President Musharraf of Pakistan has done what many leaders like him have dreamed of doing, he has declared a state of emergency and suspended the Constitution. George W. ,must he smiling. Musharraf has apparently made this move because the Supreme Court of Pakistan was set to rule that he must step down as head of the army if he is to continue as president.
Musharraf and his supporters have said all along that Musharraf was unwilling to step down from the army, his power base, at a time of continued unrest. Musharraf faces problems from his political rivals like Benazir Bhutto and from hard line Islamists that favor the Taliban and Al Queda. A few months ago Musharraf tried to remove the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court but lost the battle and the justice was reinstated. With the court poised to rule against Musharraf again, the General made his move.
Can’t you just see George W. Bush fantasizing about doing to America what Musharraf has done to Pakistan. Remove the Congress and the Courts, something the neocons behind Bush salivate about, and you have absolute control. One can laugh all one wants but if the US were to suffer a catastrophic terrorist attack our mindless leader could see his chance to join his buddy Musharraf as dictator. Combine that with a national media and general public that behave like sheep you can actually see this happen.
Bush has one year to go and his backers know that the US public is looking for a change at the top. Short of a Musharraf like move, Bush and his benefactors are gone and all that they have created will be destroyed. Call me paranoid or a conspiracy theorist or whatever, but it sure is fun watching George and his little friend fuck around with the world. I just hope they don’t crap on it too much more before we get rid of them.
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Sadly, it really wouldn’t surprise me if Bush pulled the same stunt. He has shown us time and again that he doesn’t care what our laws and Constitution say, and this would give him a chance to be rid of both.
Comment by idealistferret — November 4, 2007 @ 1:29 pm
At this point, Junior and Dick are so loathed — not just by the majority of the public, but by large numbers of the military — that I doubt they could pull it off.
Even using our money to pay off Blackwater-style mercenaries to crack down, there simply aren’t enough private mercenaries (yet) to enforce a Musharraf tyranny here.
Besides, why bother to crack down when you already have the Big Media, the Supreme Court, and the opposition party in your back pocket?
Bush and Cheney already know they won’t be impeached no matter what they do, and the only thing standing between them and attacking Iran is not Congress, but the Pentagon. (Of course, they may not even really want to attack Iran, but simply give the GOP a war-terror issue for 2008 — fear-mongering is all they have left.)
Comment by RS Janes — November 4, 2007 @ 7:16 pm