Sunday, November 04, 2007

Police State! Police State!

All those whiny liberals who say the United States has turned into a police state should take a long, hard look at what's going on in Pakistan.
KARACHI, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Pakistani police baton-charged lawyers protesting against the imposition of emergency rule by President Pervez Musharraf in the economic hub of Karachi early on Monday, lawyers said. Lawyers, who have been at the forefront of an anti-Musharraf campaign since he tried to sack the chief justice in March, have called for a countrywide strike against the enforcement of emergency rule. "Police beat lawyers with batons as they came to the High Court in the morning. Many of them have been arrested," Akhtar Hussain, a former president of the Sindh High Court Bar Association told Reuters.
I never get tired of seeing "baton charged" and "lawyers" used in the same sentence. Ooops, except for Tonto.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Besides being a sidekick, who is Tonto to you anyway? Friend? Cousin? :)

Lone Ranger said...

I've never met her. We are virtual friends. I call her the daughter I never had.