| Lostplanet22 said: Why should I support a revolution that could end up the country in a worse state? A revolution where the ones who are doing the protest are letting criminals free, wanted to attack the Museums etc... |
Have we been paying attention to the same revolution? The one during which hundreds of protesters have voluntarily begun cleaning the streets of Cairo and Alexandria of debris and other trash given local sanitation services are currently inoperable?
Or the one in which citizens have formed neighborhood watch groups and makeshift road blocks to keep their neighborhoods safe after police forces retreated from the streets?
And yes, some looted the museum. Meanwhile thousands of others formed a human chain around the building in order to protect the priceless heirlooms of Egyptian history found within:
| Thousands of Egyptians form human-chain around Egypt Museum to protect it from looting |
Also, multiple sources claim that plain clothes security officers have been taking part in the looting, an apparent attempt by Murabak to cast the protesters in a negative light to those watching globally:
| Security forces in plainclothes are engaged in destroying public property in order to give the impression that many protesters represent a public menace. |
And even more damning:
| Fearing that he and his forces were being sidelined, el-Adly was rumored to have ordered the police forces to stay home and leave it to the army to deal with the crisis. Meanwhile, multiple STRATFOR sources reported that many of the plainclothes policemen were involved in a number of the jailbreaks, robberies of major banks, and the spread of attacks and break-ins into high-class neighborhoods that occurred Jan. 29. In addition to allowing the police to blow off steam, the implicit message that the Interior Ministry was sending to the army through these actions was that the cost of undermining the internal security forces was a complete breakdown of law and order in the country that would in turn break the regime. |
How could anyone support Murabak and his cronies here?
