Talk:Thought Police

Link whoring
The addition of a reference to an essay by Michael Crawford in the opening sentence seems slightly excessive and a fairly clear case of link whoring. If people think it really should stay, perhaps adding a "Cultural references" section or somehting would be appropriate. 203.129.45.3 05:42, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Additions
Should not the cyber-police and misc. branches of Chinese law enforcement be mentioned here? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Foltake (talk • contribs) 04:11, 31 January 2007 (UTC).

Department of Homeland Security (US)
What's the justification for putting the Department of Homeland Security in the list of secret police agencies? I don't think even the wildest critics and conspiracy theorists have ever accused DHS of being on par with NKVD, KGB, Stasi,etc. The criticism section on the DHS page also describes the usual bureaucratic incompetence, with accusations of secret police-like tactics notably absent. Compare to NKVD, which describes such things as sending millions to Gulags and executing hundreds of thousands of people.

If this is considered to be justified, we should probably also include the domestic intelligence agencies of other Democracies, such as MI5, DST, BfV, etc

UFMace 03:02, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Citation needed
"many other socialists thought that his criticism of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin damaged the socialist cause." This is the most uncyclopedic statement I have read today in wikipedia. I would highly appreciate if someone, preferably the author himself, would cite some socialists on this matter. Or otherwise remove this sentence, since it only creates a socialsists-even-stick-to-people-who-caused-millions-of-deaths-as-long-as-they-still-claim-to-be-socialists kind of feeling to the reader. Maarten,dutch (talk) 14:28, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Proposal for merge
This article should be merged into Nineteen Eighty-Four, possibly as a chapter. I do not believe that it is notable enough to be a stand-alone. Prowikipedians (talk) 05:16, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I strongly disagree. It is an important concept that is part of the larger culture.  7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 16:37, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Necessary but not finished
I think this section is necessary. However, it would be more effective if the section discussed the failure of the American occupation of Japan to remove members of the thought police from power. The thought police was abolished but the same people remained in power and they renamed the group. I'm not sure what it was renamed... that is why i looked it up. But, the occupation unwittingly perpetuated the Japanese Imperial state with acts like this one. I think it is important in understanding the American occupation of Japan and it should be elaborated in this way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.235.57.70 (talk) 17:58, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

1.129.104.255 (talk) 21:22, 5 February 2018 (UTC) The occupiers have become the new thought police.

The Thought Police are Psychiatrists
"a person is apprehended in anticipation of the possibility that they may commit a crime, in any modern or historical contexts." The psychiatrist prevents crime by medicating/drugging their patient or by helping them in a hospital(not to be called a jail) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipsychiatry#Tool_of_social_control " signs which can be used to detect young people who are in need of prophylactic drug treatment to prevent the development of schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.160.92.125 (talk) 04:54, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Move to Thinkpol
How about me move this to Thinkpol? Will definitely clear up some confusion with the Japanese term. TheCoolAadith (talk) 10:39, 23 March 2024 (UTC)