DEMOCRACY: YR DOING IT WRONG, PART 12,169
Dec. 28th, 2007 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogSome international news for those of you eager to see how the Shining Beacon Of Democracy is faring outside of the US:
1. PAKISTAN: Former Pakistan PM Benazir Bhutto is shot and blown up by al Qaeda. Or by current PM (by way of military coup) Pervez Musharraf, depending on who you ask. Bhutto was campaigning to get her old job back and had a very strong following. Bush mumbles something about not giving up on democracy just because candidates are getting killed for being friends with the US. Country too mired in chaos to notice. And no, it's not funny..
2. THAILAND: The military coup from last year ends after the people vote for a new parliament – and basically vote back in the party that the military threw out in the first place. The coup leader says he respects the outcome – just not to the point of ruling out another coup in 2008. Uh huh.
3. HONG KONG: The National People's Congress Standing Committee in Beijing is due to release its decision tomorrow regarding The Donald’s request that Hong Kong get full democracy in either 2012, 2017 or whatever. The smart money is on “whatever”, considering I heard a committee member say on TV the other night that setting a timetable for full democracy violates the Basic Law. (See what they did there?).
Meanwhile, everyone criticizes the pan-Democrats for staging protests all week demanding universal suffrage in 2012 on the grounds that they’re basically not impressing the people who will decide whatever the hell they want anyway.
Putting the ‘Exit’ in ‘Exit poll’,
This is dF
1. PAKISTAN: Former Pakistan PM Benazir Bhutto is shot and blown up by al Qaeda. Or by current PM (by way of military coup) Pervez Musharraf, depending on who you ask. Bhutto was campaigning to get her old job back and had a very strong following. Bush mumbles something about not giving up on democracy just because candidates are getting killed for being friends with the US. Country too mired in chaos to notice. And no, it's not funny..
2. THAILAND: The military coup from last year ends after the people vote for a new parliament – and basically vote back in the party that the military threw out in the first place. The coup leader says he respects the outcome – just not to the point of ruling out another coup in 2008. Uh huh.
3. HONG KONG: The National People's Congress Standing Committee in Beijing is due to release its decision tomorrow regarding The Donald’s request that Hong Kong get full democracy in either 2012, 2017 or whatever. The smart money is on “whatever”, considering I heard a committee member say on TV the other night that setting a timetable for full democracy violates the Basic Law. (See what they did there?).
Meanwhile, everyone criticizes the pan-Democrats for staging protests all week demanding universal suffrage in 2012 on the grounds that they’re basically not impressing the people who will decide whatever the hell they want anyway.
Democracy®: Harder Than It Looks™
Putting the ‘Exit’ in ‘Exit poll’,
This is dF
