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		s_q_b on July 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yahoo's Fight for its Users Earns the Company Spec... Modern newspeak and equivalent English terms: Department of Homeland Security - Department of State Security Public Safety - Police Department of Defense - Department of War Enhanced interrogation techniques - Torture

icebraining on July 15, 2013 [–]

Public Safety includes way more than Police; there's the fire brigades, the emergency medical services, the DMV and more.

s_q_b on July 15, 2013 | [–]

That's true, but to me lumping in the gendarme with firefighters and EMS is pretty Orwellian language engineering.

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