All Intensive Purposes

If the White House and their supporters are going to quibble about the aptness of "gulag" I've got about 40,000 words I want to take up with them, because at least in English hardly a single true utterance emerges from the place.
 

Of course, if we're talk about the president's vocabulary then that's only about 400 words, and about half of those you couldn't look up without a dictionary of American idiom.
 

It's worth remembering that back in the 70s when Amnesty criticised the British government for detaining & torturing in Northern Ireland, suddenly the organisation was no longer a group of well-meaning nice middle-class people but a vicious pro-terrorist front. They had the guts to stick to their line with integrity then; I hope & trust they will do so again.