yeah against hosni mubarak, dictator.

i might add that obama in the SOTU just now voiced support for the tunisian people and democracy everywhere.


yeah except for these dudes in egypt cause mubarak is essential to clamping down on islamists and moving forward in palestine.

lol. but w/e.

yup good for the people of Tunis, they will exchange one pro-US dictator for another pro-US dictator, big whoop

the egyptian people aren't capable of running their own country, so they should jus chill

well fiedler, when in the US people stood up and opposed the status quo, they achieved something. The civil rights movement, the feminist movement.

The world, the US has changed because people stop up then, and i hope Tunis and Egypt will become more democratic and more representative of their people because of these protests. (which i am glad to see are largely peaceful)

Good luck to the people on the street fighting for democracy. It is such a shame that the Egypt corrupt elite are basically staying in power(mubarak has been the presdent for 30 years!) due to support from the world`s "leading" democracy. (2nd largets recipent of US foreign "aid" after Israel, 2 bn a year or so). The US certainly likes to talk the talk about freedom etc etc but in practice they hold up a lot of repressive dictatorships.
I would also like to add that the muslim brotherhood (the group that Mubarak trots out whenenever he needs more dosh from the US taxpayer " hey if you dont pay me these guys will take over") are not involved in these protests at this stage, it is mainly trade union,leftist,student, and ngo groups who are on the streets.

yeh except people pracing around the streets actually changes nothing. If that's all it took would we not all be living in peace and harmony for like the last 10,000 years? Would not communism work perfectly? Wake up folks, 'popular feeling' counts for sweet FA.

Most likely scenario in Tunisia is the ex-dictator took too many drugs, thought he could stop listening to his 'advisors' from the CIA, so the company plants a few stories in the media and hires a rent-a-crowd to stir up some shit, tells the old guy to pack his bags and brings in a new well-behaved frontman. Same-old-old story.

Well done fiedler, your optomise knows no bounds.

@Sean, Egypt has for years been considered a moderate nation within the region. I know people who have lived there and who have visited friends. My sister included. While their deomcracy may not be the free-est i haven't seen anyone shot at these protests.

It takes time for cultures to change, and you can't jump from illiterate peasant farmers into cultured modern western democracy overnight. The US didn't develop it's freedom in one declaration (and Rome didn't burn down in a day... hmm)

In practice, Egypt was one of the first neighbours to recognise Israel's right to exist. totally geo-political, and perhaps this required repressing some people within their nation, but today the riots are about changing things for the better (well the better of the people who happen to be on the street) And they are simply following Tunisia's example, ie "if it can work in a neighbouring country why can't it work for them too"

i don't have fiedler's negative attitude to everything. (i do like to criticise those things which, while flawed, everyone else seems to worship.... but this has the potential to be a great gain for many people, so even if the end result is still a country with flaws, it will be a marked improvement.)

fiedler.... i think you may have lost touch with the world. what a pity

hey don't worry about me thucy, I've never felt better.

actually that's exactly what someone from the CIA would say! You see, they make it look like you're crazy, but I'm not crazy! we are through the looking glass here people. all i want to do is tell the truth, and then leave this world.

i wonder how many people are in touch with reality .. 5% ? probly much less

anyways... where did I leave my crackpipe? ah