One of the men goes for her phone. The other grabs at her hands. Ozturk screams. Shock and fear ripple through her voice. Two masked women join them, tugging at her backpack, peeling the straps from her shoulders. “I’m going somewhere, I need to call someone,” she pleads. “We’re the police. Relax,” one of the men says in response.
They surround her. Then, one by one, they pull their neck gaiters up to cover their faces. “You don’t look like police,” a voice off screen says. “Why are you hiding your faces?” The questions continue, but the figures don’t respond. Instead, they cuff Ozturk, cross the street, and put her in an unmarked SUV. She is gone.
What was fascinating, or perhaps horrific is a better word, about the article that I didn’t know about is the brief mention of “The Canary Mission”
Here’s from their about page:
Canary Mission documents individuals and organizations that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews on North American college campuses and beyond. Canary Mission investigates hatred across the entire political spectrum, including the far right, far left and anti-Israel activists.
Canary Mission is motivated by a desire to combat the rise in anti-Semitism on college campuses. We pursue our mission by presenting the words and deeds of individuals and organizations that engage in anti-Semitism, racism and bigotry on the far right, far left and among the array of organizations that comprise the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Essentially they gather dossiers on private individuals that they claim are anti-semitic. So, I looked up the woman that was taken off the street like a Ukrainian draft-dodger.
https://canarymission.org/individual/Rumeysa_Ozturk
Rumeysa Ozturk engaged in anti-Israel activism in March 2024, in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israelis on October 7, 2023.
Ozturk is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
What was the anti-Israel activism, you ask? I figured it was some sort of protest. Sort of like the one in New York where they occupied a building.
Nope
On March 26, 2024, Ozturk co-authored an op-ed published in the Tufts Daily newspaper titled: “Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions.” The authors urged “President Kumar and the Tufts administration to meaningfully engage with and actualize the resolutions passed by the Senate.”
The op-ed referred to the passing of anti-Israel resolutions by the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate, which demanded the University “…acknowledge the Palestinian genocide, apologize for University President Sunil Kumar’s statements, disclose its investments, and divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel.”
At Tufts university, the Community Union Senate (not really sure what this is. a student council or something) passed a 3/5ths majority resolution urging the president of the university to
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acknowledge the Palestinian genocide
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apologize for some statements, I don’t know what
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disclose its investments
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divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel
She co-wrote an op-ed essentially demanding the president follow the resolution that was passed. That’s the “anti-Israel activism” she’s guilty of. I suppose that’s enough to be deported. Be careful out there guys. If you aren’t a citizen, shut up about your political views until you are. Because there are eyes out there watching everything you do. Even if you are… consider what you are doing. You may be making an enemy of a vindictive state that is willing to break the rules.
Here’s the op-ed, in case you’re interested: https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj
These resolutions were the product of meaningful debate by the Senate and represent a sincere effort to hold Israel accountable for clear violations of international law. Credible accusations against Israel include accounts of deliberate starvation and indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinian civilians and plausible genocide.
Lock 'em up, I guess. If you believe that Palestinian civilians have a right to life then you are a terrorist-sympathizer in this administration’s opinion.
Why isn’t Musk on there?
where?
The canary site. He doesn’t think too highly of Jewish folk.
This is frightening.
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i don’t disagree. i think this one specifically is currently taking aim at muslims specifically while the other was more generalized
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If you are in America and are expressing pro-Palestinian views online regardless of your citizenship status, you should be seriously considering yourself a legitimate target for arrest or abduction by the state. If you haven’t already, it is essential to assess your security posture and take action as required.
If you need a starting point, take a look at the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s surveillance self-defense guide: https://ssd.eff.org/
Please be safe.
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Ok then. Kick scream or fucking do something. There are two outcomes.
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They arent police, in which case you just followed along random people that try to intimidate you
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They are police. Oh well, atleast they’re American police so it doesn’t count if you hit them
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You consider this to be a legal arrest?
You dropped this: /s
What would happen to a bystander who physically intervened, but then was overwhelmed? Could they be get assaulting a federal officer charge, or would that be dropped because they do not show proper identification? Asking for humanity
If you got physical before they identified as police they would subdue you and then identity. That’s why there’s 8 of them for one arrest.
I think you’d have a good chance of getting off the numerous charges against you after sitting in jail and incurring thousands in legal fees.
Shoot first, find out they are a pig after.
getting off the numerous charges against you after sitting in jail
Ha! or they just do what they are doing here and ship you of to a place in south america without any due process at all.
They would for sure catch charges. The days of having to do something illegal in order to be convicted are behind us. If the MAGAstappo get their way the only remaining function of the judicial system will be as a cudgel against their enemies.
would that be dropped because they do not show proper identification
They have badges on, so I would guess they would get an assaulting a federal office charge yeah.
What would happen if I shot them?
Yes.
Remember, the Nazis executed a college girl, by beheading, for handing out flyers.
Brown shirts would kill Jews on the streets.
ICE has been turned into the SS.
MAGAts are Nazis, expect them to behave like Nazis.
Rip Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl
ICE is more Gestapo. Not the SS
I’d argue they are his stormtroopers. Masks and all.
The Gestapo was the (secret) police. While the SS was a military group for all kinds of things. But they shot first, ask questions later
Well, they at least shot first. I dont think they ever bothered to ask questions.
Stormtroopers are SA not SS
No. The SA was the paramilitary dirt boys for the dirty work before they got into power. SA stands for Sturmabteilung. Their job was intimidation and roughening up other politicians.
The SS were the nutcases that were used in all kinds of things. Inner security, in military battle, assisting the genocide, helping the gestapo, aso SS stands for Schutzstaffel. As in protection of the Reich
Like you said one became the other as essentially disenfranchised Germans after world sanctions in the treaty of Versailles.
If you put a gun in a starving man’s hand and point it at a meal they’ll shoot or becoming anything every time
Man Nazi Germany had so many different evil groups it’s hard to remember who did what. Yes, gestapo is probably more accurate though
They didnt have many. Gestapa/Gestapo, Wehrmacht (land military) , SS, Hitlerjugend (HJ), Bund deutscher Mädel (BDM), SA (defunkt after power take over), Luftwaffe (airforce), Reichsmariene (Navy)
Thats basicly all. And yes the military is as guilty as the rest!
This is terrifying. Anybody can pretend to be ICE and kidnap in broad daylight.
Yes , it’s unsettling.
How long do you think until an ICE agent is killed in the line of “duty”? A week, a month? And how many seconds after it happens will the government use it as an excuse to ratchet up the violence?
That’s terrifying. That is absolutely terrifying. Unidentified, masked people in all black kidnapping people right off the street in unmarked cars.
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Demasking them would clearly be the best measure for deterring them.
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Most Americans: Yeah but it didn’t happen to me.
What is the Turkish government saying about this I wonder.
Nothing, they just furiously maturating
The people in the US had the chance to vote for a MUCH lesser evil. And they chose to vote for fascism. People get the politics they deserve and with trump at least the leader is as rotten as the country at its core. I’m sure this poor lady does not deserve it. May maga folks experience some of the worst years of their lives for condoning racism, sexism, fascism.
So… What happens if there aren’t cameras where the political abduction occurs? The government can just wait a few weeks then sell them to El Salvador and let their friends and family believe they are missing?
If you see this start filming and get them to shout their name. This is not how an arrest is done in a normal country. This is how you disappear people and how militias can fake being police to abduct and kill people.
