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Lorraine Voss

Egypt and Its New Democracy Colorado Technical University ENG112-1101B-16 Stephanie Poczos March 14, 2011

2. As of February 2, 2011, Egypt has won its democracy and ousted its dictator Hosni Mubarak of 30 years. The protest in Egypt began in January 2011, and for 18 days and after the death toll of 300 anti-government protestors Egypt won their independence from their dictator who finally stepped down after his having such a long controlling reign on Egypt. The people were complaining of their poor living statues and living conditions as opposed to the President and his family who were living lavishly in wealth and riches. They stated that the injustice of treatments that they received from Mubarak and his regime of police in “Egypt was insufferable. Claims of people being beaten and imprisoned for nothing or without proof of occurrence and were not given any trials to demonstrate to find any fault to claim. There were innocent citizens being jailed for accusations not proven or just because they had their own opinions of freedom of speech. Becoming tired of the terrible brutality the people of Egypt began to fight back for their rights and for their freedom, especially after a young educated college student there set himself on fire to protest the oppression of the abuse and poverty in Egypt and then the people began to gather in a place called the Tahrir Square known as a major public town square in the downtown Cairo, Egypt. This is where anti-government protestors in Cairo chanted and sang in the Tahrir Square grounds ranting for their freedom from the oppression of their dictator Mubarak, their government and the crimes of the police regime. I personally became so excited for the uprising and I became so wrapped up into the revolution that I did not realize what the Egyptians were against. In actuality the dictators that were oppressing its people in Egypt were also appointed by the Westerners and for many 3. years and before this dictator for at least 60 years altogether the West supported the dictators and their reign. The people of Egypt are tired of this way; they are looking for an equal existence and to be treated like human beings. To have a complete change in the order of their country is what is wanted by the people of Egypt. During the uprising I heard on a news video one of the protestors yell out “We are Egyptians!” although I heard him did I really understand the depth of what it meant. What were their true ethnics, their true culture, and their true religion of being an Egyptian? I found an article in the Observer on March 12, 2011, by Henry Porter dated March 13, 2011 titled “The west can’t just dictate democracy to the Arab world.” Mr. Porter describes how the views of the Westerners of what the Arab society should be like is supported by Egypt’s dictators and has been for 60 years. No wonder that there were some rude attacks on two of the American reporters during the uprising. We as Americans had no real idea of what was happening on that day of the revolution and according to Mr. Porter he says “We were so out of the loop on what was really going on in the Arab societies that no analyst, journalist, diplomat or spy managed to predict the pressure that was building up. Now that the eruption has taken place, we blundered in with our prescriptions on democracy, only mildly discomfited by the amount of our hardware that has facilitated the long history of oppression.” Observer 3/13/2011. This has made me more aware of the meaning of the uprising in Egypt and what it has endured, and what it really stands for and it is morality, humanity, and the common order, and equality, for freedom and peace. The people of Egypt, Tunisia have truly suffered for two generations and the Tunisia Republic is the Northern West Country in Africa. It is considered 4. to have an environment of a relatively large population of middle class, broad gender equality, liberal social norms. With its Mediterranean beaches but it is also known for its region for being full of police states and has a corruption among its elite and its European influences and then it became intolerable and caused a wave of revolt that has swept through the Arab world and beyond. Tunisia has also forced its dictator to leave their country and now it too faces the challenges of rebuilding its political system again. I now realize that this new order of politics to be reestablished to form a better government in Egypt is a very big ordeal and now it makes more sense considering the troubles these people have been victimized to. Some want to make an all new law of rules and yet many are worried about the leading officials of not being in consideration of the people of Egypt who are swimming in poverty. There has been a lot of the overturning of one’s government lately especially in the Middle East of the Arab world. This is really not that far from home. Here in America we are now experiencing a bit of governmental injustices ourselves that makes you wonder if we too here in America are beginning to believe that we need to fight for more equality for pay wages. Considering all of the governmental cuts that are being placed on hard working American citizens and an example is on March 11, 2011 is the protest that began in Madison Wisconsin an article in the Ozarks First.com March 12, 2011. It showed how thousands of people were occupying the state Capitol Building angry that Governor Scott Walker is signing a bill into law Friday that does away with most collective bargaining for the public workers. Then also in Michigan on a video on YouTube called ‘Michigan is Screwed’ showing news reporter Rachel Maddow on MSNBC news giving her views on the raising of taxes on Michigan seniors the poor, and 5. the hard working people calling it a budget fix, plus losing their rights to elect mobile government. The governor Rick Snyder is taking a 1.8 billion so call budget from the poor and the seniors to give it to the businesses saying this will save the economy. What it is really doing is destroying what little democracy we have left in America today. Is this how it all begins? Is this showing a glimpse of dictatorship within America? Personally, when our President Bush was in office and the 700 million was granted for the big banks I felt the dictatorship rising its ugly head at that moment and every since the economy has been dwindled down. The recession had begun more than the years before Bush was even elected and yet no one seemed to care. Not until the new