Trump's Secret Police Kidnapped Her for Speaking Out! Will ICE Come for You Next? - Thom Hartmann

[Rhiannon12866]

The goal of this sort of kidnapping and hellish incarceration is to make people stop speaking out against Trump and his billionaire buddies.

And it’s working.

This is a playbook as ancient as the world’s first kings.

Defy the monarch, or even challenge the monarch, and your quality of life rapidly goes to hell. - Aired on 03/27/2025.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I've been turning this premise over in mind for almost a week.

If any of us (assuming most of us are U.S. born citizens) had written and published the same essay, would we be taken off the public streets by ICE agents, dressed in civilian clothing to an unmarked vehicle, whisked away, sequestered, and flown to another state where we would be incommunicado with family, friends, attorneys, etc.?

Maybe not today because the students on Visas are for testing to see if the Administration can get away with it. Tomorrow, it could be dissidents who are homegrown Americans. Fascists don't stop at one demographic.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. I've had the same thoughts. I've thought of the speakers we had at my fairly liberal college

And I've wondered if they'd be permitted today. Also, we had numerous students who came from other countries, both at my college and especially at my boarding school. I especially remember one guy from Ghana who was arguably the smartest guy in the school and an amazing soccer player - and very well liked. Would he be welcome today? And in today's dangerous political climate would students from other countries want to take the chance?

And I agree, it's scary as hell. I've been glad that I'm not in school right now given the dangers and the shooting drills - my cousin's daughter is still traumatized over those. And now we're facing another serious danger and, like you said, we don't know who will be targeted next.

[2naSalit]

3. A can of...

Pepper spray, everyone in the cloud of peppered mist is incapacitated.

Just sayin'.

[MagaSmash]

4. Will all these "mean" people criticizing the Orange Degenerate on DU be getting a knock on the door soon?

[DENVERPOPS]

5. Coming soon

to an area near you....................U.S. Version of a Russian GULAG...........