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  • Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not merely the most complete police state since Stalinism, but also a threat to the entire world. The hubris and arrogance of Washington, combined with Washington's huge supply of weapons of mass destruction, make Washington the greatest threat that has ever existed to all life on the planet. Washington is the enemy of all humanity.

  • "Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state.

    Police   Bob   Salad  
    Source: www.thedailybeast.com
  • The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded.

    Home   Police   Citizens  
    Anne Edwards, David G. McCullough, Vance Oakley Packard, Andrew Sinclair, Daphne Du Maurier (1978). “Vivien Leigh: a biography”
  • The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.

  • When a leader has deployed a private army, that is one definition of a police state. Another is when the president, or a leader, has his own treasury.

    Army   Leader   Police  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.

    Party   Police   Taste  
    "A Statement: Communism, Free-Speech, and 'Naming Names'" by Elia Kazan, www.capitalismmagazine.com. April 19, 1999.
  • Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

    Country   Fear   Voice  
    United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”
  • One thing about a police state, you can always find the police.

    Police   Nazi   Authority  
  • Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear.

    Fun   Giving Up   Believe  
    Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
  • In a police state, referencing one's rights is seen as an act of aggression.

  • I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000 troops and 6 million dollars to put one negro in the University of Mississippi. That's a police action, police state action.

    Real   Mean   Thinking  
    Source: nyx.uky.edu
  • Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties. And I honestly believe that one or two 9/11s, and martial law will be declared in our country and we're inching towards a police state.

    Country   Rip   Believe  
    "The capped crusader" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2003.
  • Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city does not mean America is free, as complacent liberals might think, much less too free, as conservatives often suggest. Just because most dissidents are left alone doesn't mean there is no police state, for that would be convenient indeed for the police statists: the idea that people ought not complain so long as they have the right to do so.

    Mean   Kissing   Gay  
  • Millions of people have to restore liberty and have to understand the danger and personal risk they face in a police state.

    People   Police   Risk  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I'm tired of living in a police state.

    Tired   Police   States  
  • The reason I'm voting for Barack Obama is that it's either him or a police state - someone who's carrying on policies that are clearly stated and directed at subverting liberty. He's definitely the lesser of two evils.

    Two   Evil   Voting  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the Nazis.

  • Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.

  • There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.

    Elia Kazan, William Baer (2000). “Elia Kazan: Interviews”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • ...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an 'informer' psychology in great areas of our national life-neighbors spying on neighbors, workers spying on workers, business spying on businessmen-were those who would harass their fellow citizens for selfish and narrow purposes will have ample inducement to do so. These, the Federal police force an 'informer' psychology, are the hallmarks of the police state and landmarks in the destruction of a free society.

  • If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

    "The Last Enemy" by Rebecca Sato, www.pbs.org. November 11, 2010.
  • A police state is a country run by criminals

    Robert Harris (1994). “Fatherland”, HarperPrism
  • The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.

    Home   Police   Mind  
  • If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

    Time   Freedom   Future  
  • It is foolish for people to think they can align themselves and be safe in a police state.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably enough and exercise their liberties very lightly, never testing the boundaries. You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door.

    Exercise   Doors   Class  
    Joe Bageant (2008). “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War”, p.173, Broadway Books
  • Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.

    "Les Temps modernes". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, p. 184, 1961.
  • All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a police state. You can't have anything otherwise. So that's your supposition.

    Moving   Past   Rights  
    Source: nyx.uky.edu
  • You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of 'getting along.'

    Mean   Police   Different  
  • When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow the Government to deploy those technologies.

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