The Egyptian Revolt

“The strong do what they have the power to do and the weak accept what they have to accept”. A quote that describes the reality we live in nowadays, as if power nowadays gives a divine right to do anything to anyone, we find governments use power to control their people by force, forgetting that “Authority should derive from the consent of the governed, not from threat of force”, and forgetting very important facts that real power is in the people not in their governments, forgetting that governments work for the people and not the opposite and forgetting the most important fact that “People should not be afraid of their governments, but governments should be afraid of their people.

What happened in Egypt and in Tunisia before is the normal logical end of dictators; people reached a boiling point where change is inevitable, and not a slight change but a major fundamental change that satisfies the people.

People have seen the darkest days in Egypt in Mubarak’s 30 years of rule, the highest rates of inflation, cancer and liver disease, external and internal debts, brutalization by the police and the highest rates of unemployment and poverty.

After all this, a revolt was inevitable, in fact I blame our fathers that it didn’t come from them, I blame them because they waited 30 years just to watch us or follow us in this historic revolt, I blame them for wasting 30 years of this great nation’s life!

On the 25th of January 2011, hundreds of thousands of people all over Egypt went to the streets demanding the tyrant to step down, demanding for their rights that have been stolen for 30 years or maybe even more! The regime never thought such a day will come and they never thought that people could gather in such numbers except for soccer matches and trophies, but they were wrong, they thought that this nation has died long time ago but on the 25th of January they realized that the nation was only asleep and now have wakened up.

The people have wakened up believing in Benjamin Franklin’s quote that says “Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”

After the outstanding success of the 25th protests, people started planning for the Friday of rage, the 28th of January 2011, this time the regime was trembling and shivering from fear thinking of what happened in Tunisia earlier and started to take all precautions, killed all kinds of communications from sms, phones and Internet and deployed thousands of anti riot forces everywhere in the country with their tear gas and guns thinking they could kill the protests before they even begin.

Finally the day of rage came and they found what they never expected or maybe what they were convincing themselves that could never happen, they found millions of protesters insatiable for freedom all over Egypt not fearing the tear gas that covered the sky of Egypt for a whole night nor did they fear the guns that were used to kill hundreds of them, finally the people lost their fear and with such spirit and all these numbers the riot forces couldn’t resist anymore, they ran away and disappeared.

After that the corrupted regime tried everything to end this rage wave that hit Egypt by using all legal and illegal means, they gave orders to all police forces to withdraw from all their positions all over Egypt, to leave Egypt and it’s people unprotected and then they gave orders to open prisons and let prisoners go and they even paid some thugs and some corrupted police men to go to the streets and terrorize people all over Egypt to make them worried about their own safety and the safety of their families and hopefully not decide to go to protests, they also paid some people to go in protests in favor of the regime and paid other thugs to attack the other protesters and drive them out of their positions, they appointed a vice president and a new government, they even played on people’s emotions and tried to make them believe that these protests are financed and planned from outside, whether from the United States, Iran, Qatar, Hezb Allah and Israel, we even saw the symptoms of the famous “Stockholm syndrome” phenomenon possessing weak people’s minds.

But every move they have done was just another nail in the regime’s coffin; they were just postponing the inevitable.

Every day passes the protesters numbers were increasing all over Egypt, and they were so confident of winning, they even used the famous Egyptian humor on their banners saying all kinds of funny things like; “Please leave, I’m newly married and I miss my wife”, “Please leave, I really need to take a shower”, “The word “leave” in Chinese saying maybe he doesn’t understand Arabic”, and tens of other funny banners that need a gallery to display all of them!

And after 18 days he got the message, or maybe was forced to get the message! That what history will tell us one day!

Anyway, it doesn’t really matter, what matters is that the people have spoken, and the regime has left and Egypt has started a new era, hoping, dreaming and planning for a great future that this country deserves, a future written by the people not by tyrants and dictators, sending a loud clear message to the world saying that “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded and taken by the oppressed”.

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