The Times worries about a government using lawfare against opponents in the lead-up to a ‘crucial election’

American Thinker ^ | 4 Sep, 2023 | Andrea Widburg

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It’s too bad that its concern is directed overseas while it applauds the same tyrannical behavior at home.

The New York Times is very worried. In the lead-up to a “crucial election,” the government is arresting dozens (or even more) of its opponents and tying them up in court cases. The Times understands what’s going on: The government that controls the criminal justice system is “quietly crushing a democracy.” The only problem with this legitimate worry about what happens when a government criminalizes its political opponents is that the Times isn’t worried about the Biden Justice Department or various state prosecutors. It’s worried about elections in Bangladesh.

The following is the title, subtitle, and opening paragraphs of the Times’s article about Bangladesh:

Quietly Crushing a Democracy: Millions on Trial in Bangladesh

The most active rivals to the country’s ruling party face dozens, even hundreds, of court cases each, paralyzing the opposition as a crucial election approaches.

Bangladesh’s multiparty democracy is being methodically strangled in crowded courtrooms across this country of 170 million people.

Nearly every day, thousands of leaders, members and supporters of opposition parties stand before a judge. Charges are usually vague, and evidence is shoddy, at best. But just months before a pivotal election pitting them against the ruling Awami League, the immobilizing effect is clear.

About half of the five million members of the main opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, are embroiled in politically motivated court cases, the group estimates. The most active leaders and organizers face dozens, even hundreds, of cases. Lives that would be defined by raucous rallies or late-night strategizing are instead dominated by lawyers’ chambers, courtroom cages and, in Dhaka, the torturously snail-paced traffic between the two.

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Sadly the hypocrisy from the NYT is unsurprising.

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It’s too bad that its concern is directed overseas while it applauds the same tyrannical behavior at home.

It's too bad that a budding writer chooses to open with sarcasm when there is ample evidence to make the obvious hypocrisy undeniable towards proving collusion between US media & the government against said political opponents.