Summary
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student at Tufts University, was detained in Somerville, MA, by masked agents claiming to be police, without charges or transparency.
The Trump administration alleges she supported Hamas, citing unverified intelligence, after her student visa was revoked.
Der Spiegel linked her detention to pro-Palestinian advocacy, including an opinion piece urging divestment from Israel.
The incident sparked outrage, highlighting long-standing surveillance and detainment of Muslim Americans under national security pretenses.
Civil liberties advocates warn of increasing government overreach targeting minority communities.
Now this is what we should be out protesting in mass, among other things. Kidnapping people in broad daylight in unmarked uniforms, with masks on? That’s not police, that’s a bunch of Brownshirt thugs.
Yeah and this just sets a precedent for other people/groups… Wanna kidnap someone? Wear all black cover your faces and say you’re the police…
My guess is they’re hired security thugs and not actually ICE agents, hence why they’re not showing a badge or uniform.
Which is 100% illegal
The Proud Boys are more like the Brownshirts: useful for the rise of fascism, but ultimately, a disposable group that was never going to get any real power under the regime. The way ICE is acting is more analogous to the SS or Gestapo: an unaccountable group of government goons that disappear undesirables and dissidents.
There are dozens of things that have happened in the last 2 months that Americans should be protesting.
Millions of them.
Constantly.
Yeah, that’s on purpose. It’s the fascist playbook. Flood the zone with bullshit so nobody can pick one thing to be upset about, and then normalize it.
“We’re the police. Relax,” one of the men says
Fam I’d rather be kidnapped by a rando than the police. Relaxing is the last thing I would be doing while getting swarmed by pigs
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Dude… Totally insane. I was saying for years this Gestapo shit was going on and was only getting worse. Absolutely horrifying to see this happening in my country after all the patriotic bullshit they blew up our asses about how great the United States was as a kid. I’m ashamed to be an American.
It is no longer your country.
So we’re getting the Black Panthers back together right?
I desperately want this to happen, but as a white dude Im in an awkward position
Gestapo. America is Nazi now.
They did it in the 50s with communists. Probably before.
I really should start carrying a gun to protect myself.
The second amendment is not restricted to old white men. Just saying
the police will act as if it is
And that’s WHY the second amendment
You should look up how the “Kristallnacht” came to be.
That would result in you getting heavily perforated instead of disappeared. Up to you which is preferable, I guess.
Ever notice how cops tend not to fuck with armed protesters?
They don’t fuck with armed conservatives. Armed leftists get bombed from helicopters and cut down with belt-fed machine guns.
Only when they’re white men. The rest tend to get shot as the officers fear for their lives.
I rather not get disappeared. Is that much better?
And if the worst does happen, maybe they’ll consider the risks of ambushing the next person. It is an extremely dangerous thing to do!
Russia 2.0.
Reich 4.0
Every day my judgement that the US is already lost gets stronger. What a fucking shit show. i still got some colleagues who believe that the democracy is the US is not lost. Hard not to laugh in their faces.
Fuckin joke of a country, armed to the teeth for absolutely nothing besides shooting up schools and killing minorities.
Remember to stay strapped.
And if they try to kidnap you and don’t identify themselves with badges you’re free to kill them in self defense.
Gestapo shit.
This is what you voted for protest-non-voters. Congratulations!
I’m wondering if these comments are starting to hurt at this point. Yeah I’m pissed at non voters too, in protest or otherwise. Is the continued ostracizing beneficial in any way though? Shouldn’t we be trying to talk with them on a way to move forward? If we continue to divide up the left into too many bite sized chunks we’ll never be able to properly organize at the scale needed in the US
the vote blue, no matter who crowd is just as reactionary as maga is and just like maga they have no interest in coalition building, only in revenge.
You mean like the protest voters and non voters were before the election when everyone with a brain tried to warn them that this was going to happen?
Becasue I don’t recall a whole lot of coalition building there. Just reactionary outrage.
the people who didn’t vote were all democrats; aka the non-coalition building type of voters so expecting them to do anything other than not voting was unrealistic.
ROFL! Yeah, because as we all remember- social media was chock full of registered democrats yelling at everyone to not vote for gEnOciDE jOe.
Man. You people will grasp at any straw you can find to avoid the responsibility of taking part in what caused this problem.
Go check the vote counts; the leftists justifiably calling Biden “genocide Joe” remained the same as it always has, excluding Obama, (as did the Republicans’ vote counts also did). the Democrat vote counts took a sizeable dip in this election.
Democrats aren’t even coalition building w their fellow Democrats anymore and blue-maga takes like these explain why and it’s going to keep getting worse until you stop drinking the Kool aid.
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This is telling people to vote. (for Dems.) Because this is what happens when you vote otherwise.
Yeah, you’re not helping by saying shit like this.
And this is coming from someone who is hated by many on this site for calling out the protest voters/non-voters.
We need to vote against fascism when it’s on the ballot, and this last election it was and in this case, the Democrats were the only choice. But let’s not pretend that they’re a good party.
Me: “vote”.
You: “you’re not helping”
Unbelievable.
No you said that “this is what happens when you don’t vote Dem.” These people have defined their entire personalities around hating the Democratic party. That’s as deep as it goes for most of them. Telling them that just makes it worse.
Maybe just take the criticism and move on? Otherwise it might start to seem like you’re intentionally trying to make the left look bad.
Maybe just take the criticism and move on?
Ditto.
Can you point to the criticism you made so I can take it?
The protest voters did not meaningfully impact the election
You’re right we should have voted for Hindenburg, that’d prevent this. You can’t vote your way out of fascism friend, you must fight through strikes, protests, and armed revolt or flee.
America, the formerly land of the free.
