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Moved to Babylonia. King Tut...
Posted on 08/28/2011 4:31:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Remember when every Ron Burgundy out there was giddy as a schoolgirl telling us that Egyptian “freedom fighters” were getting rid of that old meanie Mubarak and were headed for a “democracy” in the land of Pharaoh? I sure do.
I particularly remember the reporters selling us that smack during the outset of the Arab Spring: “Revolutionaries,” they called the Egyptian dissidents—veritable “mutineers from Mubarak’s mayhem, sick of servitude and longing for liberty, just like Paul Revere!” They flung that noise, or something to that effect, at us with goggle-eyed glee each day for weeks on end.
Personally, I never bought this “freedom fighter” bull shiitake we were all being sold, and I said so from day one of this uprising on my amazing show, ClashRadio.com. Indeed, this “democratic” thang reeked of nutty radicals to me, and I believed it had zilch to do with “Egyptian young folk just wanting to live la Vida Loca.”
That said, however, I must confess that I did question myself as to whether or not I was being too harsh on the newscasters’ spiel and the motivations of the “freedom fighters.” Perhaps I had become too much of a jaded skeptic when it came to the jacked-up scat in Cairo.
That personal inventory regarding the wrongness of my perturbation with the “democratic revolt” lasted about two days. I believe I second-guessed my naughty heart right up until two hundred “democracy seekers” gang raped CBS’s foreign correspondent Lara Logan. I thought that was a strange thing for lovers of democracy to do.
Oh, another thing that made me think that maybe I was dialed into what was truly going down was the Muslim Brotherhood started popping up all over the place, gaining control over the “secular” Egyptian military.
And one more thing that ended my brutal introspection was that after Mubarak got deposed, the “new democracy” reestablished relations with Iran and Hamas and officially told Israel to blank off.
It was at that point in time that I ceased my second-guessing and formally realized that I am a genius. Radicals hijacked Egypt, and the Egyptians who truly long for freedom—at least as defined by sane standards—are now more SOL than they were under Hosni’s boot.
And lastly, this past week the “freedom folks” in Egypt have put forth their liberty legislation that includes bans on bikinis, mixed bathing on beaches, and drinking beer in public—and they’re even yapping about getting rid of the Sphinx, the pyramids, and other ancient Egyptian archaeological wonders.
Call me weird, but that doesn’t sound like liberty to me.
Call me weird, but that doesn’t sound like liberty to me.
Democracy means the people getting the power to do as they wish.
Liberty means limitations on the power of the people to allow for individual freedom.
Americans have this very odd fetish where they conflate "democracy" and "freedom" as if they mean the same thing. They most definitely do not.
The money will roll in from the great Satan to beg the pyramids’ safety. Ding! New revenue for the new Egypt. Question: How many years does a body/tomb have to be buried before it can be dug up and paraded around the world for an easy buck? When will Britain dig up past royalty to prop up in their museums?
The Taliban has a lot of experience with this.
Correct.
It’s time for America to (a)stop pretending that democracy = freedom and (b)stop thinking that they have either the means or the right to insist “that the rest of the World think like Americans”.
The next regime in Egypt is likely to be less friendly with America and Israel because America supported the SOB Mubarak for the past 30 years. Yes, a new set of SOBs will come to power in Egypt in the future but an SOB is an SOB and nobody likes SOBs (or their supporters).
Born in Arizona,
Moved to Babylonia. King Tut...
Ha! That arrogant pr!¢k Zahi Hawass won't let them. He'll bleat like a bleeding sheep to all the world's media outlets and chain himself to the Sphynx before he let's that happen. After all, these are HIS treasures, you know.
It's sad that Americans think that "democracy" = "freedom."
It's equally sad that so many Americans seem to think that the sum total of "freedom" is "bikinis and beer."
Those “Freedom Fighters” are hard at work building the caliphate, you know.
No beer and bikinis? There goes the tourist trade.
With their history of destroying historic monuments. I’ve wondered how much of agypt will be allowed to stand in the name of Allah, the son of Baal.
Mubarak who was no warm and fuzzy Jimmy Carter in a cardigan was actually the keystone that held the dynamic foces in the middle east in check for 30 years after Sadat was killed for his role in Camp David. When Obie pulled the plug on him he unleashed forces of which Obie ,a piker, had no comprehension. The world will now freewheel in turmoil till the global sled team gets a lead dog,or should I say the herd gets a lead cow.
“The Taliban has a lot of experience with this.”
Yeah, I’m sure that the Obama admin will want to fund this...
I'm old enough to remember the media saying the same thing about Castro's rise to power.
That’ll shave several BILLION from their tourist revenues
You’re spot on. However, while it can be argued back and forth as to what dergee either of these revolutions were truly spontaneous manifestation of popular will, the undeniable truth is that such revolutions are typically coopted and seized by the group best prepared and organized to do so. In the case of Cuba, it was Castro and his communists. In the case of Egypt, it will very likely be the Muslim Brotherhood.
..... but none this impresses our LMS, who prefer to live in their own uniquely imaginary world.
Will he even be allowed to stay in Egypt, alive?
Nasty little squid who got shut down by big blonde American girls in Colorado, went home and decided to get revenge with cultural Nazism
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