[Let's talk about the weather!....and Egypt]
It has been a long silence before the storm. A long time of quietness, mounting resistance and more and more clouds piling up and huddling together in the hope to create something big. A long time until finally the skies opened and the rain drops started to fall from the sky as one pounding force.
A long time -almost 30 years- until the break through. Now the voices and people rise together.
If you take a look at Egypt there are more tangled feelings than about most political topics right now. To see people rise in the matter of just a few days to overthrow a government that had been established in their country for so many years is stunning and fascinating, and yet more serious than anything else.
It's a storm unleashed.
It makes you want to cross your fingers that people will succeed. Pictures of police forces switching sides and fighting together with the protesting people -rather than against them like they've been told to- makes you hope that the whole shift in the country will end fast and without more blood being shed. Then again videos of peaceful protesters being shot down without warning leaves you deadly shocked. There haven't been many political revolutions in human history that were fought without bloodshed, neither is this one, and the price is always payed by the same group: the people. As long as the self-proclaimed government doesn't lose control over the armed forces there is always the risk that violence will be cracked down upon the people. However, it is good to see other nations and governments voice their criticism openly, like the U.S. for example. Holding the milatary power will be one of the crucial things that will decide the outcome of this rising. But even faced with the armed forces now, the people will not stop. It is expected that there will be more tension and fights in the next days. Will the military finally side with the people?
Still things happen at a frantic pace, so it's almost impossible to keep up. Even harder because the possibilities to spread information from inside the country have been cut down! This revolution is also a testimony to the possibilities and power of the internet - a force that allows to break news, to organize people, to connect, to unite, to inform, to 'televise'. Thus, internet and all mobile nets have been broken down in Egypt under orders of Mubarak and it is said that the phone companies sadly agreed and followed the order all too meekly, taking away the people's means to organize their protests and keep the world informed from all points of views; not only the government's POV. A most frightening step of censure taken by the government. But it will not hold the people back. The storm will continue.
Matching Lyrik
It's a storm unleashed.
It makes you want to cross your fingers that people will succeed. Pictures of police forces switching sides and fighting together with the protesting people -rather than against them like they've been told to- makes you hope that the whole shift in the country will end fast and without more blood being shed. Then again videos of peaceful protesters being shot down without warning leaves you deadly shocked. There haven't been many political revolutions in human history that were fought without bloodshed, neither is this one, and the price is always payed by the same group: the people. As long as the self-proclaimed government doesn't lose control over the armed forces there is always the risk that violence will be cracked down upon the people. However, it is good to see other nations and governments voice their criticism openly, like the U.S. for example. Holding the milatary power will be one of the crucial things that will decide the outcome of this rising. But even faced with the armed forces now, the people will not stop. It is expected that there will be more tension and fights in the next days. Will the military finally side with the people?
Still things happen at a frantic pace, so it's almost impossible to keep up. Even harder because the possibilities to spread information from inside the country have been cut down! This revolution is also a testimony to the possibilities and power of the internet - a force that allows to break news, to organize people, to connect, to unite, to inform, to 'televise'. Thus, internet and all mobile nets have been broken down in Egypt under orders of Mubarak and it is said that the phone companies sadly agreed and followed the order all too meekly, taking away the people's means to organize their protests and keep the world informed from all points of views; not only the government's POV. A most frightening step of censure taken by the government. But it will not hold the people back. The storm will continue.
Matching Lyrik
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