Roseann Rife, east asia research director of Amnesty International, said: "The Chinese authorities have once again opted for the rule of fear over the rule of law.
Whether it's drones, criminal justice, immigration, social issues, or the deficit, wherever you look, the rule of fear is there.
Pressure on both family and public budgets intensifies resistance to changing this rule, for fear of increased costs.
He claims that rather than comply with this rule out of fear, which shows a lack of respect for others, we should comply in ways the rule was intended, out of the other-regarding motive of not wanting to cause another harm or suffering, a feeling that is generated both by our own experience of being harmed and from the nature of human beings in general.
Prince Tarquinius, an Etruscan tyrant whose rule of fear has subdued Rome, resolves to put that virtue to the test.
Just like Arizona's SB1070, the feds' S-Comm program allows police to hunt down immigrants: it opens the door to racial profiling and pre-textual arrests, and it creates a rule of fear.
During the second world war several members of Mr Cioaba's family were among the 40,000 Romanian gypsies deported to German concentration camps (where more than 500,000 gypsies from European countries died: Auschwitz had its own gypsy section).The post-war ruler, Nicolae Ceausescu, did not persecute the gypsies, at least no more than he exercised a rule of fear over all Romanians.
Under his leadership, Eritreans live under a "rule of fear," according to last year's U.N. report.
He accused Massey of operating under a rule of "fear and intimidation" to prevent workers from speaking out about safety problems.
For example, choosing to engage with a political party on the government's humanitarian policies is proactive engagement whilst quietly fulfilling the requirements of a bureaucratic rule out of fear of legal repercussions is simply adherence.
