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.

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    Ok then. Kick scream or fucking do something. There are two outcomes.

    1. They arent police, in which case you just followed along random people that try to intimidate you

    2. They are police. Oh well, atleast they’re American police so it doesn’t count if you hit them

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    Maybe we need to start a fund to reward any bystanders that attempt to intervene in a safe manner. They could do things like ask for badge numbers, take videos, ask for the warrant, and just generally get in the way. Maybe stand infront of the vehicle that the person is put in to slow down the progress.
    Maybe we need a app that will notify people that something is happening so they can flood the area even more with people who will stand in front of the vehicle.

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      Time has run out. The only option is to do the right thing, which will involve people intervening and dying.

      The head of the snake needs to be cut off. That will be incredibly difficult. Vance, Musk, Hegesth, Rubio, all need to be handled.

      The White House is the most secure building in this country. That’s not hyperbole. It has anti-air missiles, snipers, and who knows what the fuck else. You hop that fence and everyone in that direction is dead.

      It can be done, but the organizing hasn’t grown large enough. There are groups that are loud and obvious. And there are others that keep quiet.

      If this were easy it would have been done already.

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        Everyone in the presidential line of succession are monsters. The entire government is being reshaped into a totalitarian state. A full revolution or counter-coup is needed. I don’t see a revolutionary movement being organized any time soon. Maybe if we get into Great Depression-like conditions. I think the amount of surveillance, well-developed counter-intelligence tactics, and power of the state in modern America would still make a revolution very hard to pull off though. I suppose extremely popular mass civil disobedience could also bring everything to a halt and make the US ungovernable; not sure what would actually happen to the government though.

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    Wtf I thought it was news overblown at first I can’t fucking believe the US government is doing this in middle of the day, can’t they Atleast try to disguise it as criminal activity?

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    Reminder that anyone can get some handcuffs and claim to be the police.

    If you see someone bring abducted it is your responsibility to interfere.

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    We’ve become so complacent. A unified community would have intervened, violently if necessary. I would love nothing more than to see a crowd of folks popping out of houses and cars and surrounding these terrorists at gunpoint.

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    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?

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    Ozturk’s lawyer later said she hadn’t been able to contact her and had no idea of her whereabouts.

    America, the land of the free… Right?

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    372 months ago

    Remember the outrage when stuff like that happens in China?
    Ever since living there a few years back, I keep saying how your two countries are so fucking similar, and it getting truer every day.