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		<title>Sandmonkey: Egypt, right now!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[His account having been &#8220;suspended&#8221; &#8211; that is, hacked by the Mubarak regime &#8211; I am re-posting it from the Google cache: I don&#8217;t know how to start writing this. I have been battling fatigue for not sleeping properly for the past 10 days, moving from one&#8217;s friend house to another friend&#8217;s house, almost never [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solomon2.wordpress.com&amp;blog=287449&amp;post=3&amp;subd=solomon2&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>His account having been &#8220;<a href="http://www.sandmonkey.org/">suspended</a>&#8221; &#8211; that is, hacked by the Mubarak regime &#8211; I am re-posting it from the Google cache:</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know how to start writing this. I have been battling  fatigue for not sleeping properly for the past 10 days, moving from  one&#8217;s friend house to another friend&#8217;s house, almost never spending a  night in my home, facing a very well funded and well organized ruthless  regime that views me as nothing but an annoying bug that its time to  squash will come. The situation here is bleak to say the least.</p>
<p>It didn&#8217;t start out that way. On Tuesday Jan 25 it all started  peacefully, and against all odds, we succeeded to gather hundreds of  thousands and get them into Tahrir Square, despite being attacked by  Anti-Riot Police who are using sticks, tear gas and rubber bullets  against us. We managed to break all of their barricades and situated  ourselves in Tahrir. The government responded by shutting down all cell  communication in Tahrir square, a move which purpose was understood  later when after midnight they went in with all of their might and  attacked the protesters and evacuated the Square. The next day we were  back at it again, and the day after. Then came Friday and we braved  their communication blackout, their thugs, their tear gas and their  bullets and we retook the square. We have been fighting to keep it ever  since.</p>
<p>That night the government announced a military curfew, which kept  getting shorter by the day, until it became from 8 am to 3 pm. People  couldn&#8217;t go to work, gas was running out quickly and so were essential  goods and money, since the banks were not allowed to operate and people  were not able to collect their salary. The internet continued to be  blocked, which affected all businesses in Egypt and will cause an  economic meltdown the moment they allow the banks to operate again. We  were being collectively punished for daring to say that we deserve  democracy and rights, and to keep it up, they withdrew the police, and  then sent them out dressed as civilians to terrorize our neighborhoods. I  was shot at twice that day, one of which with a semi-automatic by a  dude in a car that we the people took joy in pummeling. The government  announced that all prisons were breached, and that the prisoners somehow  managed to get weapons and do nothing but randomly attack people. One  day we had organized thugs in uniforms firing at us and the next day  they disappeared and were replaced by organized thugs without uniforms  firing at us. Somehow the people never made the connection.</p>
<p>Despite it all, we braved it. We believed we are doing what&#8217;s right  and were encouraged by all those around us who couldn&#8217;t believe what was  happening to their country. What he did galvanized the people, and on  Tuesday, despite shutting down all major roads leading into Cairo, we  managed to get over 2 million protesters in Cairo alone and 3 million  all over Egypt to come out and demand Mubarak&#8217;s departure. Those are  people who stood up to the regime&#8217;s ruthlessness and anger and declared  that they were free, and were refusing to live in the Mubarak  dictatorship for one more day. That night, he showed up on TV, and gave a  very emotional speech about how he intends to step down at the end of  his term and how he wants to die in Egypt, the country he loved and  served. To me, and to everyone else at the protests this wasn&#8217;t nearly  enough, for we wanted him gone now. Others started asking that we give  him a chance, and that change takes time and other such poppycock. Hell,  some people and family members cried when they saw his speech. People  felt sorry for him for failing to be our dictator for the rest of his  life and inheriting us to his Son. It was an amalgam of Stockholm  syndrome coupled with slave mentality in a malevolent combination that  we never saw before. And the Regime capitalized on it today.</p>
<p>Today, they brought back the internet, and started having people  calling on TV and writing on facebook on how they support Mubarak and  his call for stability and peacefull change in 8 months. They hung on to  the words of the newly appointed government would never harm the  protesters, whom they believe to be good patriotic youth who have a few  bad apples amongst them. We started getting calls asking people to stop  protesting because &#8220;we got what we wanted&#8221; and &#8220;we need the country to  start working again&#8221;. People were complaining that they miss their  lives. That they miss going out at night, and ordering Home Delivery.  That they need us to stop so they can resume whatever existence they had  before all of this. All was forgiven, the past week never happened and  it&#8217;s time for Unity under Mubarak&#8217;s rule right now.</p>
