7,000 people jailed in Egypt since the beginning of the “Arab Spring”
When Egypt’s President Mubarak stepped down Barack Obama hailed this as a new birth of freedom in the Middle East, this is some of the coverage of this historic event:
After more than two weeks of anti-regime protests in Egypt that had sometimes caught the United States off balance, President Obama Friday hailed the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, saying “the people of Egypt have spoken, their voices have been heard, and Egypt will never be the same.”
Mubarak’s exit came as welcome news after days of uncertainty. The event that Obama and administration officials had been hoping for did finally happen Friday, a day later than some had expected.
Obama said Friday “this is not the end of Egypt’s transition — it’s the beginning. I’m sure there will be difficult days ahead and many questions remain unanswered.”
But he added he had confidence that the Egyptian people “can find the answers and do so peacefully.”
He compared the change of power in Cairo to the fall of the Berlin Wall and quoted Martin Luther King’s statement that “there’s something in the soul that cries out for freedom.”
This was supposed to be the beginning of the “Arab Spring” where the peoples of the various countries in the region embraced freedom and democracy and made the world a better place, and Barack Obama was basking in the glory; his famous Cairo speech was credited with beginning the freedom movement across the region.
But many of us wondered who it was the the United States was supporting in these uprisings and nobody was able to answer these questions. There were rumors of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood fighting together to bring about this so-called change in the Middle East, and now we are seeing that freedom and democracy in Egypt might not mean the same thing to the Egyptian protesters as it does to the people of the United States.
Since Mubarek’s resignation over 7,000 people have been jailed; meet the new boss, same as the old boss. These people have been jailed for speaking out against the government, so much for this revolution leading to a new Egypt. The Arab Spring is being portrayed by the Obama propaganda machine as being a victory of freedom throughout the Middle East; Obama even went so far as to quote Martin Luther King and compared this moment to the fall of the Berlin Wall, but it is becoming obvious that this new birth of freedom might not be all of what we were told it was after all.
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Not the hope and change they were expecting Steve. Not all revolutions are a good thing.
No they aren’t, and I think that France can attest to that.
I’ve been calling the “Arab Spring,” the “Tyrant Exchange Program.” It wasn’t a hard prediction, given the players involved.
I think your term is much more accurate than the term being used by the Obama propaganda machine. We are supporting rebels in the region without even knowing who these rebels are, is it surprising to anyone that these rebels aren’t who we hoped they were?
Egypt will eventually have their elections and they will claim to the world that they are a democracy. But there is a lot more to being a democracy than elections. Look at Venezuela, Cuba, Zimbabwe ant others. And anyway, a democracy without constitutional constraints will always lead to tyranny.
So true, and didn’t North Korea hold “election” which showed Kim Jong Il getting 100% of the “vote?”
Don’t forget the attacks on Christians in that country. They’re looking more like Iran every day.
It really wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, was it? History will shoe Obama on the wrong side of this issue.
How is that hope and change thing working out for them? Can’t wait till Libya gets worse
It is working out for them about as much as it is working out here.
Arab Spring my A**. The bad guys are getting media savvy. The Muslim Brotherhood remains banned in Egypt but has been allowed to form a political party.The Muslim Brotherhood has re-branded itself the ‘Freedom and Justice Party’. And their new LOGO looks suspiciously like the Environmental Protection Agency LOGO.
Rember GREEN is the new RED!
@Old Marine – Amen Brother!
Yes, green is the new red indeed! These groups are playing the media like a fiddle and they fall for it every time.
WE ARE BEING FOOLED AGAIN!
Remember our Founders did not set us up as a (D)(d) Democracy, but as a REPUBLIC! Smart fellers them Founders…
You are 100% correct, the founders feared democracy almost as much as they feared monarchy.
Ah yeah, the ARAB spring. The insinuation, of course, the the beleaguered arab moslems are somehow the admirable underdogs here.
Who, then, In Hillary’s Holy name are the protagonists here?
The jews? The baptists?