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Martial law in Pakistan,
but it could never happen in America


by Kevin Good, Unknown News      November 5, 2007

This is a test. Only a test.

I am interrupting the local Faux Noise with this community service announcement. This is a test. This only a test, because it couldn’t happen here. It could never happen here.

Pakistan:

The President tightens his grip on power by delaying elections for up to a year after imposing a state of emergency.

America?
 

The President, without so much as issuing a press statement, on May 9 signed a directive that granted near dictatorial powers to the office of the president in the event of a national emergency, declared by himself.

Pakistan:

Pakistan's dictator President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday declared a state of emergency and replaced the nation’s top judge, saying the judiciary was interfering with the government and that Islamic militancy posed a grave threat.

 

Unitary executives
America?

This could never happen here. If the 2008 election were contested, Blackwater would never shut down this Supreme Court. They would disband Congress.

This was a test, just a test. If this was a real Constitutional crisis, well too late, you're already so screwed.

We now return you to your Government approved News Corporation channel.

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in·fo·bab·ble
Pronunciation: INFOBABBLE!
Function: noun

1: the failure to communicate or the ability to misrepresent knowledge or intelligence

2: the attribute inherent in and communicated by one of two or more alternative sequences or arrangements of something (as nucleotides in DNA or binary digits in a computer program) that produce specific effects or a signal or character (as in a communication system or computer) representing data.

3: something (as a message, experimental data, or a picture) which justifies change in a construct (as a plan or theory) that represents physical or mental experience or other construct.