<p>To all of those people I say: NEVER! I am sorry that your lives and  businesses are disrupted, but this wasn&#8217;t caused by the Protesters. The  Protesters aren&#8217;t the ones who shut down the internet that has paralyzed  your businesses and banks: <strong>The government did.</strong> The  Protesters weren&#8217;t the ones who initiated the military curfew that  limited your movement and allowed goods to disappear off market shelves  and gas to disappear: <strong>The government did</strong>. The  Protesters weren&#8217;t the ones who ordered the police to withdraw and  claimed the prisons were breached and unleashed thugs that terrorized  your neighborhoods: <strong>The government did.</strong> The same  government that you wish to give a second chance to, as if 30 years of  dictatorship and utter failure in every sector of government wasn&#8217;t  enough for you. The Slaves were ready to forgive their master, and blame  his cruelty on those who dared to defy him in order to ensure a better  Egypt for all of its citizens and their children. After all, he gave us  his word, and it&#8217;s not like he ever broke his promises for reform before  or anything.</p>
<p>Then Mubarak made his move and showed them what useful idiots they all were.</p>
<p>You watched on TV as &#8220;Pro-Mubarak Protesters&#8221; –<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110203/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt;_ylt=AlNouw.ZHHVRicj7nz.ZPris0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTM4YWI4cDRtBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTEwMjAzL21sX2VneXB0BGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMgRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDZ3VuZmlyZXBvdW5k"> thugs who were paid money by NDP members</a> by admission of High NDP officials- started attacking the peaceful  unarmed protesters in Tahrir square. They attacked them with sticks,  threw stones at them, brought in men riding horses and camels- in what  must be the most surreal scene ever shown on TV- and carrying whips to  beat up the protesters. And then the Bullets started getting fired and  Molotov cocktails started getting thrown at the Anti-Mubarak Protesters  as the Army standing idly by, allowing it all to happen and not doing  anything about it. Dozens were killed, hundreds injured, and there was  no help sent by ambulances. The Police never showed up to stop those  attacking because the ones who were captured by the Anti-mubarak people  had police ID&#8217;s on them. They were the police and they were there to  shoot and kill people and even tried to set the Egyptian Museum on Fire.  The Aim was clear: Use the clashes as pretext to ban such  demonstrations under pretexts of concern for public safety and order,  and to prevent disunity amongst the people of Egypt. But their plans  ultimately failed, by those resilient brave souls who wouldn&#8217;t give up  the ground they freed of Egypt, no matter how many live bullets or  firebombs were hurled at them. They know, like we all do, that this  regime no longer cares to put on a moderate mask. That they have shown  their true nature. That Mubarak will never step down, and that he would  rather burn Egypt to the ground than even contemplate that possibility.</p>
<p>In the meantime, State-owned and affiliated TV channels were showing  coverage of Peaceful Mubarak Protests all over Egypt and showing  recorded footage of Tahrir Square protest from the night before and  claiming it&#8217;s the situation there at the moment. Hundreds of calls by  public figures and actors started calling the channels saying that they  are with Mubarak, and that he is our Father and we should support him on  the road to democracy. A veiled girl with a blurred face went on Mehwer  TV claiming to have received funding by Americans to go to the US and  took courses on how to bring down the Egyptian government through  protests which were taught by Jews. She claimed that AlJazeera is lying,  and that the only people in Tahrir square now were Muslim Brotherhood  and Hamas. State TV started issuing statements on how the people  arrested Israelis all over Cairo engaged in creating mayhem and causing  chaos. For those of you who are counting this is an  American-Israeli-Qatari-Muslim Brotherhood-Iranian-Hamas conspiracy.  Imagine that. And MANY PEOPLE BOUGHT IT. I recall telling a friend of  mine that the only good thing about what happened today was that it made  clear to us who were the idiots amongst our friends. Now we know.</p>
<p>Now, just in case this isn&#8217;t clear: This protest is not one made or  sustained by the Muslim Brotherhood, it&#8217;s one that had people from all  social classes and religious background in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood  only showed up on Tuesday, and even then they were not the majority of  people there by a long shot. We tolerated them there since we won&#8217;t say  no to fellow Egyptians who wanted to stand with us, but neither the  Muslims Brotherhood not any of the Opposition leaders have the ability  to turn out one tenth of the numbers of Protesters that were in Tahrir  on Tuesday. This is a revolution without leaders. Three Million  individuals choosing hope instead of fear and braving death on hourly  basis to keep their dream of freedom alive. Imagine that.</p>
<p>The End is near. I have no illusions about this regime or its leader,  and how he will pluck us and hunt us down one by one till we are over  and done with and 8 months from now will pay people to stage fake  protests urging him not to leave power, and he will stay &#8220;because he has  to acquiesce to the voice of the people&#8221;. This is a losing battle and  they have all the weapons, but we will continue fighting until we can&#8217;t.  I am heading to Tahrir right now with supplies for the hundreds  injured, knowing that today the attacks will intensify, because they  can&#8217;t allow us to stay there come Friday, which is supposed to be the  game changer. We are bringing everybody out, and we will refuse to be  anything else than peaceful. If you are in Egypt, I am calling on all of  you to head down to Tahrir today and Friday. It is imperative to show  them that the battle for the soul of Egypt isn&#8217;t over and done with. I  am calling you to bring your friends, to bring medical supplies, to go  and see what Mubarak&#8217;s gurantees look like in real life. Egypt needs  you. Be Heroes.</p>
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