Cops aim for the family jewels
Thousands Face Down Pakistani Police — FYI. You can write your own jokes for this one.
Police fired tear gas and clubbed thousands of lawyers protesting President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s decision to impose emergency rule, as Western allies threatened to review aid to the troubled Muslim nation. Opposition groups put the number of arrests at 3,500, although the government reported half that.
Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup and is also head of Pakistan’s army, suspended the constitution on Saturday ahead of a Supreme Court ruling on whether his recent re-election as president was legal. He ousted independent-minded judges, put a stranglehold on independent media and granted sweeping powers to authorities to crush dissent.
Though public anger was mounting in the nation of 160 million people, which has been under military rule for much of its 60-year history, demonstrations so far have been limited largely to activists, rights workers and lawyers. All have been quickly and sometimes brutally stamped out.
#26, 887 ½
Yup. You don’t know. If Child Services were involved then the child had been endangered earlier. If a lawyer had been appointed for the child, that would have nothing to do with their uncontested divorce.
Without knowing, this has all the hallmarks not of a divorce settlement, but of trying to reclaim a child removed from the home by Child Services. In other words, an attempt to blame lawyers simply because they are an easy target when the parents are at fault.
#18, Joshua,
… I would rather see some lawyers get sore heads and militants imprisioned or maybe killed than a taliban goverment with nukes.
First, what does lawyers protesting the dismantling of their Supreme Court have to do with nuclear weapons?
Second, What does imprisoning oppositions leaders and party members have to do with democracy?
Third, where the hell does the “Taliban Government” come into this? This is a power grab by Musharraf to keep himself in power.
Fourth, after all the money and assistance supplied by America, Musharraf has precious little to quell rebellious tribes along the Afghanistan border.