How news plays with your mind, trains you to think there way !!!

There is a battle for the grey matter between your ears, and well the battle is easy to win when you only get to hear one side, if you know what I mean. Right now the powers that be want to have a goverment change in Pakistan, as I stated below I think they want a US/Western power ally in place before they attack Iran to stop any Muslim leader from supporting Iran. So what do you do? You start a media blitz to ensure that the minds of YOUR people and the world are in tow with what you want. It would take an essay to relate everything that needs to be said, so let me point out quickly how the news messes with you.

Case and point, the right to protest. Here in North America we are told how we have rights to protest against the government and other political bodies. But the Government makes sure we behave, keeps us herded into little areas nowadays and arrests those it feels are making trouble [, or more likely speaking the truth]. Hell, a month or so ago Montreal Police placed Narcs inside a protest crowd to start riots so they could make them look bad and arrest people. So here our benevolent style government finds new ways the NEWS can play down their heavy handed tactics all the time, with police in Millitary garb and full out SWAT gear for every kind of protest. Lines drawn where and where not you can go, whom and what you can photograph and more, and when the news gets it.... it's all in the name of NATIONAL or PROVINICAL security. To protect the leaders and blah blah blah. So what happens when a standing goverment wants to make sure protests do not get out of hand .... this :

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 9 — In a huge show of force, the Pakistani government stopped a protest rally by the opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto, before it started today, blanketing the rally site with thousands of police, blocking roads to stop demonstrators, and barricading Ms. Bhutto inside her residence in Islamabad.
In Rawalpindi, the garrison town close to Islamabad, the capital, where the rally was due to take place, double lines of police and police vans prevented most of the thousands of demonstrators from entering the city to protest against the emergency rule declared by the president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, six days ago. Thousands of party workers had already been arrested over the past few days, party officials said.
At Ms. Bhutto’s residence, lines of police, barbed wire and concrete barricades made her a virtual hostage. Amid chaotic scenes, an attempt by Ms. Bhutto to leave in a white four-wheel drive car was thwarted by the police as they moved an armored personnel car and a police bus to block her way.
But late in the afternoon, in what appeared to be a carefully stage-managed move agreed with the government, Ms. Bhutto emerged from her house and made a speech that was broadcast on official Pakistani television.
Ms. Bhutto said she was "listening to the voice of my conscience" and appealed to the government to end the emergency rule.
In Rawalpindi, dump trucks blocked roads, preventing access to Liaquat Park, where the rally was due to be held, and shutting down the city center. By late afternoon, tensions between police and the small groups of protesters who had managed to enter the city started to mount, and there were some arrests and use of tear gas, but later the tensions more or less dissipated, and police began to leave the city.
As many as 5,000 party workers had been arrested across the country over the last three days, party officials said, and today any groups of people that formed on the street were immediately moved on by police.
The authorities said there were 8,500 police on the streets of Rawalpindi, and there were many more plain clothes officers and intelligence officials. Some demonstrators threw stones at the police and were hauled off in vans.
But the detention by police of Ms. Bhutto at her home appeared to prevent her party activists from organizing any major demonstration in Rawalpindi, and many said they were still waiting for orders to stage a major demonstration.
"As soon as she comes to Rawalpindi, we will go and break the barriers," said Shiaz Kayani, a Pakistan Peoples Party district president.
At Ms. Bhutto’s residence, some party workers said Ms. Bhutto was under house arrest, but the government said no official papers had been issued, and Ms. Bhutto’s chief political aide, Nadeem Khan, speaking to reporters outside the house, said detention orders had not arrived.
"She is not under house arrest," a superintendent of police, Aftab Nasir, told the official Pakistani press agency. "Only the security has been enhanced."
A government spokesman, Tariq Azim Khan, said this evening that a restraining order preventing Ms. Bhutto from leaving her house would probably be lifted tonight. He said Ms. Bhutto was not under house arrest. "Probably the restraining order will be removed tonight," Mr. Khan said. "It was try to get her not to lead the rally. There was credible information that she would be the target of an attack."
In mid-October, Ms. Bhutto’s homecoming procession in Karachi was attacked by a suicide bomber. Mr. Khan said she had not followed the government’s warnings. "Last time she wouldn’t listen, and that resulted in 140 deaths," Mr. Khan said.
In her speech in front of her house, Ms. Bhutto said that she had not spoken to General Musharraf and would not negotiate with him until emergency rule was ended and the Constitution revived. "I have been illegally stopped by barbed wired and blockades," she said. She said she still intended to go ahead with a long march through Punjab Province planned for early next week.
Police were arresting any Pakistan Peoples Party worker who showed up near Ms. Bhutto’s residence, and by early afternoon, at least 20 workers, including at least 6 females, had been arrested.
Workers shouted "Prime minister Benazir!" before being shoved into police buses and vans.
Aides to General Musharraf said that they hoped Ms. Bhutto would now cancel the demonstration because it was forbidden under the emergency rule.
They also said her own security was at stake. When she arrived back in Pakistan last month from self-imposed exile abroad, her motorcade through the streets of Karachi was attacked by a suicide bomber, killing more than a hundred people.
The rally that was scheduled today in Rawalpindi has assumed critical importance in the political machinations between Ms. Bhutto, who served twice as prime minister and wants to return to power, and General Musharraf.
Outwardly, the stand-off today appeared to deepen the confrontation between the two, making Ms. Bhutto an opponent of General Musharraf rather than a partner with him in the transition to democracy that she and her American sponsors who helped negotiate her return to Pakistan envisaged.
Behind the scenes, however, the strategies for both sides for the day were probably worked out in advance, analysts said, in order to give each side a face-saving way to avoid a potentially bloody clash on the streets.
The government arrested a large number of potential protesters before the rally, sealed the protest location, and cordoned off the area around it. Ms. Bhutto had already tried to leave her house earlier today to go to the protest, but her car was blocked when it tried to leave by the side entrance, her press aide, Sherry Rehman, told reporters.
At one point, Ms. Rehman said that Ms. Bhutto would be "leading the protest, but not joining it."
In another sign of what seemed like behind-the-scenes co-ordination between Ms. Bhutto and the authorities, Ms. Bhutto’s voice came over official Pakistani television at 4 p.m. this afternoon as she made a long speech setting out her demands. A still picture of her appeared on the screen while she spoke.
Ms. Bhutto has rejected the announcement that the president made on Thursday that parliamentary elections would be held by Feb. 15. She said his announcement was "vague" and it also fell short of her demands that he relinquish his role as head of the Army and end emergency rule.
But Ms. Bhutto and General Musharraf are described by Western diplomats as continuing to negotiate a power-sharing deal that was envisaged when she returned to Pakistan from self-imposed exile abroad last month.
"If the tensions persist, the negotiations might be in jeopardy," said Hasan Askari Rizvi, a political and military analyst in Lahore who also lectures at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in the United States.
"The stage is set for a serious confrontation with massive arrests within a couple of days," Mr. Rizvi said. Adding to the government’s troubles, Mr. Rivzi, said was the pledge Thursday by Jamaat Islaami, a religious party, that it would stage large protests if General Musharraf did not step down as leader of the military by November 15.
Mr. Rizvi said there was no sign of General Musharraf renouncing his military role.
"If Musharraf can contain these protests for three days, fine," he said. "But if the protests spread to cities and persist for a week then Musharraf will have problems."

