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   Ryan Singel (ryansingel@writing.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 13:50:56 JST Ryan Singel

   It takes a lot to shake me but this abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar at Tufts is bone-chilling.

   Plainclothes, masked agents bundle her into an unmarked car.
   https://apnews.com/video/turkish-student-at-tufts-university-detained-video-shows-masked-people-handcuffing-her-109ae65a4e734b12b357897376ea443b

   It appears her thought crime was co-authoring op-ed in the Tufts newspaper, asking the university to take action in opposition to Israeli war crimes.

   https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj

   She's been whisked off from Massachusetts to Louisiana.

   This is the new America.

   Citizens are next.

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     SearingTruth (searingtruth@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 15:22:24 JST SearingTruth

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     @ryansingel

     "Today, in America, the President or any of his accomplices can simply point their finger at you, declare you an enemy combatant, and have you incarcerated indefinitely in a secret prison without charge or representation, where they have institutionalized torture and murder.

     And for those Americans who think they are exempt, and don't care about foreign citizens or their rights as human beings, think again.

     You may have heard the term Habeas Corpus tossed around a lot lately, and heard that we have lost the right to it, but do you know what that means?

     It means that you no longer have the right to be brought before an impartial judge to protest your imprisonment, or provide evidence that the charges against you are false.

     For example, if a President secretly imprisons an American citizen they don't like they can simply claim they are an Afghani national caught on the battlefield of Iraq, even if they were actually a loyal citizen living in Boston who was illegally abducted at the mall while shopping.

     And since you no longer have the right to Habeas Corpus you will never have a chance of the truth being told, and will be at the mercy of the executive branch of government for what remains of your lives."
     SearingTruth