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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian rights activists scrap plans for protest
2005-03-11
Syrian human rights activists planning to demonstrate against long-standing emergency laws scrapped their protest on Thursday when hundreds of government supporters showed up earlier near a Damascus courthouse. Witnesses said crowds of young men and a few women with Syrian flags and pictures of President Bashar Assad gathered before the rights activists could begin their protest. "They hijacked the event ... I didn't see any arrests or violence," said one diplomat who was at the scene.

Hassan Abdel-Azim, speaking for the group behind the rights protest, accused the government of using "totalitarian" tactics to foil the demonstration with the help of a student militia. "We did not respond to the provocation and avoided confrontation and pulled out peacefully," he told reporters. The protest was intended to call for an end to a 42-year-old emergency law and the abolition of special courts.
The brownshirts remain in control, for now...
Posted by:Fred

#5  Faith based Socialists
Like that one Mr. M.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-03-11 10:41:44 AM  

#4  Syrian human rights activists planning to demonstrate against long-standing emergency laws scrapped their protest on Thursday

actually yesterday was the 42th year anniversary of the enactment 'emergency' laws - although not enforced as brutally as in Saddam's Iraq, these laws essentially allow arbitrary arrest, imprisonment, confiscation of property, etc.
Posted by: mhw   2005-03-11 9:55:17 AM  

#3   Faith-based Socialists

I guess that's a nicer way of saying faith-bassed fascists.
Posted by: 2b   2005-03-11 8:42:47 AM  

#2  Well yeah. I thought everybody knew that.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-03-11 4:23:03 AM  

#1  The Waffen SS brownshirts of the Red Army? The economies of any Islamic nation or society will NEVER improve as long as women, and the riole of women, are restrained or denied! To criticize the USA in the name of the Islamist statua quo only shows or proves that Islamists, i.e. Faith-based Socialists, are fighting for the same ideals as secular Commies - Regulation, Hyper-regulation, the Global Welfare State, Big and Big-g-g-er [anti-Libertarian]Govt., and the right of the masses to be PC enslaved by same, to be treated as a slave while officially NOT being called or labeled a "slave".
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2005-03-11 1:29:43 AM  

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