Egypt is burning…
And it reminds us of the responsibilities we have towards our brethren.
Something from the days of yore:
When we stifle with force the non violent demands of People for change, we invite the inevitable bloody revolutions that the public will manifests.
Kennedy and Martin Luther King… both said:
”Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”
This is prescient for the events unfolding today in Egypt.
The demonstrators are really expressing their righteous anger and contempt for the dictator Hosni Mubarak.
Egypt cannot continue in the same way it works today, with less than 1% of it’s citizens amassing vast fortunes, and 99% not having anything. People fighting for scraps of food is not tolerable in the wealthy Egypt of today. This is an unsustainable system that it was only preserved for three decades due to the American and Israeli aid propping up the convenient dictator.
But now Change is wrought here – large – and the sands of time have spoken.
Time will tell when the change will finally take root. But it has already happened and my instinct and better judgement calls it a matter of days before the people find their leaders.
Not even weeks. Just days separate the meeting of the Egyptian people from their just human rights.
In Solidarity we offer the wisdom of ages:
Keep things simple.
Freedom should be the backbone for everything.
For individual freedom, freedom of speech, of assembly & association, freedom of expression, economic freedom and the expression of all human rights is the backbone of it all.
This revolution is an idea whose time has come and like all such timely ideas there is no stopping it. The dictator is packing his bags. His cohorts are just buying time to negotiate a retreat and his exit…
The game is up.
Egypt now needs a healthy constitution and normal democratic elections.
For what the Egyptian people need now the most is honesty and transparency. After an era of deceit and corruption, what they now need most is freedom to choose and do the right things.
Because today the greatest needs are values, and must educate people to be conscientious, to uphold values. We must reward them for their good deeds, and punish them for their bad ones. This is possible, as well as being a democratic and safe option based on the rule of law. In my opinion, if the Egyptian people want to live in safety, if they want to live in prosperity, then the most affordable option in the era of globalization is to put all of their effort into creating people of conscience.
Together we must concentrate on how to achieve this, necessarily availing ourselves of all those great possibilities our generation has created. When it comes to reform, and when it comes to revolutionary reform, you can expect to see us earnestly engaged in solidarity with the Egyptian people forever.
Yours,
Pano
PS:
And the Egyptian people ought to remember that there has to be a balance in Life.
There is a place for the market and it matters but it should not control everything.
And there is a place for God and religion to control moral issues, but that is a private place.
And above else there is a place for the right laws and the constitution to control everything above else.
This is what matters along with FREEDOM and Democracy.