President Obama set foot in office. Which is despicable that those who put the blame on him now that houses and businesses are foreclosing, and the cost of living is higher, the gas prices are shooting through the roof. The American people are starting to witness the truth and are questioning the meaning of democracy in America today. Now what will Egypt do with it’s newly won democracy? Their prime minister is stressing security but a new governmental law is wanted by the people of Egypt, Tunisia looking for a complete change for freedom and to have a decent living their way. On a website ABCnews.go.com on 02/06/2011, the reporter Christiane Amanpour talked to some protestors after President Mubarak stepped down and the protestors are saying that they are afraid that Mubarak would take what does not belong to him and that is all of his possessions and wealth that in reality belongs to the people of Egypt. The wealth is so much that it is making Mubarak the richest man in the world. The people all screamed that they hate Americans for they helped to support Mubarak in the oppression of their people so 6. they yelled at the reporter Amanpour to please leave or else, saying “You are not for us!” They expressed that they now have their freedom after 30 years of dictatorship saying “we need a book of the constitution of new laws and rule.” The political bands were lifted from the people of Egypt releasing the use of the internet, the releasing of prisoners, and opening up the transportation roads to the people of Egypt again. Also it is allowing the people to form a committee of their own now to elect all new leaders within their own fight and with their views on governmental change. What has happened in Egypt is what any rational person would want for their lives and their country to be given the chances to have a decent living, stability, equality and freedom of choices and to have good paying jobs to support their families and the opportunities for their children and their children’s children for many generations to come. There should not be any other person superior to another in this world that is what went wrong with our world in the first place. Shame on those of us who believed as early as the beginning of our civilization that the ethnics handed down by the philosophers Aristotle, Plato, Socrates and others in that era implied to us who is suppose to be superior and who is not. They are responsible for the elite mindset in our society that those of us who have high scholars or vast riches are considered the most privileged and important. They are more valuable than the rest of us who do not have these advantages ‘you know who you are.' Not to slight their immeasurable knowledge but this is just no way to run a country anymore or at least this is what Egypt is protesting to. Realizing that we are all someone in this life; people should be treated with equality. To think that those of them who are so smart and rich, yet are so unaware that their riches and their scholastic advantages whether learned, earned, born with, or given to them was already bestowed upon them during their creation planned out by a higher power and is intended to be shared. What was not intended was for their gifts of grace to be held as a blanket of shame, inferiority, disgrace, poverty, people being cheated and all of it placed at a high price over the heads of the rest of those who have not. Instead this gift was designed to be divided among each other and in turn shared back again. Creating a unity made into being a pleasant blessing and a gift for all. Our high scholars and those of great wealth stole from themselves and from others, the greatest achievement of all for mankind and this is the sharing and helping of others to achieve their goals and to spread tranquility far and wide. Not to only be mocked with laws that needs to be read between the lines of the lies of red tape. With the label of "read the fine print on everything business wise, commercially and finacially man made or take your chances." The love for all humanity and the peace and equality that was intended by the 'Almighty God' is lost and has never been real not in this new world order of ours. Therefore by not fulfilling this endeavor we will all eventually fail humanity. With the disregarding of the miracle of unconditional love for all others this is destroying us. The elite chooses to want to have the selfishness the greed of mere tokens, fame and the gain of the materialism to stand and reign in the lives of all in this world. This shows us an undermining disgrace of the running of this universe an its abomination. How can these same scholars and the rich explain to the rest of us ‘how ethical is that?’ If Mother Teresa a little old woman can give love, and Gandhi a thin framed man can do it; also Regina Marcia Benjamin a doctor who showed us a very inspirational act of love and compassion for others by sacrificing and mortgaging her home to help those who could not afford their medicines and medical care in Alabama. The Focus: HOPE program formed by Eleanor M. Josaitis who commited her life to fighting racism, poverty, and injustice. Their acts of humanity did not cause them to suffer it was not easy but they made a difference. They are a few examples of people just like you and I who did not have a lot yet gave and spread all over the world the compassion and love for others. We all know that the privileged can do the same and even more. Just ask those who give how wonderful it feels to do it and share with people you do not know. You will get the same answer from each and everyone; that it is more than one could ever imagine or explain. That it lifts your spirits and well being better than money ever could. One may only loose the constant fear deep within of the unknown, to replace it with love and a smile in the heart for that fear will then be no more. How dare some of these hot headed scholars and the rich or well to do with all of their theories and monies in the world to have the assumption to portray that they are better than the rest who are without. It is the love and the little things that make life worthwhile and all of the riches and scholars in the world could never compare to that. To have the children who are born all over the world each day to us as gifts to be subjected to a lifetime of shame, poverty, and the lack of a quality education is truly wrong and something can be done now. It is no wonder that our world is in the dysfunctional state of poverty and the insanity is in more places today than in earlier