Turns out that Musharaff's government has been beating protesters all week (yesterday it was the lawyers!), but my stink NaZionist press just reported the political bullshit among the elites.
Pakistan another reason I dumped. Here is a sample of the lies:
During the Red Mosque "crisis," the MSM reported all week that the government refused to negotiate.
On the seventh day, the MSM reported that the government had been pushing for negotiations!!!!
At that point, I'd about had it with Amerika's MSM LIES!!!!
Furthermore, they "reported":
On July 8: "The mullahs and their students have earned little public sympathy in their own neighborhood or around the country."
July 12: "It was still not clear yesterday how Pakistanis would react to the raid. There was a small demonstration in the western city of Peshawar, but otherwise public reaction was muted."
And yet, "The government crackdown at the mosque prompted protests in Pakistani cities including Lahore and Quetta.... it's funny because they don't web the picture:
Caption: "Pakistani religious students in Multan, Pakistan, reacted to yesterday's army operation against Islamic militants holding Islamabad's Red Mosque."
Description: There are HUNDREDS of THEM!!! They are clogging the street as far as the eye can see.
And yet, "The mullahs and their students have earned little public sympathy in their own neighborhood or around the country... public reaction was muted... but the government changed its tactics... reflect[ing] concern for the public backlash... and the danger of civilian casualties and damage to the holy site of a mosque.
And yet, " the cleric is an unpopular extremist (click down once and enlarge, then run the slide show and PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION to photos 7 thru 11 -- especially photo 8 and what the women are doing).
And yet, "Anti-Musharraf protesters took to the streets of every major Pakistani city to blame the US-backed leader for the violence at the mosque... More than 1,200 people chanted slogans denouncing Musharraf after they emerged from mosques after afternoon prayers in Karachi, the country's largest city... Small rallies were also held in Rawalpindi, Lahore, Peshawar, and Islamabad."
So WHATEVER, SHIT MSM!!!]
Now back to today. And what the Globe does is rip the AP story off the web.
Why? Because as newspapers die, and the web grows, they need to censor.
So they pick up another story that removes this lovely little phrase:
"Police arrested hundreds of opposition activists over the last week and sealed off the capital.... At least two lawyers suffered bloody head injuries."
Yup, no need for YOU to KNOW that, reader!!
Sick of being LIED TO by SHIT MSM!!
Here is your web article with NO CONTEXT from our lovely Zionist shit-spew newspapers!!
"Pakistani riot police clash with lawyers; Protesters decry reelection ruling
by Laura King, Los Angeles Times | September 30, 2007
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - In a stone-throwing melee in the heart of Pakistan's capital, riot police yesterday fired tear gas and beat lawyers and human rights activists protesting President Pervez Musharraf's plans to have himself reelected while serving as chief of the military.
Dozens of people were reported hurt in the daylong clashes, which marked an escalation in political tensions that have unsettled Pakistan for months amid a nationwide grass-roots movement to oust Musharraf. Until now, even very large antigovernment protests have been mostly peaceful.
The violence followed a decision yesterday by the country's Election Commission to give final approval to the leader's plans to seek a new five-year term in a vote to be held by lawmakers Saturday - a vote he is almost certain to win.
A day earlier, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Musharraf's reelection by dismissing legal challenges to his standing for office in his dual roles as the country's civilian and military leader.
The Supreme Court had left the door open to Musharraf's disqualification by the Election Commission, but that body, which was handpicked by the Pakistani leader, formally accepted his candidacy.
Musharraf's ruling party has said he has enough votes to win when the national and provincial assemblies vote, and his main opponent, retired Judge Wajihuddin Ahmed, has acknowledged that he is trailing.
Musharraf seized power in a coup eight years ago and went on to become a key US ally against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But his prestige and popularity have been diminished greatly in recent months.
During yesterday's clashes between police and hundreds of protesters, clouds of tear gas drifted up and down the capital's broad, tree-lined Constitution Avenue.
At one point, tear-gas canisters landed inside the manicured grounds of the Supreme Court complex.
Outside the Election Commission building, across the street from the Supreme Court, some of the protesting lawyers wielded wooden staves to battle police, their black coats flapping and black neckties flying. Lawyers have played the leading role in the anti-Musharraf movement since March, when the general tried to fire Pakistan's respected chief justice.
[They sound like the LADIES of the Red Mosque!!!
I LOVE THEM ALL!!!!]
