Lawyers of the world unite!
This is fucked up: police beating lawyers who are protesting the imposition of martial law in Pakistan. And so what does the Bush Administration do in response to the repression and detention of human rights activists, lawyers, opposition politicians, and media? They choose to continue aid to the military of Pakistan, using the “key allies in the war on terror” as their bullshit excuse for abandoning the rule of law. At least they are consistent! (consistently authoritarian assholes.)
November 8th, 2007 22:05
yes. extremely fucked. on both sides.
November 9th, 2007 00:49
I don’t know much about the fuckedness of Bhutto’s side, but Musharraf’s side is frighteningly fucked - 1984 style… talk about repression of dissent!… “Nor did [Musharraf] stipulate a date for the end of his de facto martial law, under which almost all independent television stations remain off the air, the judicial system has been effectively dismantled and large rallies banned. … Across Punjab Province on Thursday an estimated 500 workers of Ms. Bhutto’s Pakistan Peoples Party were arrested in the government’s latest sweep of its opponents. By Friday morning, party officials said, the number detained in the past three days had climbed to 5,000.” (from NYT)