Showing posts with label Omar Suleiman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Omar Suleiman. Show all posts
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Revolution as spectator sport
"Egypt from 5,000 Miles Away", a cartoon by Domitille Collardey and Sarah Glidden, encapsulates the feelings of many of us who watched events unfold in Egypt. We could only cheer for our team, we couldn't bat or carry the ball.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Do you remember where you were when…
...you learned that Hosni Mubarak resigned as president of Egypt.
From http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/10/live-blog-feb-11-egypt-protests
At 10:35 Central during a break in a University for Seniors French class, I took out my iPod and connected to the UMD network. Oh, wow! I interrupted everybody else's conversation to let them know.
The question is did Mubarak "waive the office of the president" or was he pushed out by other ministers or the army. Do we even know if he is alive?
From http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/10/live-blog-feb-11-egypt-protests
6:03pm: He's gone. He's resigned. 30 years of Mubarak rule is over. Omar Suleiman says:
President Hosni Mubarak has waived the office of president.
6:01pm: Omar Suleiman addressing nation now.6:01 pm Cairo is 4:01 pm GMT, 9:01 am Eastern, and 10:01 am Central.
At 10:35 Central during a break in a University for Seniors French class, I took out my iPod and connected to the UMD network. Oh, wow! I interrupted everybody else's conversation to let them know.
The question is did Mubarak "waive the office of the president" or was he pushed out by other ministers or the army. Do we even know if he is alive?
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Culture of democracy? Who blocked it?
According to Aljazeer.net, Omar Suleiman, Vice-President of Egypt said on ABC that he wanted to see democracy, "But when will we do that? When the people here have the culture of democracy."Suleiman was quoted in an 11:34 a.m. entry at http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/10/live-blog-feb-10-egypt-protests
My question is who has been blocking the development of that culture.
That leads me to make a challenge to the protesters, show him you have democracy. Organize at the local level, say at Tahrir Square, wherever large number of people have gathered. Determine the offices that are needed to govern yourselves in your immediate vicinity. You might start with a rules committee. Be sure to have more nominations than the members on the committee. Have everybody in the area vote on the slate. Let the committee work a day or two. Vote on their suggestions. Repeat. If this process is not real democracy, I don't know what is.
My question is who has been blocking the development of that culture.
That leads me to make a challenge to the protesters, show him you have democracy. Organize at the local level, say at Tahrir Square, wherever large number of people have gathered. Determine the offices that are needed to govern yourselves in your immediate vicinity. You might start with a rules committee. Be sure to have more nominations than the members on the committee. Have everybody in the area vote on the slate. Let the committee work a day or two. Vote on their suggestions. Repeat. If this process is not real democracy, I don't know what is.
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