Word: pretexting
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...American way of life, one citizen doesn't try to force his personal way of life down another citizen's throat. I hope that this nation will not try to force its way of life on other nations under pretext of defending it, instead of letting other nations come around to it if they will...
...Mediterranean Jewish myth." Later the Vatican broadcast that all Germans expressing a desire to become priests are liable to internment, that convents and monasteries have been closed all over Germany, that priests have trouble in ministering to soldiers and are liable to expulsion from their parishes at the slightest pretext...
...Ireland, whose wretched peasantry was already starving because of another parasite, the English landlord. Between 1845 and 1860, in the greatest disaster since the Napoleonic Wars, 1,000,000 Irish died directly because of potato fungus, and 1,500,000 emigrated. English industrialists used the Irish famine as a pretext to repeal the Corn Laws (which limited food imports). This, says Chemist Large, was "perhaps the most significant single event in the history of the British Empire." Reason: it inaugurated Free Trade and the Empire's Golden Age. Groused the Duke of Wellington: "Rotten potatoes have done...
Shallenberger's friends say that he himself is sometimes pestered by subversive elements. One time two people visited him on the pretext of wanting to practice their German. They came armed with a bottle of Scotch, and, after they thought he had been "softened up," they peppered him with Nazi propaganda. On another occasion a stranger invited Shallenberger to come with him to greet a boatload of Germans who were entering the country illegally--an invitation which he refused...
Last week the final court appeal in the Browder case was denied, his conviction and sentence to four years' imprisonment for a technical passport violation upheld. And just as in the case at Harvard last year, it is clear that the passport violation is only a pretext--the persecution of Browder and of the political party which he represents is a violation of fundamental democratic rights, and a violation of these rights by our government itself...