Did you see the news about 3,000 LAWYERS Rioting in Pakistan? What an amazing sight. It's a protest over the firing of the country's top judge by the dictator-President Musharraf'.
Apparently the judge wasn't doing the President's bidding. In the U.S. courts are independent, not puppets to the President or Congress.
All the lawyers got out and boycotted the courts. We Americans who truly believe in justice, democracy and freedom should support them in their cause.
At last report Justice "Chaudhry has been confined to his official residence in Islamabad and journalists are barred from meeting him. The government denies reports that he is under house arrest."
President Bush should also voice his concern about this anti-democratic development in Pakistan. Remember, this is the country where Osama bin laden is reported as hiding out in the remote, autonomous regions across the border from Afghanistan.
If Pakistan's legal system becomes an unjust instrument controlled by the President instead of the people, Pakistan's leader (and key American ally regarding Al Qaida) could be replaced by a Khomeini-type extremist -- just like what happened in Iran when the U.S. supported (and corrupt) Shah fell. Or he could be ousted by another military dictator that lacks democratic ideals or public support.
It would benefit the U.S. to see justice done by supporting these Pakistan lawyers. they are fighting for an historic American tradition - justice and fairness.
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