Comments on: Our Cute Little Dictators http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/homistan/our_cute_little_dictators.html what is the vertiginous chapati saying to me? Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:36:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: matthew broussard http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/homistan/our_cute_little_dictators.html#comment-54583 matthew broussard Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:16:50 +0000 http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/homistan/our_cute_little_dictators.html#comment-54583 if there is a ban on"assembly" that doesn't necessarily exclude collective protest on a massive level. if people gather to protest they create an easy target for the oppressive police. would it be possible to have aprotest which is capillary: dispersed throughout the territory and society? could all interested protester and concerned citizens just stop what their doing at a specific time: say 11:30 am on monday, and step into the street blocking traffic, wherever they happen to be? the police can't be everywhere, all the time. and such a move would stop the country dead in its tracks for a long while due to ensuing logistical problems and also send a stong message to the govenment: the same one which Ms Bhutto said: "they can't arreste everyone" especially if they aren't all in the same place. and that the country can shut the military down, even without having means or money or arms. in the wake of a media blackout and oppressive military force, one could imagine taking advantage of alternative ways of thinking: exactly what the military is incaple of. if there is a ban on”assembly” that doesn’t necessarily exclude collective protest on a massive level. if people gather to protest they create an easy target for the oppressive police. would it be possible to have aprotest which is capillary: dispersed throughout the territory and society? could all interested protester and concerned citizens just stop what their doing at a specific time: say 11:30 am on monday, and step into the street blocking traffic, wherever they happen to be? the police can’t be everywhere, all the time. and such a move would stop the country dead in its tracks for a long while due to ensuing logistical problems and also send a stong message to the govenment: the same one which Ms Bhutto said: “they can’t arreste everyone” especially if they aren’t all in the same place. and that the country can shut the military down, even without having means or money or arms. in the wake of a media blackout and oppressive military force, one could imagine taking advantage of alternative ways of thinking: exactly what the military is incaple of.

]]> By: The evolution of homo dictatorophilus « Kafr al-Hanadwa http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/homistan/our_cute_little_dictators.html#comment-54536 The evolution of homo dictatorophilus « Kafr al-Hanadwa Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:49:38 +0000 http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/homistan/our_cute_little_dictators.html#comment-54536 [...] the plumage and pageantry do help. You can always justify your devotion to a cad by saying that you can’t [...] [...] the plumage and pageantry do help. You can always justify your devotion to a cad by saying that you can’t [...]

]]> By: SP http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/homistan/our_cute_little_dictators.html#comment-54337 SP Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:40:15 +0000 http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/homistan/our_cute_little_dictators.html#comment-54337 And here's an old cold warrior rehashing the American love of Pakistani dictators: http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/08/top10.htm And here’s an old cold warrior rehashing the American love of Pakistani dictators:

http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/08/top10.htm

]]> By: SP http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/homistan/our_cute_little_dictators.html#comment-54324 SP Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:13:33 +0000 http://www.chapatimystery.com/archives/homistan/our_cute_little_dictators.html#comment-54324 Dead on. There are parallels with the romanticisation of rajas during the Raj - much as the Brits prided themselves on lifting India out of its oriental despotism (ditto the French in parts of N. Africa) they did still seem to get a guilty pleasure out of court grandeur, and posing for pictures with fat jewel-draped princelings. Dead on. There are parallels with the romanticisation of rajas during the Raj - much as the Brits prided themselves on lifting India out of its oriental despotism (ditto the French in parts of N. Africa) they did still seem to get a guilty pleasure out of court grandeur, and posing for pictures with fat jewel-draped princelings.

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