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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (692889)1/15/2013 10:38:41 AM
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Installing arm guards in every public venue is.

Depends on their purpose - in police states they are used to "keep order" i.e. keep the people from getting out of control.

The real hallmark of a police state is a leader that rules by edict and not law - sort of like obama's 19 executive orders they claim he's dreaming up.

All hail the enlightened one -

Enlightened absolutism Under the political model of enlightened absolutism, the ruler is the "highest servant of the state" and exercises absolute power to provide for the general welfare of the population. This model of government proposes that all the power of the state must be directed toward this end, and rejects codified, statutory constraints upon the ruler's absolute power.
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