Biden, Trump, and the DHS Thought Police: The Case of Rumeysa Ozturk Should Terrify Every American Who Still Thinks They're Free

Let’s stop pretending the United States is still a free country.

On March 25th, a Turkish graduate student—a Fulbright scholar, no less—was snatched off the streets of Massachusetts by masked federal agents like she was a cartel kingpin. Her name? Rumeysa Ozturk. Her crime? Daring to criticize Israeli apartheid in a student newspaper.

She wasn’t waving a weapon. She wasn’t plotting terror. She wrote a goddamn op-ed.

But that was enough for the Trump regime’s enforcers to tear her from her life at Tufts University, toss her into a black site prison pipeline, and bury her in bureaucratic hell. No trial. No warning. Just poof—disappeared.

This wasn’t about “national security.” This was about sending a message. A message to every student, journalist, activist, or citizen: If you speak against the approved empires—yours or someone else's—we will make an example out of you.

And don’t think for one second that this is a Trump-only operation. The Biden administration didn’t shut down this rogue DHS behavior when they had the chance. Instead, they just tweaked the PR. The police state keeps marching.

A Chain Around Her Waist for Writing Words on a Page

While neocons and neolibs cheer from their ivory towers, Ozturk is being dragged across state lines, tossed from cage to cage, forced to sleep with 23 other women in a cell built for 14. She’s shackled like a terrorist. Her asthma is flaring. The lights never go off. The guards yell in the night.

And for what?

Because Marco Rubio threw a tantrum. Because Betar—a self-described militant Zionist group—handed DHS a blacklist of Muslim students and critics of Israeli policy. Because the new definition of terrorism is disagreeing with the government.

This is not democracy. This is not freedom. This is not even basic decency. It’s authoritarianism dressed up in red, white, and blue.

The Slippery Slope is Now a Vertical Drop

You think this ends with Ozturk?

Hundreds of student visas are already being revoked. DHS is pushing to ban foreign students from universities that don’t actively suppress Gaza protests. The government is using immigration laws not to protect us from criminals—but to purge dissenters. Today, it’s a hijab-wearing Ph.D. student. Tomorrow, it’s your kid with a protest sign.

The surveillance state doesn’t stop expanding. It metastasizes.

This is the same logic they used to crush peaceful protestors on January 6th who simply “paraded without a permit.” Never mind the undercover agents or the FBI plants. The new standard is clear: Be near the wrong idea, and you are guilty.

And don’t you dare bring up free speech. Not when dissent lands you in solitary confinement.

The “Wrong Kind” of Patriotism Is Now a Federal Offense

Let’s be clear—this isn’t about defending violent extremists. It’s about criminalizing ideas. When Ron Paul supporters waved “End the Fed” signs in 2008, they were patriots. Do it today, and you’ll end up on an FBI terror watchlist. Fusion Centers have already flagged libertarians, antiwar veterans, and critics of government surveillance as “extremist threats.”

You don’t even need to act. Just think wrong. Say one unapproved thing in a college paper, and you could be next.

This is how empires fall. Not with a bang—but with a bureaucratic purge of dissenters, cloaked in legalese and national security B.S.

The Left Must Reclaim Free Speech—Before It's Too Late

Too many on the Left have gone silent. Or worse—complicit. But if we don’t defend the free speech of a Muslim woman in shackles, we can forget about defending the rights of anyone else. The state is not your friend. The DHS is not your ally. And the security apparatus does not discriminate when it comes to crushing resistance.

Ozturk's nightmare is a warning shot. This isn’t about Middle East policy anymore. It’s about the weaponization of government power to silence you.

Are you next?

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