days and it is rapidly growing. Today's societies reeks with poverty consisting of more crimes daily from the desparations of survival and unrighteousness. There are sensless crimes, murders, and military killing of the innocent as well as the hatred of one another, prejudice of race, gender, and financial status; self hatred and unatural affections, unfair justice inflicted on the poor and a complete evilness of the laws of imprisonment and the government--which are all cowardly acts in my world. It is hapening among the rich, the scholars, the poor, no one is excluded and it is considered common today this is very sad. So please tell me which one of the noble theories of the elite phisophical laws helped us to avoid these crude actions described? None. Because people need more than rules they need humanity to come together and to put aside who has this and who has that. Lighten up your hearts and your souls to let some real new beginnings in and help to change the one world we have to a better place for everyone. We do not need to be ruled over but guided and nurtured and loved all together as one race one people and the world could be habitable. Times were good when we were all like a village and looked out for one another. For instance one morning I was watching Barbara Walters on the View Show and she was describing her love for her elder sister Jacqueline who had passed away in 1985. Barbara told us of how her sister was mentally disabled yet how wonderful she was to her and how much she loved and misses her sister and then she showed us a picture of her sister. Suddenly my heart warmed up, you see I understand because I too have a sister Angelique who is also mentally disabled, she is a sweetheart. Angelique is younger but I call her my big sister she has a big heart. Did you know that Angelique and Jacqueline are both French names? But what was really amazing is that although I am an African American Barbara's sister and mine have similar features. Seriously, they both look alike; hey maybe it’s because we are all humanly connected. What I am saying is that we may not all have high intellect nor have plenty of riches. But in all of us there is more than the eye can see, because the heart knows. We are all significant and need each other and must be treated as such with compassion and come together and share the rich, poor, the wealthy and the intellects and scholars. We are the same and desparately need that human bond being the children of a higher power and none of us are suppose to be treated as a no body. As in an article by Al Jazeera News, David Africa, February 18, 2011 07:05 GMT, it is called, Stealing Egypt’s Revolution where Mr. Africa expresses the embrace of the West is reminiscent of a similar experience in South Africa in the early 1990s, as the surge toward democracy and to the brutal apartheid regime became unstoppable. Suddenly the revolutionary movement found itself embraced by new friends in the British, U.S. and West German governments. The results are so clear for all to see: South Africa has become an even more unequal society and economic growth has benefited only in the local and international businesses, while unemployment remains exceptionally high. Al Jazeera English.mht. Yes the intellects and the rich are so into themselves as we can see in South Africa but if you take a closer look it is apparently in America as well it is cleverly hidden. The shame to cheat, oppress, to kill and to disgrace separateing the people their own humanity just because of money, land, and greed is what this shows us but as always we will continue to ignore this great fact and settle for the later again and cheat ourselves out of a better greatness for humanity for centuries to come until there is no more to take. If you really look around its hitting closer than ever before. This is why broken homes are in all levels of living now and it will get worst if we do not change it here and all over the world. I commend Egypt for making a stand for wanting greatness and righteousness for a change to begin and I pray that they do not get misguided while putting together their new government. I hope that Egypt remembers to never forget to think about the next person and the next and maybe they will be the ultimate leading example for the rest of us all to follow. They are looking to elect a leader who would guarantee that at the end of the day they will remember that they are an Egyptian native or human and not a long lasting tyrant. Since the fall of their former ruler Mubarak, he was deemed as the richest man in the world according to Forbes magazine saying that he has 70 billion dollars that was stolen from Egypt. According to their census there are 80 million people in Egypt. It appears that his wealth was stolen from the Egypt’s poor and the oppressed. Therefore, I propose that several billion of the 70 billion to be given back to the people of Egypt one to two million per family and the surplus should be used for the organization of this distribution of the funds. Some of these funds will go to the infrastructure of the land development and for new schools, hospitals, housing, jobs, parks and recreation, clean water for all and health care and to share it with other countries. This example should be done all over the world to take back from the oppressors, the cheaters as I said earlier it can be done. How could anyone walk around with 70 billion and just watch the lives of others to deteriorate and suffer? This is no human behavior it must be the beast. We as Americans may never know what it truly means to be an Egyptian but as long as we use respect and appreciate those who are different (any race) we cannot go wrong. Hillary Clinton will plan to visit Egypt described in an article written by Egypt News.com, Thursday on March 10, 2011, becoming the most senior American official to visit the region after the popular revolts. The U.S. Secretary of State says “I intend to convey strong support of the Obama Administration and the American people that we wish to have a partner in the important work that lies ahead.” Well I hope that she understands that the people of Egypt will not stand for less anymore and the reigns of inequality of American democracy any longer. Clinton added that she would also meet the Libyan opposition’s figures during her trip to Egypt from the United States. EgyptNews.com. All I can say is for her to watch her step there during her visit the people are completely done with the bull they have been given and are totally accepting only a real change.

