So they're police, but not openly so. They're keeping that fact secret. That way they can police people secretly. People the state, but not the public, may not like.
What do you call it when police operate in secret? Is there a term for that?
English is so fucking weird. In this sentence “Off” the street is as “taken off the street” (was on the street) but my brain interpreted it as kidnapped off-street (someone’s home?). The sentence completely changes meaning with “the”
It’s just plain incorrect grammar. It should be “off of the street”. However the phrase is used often enough that the abbreviation is well understood.
apparently for the crime of writing op-eds for her university’s newspaper in support of Palestine and pushing back against leadership’s actions.
There is no more free speech in the USA, this thing Americans always claimed to br so proud of. Now you can be kidnapped and disappeared for speaking out against government-sanctioned genocide.
I really don’t think it’s ever been a thing. Free speech that is.
Cause too much trouble and they’ll ask you to kill yourself and if you don’t they’ll go public with some info that they spied on you to get.
It’s hard to say how many people were dragged away for being suspected of communist sympathies.
It’s what we are as a species.
If someone did something big and shitty at any point in our history, thank your lucky stars if you don’t look like him. Imagine trying to catch a plane in 2002 as a Sikh. “Yes, fbi? I think there’s a big scary muslin getting on my plane.”
I think there have been societies with genuine protections for free speech, and even in the USA there have been better times and worse. So I wouldn't say that shutting down free speech is "what we are as a species." As a species we have many impulses to be hostile to those we disagree with, but we also have the ability to see past these and to build societal systems that protect people's right to speak freely. It's up to us whether we pursue the latter or give up.
Oh, and Kent State. Man, if I wasn’t going back to bed I could probably find many examples. We been doing it forever.
I wonder how many people wonder what their local laws are on the use of deadly force in defense of another. After all, someone not in uniform and not identifying themselves seems like they're just a kidnapper.
Probably depends on if the state has a Good Samaritan law and how it is worded. A quick search found me an article written by a criminal defense attorney in Phoenix, AZ and AZ's law makes "injecting" yourself into a dangerous situation illegal.
The only people capable of doing anything about armed masked people illegally detaining random innocent people are other armed people, since most democrats and Lefties don't own guns, you must rely on fascist white supremacists police officers or armed redneck Republicans.
Even her lawyer doesn’t know her [sic] she is.
Especially her lawyer. Can't let people think they have rights.
They apparently know now — she was taken to an ICE facility in Loisiana in violation of a court order.
She was transferred to Louisiana despite a federal judge’s order Tuesday night telling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to remove Ozturk from Massachusetts without prior notice.
Looking forward to the literally zero repercussions of this
These masked cowards need to be treated like rabid dogs
This is not normal people! When do we start to rise up?
aren’t guns supposed to be protecting people? thats all I hear americans crying about
Gun owners mostly shoot:
Aren't they supposed to be wearing their brown shirts?
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