Egypt

[Old Monkey]

Darin, I'm really glad there weren't more people who thought like you here in America back about 240 years ago.

So you think the situations are comparable? I think we have it much easier now. I think it is much easier to effect change now within the system than it was back then.

 

[sawinredneck]

It's gotten really ugly now! The pro Mubarak supporters showed up enforce looking for a fight. Sounds almost like they were the police in civilian clothing! Riding horses and camels with sticks, spears and rocks.

 

[Paul B]

and molotov cocktails, I have had it on most of the day, interesting propaganda battle too. Egypt tv is showing the pro Mubarak marches through the daytime with no coverage of any of the violence etc. Watching a couple cars burn out now between the two factions gathered in Cairo, behind plywood sheet barriers still hucking rocks and shit at each other every once in a while. The camels and horseback thing was brutal this morning. Sadly I think its going to get worse still before it gets better.

 

[Paul B]

on another note, I can see why there aren't any Egyptian players in the MLB. A pitching coach could probably make a healthy living in the middle east.

oh, and Anderson Cooper got 'attacked' over there on Wednesday. :roll: Attention whore.

http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Anderson+Cooper+attacked+Egypt/4211206/story.html

 

[Old Monkey]

"SHOTS!"

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[MasterBlaster]

The camels and horseback thing was brutal this morning.

HuH?

 

[Paul B]

dudes rode into the crowd on camels and horseback flattening protestors then a number of them got hauled off their mounts and had their asses handed to them. The prospectus is that they were hired in to cause shit rather than being actual protestors of the pro Mubarak faction.
This video at about 10 seconds in shows part of it:
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[woodworkingboy]

Poor horse!

 

[MasterBlaster]

I wonder what all the women are doing.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Digging up rocks?

 

[Paul B]

via Twitter:
#Egypt tanks continue laying down smoke screens to allow Mubarak supporters to escape Tahrir Square; gunfire continues - NBC

Protester killed in #Egypt as Mubarak supporters open fire at demonstrators in Cairo - Al Arabiya TV quotes doctor on scene

 

[Paul B]

Still going strong, 17 days of protest and unrest: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

 

[MasterBlaster]

Buncha idiots.

 

[stig]

I just heard on the news that Hosni Mubarak is resigning in a couple of hours.

Hopefully it is true.

 

[sawinredneck]

Idiots for wanting freedom Butch?

 

[MasterBlaster]

No, for the way they're going about it.

 

[stig]

How else could they go about it?

They are walking a thin line between getting rid of Mubarak and overdoing things enough to get the army riled up.
The Egyptian army is a HUGE power factor in Egypt.

 

[Old Monkey]

Things will tough for them. Likely they will be tougher at first than when Mubarek was in charge. Still they'll have ownership in their mess.

 

[stig]

I wonder how big a part of the population are aware of what is going down.

About 80% of them are analphabets if I remember correctly.

 

[Old Monkey]

I wonder how big a part of the population are aware of what is going down.

About 80% of them are analphabets if I remember correctly.

Doh! I had to look up analphabets. That stings.

 

[stig]

At least, not being one yourself, you could look it up!

 

[sawinredneck]

He's not stepping down, it's going to get much worse now I'm afraid!

 

[Paul B]

Sounds like it worked:

Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, has resigned from his post, handing over power to the armed forces.

 

[Old Monkey]

Hooray! I bet the Saudi's are nervous. I know Israel is for different reasons.

 

[Paul B]

I just find it fascinating that I have been able to watch, for hours on end, the live coverage of Tahrir Square for the last couple weeks. Listening to the rhetoric coming from Mubarak, watching the public throwing stones and molotov cocktails at one another, minimal intrusion from the armed forces etc.