Over 2 million Egyptians gather today in Cairo's Tahrir Square and in cities across the country to demand an end to Mubarak's regime in an unprecedented popular uprising. Egyptians of all classes, ages and faiths have come together to demand opportunity, education, food and housing security, and a democratic and responsive government. Despite a complete shutdown of internet and mobile phone access by President Mubarak, the Egyptian people have been able to organize the largest protests yet in a display of unparalleled national unity.
At this historic moment, the American people must stand in solidarity with the people of Egypt as they call for a new leader and new direction in their country. It is time for the United States government to stand with the people of Egypt as well by ending its long-standing support of the corrupt and repressive Mubarak regime. Absent such a statement, our calls for democracy in the region ring hollow.
This is the time to practice what we preach. This is the time to reconstruct our policies in the region and reach out to the Arab and Muslim world. Now is the time to reiterate our wishes to protect our ally, Israel, and support true grassroots democratic movements in the region -- both are possible and both are necessary.
There is no clearer picture than that of millions of Egyptians peacefully protesting to demonstrate that our support of such regimes brings less stability, not more, to the region. Though the United States has a history of inappropriate and often counterproductive influence in the governance of other countries, the Egyptian people are demanding a voice, and the United States should support any requests by the Egyptian people for that voice to be registered in the form of free and fair elections.
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Please continue to be very vocal and speak your mind and the opinions of your true constituents...the people.
A few days ago the Israeli press was calling Obama a naif in Middle East politics and today he once again tows the line of "gradual" change, which means no real change, ever.
Isn't that cute???!!! the U.S. Government is rigging the unemployment stats, reminds one of those terrifying days when the U.S. Government kept putting up those color codes on TV just before the election suggesting that any second the jihadists were about to attack America in mass.
Actually those unemployment stats have been more about illusional, delusional fantasies then about reality for many years since a conservative more accurate estimate today would put the unemployment rate at 15% and add those who could only find part time jobs and your at 25% and if you include in those stats the American people who have had to take jobs paying alot less then wages they made before then your at 50%. I wish the U.S. Government would quit lying to the American people.
But your technical assessment might just be out of date by the time a genuine national crisis arrives in Washington or Wall Street. What I mean is, a government and its corporate masters that control multi-trillion dollars, they would have no trouble whatsoever of f*king up the internet, (equivalent to radar jamming), with a team of highly paid top-notch anti-social psychopathic misfit hackers at work round the clock. They won't need to shut it down. They could simply spam it, spook it, crash it, attack it, worm it, infect it, ... etc., all done selectively by website IP addresses, or by keyword contents, or by individuals, or by any way a multi-trillion dollar supercomputer system can do against its intended targets. You can bet they're researching and testing precisely those methods as we're commenting here.
If the American people are smart, they would have to anticipate that eventuality, and invent new communication methods and means when that day arrives, ... maybe back to smoke signal, or high-power short-range laser beams, or morse code, ...