You are in the the 33rd Child Diary of the Liveblog of the 2011 Egyptian Uprising and other uprisings spreading throughout the Mideast. We stand with our Egyptian friends and their courageous struggle for freedom.
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Resources:
Note: The Mothership Diary is the place to go for a complete list of resources.
Al Jazeera English - Watch Live
Al Jazeera live also available on
Dish Network channel 9410
DirecTV: Channel 375 Link
Al Jazeera Live on YouTube
English Stream http://www.youtube.com/...
Arabic Stream http://www.youtube.com/...
BBC Reports
bicycle Hussein paladin - Why Iran 1979 Went to the Islamists and This One Won't
weasel - Updates on the Egyptian Protests
People to follow on twitter:
@sharifkouddous
@monasosh
@ioerror
@ElBaradei
@SultanAlQassemi
@evanchill
@glcarlstrom
@nolanjazeera
@3arabawy
@shadihamid
@bencnn
@arabist
@speaktotweet: Egyptian Voice Tweets on Twitter
Previous Child Diaries:
Egypt Liveblog: Sub-Diary #32 - by petulans
Egypt Liveblog: Sub-Diary #31 - by politik
Egypt LiveBlog: Sub-Diary #30 - by Pluto
Egypt Liveblog: Sub-Diary #29 - by shenderson
Egypt Liveblog: Sub-Diary #28 - by Red Sox
Egypt Liveblog: Sub-Diary #27 - by dmac
Egypt Liveblog: Sub-Diary #26 - by unaspenser
Egypt Liveblog: Sub-Diary #25 - by unspeakable
Egypt Liveblog: Sub-Diary #24 - by dingodude
Egypt Liveblog: Sub-Diary #23 - by unaspenser
EgyptLiveblog: Sub-Diary #22 - by conchita
Egypt Liveblog: Sub-Diary #21 - FlySwatterBanjo
Egypt Liveblog: Sub-Diary #20 - Scarce
Egypt Liveblog: Sub-Diary #19 - Lexington1
US calls for an "orderly transition" Elbaradei: "I would advise him to leave today" - Lefty Coaster
Egypt Liveblog: Sub-Diary #17 - BlueDragon
Egypt Liveblog: Sub-Diary #16 - by David_PA
Egypt Liveblog: Sub-Diary #15 - by politik
Another Scary Thing About the Egyptian Revolution
The Egyptian protests have an important symbol. The before and after photos of Khalid Saeed.
Saeed was hauled out of an internet cafe by police, last June, in Alexandria, and beaten, on the streets, before eyewitnesses.
The police said Saeed had died from swallowing hashish. The photos and the eyewitnesses show otherwise.
A facebook publicity campaign was launched. Hugh numbers of people saw it. The authorities were embarrassed into charging the police.
Just before the protests, the authorities again delayed the trial. This is central background to the protests, and what they are about. The culture of impunity, the culture of legal corruption, in Egypt, under the Emergency Decree.
You won't find discussion of Khalid Saeed, in the U.S. media.
The U.S. media gives very high coverage to the protests. You'll find the media struggling to come up to speed on what a Muslim Brotherhood is, and on what that means for the protests. On what an Egyptian police is, versus what an Egyptian army is, and on what that means for the protests.
You won't find the U.S. media struggling to come up to speed on what a Khalid Saeed is, and on what that means for the protests. You'll find them entirely unaware of it. At least in what they say.
The internet, in Egypt, was just shut off. They flipped a switch. Egyptian internet went dark.
This is scary.
The U.S. media doesn't need an off switch. They can turn themselves off, all by themselves. Our media can go dark. They do it by preference and by inclination.
This is scarier.
Torture and rendition, relating to Egypt, would be an obviously uncomfortable subject for the U.S. Except for our media off switch.
Egypt has their Emergency Decree. We have ours.
Their emergency is now routine. As is ours.
We have a culture of impunity about torture and rendition. About what we have done in Egypt. A culture of legal corruption.
Authorities in Egypt conducted an autopsy on Khalid Saeed. The official autopsy was a joke. It was an outrage.
The U.S. has conducted multiple autopsies, on death by beating and torture, where the hyoid bone has gone missing. This is the bone that shows death by strangulation. It just happens to go missing. It gets disappeared. It has been a repeated theme, a routine, that hyoid bones go missing in autopsies here.
The protests in Egypt are about the culture of impunity there. About the outrage of it. We have a culture of impunity here. We should know this, when we follow the events.