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Just a heads up y'all:
Egypt's interior
minister on Friday accused those reporting cases of alleged police
torture of being part of an 'unpatriotic campaign' to tarnish the
country's police forces.Habib Al Adly warned Egyptians against using the internet to jeopardise national security.
Information posted on
the internet that poses a hazard to the government "is a very dangerous
crime – a crime of which its victims include individuals, the state and
its institutions", Habib Al Adly told state-run Egyptian television
during a more than one-hour long interview.
Hmm, so I guess I shouldn't link you guys to this now, huh?
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What’s next, Egypt would love to get it’s hands on this piece of technology 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmoBSXDk-jo
Whoops! too bad Mr. Adly doesn’t have control over the internet yet 🙂 How old is this guy 2?
I would venture a guess and say that shoving a rod up some poor, innocent countrymen’s ass is a little more “unpatriotic” and “tarnishes Egypt’s image” more than reporting about the said abuse, but that probably makes too much sense, huh?
Is one required to FAIL an aptitude test before working for the Muburak government?????? Is it mandatory to be a total dumb-ass???
Talk about a regime that strangles its citizens!
…meet the new boss, same as the old boss…
How dare you being so unpatriotic as to spread the word of truth?
Damn you and your search for justice.
When the corpse has injuries indicative of electrical shocks to the genitals — that’s not ALLEGED torture. That poor bastard WAS TORTURED in POLICE CUSTODY.
No fucking gray area there.
In a way, this is sort of like the early days of the Civil Rights movement in the States. Change is likely to come, eventually, but there’s going to be a lot of busted heads between now and then … *sigh*
Keep the faith, Sam
Where the truth is no defense, danger grows.
Sandmonkey, you live in a dangerous place.
The situation in Egypt is becoming way too dangerous to ignore. When the Egyptian people have had enough of Mubarak, the Islamists will invariably seize control of the government. The US will be even more hated in Egypt and blamed for the crimes of Mubarak because they supported his regime; just as they did the Shah in Iran and Saddam Hussein afterward.
We must stop ignoring this bullshit. It profoundly hurts the US in the long run.
Keep up the good and important work -> irritating the egyptian officials ’til people realise that this kind of “terrorize thy citizens into obedience”-s*it can’t continue.
Jen Says:”The situation in Egypt is becoming way too dangerous to ignore. When the Egyptian people have had enough of Mubarak, the Islamists will invariably seize control of the government. The US will be even more hated in Egypt and blamed for the crimes of Mubarak because they supported his regime; just as they did the Shah in Iran and Saddam Hussein afterward. We must stop ignoring this bullshit. It profoundly hurts the US in the long run.”
What do you think will help the US in the long run? The US turned on the Shah. Did that help them? Not that I can see. They have consistently supported democracy in Lebanon. Has that helped them? Not that I can see. The fact is the US will be hated whatever it does. It will be hated if it supports democracy as in Iraq. It will be hated if it supports secular “Revolutionary” regimes as in Egypt. It will be hated if it supports Islamic kingship as in Saudi. It will be hated if it fights jihadis or helps them or ignores them. It will just be hated. Muslims are great haters.
The US ought to ask what suits the US. And not give a sh!t about the “Arab street”. It works for France.
The US ought to ask what suits the US. And not give a sh!t about the “Arab street”. It works for France.
seems it doesn’t work for you though
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Bloggers are so patriotic that they want to improve the state of their country (any country), instead of letting it stew in unspoken problems until it melts down.
Denial and secrecy about the problems that a country faces never leads to improvement. Failing to contribute, or making transparent excuses for mediocrity, is not a sign of patriotism.
If the bloggers are silenced, the problems they are talking about don’t go away, and EVERYBODY STILL KNOWS THEY EXIST. How could killing “the canary in the coal mine” be patriotic? He’s your early warning system!
Officials who wish to muzzle bloggers are “shooting the messenger” rather than working to improve their country. That’s not patriotic.
Mr. al Adly needs to remember that bloggers are not the problem. The very real embarassment that police officials feel is not the problem. The problem is that people taken to police offices are being abused. Assuming, charitably, that this is due to a lack of discipline rather than an official policy, what Mr. al Adly doing to address the problem? Are the interrogation rules being clarified? Is new training being instituted? Are officers being replaced? Is anyone being punished?
Mr. al Adly could turn criticism into praise by explaining what is being done to FIX the situation. I am sure that bloggers would take an interest in this, and see it as a sign that the Egyptian police were taking a very positive step.
No country is perfect. Mine certainly isn’t. No large country is completely free of police violence. The difference between different countries is how the government responds to it. Strong organizations can handle constructive criticism. Weak ones try to criminalize it.
What’s really unpatriotic is that y’all don’t just drop dead.
On a completely unrelated note
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070129/code_conduct_070129/20070129?hub=TopStories
Somehow it’s xenophobic 😛
HeiGou,
I could not agree with you more on every point you made. What would help us in the long run? I only wish I knew that; but I do know that unless we have a serious sit-down with Mubarak, we will be sorry.
women should be able to show their faces in public (aside from costumes worn on Halloween), and they should also be permitted to drive and write cheques.
Women should also not be killed in public beatings or burned alive.
If that is xenophobic, than I am definitely xenophobic (and proud of it)!!!
Finally one Quebec small town where I think I could live.