Today’s headline is that the Egyptian Army is rewriting the constitution.

Wait a minute! I thought it was the “people” who won this uprising. How many of the “people” are on the rewriting committee?

Mubarak II is waiting in the wings. We just haven’t met him yet.

“The military is keeping order benevolently and is loved by the people,” and is possibly counting on the euphoria the people and their supporters are experiencing as a result of winning the one, ableit big, fight they had with Murark to keep them from noticing that it isn’t, actually, on their side.

It’s too early to tell, as Mona El-Ghobashy told Amy Goodman a short while ago, but the (business dealing) army’s edict that there can be no strikes going forward may or may not be a rumour. That’s on top of the ‘fact’ that the army has ‘not’ lifted martial law nor has it released it’s political prisoners. How many of them were tortured. How many of those tortured prisoners where tortured while the revolution was happening? We’d like to know.

Personally, I would have believed that a corrupt Egyptian army - funded, afterall, by the world’s most powerful terrorist nation and greatest enemy of Palestinians, the United States - could redeem itself if it found the courage to join with the repressed, tortured people, namely their fellow citizens, by arresting Mubarak and Suleiman and then put itself entirely in the hands of civilians and any untainted politicians or other authorities there are. When that didn’t go down, I found that, while I was really happy for the Egyptian people, I also feared for them - greatly.

The United States will try as hard as it needs to to keep this strategic ally (the Egyptian army). The people of Egypt, like the brutalized Palestinians, Yemenis, Syrians, Algerians, Haitians, Hondurans, etc., also face the world’s greatest terrorist organization in their fight for freedom and dignity. Just what did the Americans tell those Egyptian army officials who were in America when the revolution was happening and who flew back, directly from those discussions with their prime benefactors, before it had ended? Somehow, I don’t think it was: “Please lift the martial law which is a key demand of the Egyptian people. And please release the political prisoners in your jails, for that’s the right thing to do.”

Yep, We heard that shot in Concord alright. (See http://bit.ly/gb40lh)

How do you win against incredibly perverted lawbreakers? They are the minority, but their ruthlessness, their darkness, their willingness to break any written or unwritten, big or small, rule means that the people, however just their cause, however great their suffering is because of the system that that minority prefers and protects, can’t beat them, except temporarily or, as seldom happens, with great luck.

How do you organize an entire people sufficiently to overcome the state and it’s instruments of repression? For example, Many, or most, protesters are leaving Tahrir Square. Some remain and most of them are remaining for good reasons and the soldiers are getting quite nasty with them. Those hangers on want the political prisoners released. They want martial law lifted.

In fact, Those would be tangible proofs that the generals have found their courage and have not been swallowed by the darkness. How do you get them all to leave, without delay, and to stay politicized, to stay connected and to be prepared, after resting, to return, in force, in order to complete their revolution? - which I don’t think will succeed if too many soldiers are willing to kill to protect their jobs and their own personal security whatever the cost to their nation.

I love peace as much as the next normal guy. But it sometimes doesn’t make any sense and isn’t always required by God - the true God - either.

and the day after…
Egyptian Military Takes Control, Moves to Ban Strikes  
Egyptian military officials moved to clear the remaining few dozen protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Monday, and also were expected to effectively ban strikes. http://www.newslook.com/videos/290463-egyptian-military-takes-control-moves-to-ban-strikes?autoplay=true

Exuberance has been well earned by Egyptian folk. Yet, if dragged
out, will not assist in the re-vitalization of Egypt.  While the
masses “exuberate” political maneuvering is on-going behind the
scenes, which the masses are totally unaware of and over which they
exercise no influence. 

Politicians with clean histories must be involved with the Egyptian
military in reformulating civilian control of the government, and
carefully carrying it out.  A clarification of the legal system must
be effected. Egyptians must demonstrate autonomy by rejecting
entrance of the U.S. and all other military forces into their nation,
which will require forceful expression.

“Dispatches From Tahrir Square” are interesting and important. 
However, they must not be permitted to distract from the basic,
political maneuvering that is required in order for Egyptian folk to
retain their victorious lead, after the “exuberation” has worn off. 
Establishing a legal government that ensures the type of democracy
and freedom that the Egyptian folk have gained, instead of slowly
returning to victimization, will require much more than massive
exuberation.

The foreign agents that always mix in with such upheavals must be
prevented from organizing a force within the new government that
slowly gnaws control into its inner sanctum, as has happened in the
U.S.A.  Which “inner sanctum” increasingly shuts out the will of the
people. Similar to the Mubarek regime. Dissimilar, with the many
promises in oratorical language, smiley faces at staged, appropriate
show-places, while the “inner sanctum” of foreigners bankrupt
the economy and strip the citizenry of freedoms.