Painful Truths

Egypt is free: Mubarak has fallen

The senile Pharoah Hosni Mubarak is no more. The bulwark of United States policy in the Middle East is finished. Israel’s ally and fifth columnist in the Arab homeland is defunct.

Today the Egyptian people have made history. After 18 days of continuous mass protests and less than 24 hours since the quisling Hosni Mubarak pledged not to resign until Egypt is ruined, the Arab people of Egypt have cleansed the homeland of the Anglo-American-Israeli stooge.

In just 32 seconds, so-called “Vice-President” Omar Suleiman, the spy chief who spied on his people for Israel and who acted as torture subcontractor for the USA, announced that the senile Pharaoh was history.

Here is a recording of the announcement in Arabic:

 

 

“In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Citizens, in these difficult circumstances which the country is going through, President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak has decided to step down from the post of president of the republic and tasked the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces with running the country's affairs."

That’s it! Thirty years of despotism and treason over in 32 seconds.

Dictators, traitors and torturers across the Arab world, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf, must be quivering with fear. 

The wind of revolution is blowing. 

We are not afraid any more. 

Long live Egypt!

Long live Tunisia!

Long Live the the Greater Arab Homeland!

Rest in peace, martyr Mohamed Bouazizi (below). Your self-sacrifice has set us free.

 

The tide is changing for the Egyptian army

"The Egyptian military has secretly detained hundreds and possibly thousands of suspected government opponents since mass protests against President Hosni Mubarak began, and at least some of these detainees have been tortured, according to testimony gathered by the Guardian."

via www.arabist.net

The bastard American-Israeli stooge Hosni Mubarak and his underling, spy chief and Israeli agent Omar Suleiman, have just made speeches on Egyptian TV, basically telling us that Mubarak will not step down until the whole country is ruined and playing for time to ensure that the regime continues.

I can smell blood in the air. The hundreds of thousands of protesters are angry and won't accept this. In all probability they will march on to the radio and TV complex or the presidential palace - or both.

Many think that the army is on the people's side. But they are deluded. This is an army of opportunists, torturers, incompetents and traitors. As you can see from the article above, while many protesters were kidding themselves into thinking that the army was on their side, the army was in fact busy arresting and torturing people. And, as we all know, the army stood by while Mubarak sent in his paid thugs to clear Tahrir Square last week.

Please, let us all shed our illusions. The Egyptian army is the enemy of the Egyptian people. Some might say this can't be so because the army consists of conscripts, i.e. is made up of the people. That is true, but make no mistake: these conscripts will not hesitate to massacre their own people.

Let us have faith in ourselves. To hell with the army, the police and all the other tools of repression. If the army consisted of real men, then let these men go and fight the real enemy, the enemy whose permission they have to get in order to tread on their own soil in Sinai. Let them go and fight and not surrender in their tens of thousands, as we've seen in 1967 and 1973.

Freedom is not cheap. The question is very simple: do we shed our blood or our honour?

I have already made up my own mind.

David Cameron's new spin doctor and his tax avoidance plan - Telegraph

David Cameron's new chief spin doctor runs a legal tax "avoidance" scheme to manage the £150,000-a-year earnings of his television presenter wife.

via www.telegraph.co.uk

I can't say I'm surprised. Being a tax dodger, or even better a crook, is virtually a requirement for membership of the UK Tory government. If I were working for the BBC, I would say good riddance!

Indeed, friends who work for the BBC tell me that "good riddance" were the two words most frequently heard in the World Service canteen in response to Oliver's departure for No.10 Downing Street. Other epithets included "pompous git", "slimy creep" and "toad".

And its gets worse. I am told that Oliver would "engage only with people he thought would advance his career and ignore everyone else".

Sounds like a great guy – and the perfect company for David Cameron and Nick "The Joke" Clegg. Now Cameron can boast two fags.

The tide of revolution in the Arab world

It is with a mixture of pride, envy and frustration that I have been observing the tumultuous events sweeping across the Arab world for the past five weeks.

There are no words in English or Arabic that could convey my deep, heartfelt admiration for my brothers and sisters in North Africa who have risked, and are risking, life and limb to cleanse our countries from the litter of the dictators and their cronies whose stench has been suffocating us for decades. What I thought would never happen in my lifetime is suddenly unfolding right before my eyes with breathtaking speed.

First in Tunisia and now in Egypt, the people have and are delivering their verdicts on years of dictatorship, corruption, cronyism and treason. And in Yemen, Jordon, Libya, Qatar and Kuwait the dominos are beginning to shake. The barrier of fear has been breached and there is no turning back, no escape for the scoundrels and traitors who have blighted our landscape for so long.

But my pride is also mixed with envy and frustration: envy of those who are making history, those who are accomplishing with their blood what we, the generation before them, have miserably failed to do, and frustration that I am not – indeed, cannot – be there on the frontline with them.

As I write, the battle for freedom in Egypt is unfolding and no one knows which way it will go. However, I am apprehensive at a couple of things.

First, the revolutionaries in Egypt must not lose the momentum. Staging a prolonged sit-in in Tahrir (Liberation) Square in central Cairo will not remove the senile Pharoah, Hosni Mubarak. It will simply buy him time to organize himself and mount a risposte. We've already seen the first signs of this yesterday and overnight, when paid thugs attacked the pro-democracy protesters with rocks, clubs, Molotov cocktails as well as guns. As in a military operation, surprise, speed and momentum are paramount. To succeed, the protesters must now march in great numbers on the presidential palace and the regime's propaganda sewer, state radio and television. This will demand the ultimate sacrifice, but freedom is priceless. It has never come cheap.

The second thing that's worrying me is the rather naive presumption on the part of many of the revolutionaries that the army is on their side. Let's be clear: the army is NOT on their side. It is part and parcel of the regime and, even when Mubarak is finally trashed, it will work towards preserving as much of his system as possible.

Furthermore, the army is fully funded by the United States, taking all but a fraction of the 1.5 billion dollars which the US gives Egypt in aid annually. At the very least, in order to guarantee the continuation of American largesse after Mubarak, the army will seek to preserve Egypt's vassal status vis-a-vis the US and Israel after the senile Pharoah is finally confined to the dustbin of history.

Emotions aside, there is no reason why Egyptians ‑ and I speak as an Egyptian ‑ should be proud of their army. They should not forget that the army delivered a national disgrace in 1967, from which we are all suffering to this day, and followed this up by delivering another disgrace in 1973, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Please don't let the Egyptian army defeat Egypt a third time.