White House tells Pervez Musharraf to "never restrict constitutional freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism."
By John Amato Monday Nov 05, 2007 8:31am
Dana Perino was asked if Musharraf had crossed the line in implementing martial law in Pakistan on Monday. I'm sorry I didn't post this yesterday, but things were so busy.
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Think Progress posted it so I'm quoting them here.
She said that the administration is “deeply disappointed” by the measure, which suspends the country’s constitution, and believes it is never “reasonable” to “restrict constitutional freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism”:
Q: Is it ever reasonable to restrict constitutional freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism?
MS. PERINO: In our opinion, no.
Too bad the BushCo. doesn't adhere to those same principles. One has to wonder if the General didn't get a little coaching on what to say after he quoted Abraham Lincoln to the Pakistani people:
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.
Pakistani analysts said the emergency order was, in effect, a declaration of martial law because there were no constitutional provisions allowing such an order...read on
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Say Wha??????
“never restrict constitutional freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism.”
ROTFLOL ... she said WHAT? He told Musharraf WHAT?
Bush thinks he's a leader why?
No..NO...LOLOLOLOLOL!! No no no...make them stop...they're killin' me!! LOLOLOLOL!!! Ohhh...my stomach hurts! LOLOLOL! The material writes itself with these nutcases! LOLOL!!
Oh the irony, the irony... Stop! OUCH! It's like I ate that ice cream too fast and I've got a Brain freeze!
I'm between laughing hysterically and crying for the sad truth behind this statement.
" fighting terrorism", " activists judges", It appears that Musharraf is using the talking points right out of the Republican playbook.
See, they don't give a damn what the American people think. THAT'S the message they're broadcasting to the US people: We are not even a LITTLE afraid of the American People, and here's a thumb in the eye to prove it!
These goons are practically begging to be taken out of office!!!
The hypocrisy - the mendacity . . .
I'm surprised the earth itself did not open up and swallow Ms. Perino whole when she said this . . .
I love how america is going down the toilet
you don't suspend constitutional freedoms. You just ignore them!
Duh!
This almost made me choke on my oatmeal.
By the way, can Dana Perino be held guilty of war crimes for what she's doing?
Why are they giving Bush's favorite Democracy such a tough time?
White House propagandist Tokyo Perino.
Musharraf is just doing the dress rehearsal. Bush will watch and then play the actual part next year.
"Do as I say, not as I do" - g.w. bush, 11/05/07, to Pakistan government in crisis.
Mush to Bush: "I learned it by watching you!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo
Is Feinstein trying to duck e-mail on the Mukasey vote? Her website is totally fubared http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/
you can not be fukin serious
hypocrite much?
I wonder which terrorist attacks dana perino wants musharat not to stop
Do as we say, not as we do...
There has to be a rabbit hole directly under Perino's podium.
Is there a school somewhere that trains sycophants to become Busholini Press Secretary's?
Apparently there's an alternate realm they're living in!
Talk about the POTUS calling the kettle black... ^_^
This witless twit is expressing either the heights or the depths of hypocrisy.
Oh dear, how embarassing it must be for Bush for this to come out and make it painfully apparent that Bush and Musharraf share the same speech writers!
How embarassing indeed!
These people are brain-dead. Bush, Perino, Feinstein all dead from the neck up.
I just hope I live long enough to see Bush hung for his war crimes and Feinstein brought do account for her
attempts to destroy our Constitution.
Lincoln a Republican talking point???? Absolutely! The Republicans at my work were quoting Lincoln about that _before_ 9/11.... Even before Bush II's election.
That's part of the spiel.....
I can't believe they didn't howl with laughter at Perino's statements. Then again, she was addressing the D.C. press corps, who will take anything the Bush administration says with a straight face.
“never restrict constitutional freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism.”
The Repugs capacity for self-delusion is incredible!
Perino is obviously the worst liar to date for this corrupt and criminal Bush administration.
Porino, teh stupid. Tell me again how it was to our advantage to prop up this tin-horn dictator?
Pervez, out country was in complete civil war. Your actions are merely to hold on to power and will probably incite a civil war, from which a Taliban like government is likely to emerge. Thanks bud.
Q: Is it ever reasonable to restrict constitutional freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism?
MS. PERINO: In our opinion, no.
Musharraf is not stupid and will not take this seriously at all. All he has ever had to do was turn on a television and see that the Bush Administration is doing the same thing in the United States.
Doublespeak has arrived.
OMG, WTF and all the other acronyms. Did any of the bozo White House press corp call Perrino on this statement?
K........jus....WOW!!......ALREADY....K....wow!!
Musharraf has been a good student. "Judicial Activism". Heh heh! And since he's already been warned by the US not to declare martial law he declared "emergency rule". Bring on the enhanced interrogation techniques and the unlawful enemy combatants!!
As usual the blatant hypocrisy of this criminal and amoral regime knows no bounds. I understand Kucinich is going to introduce a resolution to impeach the Warpig maybe today. Not that it will go anywhere. It's most likely just a political move to get voter support. Like votes really mean anything either.
