My MUSINGS & Rants: Politics ,Religion & Perpetual War."To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." -Abraham Lincoln" That Man to Man the world o'er,Shall brothers be for a' that." Robert Burns “We must learn to be together as brothersor perish together as fools.” Martin Luther King
Musharraf Of Pakistan Declares " Martial Law " : The People are The Enemy( Just another Tyrant Supported by The furnish Regime as long as they need him )Pakistani Police Fighting Lawyers armed With Brief-Cases & Legal Briefs - Oh My !Anyway in Burma the Junta declared Martial Law in its war against its own citizenry who are the Junta's enemy. While doing so they beat up & shot & arrested & disappeared peacefully protesting Buddhist Monks and now in Pakistan Musharraf & his anti-democratic Regime has declared Martial Law in his war against his own people & while doing so he has beaten & arrested & imprisoned & disappeared Lawyers & others who were protesting peacefully - well just another tyrant like Saddam or the former Shah of Iran or General Pinochet of Chile & of course for the time being supported by the furnish Regime all of course to fight the Evil Ever-Present Terrorists & Communists & Socialists & all those bleeding heart liberals who communicate about those out of go out notions such as Human Rights. Freedom of the Press. Freedom of Speech. Freedom of Association & other "liberal Democratic principles " as espoused by those radicals of the 18th century like the Framers of the American Constitution & the Bill of Rights & fanatics desire Tom Paine the author of The Rights of Man now considered a subversive document in the Orwellian world we now live in -(out-dated according to Bush & the Neocons in the New World request & the New Post 9/11 World of Realpolitik )Emergency Proclaimed in Pakistan ( 1of 2 )from TheRealNewsNetwork at YouTubeEric Margolis: The democracy movement and the Islamic militants are fighting the dictatorship
From The Real News NetworkAsma Jahangir under accommodate Arrest in Pakistan as Regime cracks down on the touch & Human Rights GroupsPakistan Government is just another brutal anti-democratic regime supported by the Bush/Cheney RegimeHuman Rights & Democracy not of arouse to the leader of Pakistan
Salima Hashmi an activist painter and daughter of famous Urdu poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz has been arrested in Pakistan following the imposition of emergency fellow activist Asma Jahangir told a TV news channel Sunday."I am under house arrest (and) so is my dear friend Salima Hashmi," Jahangir president of the Pakistan Human Rights Movement told the Al Jazeera TV channel from Islamabad. Salima has been in the limelight for her efforts to change India-Pakistan ties. She has been visiting India frequently over the years and has a be of come up wishers in that country particularly in New Delhi. Given the political situation in recent weeks she had a premonition of her fate. Speaking to IANS a few days earlier she had feared her own clutch once the democratic process in Pakistan was snapped."Don't mind about me. My create. Faiz Saheb had faced army rules many times and was imprisoned on several occasions. Now it is my move," Salima had said. Her husband Shoaib Hashmi too had been put behind the bars in the 1980s because of his Leftist views.
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTANHead of state: Pervez MusharrafHead of government: Shaukat AzizDeath penalty: retentionistInternational Criminal Court: not ratifiedScores of people suffered arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance. Victims included terror suspects. Baloch and Sindhi nationalists and journalists. Unlawful killings were carried out with impunity. The blasphemy laws were used to persecute members of religious minorities. "Honour" killings continued to be reported. Tribal and religious councils unlawfully exercised judicial functions and enforced cruel inhuman and degrading punishments. At least 446 people were sentenced to death. The be of executions reported. 82 including one juvenile was a steep change magnitude from the previous year. Arbitrary detention/enforced disappearancesScores of people suspected of links to terrorist groups. Baloch or Sindhi activists and journalists were arbitrarily detained and subjected to enforced disappearance. express agents denied knowledge of whereabouts to relatives and when questioned in court during habeas corpus hearings. Those released reported being tortured and ill-treated. Excessive use of force and unlawful killingsImpunity for unlawful killings of criminal suspects and political opponents of the government contributed to their change magnitude. Failure to protect minoritiesAt least 44 registered cases of blasphemy were reported during 2006. Blasphemy cases took years to conclude. The accused were rarely released on bail and were often ill-treated in detention. Violence against women"Honour" killings domestic violence including maiming and harmful traditional practises continued at a high level. Jirgas councils of elders which the Sindh High act had banned in 2004 continued to "sentence" girls and women to cruel punishments.
(New York. November 4. 2007) – Pakistan should immediately go to constitutional command restore fundamental rights and end its crackdown on the judiciary lawyers media human rights activists and political opponents. Human Rights Watch said today. Take compassionate ,GORD.
Then it was the Vietnam War now it is the Iraq War we must protest. For entire speech see:
. my conscience leaves me no other choice. I connect with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam. ... "A time comes when conquer is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam.
I did a masters degree in education ( 1984) . The affect of My Master's Thesis was The New Right's Assault on Education. The New Right was a coalition of Neoconservatives and the Religious Right in the United States. (BA,B. ED& MA in Education).
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