Word: expeller
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...February 1942 Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9,066, authorizing DeWitt to expel all Japanese, aliens and citizens alike, from the coastal area. That spring 120,000 people were rounded up with little more than the clothes on their back -- farmers and fishermen, old women, children, a kaleidoscope of the "subversive." They were shipped off to 10 bleak concentration camps in remote areas like Manzanar, west of Death Valley...
...response, Fannie Mae last week launched a program to audit bond sales and expel cheaters from the group of 56 firms that sell the securities to the public. "We realized there was no integrity in the system," an agency spokesman said...
Finally, if the deadline is ignored and the moment of truth arrives, call the police and have the demonstrators arrested for trespassing. Allow their classmates and future public defenders to bail them out of jail. After appropriate consultation and investigation, suspend or expel the malefactors, or at least place them on probation...
...homosexuals as parents, and sexist to order a Domino's pizza because the chain's chairman donates money to an antiabortion group. Imagine institutions that insist they absolutely defend free speech but punish the airing of distasteful views by labeling them unacceptable "behavior" instead of words -- and then expel the perpetrators...
University policy should, and indeed does, encourage students to respect each others' feelings, but an overprotective Mother Harvard would be unjust and counterproductive. We said last week that even Brown University's recent decision to expel a student for screaming racial and ethnic slurs constituted an unacceptable restriction on free expression. For Harvard to pull down offensive symbols would be truly totalitarian...