More than 1,000 police and paramilitary troops were deployed in and around the court complex and the Election Commission building.
"This is the face of martial law," declared lawyer Hamid Khan, who represented cricket-star-turned-opposition-politician Imran Khan in court challenges to Musharraf's eligibility to seek reelection. "We don't accept this election process at all. How can it be fair when one candidate has a uniform and a gun?"
Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has said she will return from self-imposed exile to lead her party in that contest, but her camp is still engaged in power-sharing talks with Musharraf.
Another potentially important player in the general elections, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was deported earlier this month by Musharraf's government when he tried to return to Pakistan."
[Who cares about the political bullshit!
They are beating down their own people in the streets -- a trait that seems common amongst ALL GOVERNMENTS!!!]
Here is the Times' shit-spew on it:
"Lawyers Battle Police Over Election Ruling in Pakistan
By CARLOTTA GALL
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 29 — Riot police officers fought with batons and tear gas against lawyers protesting President Pervez Musharraf’s bid for re-election outside the Supreme Court and Election Commission on Saturday. Dozens of lawyers and some journalists were beaten and a number arrested in the clashes, witnesses said.
[So you guys and your bosses gonna GET OF YOUR ASSES and start REPORTING the TRUTH?!?!
I ain't holding my breath!]
As the mood grew uglier, the state minister for information, Tariq Azim Khan, was badly beaten by angry journalists as he was leaving the election commission building.
[If only AmeriKa's press would REACT THAT WAY!!! Halle-lujah!!!]
The lawyers were protesting a Supreme Court ruling Friday that cleared the way for General Musharraf’s re-election as president while he is still in uniform. They tried to march on the Election Commission, which was examining nominations for the Oct. 6 presidential election on Saturday morning. It was the first time since July that the black-suited lawyers, who campaigned for months against General Musharraf’s dismissal of the chief justice in March, have come out in force on the streets here in the capital.
As they marched the hundred yards from the Supreme Court down Constitution Avenue to the Election Commission, police officers with helmets, shields and long sticks blocked their way. Lawyers began hurling stones, and the officers retaliated, throwing the stones back and firing tear gas, and then charging and beating protesters.
Plainclothes officers hauled lawyers off to police vans, including one of the leaders of the movement, Ali Ahmad Kurd. Aitzaz Ahsan, another leading member of the lawyers’ movement, was bludgeoned by a policeman who hit him with a heavy brick in his stomach.
Despite the commotion outside on the street, the Election Commission approved General Musharraf’s nomination for the presidential election, as well as those of two of his opponents, the former Supreme Court judge, Wajihuddin Ahmed, and the Pakistan Peoples Party politician, Makhdoom Amin Fahim. Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Mr. Khan, the information minister, were present as supporters of General Musharraf’s nomination.
Lawyers representing Mr. Ahmed lodged objections to General Musharraf’s candidacy, in particular that he holds the position of chief of army staff, has already served the limit of two terms, and should not be elected a second time by the same assembly. But the Election Commission did not accept the objections, and the lawyers emerged saying they would now take the matter to the courts on Monday.
“Twenty lawyers have been injured,” said Mohammed Ikram Chaudhry, former vice president of the Supreme Court Bar Association. “Three journalists were given a fierce beating. A lot of lawyers were taken away. They will use force against anyone who is against them,” he said of the authorities.
“We wanted to go to the Election Commission and demonstrate in a peaceful manner,” said Rafaqat Bashir, 32, an advocate from nearby Rawalpindi, who was carrying a police cane which he said he had snatched from a policeman beating him.
“The police hit me, and this is his stick,” he said. He said he had come with 300 other lawyers, traveling in twos and threes into the city since early morning, to protest General Musharraf’s military rule. “He has no right to rule. He is a soldier, he should serve on the borders,” he said.
In his office inside the Supreme Court, Mr. Ahsan seemed to recognize that the lawyers could no longer stop the Oct. 6 election, but he said the lawyers would continue to expose the illegitimacy of General Musharraf’s rule. “Elections are all about a mandate from the people,” he said. “This is going to be a virtual election. It’s not an election. Nobody is deceived.”
The lawyers would return to the courts to challenge General Musharraf’s re-election and would be out protesting at every court hearing in the coming days and weeks, Mr. Ahsan said. “The man is on very thin ice and he is slipping,” he added."
[So is Amerkia's lying, pimping, shit-shoveling MSM!!!!
