Village: The Village Inn
discussing quote:
A functioning police state needs no police.
Burroughs, William S.
Started by 
lanamo
What exactly is he saying in this quote. I know a police state is when a police functions revolove around protection of property. Like celeberties need protection, but exactly is he saying in "a functioning police state needs no police".
rcrasta25 said:
It suggests that the people have been so brainwashed that they have become their own policemen--that illegal and unwanted thoughts and therefore actions simply won't happen, because the people have started thinking like the state.