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thought police

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thought police
n
a group of people with totalitarian views on a given subject, who constantly monitor others for any deviation from prescribed thinking
[from the Thought Police described by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)]


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The thought police were thwarted when box office for those films dramatically tailed off after word-of-mouth online reviews from the public emerged.
These days though the thought police who, not content with giving 13-year-olds a criminal record, are, don't laugh, going to follow that up with post incident mediation - whatever that means in English.
The song by Kirkees BNP councillor Colin Auty (Examiner March 27) is not "a song of hatred" at all but a true and sad reflection of many areas in England today, How typical that Asian feelings have been hurt and a report been made to the worryingly named "Standards Board for England" AKA Thought Police.
 
 
 
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