{"id":958,"date":"2007-12-07T10:55:10","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T14:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/07\/code-pink-wackjobs-deported-from-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T14:55:10","slug":"code-pink-wackjobs-deported-from-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=958","title":{"rendered":"Code Pink wackjobs deported from Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"
This particular stop on their world tour got them ousted:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m OK \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a little shaken up,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ms. Benjamin told The Washington Times by telephone from her hotel in Lahore. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They mistreated us.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I thought I was going to die in the car,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They totally terrorized us.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Pakistani authorities also detained and then ordered the deportation of Tighe Barry, a longtime Code Pink activist who was participating with the student rally outside the Lahore Press Club.<\/p>\n

Pakistan officials told Ms. Benjamin that she was being deported because she took part in an illegal demonstration, she said.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a sad state of affairs when the Pakistani government, a government that is trying to portray itself to the West as democratic, tries to harass and deport U.S. human rights activists,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ms. Benjamin said at the press club before her arrest. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If they do this to us, who have the protection of being U.S. citizens, imagine what they do to their own citizens.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Link: http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20071204\/NATION\/112040100\/1001<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Aw, the widdle Code Pinky gal was aaaaaaall shaken up over being arrested because she protested in a foreign country. The funny thing is, this idiot believes she is protected in a hostile foreign environment because she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a American citizen<\/em>. Aside from that, if she really wants to prove how concerned she is over \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchuman rights\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, she and her Code Pink moonbats need to put Saudi Arabia on their itinerary. The way women are treated and abused in that <\/em>country would keep her \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcterrorized\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for a long time\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.if she lived long enough.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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