November 23, 2012

And it begins - Egypt sinks

From The New York Times:
Citing Deadlock, Egypt�s Leader Seizes New Power and Plans Mubarak Retrial
With a constitutional assembly on the brink of collapse and protesters battling the police in the streets over the slow pace of change, President Mohamed Morsi issued a decree on Thursday granting himself broad powers above any court as the guardian of Egypt�s revolution, and used his new authority to order the retrial of Hosni Mubarak.

Mr. Morsi, an Islamist and Egypt�s first elected president, portrayed his decree as an attempt to fulfill popular demands for justice and protect the transition to a constitutional democracy. But the unexpected breadth of the powers he seized raised immediate fears that he might become a new strongman. Seldom in history has a postrevolutionary leader amassed so much personal power only to relinquish it swiftly.

�An absolute presidential tyranny,� Amr Hamzawy, a liberal member of the dissolved Parliament and prominent political scientist, wrote in an online commentary. �Egypt is facing a horrifying coup against legitimacy and the rule of law and a complete assassination of the democratic transition.�
Let us welcome our new state sponsor of terrorism -- and to think that the Obama State Department enabled this change and put this dictator in power. Arab spring my fat hairy ass -- if this was a democratic revolution, where is their bill of rights, where was their declaration of independence, who is their George Washington, who is their James Madison? Posted by DaveH at November 23, 2012 10:19 AM
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