Killing Democracy...

عاقبت محكمة جنح الوراق برئاسة المستشار أسامة صلاح إبراهيم عيسي رئيس تحرير الدستور وسحر زكي المحررة بالجريدة وسعيد محمد عبدالله بالحبس سنة مع الشغل وكفالة 10 آلاف جنيه وتعويض مؤقت لأهالي الوراق 2001 جنيه في قضية السب والقذف والتحريض وإهانة رئيس الجمهورية المرفوعة من 4 محامين و3 آخرين من أبناء منطقة وراق العرب يتهمون الجريدة بنشر الأكاذيب وتكدير السلم العام..شهد جلسة الأمس المئات من أبناء الوراق الذين ارتدوا علم مصر وهتفوا عقب الحكم يحيا العدل.. عاشت مصر ومبارك.

I dont know how can a democratic country can have these kind of people. Wont they ever understand that this country is going to the finishing limit? Will they ever understand that they will be the first people to be punished?

And this newspaper which contained the most corrupted agents I've ever witnessed, they leave the cause of thr 6 billon pounds loan on the so called National Journals to cover their corrupt attitude towards this money, and boast that they are covering the killing of democracy and liberty. SHAME ON YOU. You wont get away with this, you will pay for this. You and the people who hired you to do this dirty role in this country.

Today I saw the movie Omar AlMokhtar. I saw it many times before, but it is the first time for me to see it from a very different prospective. When I was in the CIMAL session we discussed the principle of the one person rule in the history of Arab countries, and I really realized that even in the times of Arab dignity and proesperity, there was a rare chance of talking about democracy or Shoora within the minds of our Arab people. We always depend on certain people to defend us, and thus giving away this precious right to others while in the mean time we are the ones who mustnt ever give up this sacred responsibility.

When people who oppress us torture, or harm, or even kill the symbols of this fight for freedom, for this sacred of responsibility of defense against the destruction of the sacred right of being secured, the sacred attack towards corruption in all the principle fields which the country is based upon. Imagine how can this fight against corruption and authoritianism be of great use to your own self, to your feeling of being secure. Financially, physically, and in all other aspects of your own life. How can this massive amount of public money to be in the hands of real economic projects. How can this stolen taxes and loans to be in the hands of the people, in the hands of its owners. How can we give the right of management to people who just use us without any kind of service return. How can these kind of people ever happen to understand that ruling is just mere Civil Serving, which means that they are servants to US, the people, not the US the states. Not just to be the little good dog that is thrown a bone for being a good defender of any rights other than the Egyptian rights. Dont you think that Egyptians dont have these most powerful amazing powers of observations? These powers which is going like blowing air in the air, no use at all.

And again, we see our own defenders of freedom assulted in diffeent aways in front of own eyes and we are afriad to speak our own voice in this narrow space available to us in the internet.

I hope to feel that Egyptians are human anymore, not to be in the state of nobody home, like Pink Floyd is saying:

I've got a little black book with my poems in, got a bag, got a toothbrush and a comb.
When I'm a good dog, they sometimes throw me a bone in.
I got elastic bands keepin my shoes on.Got those swollen hand blues.
Got thirteen channels of shit on the T.V. to choose from.
I've got electric light and I've got second sight.Got amazing powers of observation.
And that is how I know when I try to get through on the telephone to you there'll be nobody home.

I've got the obligatory Hendrix perm and the inevitable pinhole burns.
All down the front of my favorite satin shirt.I've got nicotine stains on my fingers.
I've got a silver spoon on a chain. I've got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains.
I've got wild staring eyes. And I've got a strong urge to fly. But I got nowhere to fly to.
Ooooh, Babe when I pick up the phone"Surprise, surprise, surprise..."
There's still nobody home.
I've got a pair of Gohills boots and I got fading roots.

But who knows, maybe I wont find any surprise.

CIMAL. 2nd Session.

24th of June, 2006. Today we had a wonderful session of the Egyptian Affairs Council in the American University in Cairo. We had the oppertunity of discussion of different issues concerning current Egyptian political scene.

Judges, People's assembly activity, Egypt's foreign Policy, Bloggers Detaination...One of the cool things that I guess will never happen again, we were discussing the Judges Independence from the Government in the same the time the real People's Assembly were discussing it.

