Egypt Journalists Roundup Continues As Violence Escalates

The momentum for a popu/ist d/emocracy is there now.

As George Will said of Obama's candidacy for the presidency when Democratic critlcs were saying he was too young, it wasn't his turn, etc., "When the girl is up on her toes, klss her."

The Egyptian people are up on their toes; they're not going to wait until September.  And why should they have to?  They want Mubarak gone now.  They don't want him h/anging around for another 8 months, to tamper with eIections, for him (or the US) to put a pup-pet candidate in.  

Journalist­s are being rounded up, and with the US and UK helping Egyptian Regime Shut Down Telecommun­ications and Identify Dlssident Voices, if the pro-tester­s leave Tahrir Square the dlssidents are next in line to be rounded up.  Especially with Egypt's new VP our 'go to'-guy for tort-ure when we rendltion.  "Egyptian VP Refuses Dialogue Until Prot-ests End"?  Are they kidding with that?  The only leverage the Egyptian people have, the only hope these protesters have, their strength, is their numbers pro-testin­g openly out in the streets, in Tahrir Square and elsewhere around Egypt.

This is really the lesson for us, the American people, about how the eIites in power never stop trying to manipuIate the system to retain their power and controI over us to the bitter end, when it seems that they should realize they should give up and accept the inevitable­.  But they never do, and more often than not, they prevail because we give in.  We The People 'compromis­e'.  And through our 'reasonabl­eness', we find ourselves in the situation we're in now:  Our fortunes spent, in the pockets of the top 2 percent, while we're left with the shards of the American Dream.

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