What Am I Missing With What Is Going On In Egypt?....

[global1]

Mubarak was put out of power essentially by a people revolt. Then I thought a democratic process was put in place to elect a new president. A new president - I thought - was elected fairly by the people. And now - they don't like him - so they are starting the whole process over again? Along with a military coup....

What am I missing?

[DCBob]

1. he's turned into a power mad dictator.

[Cleita]

3. I believe you are right, but that sometimes seems to happen after revolutions.

Look at the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and what happened when Stalin gained power. I have seen it happen in South America during the forties and fifties. I'm glad that the Egyptians aren't buying it. Maybe they need to sit down and write a new constitution with checks and balances against this kind of thing.

[Big Blue Marble]

2. You have missed a lot.

It is far more complicated than your perception.

[link:http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/catching-up-a-crash-course-on-egypts-revolution-so-far.php?ref=fpb|

[global1]

5. Thanks - This Is A Great Account Of The Happenings........nt

[gateley]

6. Thanks for this. I tend to knee-jerk react to some situations based on

what I THINK I know, when I really don't know anything.

I'll go check this out and come back insufferably opinionated, I'm sure.

[uppityperson]

7. Thank you for the link, off to read more closely also.

[HappyMe]

4. Here -

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023157801#top

[TreasonousBastard]

8. Here's another one with lotsa links and pix...

NPR has a correspondant on the spot:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/07/03/198282481/showdown-in-egypt-wednesdays-developments

The NY Times has been on this heavily, too, with local coverage.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. You seem to have missed a lot of things. The election was dubious. The

Muslim Brotherhood claimed 13 million votes for Morsi, but the opposition claims over 22 million have signed petitions to oust him. On Nov. 22 of last year, Morsi issued a decree that claimed sweeping new presidential powers. He also pushed through a new constitution without the input of opposition parties. I was in Egypt the week all that happened.

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. Here's a perspective from an Egyptian blogger:

The elections were a sham, and the Carter observers said as much, if you paid any kind of attention whatsoever. Carter himself even said that given the restrictions imposed on their monitoring efforts, he should never have agreed to be involved in those elections.

Voting booths were empty, turnout on the first day, depending on the governerate, was estimated at between 3% to 15%. Magically, the next day, we were told that 26 million invisible voters had voted. Exciting. You comfortably ignore over 3,000 complaints from polling stations, reports of National ID printing machines gone stolen, and an electoral registry that has been estimated to have about 9 million ‘paper’ voters in it.

More: http://www.karmamole.com/septic/fuck-western-media/

The whole thing is probably worth a read.

[a kennedy]

11. Oh, and faux noise is having a field day with this.......saying POTUS was instrumental in getting

rid of the previous villain and now, look who the country's got.... and did you hear?? Megan Kelly is getting her own prime time show when she comes back from having her baby.