No, not here, there:
"Tens of thousands protest against Georgia's president" by Margarita Antidze/Reuters November 3, 2007
TBILISI, Georgia - Up to 70,000 people demanding early elections protested yesterday against President Mikhail Saakashvili in the biggest show of unrest since the peaceful revolution that swept him to power four years ago.
Demonstrators waving banners massed in front of the parliament building and along main avenues of the capital, Tbilisi.
Shalva Natelashvili, one of the leaders of the opposition bloc:
"We want our people to be the master in the country, not slaves. We need a government which will serve its people and not vice versa as it is now."
I can empathize, dude!
The protests were mostly peaceful and police kept a low profile, although occasional scuffles broke out among the crowd near the parliament building. Protesters vowed to stay on the streets until the government, a key US ally, met their demands for early elections, changes in polling rules, and the release of what they term political prisoners.
The size of the crowd at the protest was reminiscent of the climax of the Rose Revolution, a wave of protests that forced then-president Eduard Shevardnadze to resign.
Police had tried to block some demonstrators traveling to the protest from western Georgia, puncturing car tires, blocking tunnels, and preventing passengers from boarding trains, antigovernment media reported. The authorities said they were respecting the protesters' right to gather.
Pffffttt!
Saakashvili, who wants to take Georgia into NATO and the European Union, frequently flaunts his democratic credentials. President Bush has said the country is a "beacon of democracy."
But critics say that is a facade that masks Saakashvili's intolerance of dissent and some human rights abuses, although not on the same scale as in some other former Soviet states.
The opposition campaign does not question Saakashvili's pro-Western stance. But it has attacked his authoritarianism and has tapped into discontent that living standards are not rising as fast as many Georgians had hoped after the revolution."
Notice how Bush has all these dictator friends?
Takes one to like one, I guess.
"Thousands Rally in Capital Against Georgia President" by C. J. CHIVERS
TBILISI, Georgia, Nov. 2 — President Mikheil Saakashvili, a lawyer educated at Columbia University, has steered his post-Soviet country sharply toward the West, seeking admission to NATO and the European Union, while moving against corruption at home, especially in the police.
He has often said he hoped to model his country’s development after the experience of the Eastern European countries that were once under the Kremlin’s yoke, and to bring democracy and free markets to the Caucasus, a region with a history of corrupt and autocratic governments.
He has set new standards for education, increased tax collection and revenue-generation, improved the readiness of the country’s once-feeble army and repaired Soviet-era infrastructure to the degree that the country, once plagued by blackouts, now has a reliable electricity supply.
But some of the changes have made him enemies, and he has alienated several prominent politicians, who find him domineering and abrasive. His opponents accuse him of hoarding and abusing power, and of running the nation through a clique that will neither tolerate dissent nor engage in dialogue with the opposition, which Mr. Saakashvili has repeatedly made clear he despises and considers weak.
No wonder Bush likes him!
He IS BUSH!!!!!!!!
Mark Lenzi, the local director of the International Republican Institute, an organization affiliated with the Republican Party that promotes democracy, has worked closely with both the opposition and the government. He said the size, energy and timing of the rally showed that political issues and popular grievances had converged and posed the government with a challenge:
“This is definitely a wake-up call. It is evident to everyone now that something has to give. There will have to be negotiations between the opposition and the government.”
Tell it to Bush, shitter! Somethings gotta give!
We are still in Iraq, right? Then NUTHIN'S GOTTA GIVE!
Pfffffttttt!
Although the protests rivaled the size of those, known as the Rose Revolution, that toppled President Eduard Shevardnadze in 2003, most of the opposition leaders said they did not seek another revolution.
Here come some Times cover-ups and lies for you.
Obviously, this dicataor is one AmeriKa supports if the Times hides the police abuses!
The police presence during the rally was light, and officers were not wearing helmets or armor, or visibly armed. Many chatted amiably with demonstrators.
Then this whole population must be infuriated with thios guy!
Think those cops are gonna turn on the people? Or the government?
They are the people!
But there were brief shoving matches between demonstrators and the police at the entrance to one government building, and allegations of police misconduct on the roads leading to the capital from the south and west, with several demonstrators saying that officers tried blocking cars and seizing keys and driving licenses.
Only "allegations" to the Times! They are worse than the shit locals!
Shota Utiashvili, a senior official in the Interior Ministry, said that he had received no complaints of police misconduct:
“So far that information has not come to us, but if there are any complaints we will investigate them.”
Whatever!
And, hey, what ever happened in Myanmar, MSM?!
Myanmar Junta Orders Top U.N. Official in the Country to Leave
Oh!
Boy, that story came and went so fast it had to be a Zionist MSM diversion!
