Talk:Thought Police
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[edit] 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)
[edit] 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).
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
