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angrychair

(11,669 posts)
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 04:30 PM Mar 2025

It's already happening

It is not some mysterious force grabbing people off the street, it's the military and federal law enforcement agencies that are rounding up legal residents and other people and transporting them to secret prisons in a different country.
According to some reports people are being disappeared around the country. No warrant. No trial. Just sent off to a secret prison.

There is nothing more important than stopping that. They are trying to make us afraid. To not speak up. Fear is our enemy. Unity is our strength.

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It's already happening (Original Post) angrychair Mar 2025 OP
Does anyone know of a website or anything online where these Mike 03 Mar 2025 #1
Agreed. This cant be rumor and we need to know who they are targeting MadameButterfly Mar 2025 #7
Legacy media are complicit ZDU Mar 2025 #2
Legacy media are afraid they will be next DBoon Mar 2025 #4
I sure hope our identities here are secure C_U_L8R Mar 2025 #3
I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but none of us are safe anywhere. flashman13 Mar 2025 #6
Well, since we have their attention C_U_L8R Mar 2025 #8
The toothpaste is out of the tube. It's full speed ahead now. flashman13 Mar 2025 #29
Yeah there's nothing I can do at this point. I've been protesting for over 25 years. I'm surely on some lists. I just Neema Mar 2025 #25
I'm not going to let these assholes run me out of my country. flashman13 Mar 2025 #30
I can't afford to stay at this point. Neema Mar 2025 #31
We all have to do what we need to do. I will respect your decision whatever it is. flashman13 Mar 2025 #32
Thank you friend. Neema Mar 2025 #33
We are not safe Cirsium Mar 2025 #11
The Agents That Are Doing This Baron2024 Mar 2025 #5
Trump attempted to violently overthrow the government, Sky Jewels Mar 2025 #23
Absofuckingloutely! SheltieLover Mar 2025 #27
Trump and his CABAL DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #9
Police Stste. I'm still writing my Senator, Congressman, and Letters to the Editor until.. surfered Mar 2025 #10
Rght-wing regimes don't re-educate. NutmegYankee Mar 2025 #13
what is your source for this info? LymphocyteLover Mar 2025 #12
I'm going with imagination and Tickle Mar 2025 #16
So it's "imagination and fear" angrychair Mar 2025 #17
The administration is going to use rendition... S/V Loner Mar 2025 #14
"According to some reports" TheProle Mar 2025 #15
Google is your friend angrychair Mar 2025 #18
It's your friend too. A link would have made a much more compelling OP. 🙄 Oopsie Daisy Mar 2025 #19
If you are one who posts negative things about the orange hitler and his Rasputin rat on social media kimbutgar Mar 2025 #20
How do they determine their immigration status HereForTheParty Mar 2025 #21
They don't need to prove or confirm anything. What they're doing is illegal and unconstitutional. mucholderthandirt Mar 2025 #24
K&R spanone Mar 2025 #22
This will become acceptable soon and so will soldiers shooting American protesters. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2025 #26
LEOs & Military are helping Trump Traffick human beings Attilatheblond Mar 2025 #28
Please provide a source for this. milestogo Mar 2025 #34
I and about 200 others protest every Friday at an intersection in our small town. Elessar Zappa Mar 2025 #35
Holy shit ibegurpard Mar 2025 #36

Mike 03

(18,690 posts)
1. Does anyone know of a website or anything online where these
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 04:37 PM
Mar 2025

stories are being aggregated?

This is a worst nightmare realized situation if this is happening. First though we have to have actual names of people going missing and try to connect their (political) sentiments and activities with their disappearances. Fuck. It's going to be hard to convince the legacy media to take this seriously because it's so out of the realm of what we are used to here.

DBoon

(24,710 posts)
4. Legacy media are afraid they will be next
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 05:12 PM
Mar 2025

and somehow hope that if they don't touch this, they will be spared.

Fools

C_U_L8R

(48,851 posts)
3. I sure hope our identities here are secure
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 04:59 PM
Mar 2025

Because, you never know, we may be on somebody's list. They are that Gestapo.

flashman13

(2,009 posts)
6. I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but none of us are safe anywhere.
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 06:04 PM
Mar 2025

eLoon and the Muskrats are busy compiling the largest data base ever that they can feed into the AI monster they are creating. That is actually quite terrifying.

No use worrying. I've been on the list since 1969.

C_U_L8R

(48,851 posts)
8. Well, since we have their attention
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 06:19 PM
Mar 2025

They can cram it up their keisters. That goes double for Big Balls too.

Neema

(1,181 posts)
25. Yeah there's nothing I can do at this point. I've been protesting for over 25 years. I'm surely on some lists. I just
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 11:59 AM
Mar 2025

hope I can get out of the country on my one way flight in the upcoming months. I guess I should wipe my phone before I go.

flashman13

(2,009 posts)
30. I'm not going to let these assholes run me out of my country.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 03:04 PM
Mar 2025

And I couldn't afford to go if I wanted to. So it's man the barricades. Once more into the breech as they say.

Neema

(1,181 posts)
31. I can't afford to stay at this point.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 04:50 PM
Mar 2025

I have an opportunity get the healthcare I need so I plan to take it, because I'm no use here if I'm incapacitated or dead. I will do what I can from afar, such as providing a landing spot for others.

flashman13

(2,009 posts)
32. We all have to do what we need to do. I will respect your decision whatever it is.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 04:56 PM
Mar 2025

Go get healthy. Then you can carry on the fight.

