The Trump Gestapo

The arrest and possible deportation of numerous students who protested on campus against Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza is a shocking and dangerous assault on free speech.  It is reminiscent of the early moves by the Nazi regime to eliminate political opponents.  If our country cannot allow people to express their opinions freely and without repercussion then what kind of a democracy do we have?

The video of the Tufts graduate student being arrested by ICE is chilling to the bone.  Masked agents taking her into custody as she left her home as though she were a desperate criminal.  What kind of America is this?  If Trump had been our president during the Vietnam War, he would no doubt have made mass arrests of student protesters and attempted to silence all criticism.  

 

There is only one way to interpret these actions: a rapid descent into an authoritarian police state.  The ICE Gestapo are the first step.  What comes next?  Every patriotic American should go out into the streets and demand an end to these vengeful and unlawful acts before it is too late.