Sentences with phrase «like internment»

Nothing says Freedom Loving America like Internment Camps....

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But over the last few years (since 2008), I think there's been a pretty dramatic growth in what we'd call Tea Party politics in that set — extreme conservatism that goes beyond hands off fiscal and regulatory policy, the kind of feverish mindset in which you could write with a straight face that progressives might be building toward some sort of mass wealth confiscation or internment or even extermination for the likes of Tom Perkins.

And these books don't serve up blind patriotism nor are they revisionist in scope — the stories put a human face on some of our most tragic moments and failures as a nation like Japanese internment, the plight of home children, residential schools, flu epidemics, wars, child labour, the Halifax explosion, the Acadian expulsion, and so on.

I asked for atrocities you know like slavery, internment, Jim Crow, lynchings, arson, or bombings and you come up with an as.sault case.

The others were his two - year stint at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and his internment in a Nazi prison camp («If this is Upper Silesia, one wonders what Lower Silesia must be like»).

Yes, because just EVERYONE knows that nothing says patriotic American and loving Christian like modern day internment camps.

Like the story of Harvey Itano, a Japanese - American chemist who faced hardships in WWII internment camps in California.

(In English and French with subtitles) MIS — Human Secret Weapon (Unrated) World War II documentary belatedly crediting the contributions made by patriotic Japanese - Americans translating intercepted messages and cracking enemy codes, despite the fact that their families were caged like animals in desert internment camps.

Doesn't matter, as in the place of all that stuff about internment camps that so beautifully complicated the 1984 flick is the drama of Mr. Han née Miyagi (Jackie Chan) losing control of his car on a dark and stormy night (because just as every chink knows kung fu, none of them can drive — Han totals a car in the film while it's parked in his living room), thus opening the door for a ragamuffin to come calling like some funked - up changeling.

There was, for example, her superintendent's son; a Vogue design director, Ron Kajiwara, who as a child was detained in a California internment camp; many children who knocked on her door when they found out she painted «Spanish kids»; and public figures like the actor and playwright Alice Childress.

There seems reason to hope that the latest round of counter-terror laws will not be rushed through Parliament in a matter of weeks, like the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 — introducing the control order regime — or the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 — creating Belmarsh internment.

Book Review — Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps.