According to WFMZ, “A Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University has been detained by U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation, her lawyer said Wednesday. Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, had just left her home in Somerville on Tuesday night when she was stopped, lawyer Mahsa Khanbabai said in a petition filed in Boston federal court. Video obtained by The Associated Press appears to show six people, their faces covered, taking away Ozturk’s phone as she yells and is handcuffed.”
The whys and wherefores aside, the concern here should be the tactics involved, which are nothing short of Gestapo-styled disappearing a person of “other” origins. Except I would say what these Americans did to Ozturk was worse than the Gestapo. At least members of the Nazi secret police had enough chutzpah to show their faces. But whatever! No one f***ing cares that the “others” are literally being swept off the streets and removed from their home state against judicial orders. No one cares when everyone should care, for this is just the beginning you f***ing morons. You should care greatly because don’t think for a second that you will be immune from being disappeared. It’s only a matter of time before Dictator Don comes for your group. That’s the thing with autocracies; they all eventually run out of minority groups to harass and imprison. At some point, they will turn on their own for not being loyal enough or whatnot. Mark my words. Mark them well. And for those who may truly be in the rarified protected class (i.e., straight WASP men), do you really trust that the Dictator Don administration won’t make a mistake? They err daily. God forbid a WASP has a suspicious tattoo. As a natural-born American citizen, you might find yourself (or a loved one) extradited to a foreign country without due process. Oh, well.
The last point I want to make about this particular incident, again ignoring whys and wherefores, is the fact that government agents are willing to grab people off the streets in such a nefarious, anonymous manner, as if to be ashamed for their involvement yet moving with alacrity. If you ever wanted to know how the Nazis could reasonably and intellectually claim they were just following orders as they engaged in genocide, then just look to this situation in your own backyard — America. This is how it all starts, f***tards. And, again, no one f***ing cares because where are the marches? Where are the mass protests in the streets? The citizenry has already been completely subdued. It took The Don! two months to cow the opposition, if ever there was any. Deep down, despite what the polls say, I think most Americans are just fine with Dictator Don’s moves; it’s the only explanation for him being more popular in his second term than his first. The more vile of a character he shows himself to be, the more people love him. Oh, well. You’ve been warned — repeatedly! But no one is listening. People get the government they deserve and desire. Welcome to stupid, stupid America. “First they came for the Communists….” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