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Progress in Egypt is Slow While China Regresses.
One step forward, one step back. It seems that reports that the Supreme Military Council in Egypt was as eager to crush the peaceful protests in Tahrir Square could very well been true, that the thugs are still hard at work suppressing dissent.
Freedom House reports that Maikel Nabil Sanad, and Egyptian blogger has been arrested:
by Egyptian military police on March 28 on charges that he allegedly defamed the armed forces
To the generals running Egypt: civil societies are NOT subject to military discipline. Military enrollment is a contract under which an enlistee agrees to accept such discipline. Civilians, by definition, have not agreed to accept being treated like raw recruits. That’s their job.
One wonders when they’ll get that. One also wonders when our own officials will understand that expanding military and police powers does exactly the same damned thing.
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