{"id":5325,"date":"2013-05-10T08:42:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T12:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=5325"},"modified":"2013-05-10T08:42:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T12:42:31","slug":"good-luck-pakistan-thanks-for-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/10\/good-luck-pakistan-thanks-for-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Luck, Pakistan! Thanks for Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pakistan holds elections on Saturday. More than 70 people have been killed nationwide in pre-election violence.<\/a> It is encouraging that Pakistani High Court Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan issued a ruling on Thursday declaring US drone strikes in tribal areas in Pakistan illegal and a war crime<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I hope this election can help Pakistanis attach a much tighter leash on their own government. Unfortunately, elections rarely curb the rapacity of politicians. (America has re-learned this the hard way with practically every election since 1928.) The Lost Rights<\/a> quip about democracy, wolves, and lambs has popped up fairly often lately in Pakistani tweets. Here’s a reposting of some of those tweets (and a few from elsewhere in Asia).<\/p>\n

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. –James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)<\/p>\n

\u2014 MAJYD AZIZ (@MajydAziz) April 5, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n