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Why would the Government do this? Well Pakistan's leader Musharraf has vowed to hold elections, but miss Democracy says that is not good enough, basically she keeps pushing and pushing... asking for changes.
I'll admit there is nothing wrong with that, asking people to protest each day all the time when the other side yeilds on your issues is well just causing trouble. You can protest, but what do you protest for? She stop the protests, stop the unrest. But she won't. Now going and placing her under house arresst, house arrest !!! ???

Both sides are wrong here.

In her hurry to push for power, Bhutto the american whore seems willing to cause riots and provoke government reposonese when she knows fully well international pressure is doing her work for her. Elections will be held. General Musharraf on the other hand, is doing just what the powers that be want. Clamping down and opposing free speech and trying to stop Bhutto from siezing power in a democratic way, sleazy as it is. With CIA and American help. You see how this plays out?

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Back to the point at hand. When our government suppresses free speech and protests, well it is doing so to protect the public, the leaders and the process of goverment. When others like Musharraf do this, due to constant threats of protest and upheavel [,from opposing wannabe leaders in this case Bhutto] it's terrible and shows what kind of terrible autocratic state they live in. So next time you see your papers spewing out "for freedom and peace and free speech", these wars we currently fight. Ask yourself, why the hell then we cannot protest when and where we want, and when we do get stopped how come OUR leaders can say its for our own good, but other countries leaders do it and they are Dictators and enslavers. News, just another way of telling you to sit down, shutup and let them do the thinking for you.