As it is in a totalitarian regime, there is no real distinction between government arbitrariness and the law.
Prof Ratzinger, as a German who had grown up in the 1930s, understood all too well what a totalitarian regime could do.
One runs a totalitarian regime where dissent of any kind can lead to death, whereas the other runs a highly illiberal democracy.
"Sometimes you find yourself in a position where you are actually the only person in a position to speak out against a totalitarian regime, " he says.
It is realistic to assume that this force could help protect and consolidate a totalitarian regime as the Iranian revolutionary guards and other similar praetorian forces usually do.
Although businesspeople clearly share the same freedom of speech prerogatives afforded anyone not living under a totalitarian regime, I recommend they focus on improving their return to their stakeholders.
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" George Venizelos, head of the FBI's New York office, described Mr. Abu Ghaith's position in al Qaeda as "comparable to the consigliere in a mob family or propaganda minister in a totalitarian regime.
After 21 years of President Ould Taya, the army said that they had staged this coup because they wanted to end a totalitarian regime, and they wanted up to two years to put in democratic institutions.
Their job, he said, would be to provide in a very limited way a measure of assistance and protection to the people of that country - people who were suffering the depredations of a totalitarian regime the United States opposed.
The suspect "held a key position in al Qaeda, comparable to the consigliere in a mob family or propaganda minister in a totalitarian regime, " said George Venizelos, assistant director in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's New York field office.
There is nothing a totalitarian regime likes more than devoting its citizens to pointless activities, such as throwing the javelin, and then claiming, when one of them does it better than anyone else in the world, that it proves the brilliance of the dictator and the beneficent efficiency of his rule.
Chavez will turn Venezuela into a full totalitarian regime in a matter of a few months.
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Have no doubt that Castro's totalitarian regime makes a joke of the notion that this Cuba-based family is in a position to make a free decision.
However, one of Insulza's most outrageous decisions is to readmit the totalitarian Cuban regime as a member of the OAS. Cuba's membership was revoked by OAS member countries in 1962.
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Was the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev really just an authoritarian regime, rather than a totalitarian one?
After coming to power 30 years ago, Assad's regime quickly degenerated into a totalitarian ally of the Soviet Union.
Instead, these issues are the byproducts of a much larger problem: the nature of the totalitarian regime.
It is in the midst of a shaky succession process, which is hard for any totalitarian regime, let alone one where the chubby heir-apparent, Mr Kim's son, Kim Jong Un, is little known or loved.
If this regime began as an extreme authoritarian regime, it's on the way to becoming a totalitarian system.
Rather, it is a choice between a young, imperfect, struggling democracy that we have helped midwife into existence, and the totalitarian, terrorist regime that al Qaeda hopes to impose in its place, should we retreat.
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