Well to begin with there are many wrong informations that has been taught or brainwashed over the years of the true knowledge of things for we live in a society that only cares about the finances and not the people but this is our society right? This is what they call a civilization and the last time I checked the word civil means peace not aggression/dividning or living by the sword or (force) is what we do live by. An example is when you buy a product from the dollar store you will get a lessor value or quality of that product but if you purchase that same kind of product from a higher priced merchant you will get a better value or quality of the product or sometimes now you might still get a lessor value no matter how much you have spent. This is the way of the world you have to read the fine print or you may have a cheap deal. This is true with medical care, housing, food, or clothing just about everything we do in this society may be a possible let down but as long as someone makes the might dollar then it is all alright. This also seems to be the same perspective about being an Israelite but to clear up the cloud of wrong information given these scriptures from the King James Bible version can confirm who is the chosen people of YHWH(THE LORD) OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS are, and who his elect is and that it is not the Gentiles or the so called Jews. In Jeremiah, 16: vs. 14-21, with this scripture YHWH shows us that he uses his chosen people to bring a light unto the Gentiles as it is also showing in the rest of these scriptures given here. Isaiah 42:vs.1, Isaiah, 49:vs. 1-8, and in Psalms 83, in this scripture is where YHWH instructs David to point out all of the other enemies of his chosen people and their tribes which are the descendants of Esau, the twin brother of his chosen people, known as Jacob, Israel, Judah in Exodus, 4:vs. 22,23. And next Jeremiah, 23:vs. 1-8, now in this scripture through YHWH Jeremiah proclaims the name of YHWH's chosen elect who will reign over the chosen people along with other heritages that love and fear YHWH who love them so in the new order of Righteousness to come on this earth soon in the future. Last but not least is Lamentations, 5:vs 1-22, if in these scriptures any of the criteriea fits YOU then YOU ARE the chosen people of YHWH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS and ARE who will be turned from the four corners of the earth back unto him in the day of YHWH(THE LORD). Yeah!! and we will all live happily ever after.

WHO ARE THE ISRAELITES?
Well to begin with there are many wrong informations that has been taught or brainwashed over the years of the true knowledge of things for we live in a society that only cares about the finances and not the people but this is our society right? This is what they call a civilization and the last time I checked the word civil means peace not aggression/dividning or living by the sword or (force) is what we do live by. An example is when you buy a product from the dollar store you will get a lessor value or quality of that product but if you purchase that same kind of product from a higher priced merchant you will get a better value or quality of the product or sometimes now you might still get a lessor value no matter how much you have spent. This is the way of the world you have to read the fine print or you may have a cheap deal. This is true with medical care, housing, food, or clothing just about everything we do in this society may be a possible let down but as long as someone makes the mighty dollar then it is all alright. This also seems to be the same perspective about being an Israelite just pick a group it is all good no it is not, and to clear up the cloud of wrong information the truth that is given in these scriptures from the King James Bible version can confirm who are the chosen people of YHWH(THE LORD) OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, and who his elect is and that it is not the Gentiles or the so called Jews of today. In Jeremiah, 16: vs. 14-21, with this scripture YHWH shows us that he uses his chosen people to bring a light unto the Gentiles as it is also showing in the rest of these scriptures given here. Isaiah 42:vs.1, Isaiah, 49:vs. 1-8, and in Psalms 83, in this scripture is where YHWH instructs David to point out all of the other enemies of his chosen people and their tribes which are the descendants of Esau, the twin brother of his chosen people, known as Jacob, Israel, Judah and also known as his YHWH(THE LORD's) son in Exodus, 4:vs. 22,23. And next Jeremiah, 23:vs. 1-8, now in this scripture through YHWH Jeremiah proclaims the name of YHWH's chosen elect who will reign over the chosen people along with other heritages that love and fear YHWH who loves them all so in the new order of Righteousness to come on this earth soon in the future. Last but not least is Lamentations, 5:vs 1-22, if in these scriptures any of the criteriea fits YOU then YOU ARE the chosen people of YHWH OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS and ARE who will be turned from the four corners of the earth back unto him in the day of YHWH(THE LORD). Yeah!! and we will all live happily ever after.