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 am sick of them already.
I would be scared as well.......I spent several shifts in the CCU during the hospital clinical phase....scary.
I can imagine all of your neighbors feel the same, and rightly so.
-the first year it was a novelty.....for awhile.....NOW we just want the cops to kill ‘em for the speidies.
into the kinky stuff i see...
LOL!!!!!
For the most part, the police are good men and women doing a fantastic job, but there are some that are not.
Kind of like in here without the violence. LOL!
LOL!!!
If the LEO who gave your son a ticket doesn't show up in court, the case is dismissed. Good idea. Even though it takes time in court. Take photos of the area where he was ticketed in case there was a tree in the way, et cetera, you can win with or without the LEO who ticketed the LEO present.
This is late your time, but I hope you and your son won!
Funny story:
One of the judge's in my courthouse had a daughter who looked 90 percent as his wife did. The wife took the ticket because it was one of those picture ID things in So. Cal. The mom got away with it, but lo and behold right after that the mom got a ticket. I died laughing when she told me. Daughter has no tickets. Mom has two in two months. LOL!
Gabz, I’m glad you understood more than anyone!
Of course I understood :)
I’m having my hair trimmed today. It’s down to my hips, but needs a little nurturing. No more than an inch. Cyber is going with me because he’s starting to look like a hippie, and I’m looking like a gypsy. Oh, that rhymes. Have to post to Soaring Feather. LOL!
Nice Woodie, but it needs surfboard or ski racks on the top!
Nice Woodie, but it needs surfboard or ski racks on the top!
Off to the barber to be shorn
a gypsy lady is to be born
a hippie in Word for The Day
oh my goodness, you can’t get away!
Sue just called me from the hospital, they are getting ready to take Wayne in to put a catheter in. They told her he was in the process of about to have a heart attack.
oh well, i was trying to spice you up a bit, that’s all!
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