What is the appropriate response to our fellow citizens being "disappeared"?

[milestogo]

More protests?

Calling or writing to congress?

I feel really helpless about this.

Edit: I'm referring to peaceful protesters being taken off in unmarked vans without any kind of due process.

[Nevilledog]

1. I'm trusting the ACLU right now.

[Laelth]

9. I am trusting Oregon's Senators and Governor.

They are none too pleased about this Federal overreach, and they are demanding answers.

-Laelth

[ananda]

13. Have to. I just sent them more money today.

nt

[guillaumeb]

2. Large gatherings in the streets.

MoveOn has done these.

[Yeehah]

3. Finding out who is responsible from top-to-bottom

and holding them accountable through criminal and civil penalties.

If this is not done, we no longer have the rule of law in this nation.

[WhiteTara]

19. we haven't had the rule of law for

the past 3.5 years. This is just more salt in the wounds from the cuts to the Constitution.

[oldtime dfl_er]

4. Donate what you can

to the ACLU

Also speak out as much as you can.

[pandr32]

6. Absolutely

[cally]

5. I donated to ACLU again

I didn’t know what else to do.

[Ms. Toad]

7. Reminds me of this song -

[Arazi]

8. Clearly it's naked yoga in the streets!

https://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-naked-athena-faces-down-federal-cops-at-portland-protest-and-they-back-down/

Link to tweet

?s=19

[Thomas Hurt]

10. there are law suits in the works now.

[quickesst]

11. their vehicles are unmarked....

.... And their uniforms have no noticeable identification. The chief of police needs to take 10 police cars, and two SWAT teams, surround them, pull them out of the vehicles, disarm them, put them on the ground, and demand proper identification, and the person, persons, or agency that authorized their actions. They are no different then a group of anti-government militia types seeking vigilante justice. If they do have identification, and proper authorization, inform them that as long as they present themselves as they have at the time of the current shakedown, this exact action will take place again. Proper authorities well repeat the demands for proper identification and authorization because.... "How do we tell if it's you or not? Could be a copycat group, but we won't know until proper procedures are followed."

That's what I would do if I was the mayor or the chief of police, and be damned the consequences. Authorization or not, as long as these people are unidentifiable by local authorities, they are subject to detainment.

[Stainless]

12. Where Are The Disappeared Being Taken?

Are they being held incommunicado? This isn't the America I swore an oath to defend more than fifty years ago!

[milestogo]

17. I have absolutely no idea.

All I've seen is the abduction tape.

[Dawgman49]

14. Can she not call in national guard as protection?

Nonviolent protesters rights being violated

[Midnight Writer]

15. Are they actually shooting at her?

[Ani Yun Wiya]

16. Perhaps

Proactive defense of protestors?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

18. Has anyone gotten actually 'disappeared'? I know what's going on in Portland but...

... but has anyone pulled off the street not been released or legally processed soon thereafter?

[Demsrule86]

21. Hw would we know for sure?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

25. Someone says "I saw them grab Bob and he's still missing"?

[Stallion]

20. The Correct Term is Gestapo or Maybe Storm Troppers

we need to jam this right back into their faces. Americans will not stand for this

[Generic Brad]

24. Trumpanistas

[WyattKansas]

22. Local police, swat teams, and armored vehicles should surround the illegal force.

Arrest them for unlawfully carrying out illegal orders and follow up their chain of command with arrests. Call out their bully tactics and force the Constitutional crisis they are pushing, before they grow stronger and get more extreme.

Everyone will see the bullshit for what it is and the Billy Barr and underlings will be viewed anti-American for their jackboot ploy.

[coti]

23. Yup. Use actual authority to confront unidentified, secret bullshit "authority." nt