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.)

I’ve blogged about this before, but now some academics have done a really fancy study that affirms what many of us have suspected for awhile: DHS is fucked up!