Hoping for more improvement.

The detained blogger Alaa Seif is out, and WORLD reactions to it.

Alaa Seif, an Egyptian blogger which was detained a month ago for blogging against the government, was released.

Here are some non-Egyptian comments from his blog www.manalaa.net, i'm posting this to let the readers know how can paying the price of liberty be really rewarding within this short time.

Joanne

Alaa
I am so happy you are home with Manal now
I was going to say free but I am not sure you will ever be free again unless this regime is toppled.
Your journey has been an arduous one but thanks to Hosny Mubarak you have had the chance to grow emotionally and learn about human nature the warmth and care for you of the people around the world, you have learned about your own strenght of character and now it seems that your future path has been carved out for you too
You might not have choosen it but you have become not only to me but I know to many around the world the symbol of resistance in Egypt A true Hero !
An Internet warrior fighting with words, words which are taking effect and eventually will conquer, it is the beginning of the end of Mubarak regime's hold on the people of Egypt and he knows it.
I would like to alert as many people as possible its a campain from Amnesty International http://irrepressible.info/addcontent Add irrepressible content to your site
If you have a website or blog, help us spread the word and undermine unwarranted censorship by publishing censored material from our database directly onto your site.
The more people take part the more we show that freedom of expression cannot be repressed.
Simply follow these 3 easy steps see website

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Chaostorm

Dear friend Alaa,
I respect greatly what you are trying to accomplish in Egypt. I know what you're going through now and I pray that you stay strong even during these hard times.
I live in Serbia (a part of ex-Yugoslavia) and I have seen terrible things here under our own dictator, Slobodan Milosevic. After practically succeeding another dictator, Tito, Milosevic visciously attacked any sign of opposition and many people were imprisoned or lost their lives during the '90s just because they thought differently.
Even though we fought against him with civil disobedience acts and protests, it seemed that his rule would never end and that all of us who lived in Serbia would stay imprisoned within our own country for many generations to come, devoid of any liberties and rights. However, it was not to be. In 2000, when it looked he is the strongest so far, we finally toppled Milosevic and ended his reign of terror and lies once and for all.
My advice for you is to keep faith, bide your time and know that you are not alone. My advice for your friends and relatives is to spread the word and educate people of Egypt whenever possible, so that they would know that a better future can be achieved.
Don't grieve - I know in my heart that a better, brighter future is waiting for you and your people.
Friendship and support from Serbia,
Chaostorm

Freedom and Censorship

Freedom...

We are in Egypt, the country of non-freedom, the country of censorship...

u no this can be acceptable when r dealing with governmental places...we can somehow in a way or another get the point of freedom capturing, but...when u are in a place which is supposed to be a place for discussion, and u discuss the concept of freedom against governmental actions, and then this discussion is censored? you know this really sucks. This means that this supervisor is really against freedom.

I believe that if things remained like that in our dear country, we will be facing a tough bloddy revolution, maybe worse than the french revolution. Egyptian people must be encouraging each other to face governmental illegal acts, paying the price of freedom, cause we are the ones who will pay it, not the USA, not Europe, not the World General Opinion. It is just us, free Egyptians who will pay the dear high price of freedom. The freedom which will ensure and gurantee our prosperity, wealth and superiority to this world we are living in.

What makes me really upset and frustrated, when some Egyptians just like me become afraid, unable to get the courage to face our real problems instead of talking about trivial problems with trivial people. We are really heading to a catastrophe in the speed of light, I didn't know that the governmental mentality is having some success in some minds, killing patriotism and freedom in our souls, our most precious place which is the only precious thing we have now after the devaluing of all the things we believed in within running time. Or do we just compensate our freedom in the figure of the football discussions which just go like blowing air in the air.

When women from the age of 20 to 60 are physically and sexually assaulted by the armed forces which are supposed to be protecting us from evil, and we find out that these forces protect criminals and attack the most respected people on Earth, JUDGES. All that, and when I talk about BLOGGING you just censor it? This is a crime I tell you, a crime.

I will be waiting your regret when the revolution comes, will be really waiting for it.