We heard about people getting disappeared in China for criticizing the party. Now people are being disappeared in the US because they speak up against Israel committing a genocide.
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
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What really got me was how quickly conservatives pivoted from "Russia is an enemy of all right thinking, red blooded Americans!" during Snowden/Wikileaks under Bush to "Vladimir Putin is the only man who truly cares about freedom and democracy!" under Obama.
Same with Hong Kong, which consistently enjoyed the highest praise in Paleocon/Libertarian circles... right up until the 2019 protests, when half the conservative movement realized this city was fully within the thrall of the Chinese Communist Party. I've seen Singapore bleeding support for similar reasons.
People being disappeared in the US isn't a sudden turn of events. The BLM movement from 2014 revolved around chronic police abuses, including the kidnapping and murder of local residents by municipal police (Sandra Bland and Freddie Gray being two contemporary well-documented examples). Then we had the hundreds of residents tossed into Gitmo and other US blacksites, going back to the War on Terror. And the police terror campaigns during the Nixon-Reagan War on Crime/Drugs and the Eisenhower Red Scare. Hell, we've known about police-endorsed lynchings as an American tradition since Emmett Till, ffs.
But we have to pretend this is an Evil Foreigner Thing that we need a strong overseas military to prevent, rather than a sinister domestic agenda that Americans need to rebel against and overthrow. Otherwise, we might begin to see the Thin Blue Line as less of a protective barrier and more of a garrotte closing around our necks.
Simple, basic.
Good.
Checks out, Israel has been explicitly and intentionally modelling Nazi Germany from the very start, and often in collaboration with them.
It's quiet in here
They are afraid to get deported for replying.
I'm OOTL or something who's the bottom guy?
That's Mahmoud Khalil, a normal dude in the US with a green card, who the ICE has a hold of and wants to deport because he did some very legal peaceful protests for Palestine
Important to note here that the he has not been charged with a crime.
If a legal resident commits a crime there is a process to detain, try, sentence, and (potentially) deport them. It happens all the time. But that is not what is happening here. They arrested and detained an American without due process.
That's the biggest issue, even the courts say that they have no right to detain him
Splitting hairs, but a green card only means permanent residency.
I did specify that he is a legal resident and not a citizen.
Aii caramba, that's pretty... Well standard for the US by now, but still.
It's definitely not standard... But it's not surprising that it's happening. Unfortunately.
And it's extremely concerning.
Thanks a lot!
has he been found at all? last I know his pregnant wife and lawyer (different person) couldn't even reach him
He has quite literally been disappeared. Last rumor I heard yesterday is that they transferred him to a different state to avoid some state laws.