police state 

A country where the police watch what you do and try to control your life. Where there's cameras in town centres and on public transport. Where you can be arrested because of something you said to a friend about the leaders of your country. Where police stop and search people for no reason. Where you can be detained without charge or trial. Where the state plants bugs with impunity. Where protesters have to get police permits, and where police regularly attack protesters.

Hang on. That sounds like America and Britain today!

Smash all police states! Down with Patriot Act, ASBOs, CCTV, ID cards, biometrics, no fly lists, Terrorism Act, Gitmo, Belmarsh, Public Order Act, and Nazi bastard politicians and pigs!

police state by Andy August 6, 2004

police state 

What America is becoming, thanks to the US PATRIOT act, whos name is pretty ironic.

FREEDOM IS EEEVIL YAALLL! GO BUSH!
- Authoritarian Republican

police state by Potato Reborn March 4, 2004

Police State 

America, post 9/11 and hence a definitive hypocrisy

'Police state? Amrica, after the Patriot Act, which was written BEFORE 9/11 and which was always intended to be the 1984 bill

Police State by evelyn waughfare November 26, 2003

Police state 

A totalitarian state where people have to ask permission to do anything.

People end up with a police state if they don't wake up and fight to keep their government in check. Sometimes it just keeps getting darker, there's no guarantee the light at the end of any tinnel is going to be daylight.

Police state by Solid Mantis January 26, 2021

Police state 

What the coronavirus has allowed all countries to become. Whether the cops recruited are male or female, the resulting police state is the same, an overrecruited and overpoliced population, no matter what the people being policed (or recruited for that matter) look like.

There are no checks and balances in a police state, what little rights people had before are considered by the police and entities that fund them to be surrendered by the people being policed.

Police state by The Original Agahnim September 15, 2021

Police State Rationalization

The argument that pervasive surveillance, the suspension of rights, and preemptive policing are regrettable but essential for safety, stability, or the protection of a way of life. It frames freedom and security as a zero-sum game, where any critique of control is painted as naive or sympathetic to chaos.

Example: "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." This classic police state rationalization turns the presumption of innocence on its head, making privacy itself suspect. It justifies blanket surveillance by individualizing the threat and rationalizing the loss of liberty as a small price for the law-abiding to pay.

Police State Rationalization by Abzugal February 8, 2026

Surveillance Police State (SPS) 

The United States - in which all persons are subject to continual observation and monitoring by the government and corporations in all aspects of life; where no piece of information is too private or insignificant for inclusion in the permanent digital record; where all persons are subject to the jurisdiction of secret courts and the arbitrary suspension of constitutional rights. The Surveillance Police State (SPS) is sponsored by the presidential administrations of George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama, the Democrat and Republican parties in Congress, the U.S. judiciary, all government agencies and most large corporations - particularly telecommunication, finance, defense, media and internet companies. Its creation was foretold by numerous literary and cinematic works; and although its actual existence was known since at least 2001, it only received critical attention when brought to light by whistleblower Edward J. Snowden in 2013.

The Surveillance Police State (SPS) is an act of terrorism against United States citizens.

Surveillance Police State (SPS) by auropticon August 14, 2013