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Cinjanik

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1. Turkish student lawyer kidnapped

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Mar 27, 2025, 09:54 AM

Mar 27

This is kidnapping and it is terrifying! This person has been kidnapped and held hostage for lawfully doing her job!
This happened in tsf's first term but now, this type of criminality is on steroids!

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Lawyer for Turkish student at Tufts University detained by feds calls for government to produce her [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Mar 27 OP

Turkish student lawyer kidnapped Cinjanik Mar 27 #1

Your header is misleading. The student was kidnapped, not her lawyer. ancianita Mar 27 #7

Doesn't Erdogan have some pull with the Orange Felon? Sneederbunk Mar 27 #2

This is the first thing that came to my mind ButchMcMuffin Mar 27 #3

Horrendous, and so anti American, or at least it used to be. Fla Dem Mar 27 #4

Republicans & Trump are trying to scare people from peaceful protesting Owens Mar 27 #5

Serious question... Are you allowed to defend yourself or another? Shipwack Mar 27 #6

Legally, you could resist it as unlawful, since they failed to show you a warrant or properly identify themselves Miguelito Loveless Mar 27 #8

This is exactly why there needs to be a 2nd Amendment solution by the State... AntiFascist Mar 27 #9

"2nd Amendment solution by the State"? maxsolomon Mar 27 #10

2nd Amendment is all about defense, not just the use of firearms... AntiFascist Mar 28 #11

Oh, OK. A Civil War, maxsolomon Mar 28 #12

Who said anything about civil war?? AntiFascist Mar 28 #13

"...there needs to be a 2nd Amendment solution by the State" maxsolomon Mar 28 #14

Sorry, but that's not what I meant. The first idea expressed in the 2nd Amendment is simply to maintain a free State... AntiFascist Mar 28 #15

What would I call it? GopherGal Mar 28 #16