That Musharraf, he's a real perv.
Does that make him my kinda guy or what?
The spin will undoubtedly be that the Bush
Crime SyndicateAdministration has not, in fact, restricted the United States Constitution at any level applicable to the citizenry as a whole.Besides, our Consitution clearly has the super-secret clause that grants plenipotenary war powers little Dubya can shout 'SHAZAM!' and become Captain Flight Suit Boy, striding across the deck of an aircraft carrier. If we all weren't sissy liberal Neville-Chamberlain loving pansy-assed traitors, we'd understand that.
That is an example of both cognitive dissonance and transferrance.
these people should be institutionalized for our protection and theirs.
it is to laugh.
Q: Is it ever reasonable to restrict constitutional freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism?
MS. PERINO: In our opinion, no.
At which time - seemingly in response to a spontaneous clap of thunder, they all cascaded toward the East Room, where an inviting bowl of Jonestown bunch seductively awaited.
bob @ 33:
Uhhh, dude, its been living in DC for years, but on an upwardly mobile spiral for at least the last decade.
Dana Perino - Head Liar for the Bush Administration
I wonder what she did to get this job?
Fuck all the reporters in that room that did not incessantly ask how she can say that when Bush, in the name of fighting terrorism, took away habeus corpus, lawyer representation all of the first amendment and several others. You cannot tell me that they did not cringe inside when they heard that, but in unison, they stayed away from a followup. there should have been an audible, collective groan from the media when she uttered those words.
Now I believe, just like the FEMA conference, all those repoters are somehow on the payroll, or under instructions from, the whitehouse.
I love the Orwell's Animal Farm governance by the Bush junta
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
"Cue laugh track-now".
Bush to Musharraf: I get to go first and stop copying off my paper!
I am beginning to believe the press corpse (collective) are equally as deluded as the misadministration of Il Duce Busholini.
RMB @ 34:
The real question is did any of the bozos that WROTE this shit for Perino to read...actually read it themselves?!?!
Oh...I forgot GOP Rule One....Never let the facts get in the way.
HAHAHAHA! If you don't laugh, you'll cry.
Dr. Acula @ 49:
Did you call the Prez a douche?
The reporters are under the illusion that 'good reporting' does not inject 'opinion' into the story, even if that opinion happens to be the actual facts.
Like many members of Congress, reporters have also become fond of their salaries and face-time on national television. Challenging Bush and his pals carries the risk that you will be singled out and excoriated by the right-wing hate machine, and your bosses - answering to the corporate parent that owns your station or paper - will give you the 'play nice or don't play at all' talk, instead of encouraging enterprise journalism (which is not the stalking routine that Bill-O or Michelle Malkin engage in).
Unchallenged, the lies become public perception, and then accepted truth. Instead of pointing out the Emperor's New Clothes, the media discusses his impeccable fashion sense and daring style.
Say what you want about Muslims or Buddists. They take a stand against dictatorships such as the ones found in Pakistan and Myanmar and pay a heavy price for it. In many ways, Christ was like that. He took a stand against Ceasar and paid the ultimate price. The fundamentalist Christians are not so courageous. They look at the new Ceasar George W. Bush, and instead of confronting him when he strips away our Constitutional freedoms they make excuses for him. How pathetic. I'm glad I don't have that problem.
Anyone else wanna beat the lot of 'em with an irony stick?!
Next Tokyo Perino will be saying Musharaff should never win elections by swiftboating and smearing opponents, purging voter rolls, demonizing gay people, bashing immigrants, installing touch screen voting machines with no paper trails, and by trumping democracy by having your politically friendly court decide an election for you.
Karl Rove 101: Accuse others of what you are guilty of.
You just have to wonder how she even says these things with a straight face.
ahhhh....the refreshing sounds of hypocrisy. Doesn't it relieve you to know that this is a pilot to our own police state? Please give me my tab. I don't need any more.
Liberal AND Proud @ 52:
That would be too kind a rip for him, L & P!
the whitehouse is a funny place!
OT: The Senate Intelligence Committee voted 11 to 8 to approve the appt. of
Mukasey at new Atty. General, with both Schumer and Fienstien being the ONLY
Dem's to vote "Aye". Looks as if he is assured of comfirmation in full Senate.
The Republican Party . . .
"Creating Your Reality"
They will say absolutely anything.
Ruthless People @ 56:
It's called "transference". This Administration is in need serious medication and therapy. Or perhaps we should simply waterboard them all. They won't tell the truth...but what the hell...WE'LL have fun.
But you just got to wonder, based on the all the videos coming out of Pakistan, if law enforcement is now spending all its time rounding up dissident demonstrators - just who the hell is out there rounding up the terrorists who were the reason to suspend their Constitution in the first place?!?
joe cantwell @ 60:
I'll bet if you ask Laura she'll tell you which room is the funniest, too.
pissed off patricia @ 15:
Why do I have this sinking feeling you're absolutely right? If the election doesn't seem to be going their way, an Al Quaida in Iraq terrorist will materialize out of nowhere, swim ashore and blow up a lifeguard shack in San Diego and we'll be stuck with these bastards for life.
