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Fresh footage of the full brutality of violence on the streets of Egypt has emerged, showing vicious clashes between protesters and supporters of President Hosni Mubarak. Posted on YouTube, the videos feature a pro-Mubarak van driver being surrounded and dragged from his vehicle by a mob of anti-government demonstrators.
Originally posted by dr3ws
The Us Marines is on is way to egypt today will see what side they on!
Originally posted by dr3ws
The Us Marines is on is way to egypt today will see what side they on!
They've had thirty years to get riled up.
Thirty years of "emergency rule" where the government could do anything, to anyone, at any time with no consequences for the regime.
Originally posted by mydarkpassenger
I appreciate your point of view.
Fresh footage of the full brutality of violence on the streets of Egypt has emerged, showing vicious clashes between protesters and supporters of President Hosni Mubarak. Posted on YouTube, the videos feature a pro-Mubarak van driver being surrounded and dragged from his vehicle by a mob of anti-government demonstrators.
Like you, I have had many friends in the arab world over a long time. In my experience, one man's example does not set the pattern for an entire people as far as behavior or temperament.
No worthy government tries to hide its actions via attacking journalists and information flow through the internet.
People do not live to service a government.
The government must exist only to serve the people.
The MSM would have us believe that all supporters of Mubarak are paid thugs...and while that may be true in a significant amount of cases, I don't think that all pro-Mubarak are in that category. I mentioned in a separate thread that some otherwise very, very poor Egyptians made very decent incomes (by the country's standards) in supplying tours/escorts and the like via horses, camels, bikes, etc. to tourists, especially in the ancient sites. My point is that the protesters of Mubarak seem to be more educated, and frustrated whereas the less educated and generally poorest of the people were content. Now all *their* employment has vanished as well because there is no tourism in sight. :down:
And, too, I know that the more educated will take whatever means necessary ala the Muslim Brotherhood (they recruit at universities) as the new ruling class and another Iran...but it should be the people's choice, just as it has been in Lebanon and Palestine... power to the people!