March 26, 2007
Egypt Cracks Down on Liberal Democracy Movement
Sam Adam was at a pro-democracy demonstration last night when the Egyptian SS turned out in force and began arresting people. His main concern seems to be that no one is covering the story. The sad thing? The largest pro-democracy faction in Egypt seems to be the Islamist Egyptian Brotherhood--the al Qaeda fellow travellers. Needless to say, Sam Adam and most of the Egyptian bloggers are not in that camp.
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Read the whole story, but here is what moved me. Sandmonkey:
Maybe the government is right: Maybe we don't deserve Democracy. Maybe we don't deserve our rights. Maybe we deserve everything that happens to us. We, as people, seem to lack the sense of self-respect and dignity that makes the human being demand his/her right, so how do we expect the government to respect us or give us those rights? We clearly don't deserve them. We clearly deserve to have our rights stolen, our friends imprisoned, and our women assaulted. Cause, otherwise, how would you explain how accepting we are of those things?Rather depressing development. The Arabist also has a report.Maybe we don't deserve any better.
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"...We, as people, seem to lack the sense of self-respect and dignity that makes the human being demand his/her right, so how do we expect the government to respect us or give us those rights?..."
He might as well have been speaking of modern Americans. Scary.
He might as well have been speaking of modern Americans. Scary.
Posted by: Joe Blow at March 27, 2007 10:24 AM (EFe7W)
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