If you're scooping up students off the street for writing op-eds, you're secret police, and should be treated accordingly.
@kenwhite.bsky.social And if you have to wear a black hood to cover your face - it's a kidnapping not a police action.
@RichardNairn @kenwhite.bsky.social Qualified immunity doesn't extend to intentional torts. Nor does it extend to knowing and intentional deprivation of civil rights, as far as I can tell.
@RichardNairn @kenwhite.bsky.social I see a masked, un-uniformed person kidnapping a woman, they're getting tackled. I'll take my luck with a jury.

@msbellows @RichardNairn @kenwhite.bsky.social

That seems warranted since hundreds of millions of guns and a ‘peaceful transfer of power’ this year have thus far done sweet FA to protect y’all from tyranny 🙄

@kenwhite.bsky.social Also should be observed that Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, etc. all had tens of millions of men and women more than happy to be the eyes and hands of the fascist leadership and fully supportive of their goals. Some of these people are your neighbors and perhaps friends.
@kenwhite.bsky.social secret police should be interrogated in secret, under restraints, of course-Not Coerced! Until next week when the interrogators will come back with some ...crackers, perhaps
@kenwhite.bsky.social Political dissidents being abruptly whisked away by secret police... When it happened in Latin America it was called being disappeared. It's literally the same thing. The US needs to see what it has become, the School of the Americas is having a Homecoming.
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We are all the uncool niece now