{"id":19811,"date":"2013-05-10T07:24:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T15:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=19811"},"modified":"2013-05-10T07:24:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T15:24:49","slug":"good-luck-pakistan-thanks-for-tweets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/10\/good-luck-pakistan-thanks-for-tweets-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Luck, Pakistan! Thanks for Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan holds elections on Saturday. More than 70 people have been killed nationwide in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2013\/05\/09\/pakistan-elections\/2147367\/\">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 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2013\/05\/09\/pakistan-high-court-us-drone-strikes-illegal\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">illegal and a war crime<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lost-Rights-Destruction-American-Liberty\/dp\/0312123337\">Lost Rights<\/a> quip about democracy, wolves, and lambs has popped up fairly often lately in Pakistani tweets. Here&#8217;s a reposting of some of those tweets &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. &#8211; James Bovard<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Priyank Rathod (@priyank_ignitis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/priyank_ignitis\/status\/332473246177968128\">May 9, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. &#8211;James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MAJYD AZIZ (@MajydAziz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MajydAziz\/status\/320059009925259265\">April 5, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a bevy of other Pakistani Twitter quotes (and some from elsewhere in Asia) reposted (with the full Twitter imagery, including author photos) at my<a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/10\/good-luck-pakistan-thanks-for-tweets\/\"> blog entry on the Pakistani election<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan holds elections on Saturday. More than 70 people have been killed nationwide in pre-election violence. 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. I hope this election can help Pakistanis attach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-19811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19811"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19836,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811\/revisions\/19836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19811"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}