Comments on: Lawyers of the world unite! http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/11/05/lawyers-of-the-world-unite/ Yes, this is where we live. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:43:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: eli http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/11/05/lawyers-of-the-world-unite/#comment-1773 eli Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:49:23 +0000 http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/11/05/lawyers-of-the-world-unite/#comment-1773 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." <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/world/asia/09pakistan.html?hp" rel="nofollow">(from NYT)</a> 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)

]]> By: vijay http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/11/05/lawyers-of-the-world-unite/#comment-1771 vijay Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:05:34 +0000 http://www.lunaticleft.com/2007/11/05/lawyers-of-the-world-unite/#comment-1771 yes. extremely fucked. on both sides. yes. extremely fucked. on both sides.

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