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MadameButterfly

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6. Normally you could count on the US government to rescue American reporters

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Feb 19, 2026, 08:25 AM

21 hrs ago

from foreign police brutality. This time, it's likely the police are operating on Trump's behalf. How do we raise enough publicity to make it worth it for our government to bring these guys home?

Imagine the courage it takes to do what they are doing. Without them, we are clueless as to what is going on.

And kudos to the reporting that is getting this story out.

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Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump's Secretive Deportation Program [View all] mahatmakanejeeves 23 hrs ago OP

Important malaise 22 hrs ago #1

Outraged, sickened, unsurprised KNR. niyad 21 hrs ago #2

Cameroon. Damn. Scrivener7 21 hrs ago #3

He'll get reunited with his family in this country when we own the White House KS Toronado 21 hrs ago #4

I hope so. But I can't stop thinking about it. He's a young, strong boy, and I have a hard Scrivener7 21 hrs ago #5

I hope that if we have our own Nuremberg Trials these Fascist are thrown under the prison. Multichromatic 20 hrs ago #12

Normally you could count on the US government to rescue American reporters MadameButterfly 21 hrs ago #6

Yep...they are doing Trumps bidding. Wouldn't take much cash to buy off people in Cameroon Bengus81 20 hrs ago #7

So, who has the power to get these journalists out MadameButterfly 20 hrs ago #8

Everyone in Congress should be on this but Trumps sycophants won't do it Bengus81 20 hrs ago #9

Will the Associated Press raise hell? MadameButterfly 20 hrs ago #11

So, are we still going to "look forward" orangecrush 20 hrs ago #10

There's no moving forward until everything is out. Scrivener7 19 hrs ago #13