Medea Gets The Boot
Code Pink decided to try their usual antics in Pakistan. They discovered that people in other countries don't put up with antics the same way as they do here in the United States. They got arrested and deported, quick, fast and in a hurry.
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."
Welcome to the rest of the world that doesn't follow your idea of the rules. One should point out that if they tried the usual antics in many other countries they wouldn't have been deported. In fact, they would never have left the country at all.
Notice she didn't try it in Burma.
Left Wing, World news | Gaius Tuesday, 4 December , 2007
By NortonPete, Tuesday, 4 December , 2007 @ 7:45 pm
This is the resume achieving antics of the left over the years. Get thrown out, get arrested , jailed to further your position in the opposition.
By Anthony (Los Angeles), Tuesday, 4 December , 2007 @ 8:42 pm
The naivety of the infantile Left is amazing.
By Rich Horton, Tuesday, 4 December , 2007 @ 10:00 pm
Man, I’m retro-actively rooting for Pakistani security services.
Any chance we could refuse to take her back?
By Gaius, Tuesday, 4 December , 2007 @ 10:01 pm
Maybe the plane will divert to Venezuela. We can hope, can’t we?
By dianainsa, Wednesday, 5 December , 2007 @ 12:55 am
Stupid cow.
By Maggie, Wednesday, 5 December , 2007 @ 8:35 am
~PWAAHAAHAAHAA!!!~
By martian, Wednesday, 5 December , 2007 @ 12:37 pm
This is a major problem with the lefties and even with many non-lefties in the general population here in America - they just don’t understand, they can’t even seem to form the concept that people in other countries don’t necessarilly think the way we Americans do. They think they can go anywhere in the world, pull the foolish antics they get away with here all the time and walk away completely unscathed - as they usually do here.
This is what leads them to put propound ideas like negotiating with Islamo-facist terrorists. It’s what leads them to think they can get away with walking into someone else’s country and inciting protests against the government in that country. Ms. Benjamin (someone really named their kid Medea after an infanticidal sorceress from a Greek tragedy?) got a fairly gentle lesson in this case - she can, apparently, still walk, has no cigarette burns or other wounds, in fact no physical damage at all. At worst she may have had to change her undies. As Gaius points out, this is nothing compared to what might have happened in many other countries.