Think Globally
Annoy globally! It’s a new twist on the old advocacy saw. Hey, if Musharraf can’t get rid of al Qaeda and the Taliban, can’t we at least get him to keep Code Pink? Washington Times:
Pakistan authorities today ordered the deportation of the leader of the feminist U.S. antiwar group Code Pink, who was in Lahore to join protests against the emergency rule imposed by President Pervez Musharraf, according to a spokeswoman for the group.Medea Benjamin, a co-founder of the group, said she was arrested at a student demonstration by agents of the Pakistan Inter-Service Intelligence and detained for about four hours before being released with orders to leave the country tomorrow morning. Pakistan officials told Ms. Benjamin that she was being deported for joining illegal protests.“I’m OK — a little shaken up,” Ms. Benjamin told The Washington Times by telephone from her hotel in Lahore. “They mistreated us.”
Ms. Benjamin said she feared for her life as the agents held her at gunpoint in a car speeding through the city to the police station.
“I thought I was going to die in the car,” she said. “They totally terrorized us.”
Well, that’s something, I suppose. I’m trying to think. Was there a single moment I spent in a car in Pakistan that I didn’t think I was going to die? The guns and the ISI agents just add a little derka-derka noir intrigue. The ISI can be relatively charming, the pajama-clad motorscooter tail and the polite grilling over breakfast no great inconvenience nor overly menacing provided you’re not there to, you know, make a nuisance of yourself.
I’d pose the question, don’t these people have anything better to do, but …
Here’s a South Asian road-gun story for you. Kashmir, height of the insurgency. If you don’t drive into the ditch fast enough to clear the road for the oncoming Indian army convoy, the guy up in the hatch raps your hood with a big stick to get the message across. It’s polite enough, considering. Considering those guys in the foot patrols see you coming up a road out in the saffron fields and give you very meaningful stares until they figure out you’re a sahib. Travelling down the road behind an army truck, you get to stare down the barrels of an entire squad’s AKs and light machine guns bouncing on their laps, with no clue whether nor much confidence that anyone’s on safety.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:41 pm Comments (9) on Tuesday, December 4, 2007
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December 5th, 2007 at 1:06 am
Perhaps this will put some things in perspective for Ms. Pink. You think maybe she’ll quit whining about the gross loss of rights and freedom here in the U.S. Nah. Stupid woman.
She probably blames Bush.
December 5th, 2007 at 1:07 am
Oh. Forgot the question mark. It was a rhetorical question anyway.
December 5th, 2007 at 2:09 am
Do you think that we could take up a collection to bribe Musharraf to keep her? We could tell him that it was for a good cause.
December 5th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Code Pinkos to be deported from Pakistan
Via the Washington Times:
Pakistan authorities today ordered the deportation of the leader of the feminist U.S. antiwar group Code Pink, who was in Lahore to join protests against the emergency rule imposed by President Pervez Musharraf, according to a…
December 5th, 2007 at 9:54 am
It was very good news to hear Medea Benjamin was in Pakistan.
Pity that the Pakistanis won’t keep her.
…who was in Lahore to join protests against the emergency rule imposed by President Pervez Musharraf,
If you need any more proof that the name of the game for international mini-starpersons like Medea (travels financed by…George Soros ? One of those groups that used to finance Cindy Sheehan ?) is protest protest, baby, no matter what when or where…this is it.
December 5th, 2007 at 10:29 am
“I thought I was going to die in the car,” she said. “They totally terrorized us.”
It’s always gratifying when a moonbat runs nose first into reality.
December 5th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Didn’t “Whoopie” or some other lefty bright light just recently say that the teacher who got in trouble in Sudan ought to be smart enough to know the cultural strictures of the places they are working in and be able to accomodate them?
Same thing here with regards to Medea Benjamin, right Whoopie? Whoopie?
December 5th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Whoopi and the other woman (echoing Whoppi) were gobsmackingly embarrassing on the topic of Sudan’s teddy bear brouhaha.
They seemed to take “the incident” at some kind of face value rather than as the manipulative Islamist device it, in fact, was.
At the moment, Sudan is looking a lot less credible in the eyes of other countries.
Not that Sudan had that much credibility to lose.
Which loss of face might have had something to do with springing that poor beleaguered teacher.
(I have never watched The View but did see the clip you refer to)
December 6th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Have Pakistan keep Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan, Sean Penn, and protestors to be named later in exchange for Osama bin Laden, and his pack of toadies, on a one-way trip to Gitmo.
Good for Pakistan, as it shows that it doesn’t treat media whores like Medea Benjamin lightly. It sounds like CP was canvassing for Benazir Bhutto, who seems to be more their style than Mushy and his gang.