In what history will record as one of the most chilling and wicked speeches ever made by a political leader, President Hosni Mubarak, thirty year dictator of Egypt, last night declared war against the people not only of his own country but the entire Arab world. Secluded in his palace surrounded by sycophants, drunk with opulence, this degenerate and delusional potentate appeared on state television and effectively announced that Egypt, a nation of 80 millions, belongs to him and not to its people.
The likelihood as a result is that a tsunami of rage will be unleashed throughout the country that will be talked about for generations to come. The key question now is what the army will do. If as Mubarak and Suleiman have clearly calculated the regime retains the support of the military high command, the stage is set for a massacre. As a consequence all of a sudden history hinges on the junior officers and soldiers of the Egyptian army. It calls on them to do their duty and refuse orders to fire on their own people. More, it calls on them to join the people and help sweep this rotten regime from power once and for all.
Seventeen days have now passed since the uprising began in Egypt. In that time the regime has tried everything from organising counter demonstrations and physical attacks on the protestors, resulting at time of writing in 300 deaths, to waiting the movement out in the hope and expectation it would dissipate as a result of lethargy, to then attempting to placate it by talking to various opposition figures and groups and assuring the country that Mubarak will go in September. It has even tried bribing 6 million government employees with 15 percent pay rise.
None of it has worked.
Instead, in a wonderful and beautiful example of a risen people, the Egyptians have come out into the streets in even greater numbers in the past couple of days, determined to maintain the pressure on the regime and the military high command. In this latest stage of the uprising the movement has been joined by thousands of workers who’ve gone on strike throughout the country, helping to exacerbate an already desperate economic situation for a regime which continues to try and do what it can to cling on to its power and privileges.
Failing to learn the lessons of history has been the currency of dictators since time began. Mubarak has not only plundered his nation’s wealth during his time in power, he is now attempting to plunder its future. This is one crime among the many he’s committed against his people that will never be forgiven.
Friend of the US government, friend of the Israeli government, friend of imperialists, colonialists and plutocrats - friend of everyone except the Arab people - Hosni Mubarak with the speech he delivered to the Egyptian people on the evening of 10 February 2011 declared himself an outlaw.
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