police state

For it was there that I learned a valuable lesson, one I shall never forget: in a police state, we're all criminals.

The thaw with the West lasted until Libyans rose up in mid-February against the persistence of a corrupt police state at home.

But now that it has happened, it is still a fine excuse to shore up the police state and lock everything down.

No doubt in any police state where conversations can be bugged or reported, people practice the art of double-think.

The weakness of the police state comes from its tendency to crush individual initiative and inventiveness .

The DPRK is a police state that enforces domestic terror as an everyday means of governance.

When the Empire took over Ando, they turned it into a police state designed to quell the various Aqualish uprisings.

So there is good reason to believe that, with the police state having been peeled away, the military will emerge as a target of criticism.

Naomi Wolf, a feminist, calls her "a stalking horse for the coming police state" .

In Syria, a police state where protest is rare, large demonstrations broke out in four cities.

Ever since the 2012 Olympics in London, Britain has become more and more of a database police state.

He says this means establishing the rule of law, rejecting the idea of a police state and supporting the separation of power.

"Papa Doc" vows to extend power to the black masses but turns the country into a police state.

"This undoubtedly brings us close to. . . a 'police state', " declared Provea, a human-rights group.

His France was a police state with a vast network of secret police and spies.

The fact that it's a genocidal and secretive police state only exacerbates matters.

Yet the family had no illusions about the restrictions and dangers of life in the East German police state.

He bequeathed to his successor a well-functioning police state.

In private many Iraqis, especially educated ones, are asking if their country may go back to being a police state.

My Tunisian friends were right: A police state looks stable only until the day it is not.

In Cuba, meanwhile, the police state remains intact.

Saddam Hussein's police state ruthlessly eliminates anyone who dares to dissent.

And only a police state can force everyone to obey them.

Only in a limited way, without becoming a police state.

S. companies helped build China's electronic police state.

And it's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state.

That doesn't do anything but reinforce power and lead to more police, more military, and that can lead to a police-state.

Hidden from public view, Manipur has become a virtual police-state.

Why? I haven't done anything. Talk about a police state? !

Actually it is a police state, and they weakened Abu Mazen and made Hamas stronger.

When that begins to happen, that is a preemptive strike to implement a police state nationwide. Absolutely.

The debate in the West is about how to handle this increasingly belligerent police state. Mr.

Libya was a police state for 42 years.

My father is a police state, he worked at the police station, my mother was a banker.

Could a police state return?

Iraq, the second most important Arab state after Egypt, remained a savage police state.

They're a police state, and we thought we could trust them.

Third, been given to the temptation to prey on the illegal acts of the police state compensation;