wintler2 wrote:So how can i help, at this distance? i'm guessing, pressure my own government to stop supporting the SCAF.
Let's put it this way: your money funds the SCAF to the tune of $1.3 billion annually. Your media is at least as dishonest as ours; check out this dishonest, malicious hit piece in
Foreign Policy Ultra Violence: How Egypt’s soccer mobs are threatening the revolution. Look at the video I posted, of the number of people who came out in Cairo alone last January 25th, to demand their freedom from the SCAF rule. All major media in the US, if they covered the demos at all, described them as "thousands" of Egyptians coming out to demand the removal of the SCAF. "Thousands"? One march, coming from Giza, consisted of at least 150,000 demonstrators who found themselves unable to enter downtown because of the MILLIONS who were already there.
The Western media has been suppressing the overwhelming evidence, including documentary evidence, of massive election fraud orchestrated by the SCAF to fill the parliament with Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist "representatives". There are already more than 500 lawsuits alleging criminal election tampering before the courts, including one that shows how 12 MILLION fraudulent voters for the Islamist parties were added to the list of legitimate voters (only 40 million Egyptians are eligible to vote -- but the official list of voters includes 52 million names, with 12 million repeated between 2 and 30 times in different electoral districts.) And that's not counting the deceased Egyptians who still managed to vote, naturally for the Islamists. Counting only real and living voters, the Islamists could not have obtained more than 30% of the vote, even with the enormous sums of money they spent on their election campaigns and the skewed way the electoral districts were divided, not to mention the fact that according to Egyptian law, political parties based on religion are strictly forbidden.
Watch how the Western coverage underplays how the last week has seen several hostile confrontations between the Muslim Brotherhood and the general public, especially the revolutionary youth. Last January 25th, the millions who took to the streets began by chanting against the SCAF, but within hours, the chants equally condemned the SCAF and the Muslim Brotherhood. The turning point came when the Muslim Brotherhood used massive loudspeakers all over the country to broadcast the Quran to try to drown out the chants against the SCAF, and by the end of the day the people were accusing the Muslim Brotherhood of selling out the revolution for their own selfish goals.
Just three days ago, several marches were organized by women's groups and revolutionary youth to present a list of demands to the new parliament. When they arrived, they found hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members surrounding the parliament to prevent the marchers from handing over their list of demands, prominent among which was to demand that the parliament exercise its authority to establish independent tribunals to investigate and try the perpetrators of crimes against the Egyptian people during the past year, to nullify the state of emergency, and to immediately relieve the SCAF of all political power. When the Muslim Brotherhood members refused to allow any representatives of the marchers to present their list of demands, the mood turned ugly and a fight broke out, in which around a dozen Muslim Brothers were lightly injured. In the end, Liberal and Leftist members of Parliament came out and accepted the list of demands.
The geriatric, corrupt old fools of SCAF are like cornered rats -- they've committed so many terrible crimes over the past year, that their hold on power has now become literally a matter of life and death for them. But each time, their crimes become more savage, more bloody, and the number of victims escalates. And each time, they dig their graves a little bit deeper. They created a false parliament to represent the people's voice, so millions took to the streets all over the country to speak for themselves. They falsify and distort the news, so the revolution communicates directly with the people using the internet and street media like the "Kazeboon" (Liars) campaign that I described in an earlier post. They use the police and army to attack protesters, so ordinary young men, including the heroes of the Ultras, put their lives on the line to defend them. They try to intimidate and humiliate the families of martyrs, so people flock around them and serve them and glorify them. (I, who have never bowed and kissed the hand of a living person, when I met the mother of Khaled Said, found myself instinctively bending down and kissing her hand, as so many others do.) They say to the bereaved mothers, "You have lost one son, but now all of us are your sons and daughters." And they mean it.
All their schemes have failed, including their devious partnership with the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists, and now they're reduced to trying to simply kill off the opposition. But their opposition is the Egyptian people, over 65% of whom are under the age of 30, and who are driven by a hunger for justice and freedom so deep that nothing can stand against them.
"If you're not careful the newspapers will have you hating the oppressed and loving the people doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X
