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Hardi Partovi (@hadip) has updates:

“The wife of a faculty member at the university in Iran watched her husband stand between the students & police. He was captured & told he was guilty of betraying Islamic law. He was beaten & shot dead as his wife hid in a car & watched.”

https://nitter.net/hadip/status/1576747834035929089#m

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Firouz M. Naderi (@Firouz_Naderi):

Can you imagine the US government sending armed guerrilla forces to Boston to surround Harvard and MIT and start killing students? Well, that is exactly what is going on in Tehran, Iran as I tweet this. The world media seems to be deaf and blind!! #دانشگاه_شریف #مهسا_امینی

https://nitter.net/Firouz_Naderi/status/1576713744167469056#...

> Can you imagine the US government sending armed guerrilla forces to Boston to surround Harvard and MIT and start killing students?

There were some dark times during the Trump administration when unmarked federal agents were sent to squash protests[1]. And of course long before that was Kent State[2].

So sadly the U.S. isn't as far removed from your hypothetical as I'd wish.

1: https://www.dw.com/en/us-donald-trump-slammed-for-using-unma...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

What would be your preferred course of action when violent insurrectionists attack a Federal court house?

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/07/21/portland-riots-read-out-...

Federal agents with no markings, grabbing people off the streets, without coordinating with local officials... how is that not dystopian?

It’s good because it happened to people I don’t like.

Federal agents are allowed to arrest anyone on the street if they have probable cause to suspect a violation of federal law. They aren't required to wear uniforms or coordinate with local officials. What's dystopian about that?

Nothing dystopian at all about unmarked vans picking protestors off the streets.

So unmarked, the agents wore DSS, DHS, and FBI badges on their uniforms...

The real dystopian nonsense was when media was telling us the "protests" were "mostly peaceful."

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