Cirsium

(3,358 posts)
11. We are not safe
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 06:48 PM
Mar 2025

We are not safe here or anywhere else. The data aggregators know us better than we know ourselves.

I remember when so many were saying about social media "I'm not worried. I have nothing to hide." It is too late now.

Just reading this article could put you in danger

They see everything you “like” or forward. They’re aware of who you follow. They know you are reading this article. And they can, and will, use all of this against you.

The history of the internet has been one in which individuals surrender more and more privacy in return for convenience. After all, how is WayFair going to know it's time to offer you a big discount on a new couch if it doesn't learn that you've been asking Google about the best upholstery cleaners on Amazon?

This sea of data represents a tremendous threat in the best of times. But these ... are not the best of times. The combination of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and big data tools that are absolutely excellent at spotting the most arcane connections means that all this personal data isn't a ticking bomb; it's a bomb in the process of exploding.

That explosion is made infinitely worse by the access Musk and his DOGE bros have been given to data through a series of government agencies. That information includes not just the obligations that Social Security and Medicare owe to you, but bank account and fiscal information of everyone who ever accepted a payment—including an income tax refund—from the government.

The information that Trump and Musk have available to them is already being used against people who have spoken out against Trump. Like a French scientist denied access to the U.S. because he made social media posts against cutting funds for research. Or a U.K. punk band held in detention and sent back to London because they made statements critical of Trump. Or a Brown University professor deported despite a court order for expressing pro-Palestinian views. Or a Georgetown researcher detained because his wife, a former Al Jazeera journalist, is Palestinian American.

https://www.unchartedblue.com/just-reading-this-article-could-put-you-in-danger/
 

Baron2024

(1,492 posts)
5. The Agents That Are Doing This
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 05:54 PM
Mar 2025

The agents that are doing this are following illegal orders and are engaged in criminal acts. They are complicit. If we the people ever get back into power, these people should be tried for their crimes, just like Nazis were after WW2. Everyone from Trump on down to individual cops and federal agents should be held to account.

 

Sky Jewels

(9,148 posts)
23. Trump attempted to violently overthrow the government,
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 09:26 AM
Mar 2025

and what did Biden do? Appointed Merrick Fucking Garland, who worked for the other team and had ZERO interest in preserving our democracy. I will never, ever understand why Biden and the so-called Democratic leadership didn't do an aggressive house cleaning of all levels of government.

And now we're starting down Putin Playbook Rd. If we ever regain power, I wonder if the Democrats will just twiddle their thumbs and pretend it's still the olden days like the Biden administration did.

surfered

(11,463 posts)
10. Police Stste. I'm still writing my Senator, Congressman, and Letters to the Editor until..
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 06:46 PM
Mar 2025

…the haul me off to the re-education camp.

angrychair

(11,669 posts)
17. So it's "imagination and fear"
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 07:07 PM
Mar 2025

That they flew a bunch of people, including known innocent people, to a torture prison in El Salvador?

That they are still conducting flights of people to Gitmo, as recently as today?

That they violently deported a young woman from the UK that just overstayed her visa, not a criminal, retuning her to the UK in full arm and leg shackles as it was described by the British press, "like she was Hannibal Lector".

All with no court order. No warrants. No trial. No hearing.

That they did those flights in direct contradiction to court orders?

Live in your fantasy world that this isn't happening or that it can't happen to you or people you care about. I'm sure that is what they thought too.

S/V Loner

(9,489 posts)
14. The administration is going to use rendition...
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 06:51 PM
Mar 2025

as a tool to deal with dissent. Many to disappear into a gulag system and lost.

TheProle

(3,898 posts)
15. "According to some reports"
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 06:53 PM
Mar 2025

Can you share a link?

It’s not a commentary on your personal trustworthiness but, to me, a claim that there are reports that people are being disappeared (!) without any reference borders on irresponsibility.

kimbutgar

(26,792 posts)
20. If you are one who posts negative things about the orange hitler and his Rasputin rat on social media
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 07:30 PM
Mar 2025

If you left the country on an overseas trip and returned could you be put on an arrest immediately list?

I won’t be traveling overseas until this reign of terror is over.

mucholderthandirt

(1,753 posts)
24. They don't need to prove or confirm anything. What they're doing is illegal and unconstitutional.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 09:55 AM
Mar 2025

But until our leaders step up and speak out, it will continue.

I'm afraid my neighbors may end up gone. They're nice people, three kids and one of the best dogs the size of a pony I've ever met. But they are not from here, and they are at risk. Out in my rural area we have a lot of immigrants, people from all over. We have a good population of the Hmong people, too.

Eliot Rosewater

(34,282 posts)
26. This will become acceptable soon and so will soldiers shooting American protesters.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 12:04 PM
Mar 2025
republicans have the power to stop it and they will not, we allowed the nonstop trashing of Hillary Clinton in 2016 by people on both sides both sides both sides both sides which opened this up to happening and now guess what, we’re fucked.

Attilatheblond

(8,274 posts)
28. LEOs & Military are helping Trump Traffick human beings
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 12:17 PM
Mar 2025

It's worse than Epstein and his little island of little girls

Elessar Zappa

(16,385 posts)
35. I and about 200 others protest every Friday at an intersection in our small town.
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 06:45 PM
Mar 2025

Most of the people driving by give us thumbs up but a few asshole MAGAs blow coal in our faces and cuss us out. But I embrace their hatred.

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