Word: gestapoed
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...Many Israelis, the Holocaust fresh in their memory, believe that that Horror gives them the right to inflict horror on others," he wrote. "Winternitz's account of the Shin Bet, the Israeli secret police, is eerily similar to the stories of the Nazi Gestapo, the Geheimstaatspolitzei in Nazi-occupied territories in World War II--arbitrary arrests in the middle of the night, imprisonment without trial, beatings, refined tortures, murder, punishment of the families of suspects...
...DECENCY ACT PASSES, HOW LONG will it be before Senator Exon's gestapo is opening and censoring U.S. mail? It is curious that Exon is so exercised over "indecency" on the Internet when there is very little on the net that can't be found quite easily on the magazine racks and in the bookstores of his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska...
...Smith is not along in exemplifying the new Gestapo-guidelines of artistic academia. Pick up any poetry journal or writers' anthology; what you'll get everywhere is warmed-over histrionics and clamor...
...billboards touting one-world harmony and vacations in "Paris, Germania." (There's also an ad for the Beatles; those Hamburg clubs apparently survived.) The country is repressive and regimented, but the "Heil Hitlers" have grown routine and less convincing; the bureaucrats are cynical and restive. The SS and the Gestapo are at odds, like the FBI and the CIA during Watergate. Police officers (among them Peter Vaughan and Michael Kitchen in fine supporting roles) haven't lost their morals, just some of their courage...
...found himself drawn to the spiritual arcana of the Knights Templar, a mystical brotherhood banned in France in the 14th century. Eventually he joined a French-based group called the Reformed Order of the Temple that mixed Roman Catholicism, yoga, alchemy and anticommunism under the leadership of an ex-Gestapo officer named Julien Origas. After Origas died in 1981, Jouret became leader...