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December
11-03-2007, 10:16 PM
Wow!..
I am afraid we going see same thing take place in America tomorrow....

Pakistani president declares state of emergency
03/ 11/ 2007

ISLAMABAD, November 3 (RIA Novosti) - Pakistan's president has declared a state of emergency in the country, the state television said.

All the private television channels have been cut off. Only two state channels are on. Private television said earlier army units were entering Islamabad to take control over the center of the city and the government quarters.

On Friday, the Supreme Court of Pakistan rescheduled hearings on the legitimacy of the October 6 elections, which saw President Pervez Musharraf reelected, from November 12 to November 5.

The Supreme Court previously said the official election results would only be announced after a complaint from two opposition candidates had been considered. The complaint said Musharraf had no right to be reelected as he had retained the post of Army commander.

Shortly before the October elections, Musharraf, who came to power in a bloodless coup in 1999, said he would give up the post if reelected and become a civilian president.

Pakistan will hold parliamentary elections in early January 2008.

The possibility of a state of emergency had been discussed earlier in view of more frequent terrorist attacks in the country and intensified activity of militants near the border with Afghanistan.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20071103/86560681.html


Musharraf imposes emergency rule

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has declared emergency rule and suspended the country's constitution.
He defended his actions in a national address, saying he was curbing a rise in extremism in Pakistan.

Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry has been replaced and the Supreme Court surrounded by troops, who also entered state-run TV and radio stations.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7076670.stm

lily
11-04-2007, 12:22 AM
Well, December............you beat me to the punch on this one. I was just going to post an article about this. If this was any other country, we would be screaming at the top of our lungs. He's gone further than even Chavez has.

Things are heating up there and it's not going to just go away. Pakistan is becoming more and more anti-American and Musharaf's stance is not doing him much good.
Do we really want an unsable country, one that is possibly harboring Khan? A country where they have nukes and bin-Laden? Dangerous mix.

On Friday, the Supreme Court of Pakistan rescheduled hearings on the legitimacy of the October 6 elections, which saw President Pervez Musharraf reelected, from November 12 to November 5.

This is what I find the most shocking. We criticized Sadaam when it was reported that he got %100 of the vote........but think nothing is wrong when Musharaf gets %98?

Labrocca
11-04-2007, 12:34 AM
http://www.bloggerheads.com/images/shit_fan.jpg

Shit just hit the fan..duck.

This cold be a long week.

gemosological
11-04-2007, 01:58 AM
http://www.bloggerheads.com/images/shit_fan.jpg

Shit just hit the fan..duck.

This cold be a long week.


Or a very short and horrendously violent one.

RRD
:shock:

December
11-05-2007, 04:39 PM
If this was any other country, we would be screaming at the top of our lungs.

Well, noone is screaming because Musharoff is doing what US tells him to do.
He is helping Bush to chase the terrorists... So everything is fine than....

:madlaugh:

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micfranklin
11-05-2007, 04:58 PM
So the US isn't the only country in the world that has suspended their Constitution....

December
11-05-2007, 05:13 PM
Micfranklin, when did the US suspend its constitution?

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Fritz
11-06-2007, 02:40 AM
Micfranklin, when did the US suspend its constitution?
When FDR came up with the New Deal.

3392. GENERAL WELFARE CLAUSE, Interpretation.
The Constitution says, “Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts, &c., provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States”. I suppose the meaning of this clause to be, that Congress may collect taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare, in those cases wherein the Constitution empowers them to act for the general welfare. To suppose that it was meant to give them a distinct substantive power, to do any act which might tend to the general welfare, is to render all the enumerations useless, and to make their powers unlimited. -- Thomas Jefferson
TITLE: Opinion on Fugitive Slaves.
EDITION: Washington ed. vii, 602.
EDITION: Ford ed., vi, 141.
DATE: Dec. 1792

The Congress and the President are ignoring the Constitution "to make their powers unlimited".
The judges are legislating from the bench.
Or was it when LBJ came up with the great society?
Or maybe it was when Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves?
Slowly our freedom slips away.

Scorpion
11-06-2007, 02:45 AM
What's most troubling to me is that he suspended the Justice system and had justices who disagreed with him removed from the bench.

I fear that we're looking at the birth of another Myanmar.

I agree with RRD that this may be an extremely violent week in Pakistan.

Phyxius
11-06-2007, 03:14 AM
Or maybe it was when Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves?

Would you rather that he hadn't?

Fritz
11-06-2007, 04:27 AM
Or maybe it was when Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves?

Would you rather that he hadn't?

Freeing the slaves was a good thing. He did not have the authority to do so. The proper way would have been to get a Constitutional amendment abolishing slavery. The process for an amendment is clearly spelled out in the Constitution.
My problem is that he ignored the Constitution.

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