But then considering how damned spineless the Dems are, we're probably struck with the Bushies for life anyway, eh?
UnFUCKINGbelievable!!!!
What a bunch of goddamn hypocrites!!!!
Quoting Lincoln ... whining about judicial activism ... using terrorism to justify his illegal actions.
I don't think he was coached by the White House. I think Mushy was inoculating himself against criticism from the White House by using Bush's own lame excuses for breaking the law.
Bet she can't spell hypocrite.
I couldn't possible come up with a joke that hasn't already been made about the WH's statement...so I'll just blow a raspberry their way: PPPPPPPPPFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTT!!!!!
Indigowatcher @ 12:
Yes. Re:The Rwanda war crimes tribunals.
I just read that their meat puppet AG was just confirmed.
what they said:
“never restrict constitutional freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism.”
what they meant:
“never restrict torture in the name of fighting terrorism.”
With all the crap that has been happening in plain view, is it really inconcievable that the chemtrails in the sky might be some virus or flu so that we will all have to get a vacine of some kind just from catching the latest illness.
MargeAggedon @ 72:
Let's all give a collective "THANKS" to Schumer and Feinstein for backstabbing us again.
Hand, meet forehead. Forehead, this is hand.
Oh dear, the iron-i-meter is smashed to flinders. We were trying desperately to upgrade it, but 3 orders of magnitude of hypocrisy in one smash? It never had a chance...
Bush, using the sum powers that a criminally complicit congress and judicial brach have obsequiously granted him, will probably use the exact same excuses if (when) he declares martial law. I agree with nJoementum @ 68 that Musharraf was attempting to innoculate himself from criticism by using Bush's own rationalizations.
If there was any doubt that the lunatics are running the asylum......
Actually, it's a good thing that Musharraf played the Abe Lincoln card. It's going to sound pretty hollow when Bush invokes it after next year's "attack".
Oh, wait! I know, she was 'making a point'!
that takes a large sack, dunnit?
81 Shadowgm Says: Oh, wait! I know, she was ‘making a point’!
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Shouldn't that read she was "making points"
Under her blouse?
I hear they keep the pressroom cold,
So they can have plenty of snow jobs.
I have just one thing to say to Dana Perino:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aZK87LrU9g
ysbaddaden @ 83:
I'm sorry, fantasizing about Dana Perino in that manner is akin to necrophilia. The living dead are still dead ...
ysbaddaden @ 84:
Sacrilege! Ian Dury is way too good for her.
;)
Did I catch that quote correctly? Hah! That's rich!
jackpine savage @ 20:
I wouldn't go that far. The illegal regime in the US pays lip service, and lip service only, when speaking of freedom and democracy. Did you see how many times she was looking away while answering direct questions? That's the international sign for wink-wink nod-nod say no moore guvner.
You can expect a very similar press conference in Pakistan in about 6-8 months. With the Pakistani minister of propaganda denouncing the usurpation of democratic elections in the US. Then back stage a call to Dana on his cell phone. They share a hearty laugh about the gullibility of the public and how easy it is to steal hundreds of billions of dollars. Amazing how these cows march to slaughter...
Welcome to the real axis of evil.
Who wants to bet that the reporter who asked that question is having his house tossed right now?
You know the rules, Skippy McReporter!
85 Shadowgm Says: ysbaddaden @ 83:
81 Shadowgm Says: Oh, wait! I know, she was ‘making a point’!
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Shouldn’t that read she was “making points”
Under her blouse?
I hear they keep the pressroom cold,
So they can have plenty of snow jobs.
I’m sorry, fantasizing about Dana Perino in that manner is akin to necrophilia. The living dead are still dead …
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-MM__7Im6k
Oh, this too:
http://mysite.verizon.net/alankh/akhblog/CorpseBride.jpg
Remember kids, regime change begins at home.
Too funny. This shit just keeps writing itself.
Of course you don't suspend the constitution to fight the terrible terrifying terror. You broadly misinterpret it, or just ignore it.
Everyone knows that.
“never restrict constitutional freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism.” -- Don't do what you already did.
Kind of like a useless-DNC-threat. What's the President going to do, invade Pakistan? LOL
She actually said that with a straight face. Remind me never to get in a poker game with Perino.
She actually said that with a straight face. Remind me never to get in a poker game with Perino.
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She ain't lesbian? And she calls herself a Republicant.
Hypocrisy so blatant that it sticks you in the eyes, and yet she could stand there and act straight about it.
Why didn't any of the Media take her to task and remind her of the liberties that have been trampled on in the US. Habeas Corpus anyone? Would you like your Phone tapped with that order?
Sigh. Illiterate America strikes again!
"principles".
Things @ 95:
Never happen. Tooo dangerous. They actually HAVE nukes.
Sha_Rules @ 9:
Don't count us out, yet. We'll right this ship of state yet.
The cognitive dissonance makes my brain hurt. Make pretty lady go away! Her speak make confusing tongue go funny...