STEVEN ROBERTS: The Thought Police Return

ROBERTS: The thought police return

Rumeysa Ozturk is a 30-year-old graduate student at Tufts University and a native of Turkey who wears a traditional Muslim headscarf. Six weeks ago, she was arrested by masked federal agents on a street corner near her home in Somerville,…

STEVEN ROBERTS: The thought police return to shut down debate

Rumeysa Ozturk is a 30-year-old graduate student at Tufts University and a native of Turkey who wears a traditional Muslim headscarf. Six weeks ago, she was arrested by masked federal agents on a street corner near her home in Somerville,…

STEVEN ROBERTS: The thought police return

Rumeysa Ozturk is a 30-year-old graduate student at Tufts University and a native of Turkey who wears a traditional Muslim headscarf. Six weeks ago, she was arrested by masked federal agents on a street corner near her home in Somerville,…

State Department must declassify Rümeysa Öztürk deportation rationale - The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity

A federal judge recently ordered the release of Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk from custody with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge William Sessions III said that Öztürk’s only apparent offense was co-authoring an op-ed critical of Israel. This is good news for free speech and due process, but the Department of Homeland Security has said it will continue its efforts to deport Öztürk. It is incumbent up…

The Thought Police Arrive - LewRockwell

Just last year in California, a federal court declared a first grader’s crayon drawing may constitute “impermissible harassment.” Ironic, perhaps, that such a decision was made in nation where—starting in elementary school—talk about the founding principle of liberty and the sanctity of an individual’s rights are drummed into the people daily. Are such lessons serious? Were they ever? This crayon drawing episode and its aftermath is not some dys…

Steven V. Roberts: The Thought Police return

Rumeysa Ozturk is a 30-year-old graduate student at Tufts University and a native of Turkey who wears a traditional Muslim headscarf. Six weeks ago, she was arrested by masked federal agents on a street corner near her home in Somerville, Massachusetts, and sent to a detention camp in Louisiana. Her only crime was that she dared to write an opinion piece for the student paper at Tufts, “criticizing the university’s response to pro-Palestinian de…