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1:a group of people who aim or are seen as aiming to [[suppress]] [[ideas]] that deviate from the way of [[thinking]] that they believe to be correct.

1:a group of people who aim or are seen as aiming to [[suppress]] [[ideas]] that deviate from the way of [[thinking]] that they believe to be correct.

==Description==

==Description==

The '''Thought Police''' (thinkpol in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak Newspeak]) are the secret police of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania_(Nineteen_Eighty-Four) Oceania] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell George Orwell]'s dystopian novel ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four Nineteen Eighty-Four]''.

The '''Thought Police''' (thinkpol in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak Newspeak]) are the secret police of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania_(Nineteen_Eighty-Four) Oceania] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell George Orwell]'s dystopian novel ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four Nineteen Eighty-Four]''.

It is the job of the ''Thought Police'' to uncover and punish [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime thoughtcrime] and thought-[[criminals]]. They use [[psychology]] and omnipresent [[surveillance]] (such as telescreens) to search, find, monitor and arrest members of society who could potentially [[challenge]] [[authority]] and [[status quo]], even only by thought, hence the name Thought Police. They use [[terror]] and [[torture]] to achieve their ends.

It is the job of the ''Thought Police'' to uncover and punish [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime thoughtcrime] and thought-[[criminals]]. They use [[psychology]] and omnipresent [[surveillance]] (such as telescreens) to search, find, monitor and arrest members of society who could potentially [[challenge]] [[authority]] and [[status quo]], even only by thought, hence the name Thought Police. They use [[terror]] and [[torture]] to achieve their ends.

It also had much to do with Orwell's own "power of facing unpleasant facts," as he called it, and his willingness to criticize prevailing ideas which brought him into [[conflict]] with others and their "smelly little [[Orthodox|orthodoxies]]."

It also had much to do with Orwell's own "power of facing unpleasant facts," as he called it, and his willingness to criticize prevailing ideas which brought him into [[conflict]] with others and their "smelly little [[Orthodox|orthodoxies]]."

In the first half of the twentieth century, prior to the publication of 1984, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokubetsu_K%C5%8Dt%C5%8D_Keisatsu Special Higher Police] (Tokko) in Japan were sometimes known as the ''Thought Police''.

In the first half of the twentieth century, prior to the publication of 1984, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokubetsu_K%C5%8Dt%C5%8D_Keisatsu Special Higher Police] (Tokko) in Japan were sometimes known as the ''Thought Police''.

The term "Thought Police," by extension, has come to refer to real or [[perceived]] enforcement of [[ideological]] correctness, or preemptive policing where a person is apprehended in [[anticipation]] of the possibility that they may commit a [[crime]], in any [[modern]] or historical [[contexts]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_police]

The term "Thought Police," by extension, has come to refer to real or [[perceived]] enforcement of [[ideological]] correctness, or preemptive policing where a person is apprehended in [[anticipation]] of the possibility that they may commit a [[crime]], in any [[modern]] or historical [[contexts]].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_police]

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