tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post3226568406196219671..comments2023-10-10T10:50:56.735+02:00Comments on Inanities: I fought the law, and (for now) the law wonSarah Carrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02146943046266549277noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-2166985771126374002010-04-11T18:26:28.335+02:002010-04-11T18:26:28.335+02:00i actually went to join them at the house but havi...i actually went to join them at the house but having arrived late, the beating frenzy had already begun..i chickened out and stood watching across the street.<br /><br /> i don't regret not chanting out because i think i'm too old now to get beaten up by those goons and already have enough memories and a fractured rib that never healed properly courtesy of the nice chaps at alkhalifa station so i decided to just watch from afar.. one of the officers approached and yelled what are you doing here so i walked into a building and watched from inside..<br /><br />later some of the girls dispersed and marched to a side street and the motorists were honking in approval of their slogans and i found myself thinking what are you honking for you idiots, it's not a fucking wedding.... get out of your cars and walk with them, there's already a jam and your cars aren't going anywhere.. and that's when i realised something<br /><br />the people do not really care..they just want to sit in their cars and feel sorry for the kids getting punched outside, the best they can do is honk...you can never have momentum with a nation so passive.<br /><br />i went back home loosing the last shred of hope and holding my tears..<br /><br />bottom line is, half the people don't care and the other half sit in their cars to honk..the arsehole will remain in power till he dies at 96 and after that it's jimmy boy, backed by the military, israel and the us...it's a struggle without hope in sight.. not to me anywaysAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-31149868248351863612010-04-11T15:51:14.371+02:002010-04-11T15:51:14.371+02:00I don't understand where the violence is a sig...I don't understand where the violence is a sign of weakness argument comes from.<br /><br />any state violence is a sign that price/cost of that violence is lower than what it achieves.<br /><br />we can argue that regime violence is not achieving much recently, but that's beside the point it is costing them very very very little if anything at all.<br /><br />that might explain why they let mansoura happen.<br /><br />immediatly after the violence of 25th of May we managed to drag protesters away from the designated spaces. went to sayeda, shobra, zaton, imbaba, nahya, lazoughly, gaber ibn hayan as well as midan el tahrir. there where also regular but less frequent protests in other cities.<br /><br />non of these where met with exceptional violence, some even had little security presence (we where allowed to march in shobra for instance).<br /><br />not sure how and why we ended up with protests being exclusively staged at the journalists syndicate again. but it is not because of violence and repression.<br /><br />as for informing interior ministry, not sure why it was done this time. but it's not the first time. same thing was done for one of the anti iraq war protests but there was ample time to challenge the rejection in court, court ruled the protest should be allowed. police did not respect the court's order of course.alaahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055131799153350406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-29158340996192832162010-04-11T10:33:11.398+02:002010-04-11T10:33:11.398+02:00I think that April 6th Movement sent a letter of n...I think that April 6th Movement sent a letter of notification to the Interior Ministry just to get an official response from them that they could use later for condemning the Ministry. Maybe. What do you think?Ahmed Awadallahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12487974243817590641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-51072764255811850322010-04-11T01:37:15.841+02:002010-04-11T01:37:15.841+02:00I in fact agree with Shenker. I don't think wh...I in fact agree with Shenker. I don't think what matters to the regime is what pavement they decide to protest at; if they put their mind to it, they could beat up the ppl at those five places anyway, as it happened in 2005 when female protestors and/or journalists where sexually harassed. More or less all the protests organised are anti-government, but the 6th April movement blatantly aim at overthrowing this regime. On the other hand, labour protests often enough, sadly for you and me of course, hold banners that read "نناشد السيد الرئيس الأب الرحيم إلخ التدخل لحل مشكلتنا". The workers want to be above poverty line, but 6 April want a new regime, and this is where they cross the line.Wild at Hearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369868063662795614noreply@blogger.com