About the witch-hunt-like climate, he is on less controversial ground.
It would be a dangerous irony if the effect of the witch-hunt assailing prominent Bush Administration Jews were to have the effect of weakening a vital alliance, emboldening our enemies and causing Mr. Bush possibly acute domestic political problems, to boot.
"I have to say the absolute witch-hunt which is going on at the moment - and the idea a child naked is something to be frowned upon - is absolutely abhorrent, " he added.
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During the Vietnam War, during the civil rights movement, during the McCarthy era - John McCarthy in the United States, the Communist witch hunt era - university presidents stood up, made controversial provocative and in some cases very courageous statements about what society should be doing.
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The ex-president says the charges are part of a political witch-hunt against him and his allies.
The last thing he needs is a witch-hunt inside the same organisation that is now in charge of his war on terrorism.
That said, I worry that it will be used to stir up the long-running witch-hunt against free-roaming cats.
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Once it was revealed that the killer was a fan of Starcraft, a relatively non-violent strategy game, the age old witch hunt began again from blog posts to full-on segments on CNN.
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"We are trying to witch-hunt the issues in this program right now, " Mr. McNerney told investors in October 2006 as the problems became apparent.
Even more troubling is the transparent character of this witch-hunt: With apparently one exception, all of those named in one way or another in connection with this inquiry (for example, they have been briefed on the matter, they run large Pentagon bureaucracies in which an individual suspected of misconduct - or, perhaps, espionage - works, etc.) have something in common: They are Jews.
Others see Waters as one of the chief instigators of a media witch-hunt.
She said, although sympathetic to the families' position, she did not want the inquest to become "a witch-hunt" where blame was cast.
Foreign affairs spokesman Ed Davey said the probe would not be a "witch-hunt" but would uphold universal values.
The filmmakers argued that the men were the subject of a small-town witch hunt and that justice was not served.
"Holding someone in contempt of Congress is one of the most serious and formal actions our committee can take, and it should not be used as a political tool to generate press as part of an election-year witch hunt against the Obama administration, " Cummings wrote.
Rattled by these events, "Team Anna" - as the campaign's leadership is popularly called - has closed ranks and blamed the authorities for carrying out a witch hunt against them.
The great danger is of a vindictive, arbitrary witch-hunt, where communist-era tactics of denunciation and punishment are used against those whose main crime is being unlucky, not wicked.
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One can only hope that in the glare of the flagrant injustices the San Antonio Four case presents, the courts recognize the imperative of freeing these four women and moving us one step closer to rehabilitating all of the many lives ruined by a decades-old witch hunt for sexual assaults that never happened.
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Many saw the 1996 campaign-finance scandal as a Yellow Peril witch-hunt.
Mr Kim and his supporters also mistrust some bureaucrats, who have been destroying government documents in case there is a witch-hunt for those responsible for getting the country into such a mess.
They said the detention of the ousted Yugoslav leader was part of an "anti-Serb witch hunt" and a violation of human rights, and ddemandedhis immediate release.
Mr Gowda denies a witch-hunt, and says that activist courts have forced the police to act, regardless of the government's inclination.
Mr Habibie has tried to head off demands for a commercial witch-hunt by ordering a more general inquiry into corruption, headed by the attorney-general's office.
Worse, no action has been taken against those in the police and the attorney-general's office found to have fabricated evidence last year in a witch-hunt against KPK officials.
Recent trials of Dutch political leader Geert Wilders, Austrian free speech champion Elizabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, and Danish Islamic expert Lars Hedegaard (as well as the witch hunt for "instigators" that followed the murderous attacks by Norwegian blogger Anders Behring Brevik) all attest to the extent of these "hate speech" laws' oppressive pall over what is left of the European Enlightenment.
"There can be no industrial peace without meaningful negotiations and while management victimises trade unionists and uses disciplinary procedures in a witch-hunt, " they said, claiming that a Unite approach made over the weekend had been rejected.
Sunni Arabs see al-Tai's death sentence as further evidence of a Shiite Muslim witch hunt against their minority's once-dominant position and of undue influence by the Shiite-dominated government over the judiciary.
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