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The Trump administration alleges she supported Hamas, citing unverified intelligence, after her student visa was revoked.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.
I really should start carrying a gun to protect myself.
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?
Only when they’re white men. The rest tend to get shot as the officers fear for their lives.
They don’t fuck with armed conservatives. Armed leftists get bombed from helicopters and cut down with belt-fed machine guns.
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.
How are such agents alive? They are masked and ambush an innocent woman.
Where is the good guy with a gun?People carry a gun to protect themselves and their family. Not necessarily random strangers. In fact, most state CCW classes tell you to stay away from situations where you might have to use your gun to help others.
The good guy with the gun is either a cop, or a concealed carrier in the middle of the situation. In this case, cops were the bad guys.
It’s OK you didn’t get it.
Good guy with a gun is a myth, and is never there.
Still a bunch of masked men terrorizing a woman, should be an obvious target in the worlds most heavily armed country.
But even in this situation the good guy with a gun is absent, and the guns don’t help against government overreach, which is thepurpose ofexcuse for the 2nd amendment.
