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Gestapo

noun as in SWAT team

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"These incidents come after months of smears and rhetoric by activists, politicians, and the media comparing ICE law enforcement to the Nazi Gestapo, kidnappers, and the Secret Police," a senior official said at the time.

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The same file shows him referring to police as "frigging Nazis", "Gestapo" and "terrorist thugs".

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Y’all b***h about Freedom and you vote for the Gestapo.

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Alternately, his tone was infused with contempt, sarcasm or genuine sympathy for his subjects who had been victims of brutality unleashed by the Gestapo or secret police of the Vichy regime.

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"I think this is almost a Gestapo nation right now — that people are going to take you out of your homes, out of your school, out of your jobs, whatever. This is not America."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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