Pakistan’s NAB Ordinance & US Immigration Procedure show Striking Similarities
With my recent research compiled, my experience, and my interaction with both superfunctional (sense the sarcasm) departments set up by their respective governments, Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the US Department of Homeland Security have come up with strikingly similar policies to detain, hold, punish/remove violators of law.
Under the NAB Ordinance passed per the wishes of now Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, NAB has the right to arrest, pick-up, kidnap, assault, or assassinate anyone without accountability to any other entity, government or private. NAB typically can and does arrest and hold accused for 90 days, within which period they can accumulate or create evidence against the person arrested. Typically, no one adheres to the 90 day rule, and if NAB is unable to come up with evidence, in a country like Pakistan, making evidence is not much of a challenge.
The US Department of Homeland Security has a very similar holding policy for those who have been classified as illegal or unwanted aliens. Apart from being primarily racist, an immigration officer can hold or arrest anyone they please (who is not a US Citizen), but them behind bars without any legal recourse, and treat them any which way they want. They cut off such detainees from the outside world and they don’t disclose any information about there whereabouts or what they plan to do with them. If they’re going to deport someone, they claim they can’t say when or why due to security reasons. What bullshit, just because some white immigration officer has a 3 inch penis and he has to feel powerful about his useless, two-cents worth life and job he tries to make his life more interesting by citing ’security reasons,’ and what else, the pathetic majority of American Citizens widely accept such answers.
Interestingly enough, such holding of aliens without an order issued by DOA is in most cases illegal. Homeland Security just likes adding mystery to it’s job, and they try to misuse their powers by mis-handling people and not dislcosing any information about that. This is precisely what NAB does; they don’t inform anyone; the family of the accused, friends, or any other involved people what the charge is, why it isn’t being trialled in court, and why they aren’t willing to talk about it openly. Security is merely a bad excuse for the truth, because at the end of the day everyone needs to show they’re doing their job right; they’re implementing the advertised law, whether that implementation is right or wrong, or illegal.Â
Such acts of corruption have become prevalent in the United States after September 11, especially after George Dickless (or Bush) has decided to raise his war against brown people. On the other hand, Pakistani bureaucrats have reached new levels of corruption and crime since the installation and malpractive of the NAB Ordinance. America definitely seems to be taking some lessons from Pakistan; sadly, Pakistan has nothing pleasant in its short history to teach.
Reporters in both countries dread bringing up such issues, primarily because they claim their knowledge of the law is incomplete to comment on such incidents. However, the truth of the matter is that the press and media are very afraid of both departments in both governments. Suppressing press: That truly is representative of positive terrorism. Welcome to the war.
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