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Article: Belafonte: Bush administration backs Gestapo tactics
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- January 22, 2006
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VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
01-22-2006
Dateline: NEW YORK
Entertainer Harry Belafonte, one of the Bush administration's harshest critics, compared the Homeland Security Department to the Nazi Gestapo and attacked the president as a liar.
"We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended," Belafonte said in a speech Saturday to the annual meeting of the Arts Presenters Members Conference.
"You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel," said Belafonte.
Belafonte's remarks on Saturday _ part of a 45-minute speech on the role of the arts in a ...