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Defenders claim that there is nothing Gestapo-like about this provision because immigrants are already required by federal law to carry their papers.
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Granted, it was disturbing to watch Dutchman Arjen Robben writhing around like Juliet in a bad junior high school production of Romeo and Juliet, but that Gestapo-like stomping of the Diving Dutchman was everything that's wrong with human beings.
David Henry Sterry: World Cup 2010: What We Learned About Ourselves and the World 2010
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It would be the most progressive and least Gestapo-like of any tax system to date. —
What Would an Independent I.R.S. Look Like? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Imagine if, after the fall of Hitler, an unreconstructed Nazi-like regime had remained in place in some small European country, and continued to run concentration camps, a Gestapo-like secret police, and so on.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why the Neglect of Communist Crimes Matters 2009
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Imagine if, after the fall of Hitler, an unreconstructed Nazi-like regime had remained in place in some small European country, and continued to run concentration camps, a Gestapo-like secret police, and so on.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why the Neglect of Communist Crimes Matters 2009
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Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Monsanto andour Federal Government are working tirelessly to infect the entire planet with Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), while at the same time making sure that the average Joe isunable to savehis own seeds through a combination of Terminator seedtechnology and Gestapo-like practices, and isforced to propagate the very GMO scourge that the Doomsday Seed Vault is built to address.
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The mailed fist of this government was the PCD, the Public Control Department, who were given carte blanche to use any jackbooted method to cow the population including torture, brainwashing, and all manner of Gestapo-like techniques.
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Although the heavy-handed Gestapo-like security measures meted out to Viennese home owners, business proprietors, and pedestrians by US Secret Service agents and local police before and during Bush's visit received widespread Austrian media attention, it was White House 'toilet security' (TOILSEC), which has Austrians talking the most.
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These Gestapo-like tactics are going on in St. Paul while inside the RNC they are waving the American flag and wrapping themselves up in it.
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Should a city awash in wealth go after them with a Gestapo-like investigative intensity?
Adam Hanft: New York, You Should be Ashamed. Very Ashamed. 2008
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