Musharraf's motivation for suspending Pakistan's constitution sounds awfully familiar...

Stop me if you've heard this one before...

The general, dressed in civilian clothes, quoted Lincoln, citing the former president’s suspension of some rights during the American Civil War as justification for his own state of emergency.

He accused the country’s Supreme Court of releasing 61 men who he said were under investigation for terrorist activities. “Judicial activism,” he said, had demoralized the security forces, hurt the fight against terrorism and slowed the spread of democracy. “Obstacles are being created in the way of democratic process,” he said, “I think for vested, personal interests, against the interest of the country.”

He's paranoid about terrorism and judicial activism...and he has nukes...

That's comforting...
- posted by Brian @ 9:43 PM