Ministry Of Eccentricity

Fools Into Tyrants!

You’re probably reading this on the 28^th January after I have posted it around midday. What you don’t know is that I wrote this around midnight on the day before while craving for a dreamy sleep, but pushed myself into it to avoid the ideas disappearing into nothingness during my sleep. I was worried about posting it then fearing for my safety but after a brain conflict, I decided that my country, Egypt’s safety comes first. I seem to have some, somehow, found the patriot inside me.

For the past week, an extremely heated set of protests have taken over the nation, one city at a time, from the metropolitan capital, Cairo, to smaller cities like Alexandria, Port Saeed and Suez City, finally reaching boiling point today after President Morsi decided to finally bless us with one of his bizarre, irrational speeches which make no sense.

This shot was taken on the 26th January 2013

Since June, the Muslim brotherhood has taken over nearly every governmental position from the executive to the legislative to the judicial ones in Egypt, including the presidential seat. A minority have noticed how the nation was going downhill fast, yet a majority, including myself, who were too reluctant to give a damn altogether, were indifferent. Today, this issue has hit us right across the noses and it is no longer a case of who KNOWS… It’s a case of who shall take action. It is my greatest regret to know now that all along, we have been fooled and deluded into lies. The government’s claims of ‘a new regime’ turned out to be nothing more than a demonstration of the Muslim Brotherhood’s motto, the sickening, evil, Machiavellian classic, “The End justifies the means”.

Personally, the wake up call for me was noticing the common trend that the old regime and the new regime (if there’s a distinction, for that matter) used to respond to demonstrations. The police forces sabotaging demonstrations by throwing tear gas at the protestors, the death of some, speeches by the president that are so irrational to the point that you have to cry upon the realization that you are being ruled by a mere idiot, and above it all, the instilling of Curfew times in three cities which the protestors chose to ignore. Two years ago, I would’ve assumed we were going into the realms of anarchy. Now, it’s just classic Egyptian behaviour.

I wonder why is President Morsi being so similar to Mubarak? He has literally lifted lines out of Mubarak’s old speeches. Seems like they have both taken their guidelines out of The Book Of Dictatorship and Tyranny, if there is such a book. Does President Morsi want a fate similar to Mubarak’s? Does he miss his time in prison?

To conclude this, I believe that every Egyptian who still demands the primal instincts of humanity we earlier wanted in the 25^th January revolution that is Bread, Liberty, Social Equality, must head down to the streets and demonstrate. It is time that the intense fire of the revolution gets reignited. A personal message to President Morsi: Are you a fool repeating the failure story of a regime resisting the masses? Look where the last person with such a strategy has gone!

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