Witching Hour

It's 3am, Day of Departure is about to commence. Black helmeted military types were reported setting up positions in Tahrir. Hosni is hunkered down in his palace, surrounded by Army tanks, soldiers and barbed wire. I want to sleep, but feel guilty putting my head down when people are going off to demand their freedom, tell the dictator to leave, knowing they may never see freedom in this lifetime, knowing they may not make it home tonight.

There is a strange phenomenon that's crept into global vernacular during the last decade. People in authority, including my former employer, do not engage the people below them in discussion because they dont want to discuss or waste time with group think-so they get the puzzle pieces together and then make and announcement, "here's what's going to happen"
In some places, this would be considered an autocracy-the rule of one over the many. It's going on in the US and feels strange, because our style of being governed once included keeping it real, by talking it out and about. Now people in power like Reid, Pelosi decided to push through something as monumental as health care in a document so huge no one had read it, understood it and therefore, could not really argue against it.
It's an odd sort of paternalism that existed for milleniums in the ME where a ruler can cut through alot of annoying citizen arguments with whatever he feels is best for the unwashed masses.
85 million Egyptians & 35% are illiterate according to Sharahin Amin (sp?) who resigned today after 20 yrs of reporting on Nile Television. She told Anderson Cooper the State was coordinating the media spin in Egypt on what citizens were being shown and told, which was almost exclusively pro mubarak and claiming foreign infiltators and Israeli sharks were behind the insurrection.
I dont think the Egy government has allowed themselves to use the word revolution because it would taken as an insult by Mubarak and his team after 30 years of dedicating himself to help Egypt-he himself said today, 'I'm fed up, want to leave but what can I do, it will become chaos if I leave.'
He might be right on that, but for other reasons. Its unlikely the cost of his irresponsible padding of the military to bolster his position is even known yet-the sacrifices made by Egyptians so he could sit there pretending to keep peace with Israel while tunnels are carved and used to whisk weapons, tanks and whatever else is needed to wage war on Israel.

Think about the amount of energy spent by people for hate and division, could feed and shelter entire countries...