In what should be the last time Code Pink visits Pakistan:
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.
They hate Musharraf, but love Castro and Chavez.
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. “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.”
Such are the hazards in pursuing the socialist dream. Irrespective of her reprehensible politics–which includes protesting the war outside of Walter Reed Army Medical Center–I’m glad Miss Benjamin is alright. I’m just curious why she was in Pakistan. Has the success of the surge caused even the most religious of anti-war zealots to lose interest in Iraq? MG: Could this be the answer to Code Pink’s troubles? The Onion reports “Man Finally Put In Charge Of Struggling Feminist Movement:”
“All the feminist movement needed to do was bring on someone who had the balls to do something about this glass ceiling business,”…
