Things can never go back to exactly what they were. Things have happened, red lines have been crossed, taboos have been violated, and we can’t just put the genie back in the bottle. Politics is back in Egypt. People breathe, think, talk politics all the time. The revolution opened up big questions about things like the role of the army and the relationship between religion and politics, and they exploded in our faces. But we did something in Tahrir that has never been done in the history of Egypt, going all the way back to the pyramids. We toppled a president, even though we did not topple a regime. The current regime is afraid of people fully realizing their own power. That is why the government is trying to rewrite the history of the revolution and is telling Egyptians that they were manipulated rather than causing change by their own free will. But hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets during the revolution and they were asking a fundamental question -- whose state is this? We want the police to protect, not torture; the army to protect our borders, not kill us in our cities; the judiciary to protect the citizens, not the government. We revolted to say we cannot go on with this. The government drew completely the opposite lessons from the revolution. They rejected reform and now contest the the history of the revolution itself.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 14:00:21 +0000
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