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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Egypt Uprising

The uprising in Egypt is a social phenomena caused by a combination of the enormous amount of young people in the 18-29 age range and the inability of the economy to provide adequate jobs for those young people. Add a decrepit, out of touch, arrogant old man as leader-tyrant and the scales have been tipping for the last 5 years closer and closer to this key moment in the history of Egypt and Cairo - the CITY VICTORIOUS! This is a social revolution, a people's movement and it was and is as inevitable as the dawn before the day.

The current reports of looting and hooliganism are not a sign of an underlying corruption among the demonstrators. Rather, they are a sign of the last, desperate, cynical attempt of the regime to try to maintain hold on power by allowing the thug and criminal element (which always went hand and hand with 'police force' in Mubarek's Egypt) to terrorize the people. Mubarek and his cynical circle of henchmen have engineered this wave of looting and vandal hooliganism in an effort to scare the population and - send a message to the world that Mubarek is needed in Egypt to maintain security. Do not heed this call. The tired old man of the Arab World is done - his time is finished and he is completely bankrupt of any moral or elected right to rule. Quite simply he is a criminal himself and he belongs in a rat infested Egyptian cell with weak gruel once or twice a day- he has offered the same to tens of thousands of his people.

A new day is dawning. The radical Islamists will try to use this people's revolt to their own advantage. However, this is just as much a testament to their last will as it is to Mubarak's. This is a major throw down by the people of the middle east against Islamic radical thought. This is a people's revolution made of the shopkeepers and taxi drivers that rule the City Victorious.

We pray. We wish you well.

I wish I was with you now there my friends. I stand with you!