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.
And the truth shall be spoken, and the truth shall set us free,
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#21 Awake – We had a good thing going with beating lawyers and you mess it up with a link to yet another whining liberal blog site.
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
So let me get this straight. After all the lawyers have been beaten and jailed and the police turn on you, are you going to call your mommy to get you out of jail?
A nation of laws can only be as strong as the defense of those laws. If a wrong can only be corrected by a civilized action by having it mediated in a court, then maybe I want a lawyer to represent me against that multi billion dollar company.
#23, some countries (i.e. USA) have too many laws and way too many lawyers, who – like any other bureaucrats – do create more and more murkier laws just to make more money from it (aka have more work) .
If the whoring, umm I meant lawyering, wouldn’t be so profitable, we wouldn’t have so many lawyers, isn’t it obvious?
And to answer your hypothetical question (“After all the lawyers have been beaten and jailed and the police turn on you, are you going to call your mommy to get you out of jail?”) even if all the lawyers wouldn’t have been beaten, most of the people simple cannot afford their “services”, so the answer would be “yes, mommy is the only affordable choice”.
Friend of mine was getting through divorce recently. He and his wife both agreed to split everything equally and go each own way. Do you think its that simple? No. They were forced to get lawyers, because law required them to (for their child’s sake supposedly). Whom do you think made laws requiring them to have a lawyers if not the fucking LAWYERS themselves?
#24, 888,
Too many lawyers does not equate to wholesale beatings and jailing. Nor does too many laws. Unless, you can point to one law, just ONE fucking law that someone did not ask for.
Your friend going for the divorce? I can’t answer the specifics since I obviously do not know the details. I am unaware of any jurisdiction that requires the parties to have lawyers. Most require that whomever represents you be a lawyer, but that does not mean you may not represent yourself. So maybe your “friend” didn’t tell you the whole story.
#25 I dont know details either, and certainly I dont the whole story, but I do know that it were state child protection services (or some agency like that) that required a separate lawyer for their infant “to protect child’s interests” IIRC. Somehow one lead to another and they ended up with 3 different lawyers, whole thing stretched for almost a year in the court, and ended up exactly where they started to begin with: splitting everything equally as they wanted, just with the difference of equivalent of his few months salary that had to be transferred to the fucking lawyers accounts for their “valuable services”… I guess its all fine, since its The Law, right?
We should set aside a day here in the U.S. that would allow us to beat lawyers.
#27 no use
They would all go to Hawaii or Cuba for that weekend – and their customers (us) would have to pay for the trip anyway…
The only real solution is the Shakespearian solution posted in bold above
too bad it werent american lawyers who got gassed and clubbed
In that country, the lawyers are probably the only educated people. And the doctors are too few, or too busy to protest (or too scared). Just remember that Ghandi was once a lawyer too. And it’s not going to be too long before we see similar protests in the US, over these costly wars we are waging. We’ve gone too many years without a peacetime break to recoperate. They can’t keep funneling our nation’s GNP into Halliburton, forever.
#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.