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  • noun Plural form of thoughtcrime.

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  • It resulted in justice being meted out to thousands for what Orwell called "thoughtcrimes" or for their freely expressed opinions and actions judged hostile to the state under a system of near-vigilante justice by the Paris Revolutionary (kangaroo) Tribunal with no right of appeal.

    A Look Back and Ahead In An Age of Neocon Rule 2006

  • It resulted in justice being meted out to thousands for what Orwell called "thoughtcrimes" or for their freely expressed opinions and actions judged hostile to the state under a system of near-vigilante justice by the Paris Revolutionary (kangaroo) Tribunal with no right of appeal.

    A Look Back and Ahead In An Age of Neocon Rule 2006

  • For me the story is noteworthy for a lot of reasons: Silverberg's society seems more interested in convicting thoughtcrimes than violence or theft (our protagonist is punished for the crime of emotional coldness).

    MIND MELD: Memorable Short Stories to Add to Your Reading List (Part 2 of 2) 2009

  • I thought at once of 'Newspeak', the language of George Orwell's novel 1984, where words are repurposed so that citizens cannot commit thoughtcrimes.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Dan 2007

  • I thought at once of 'Newspeak', the language of George Orwell's novel 1984, where words are repurposed so that citizens cannot commit thoughtcrimes.

    Redevelopment 'Forum': When is a forum a forum? Dan 2007

  • Are they, to use yet another apt Orwellian phrase, to be judged to be guilty of similar “thoughtcrimes”?

    James Pinkerton: Newsweek's Newspeak 2008

  • File under: Hypocrisy « thoughtcrimes and misdemeanors says:

    Think Progress » Science Teachers’ Organization Refuses To Accept Copies of Inconvenient Truth 2006

  • So keep up the attacks on KOS, and someday, we'll have the America we desire--a place where thoughtcrimes are policed by the people.

    Archive 2004-03-28 2004

  • College Republicans in Colorado didn't sit around and whine when a professor repeatedly committed thoughtcrimes in the classroom.

    Archive 2004-04-04 2004

  • College Republicans in Colorado didn't sit around and whine when a professor repeatedly committed thoughtcrimes in the classroom.

    03/28/2004 - 04/04/2004 2004

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