So President Mubarak will not resign for fear that doing so will bring chaos in Egypt! There is chaos in Egypt already and it has been there throughout all the years of his corrupt and repressive rule. Here is a man whose hold on power was only justification for his autocratic rule was that he could make life a living hell for the whole nation if anyone dare challenge his rule. He had relied on his militia backed by the Police who in turn were backed by the Army.
The people finally decided enough was enough and demanded changed that marked the beginning of the end for Mubarak. When the Army said they would not used force against defenceless civilians making legitimate demands that turned Mubarak all power killing machine into a harmless paper tiger. Mubarak was finished.
There those who say Mubarak should be allowed to stay in office till September and thus allow him to depart with some honour. After all Egyptians have waited for thirty years for this moment; what is eight months more? These people miss the point completely. It is Mubarak who has overstayed his welcome by thirty years; year after year he has imposed himself on the nation and for thirty year the nation has suffered in damn anguish. Why should 80 million be asked to suffer for another 8 months longer just to gratify the sadistic ego one tyrant?
But, more significantly, these next eight months are not like any other 8 months of the last 30 years or any in the distant future. They are extra, extra special! A new Egypt will be conceived and shaped. Egypt will write a new constitution and define the power and role of the presidency, the army, press, judiciary, etc., etc. will play in Egypt. For a truly democratic Egypt, each must have the proper checks and balance so that the nation will never again have a runaway juggernaut for president, for example. If Egyptians fails to come up this well thought and balanced constitution at the end of the eight years then this is something that could take generations to put right!
The one thing Mubarak and his cronies will want to do in these dying months of the regime is to dwell on the past, recast it in rosy colours and make sure as much of it remains an integral part of Egyptian society. They are not there to facilitate change but to ensure there is as little change as possible.
It has taken decades for the people of Egypt to finally have the courage to stand up to the tyrant Mubarak. Mubarak, like Pharaoh 3 000 years ago, has finally relented and this time it is the Egyptians people themselves who can talk of the “dawn of freedom”. God gave the children of Israel the Ten Commandments; the core laws that have guaranteed the freedom, liberty and prosperity of all nations those who cared to emulate them. Will Egypt now come up with a constitution that too will guarantee freedom, peace, liberty and prosperity? History will answer that.
The question of the moment that Egyptians and anyone with any sense at all have to ask themselves is can they entrust this very important task of defining the very essence of what Egypt is to be for the next thousand years to an egotistic tyrant? The answer has to be no.
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When Charles Stewart King of England was obstinate and would not listen to reason, the people of England went to war. The King lost the war and still he would not accept the days of a king with absolute power were over. The people of England were left with no choice but to chop off his head!
President Hosni Mubarak has ruled Egypt with the tyrannical absolutism that would make Charles1 go green with envy; nearly five hundred years after the principle of democratic representative was established as the best form of government. Like all tyrants, Mubarak is stubborn; he is determined to continue to dictate his will to all Egypt.
In life every nation like the individual person tested and challenged again and again. Egyptians are being tested right now; will they have the courage and resolve to chop off Mubarak’s head. This is an unpleasant task, I agree, but one that must be performed. There is a heavy price to be paid for flinching Egypt will continue to be ruled by despots. Giving Mubarak an “honourable exit” is a feeble excuse for being weak and indecisive.
The longer Mubarak stays in power the more the people's resolve will harden. Invariably it is the hawks, the Muslim Brotherhood in this case, who will become more powerful at the expense of the doves, the ordinary civilians. President Mubarak's excuse for hanging on is supposedly to stop the Muslim Brotherhood taking power. But that is to be expected from a sick tyrant; he would love to see Egypt descent into bloodshed and chaos for years to come. That would please him because it will prove something he has said again and again for the last thirty years - that he was the only man fit to rule Egypt and without him Egypt would slid into chaos.
It is in the interest of all freedom loving Egyptians, friends and allays to push Mubarak into the grave the tyrant dug for himself now that it is clear he will never fall on his own sword. If the militants are allowed to have the honour of chopping off his head they will seize the crown too!
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