Posts Tagged ‘Pakistan lawyers’

Pakistanis Jubilant

Filed under: Asia | Democracy | Terrorism — by Will Kirkland 03/16/2009 @ 11:32:02 AM
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It would be as hard to overstate the magnitude of the popular victory in Pakistan as it would be to know where it will lead. For the moment at … [Keep reading >>]

Pakistan At the Boil

Filed under: Pakistan — by Will Kirkland 06/11/2008 @ 7:08:20 AM
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The early morning story about Pakistani lawyers beginning a two day march to protest the new government’s foot-dragging on restoring the judges sacked by Musharraf was quickly overtaken. NATO … [Keep reading >>]

Words for Acts

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Tom Paine

---"Dissertations on First Principles of Government," 1795


RepublicanGomorrah

Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, by Max Blumenthal.


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