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  1. Hi,

    You said ‘…up to 40 percent of its citizens live on some form of subsidy, corruption has become ingrained within its vital institutions, and political heavy-handedness and repression have been unrelenting at the hands of its leaders for many years now’ Sounds like the UK and many other western countries; the only difference is that it is being done under the guise of democracy.

    For example, in the UK our whole lives will be transformed beyond any nightmare we could possibly have imagined over the next 5 years. Over half of all libraries, used primarily will be closed. Similarly: youth centres; schools; swimming pools; council run hostels; support for asylum seekers, battered women (and men), disabled etc; legal aid scrapped so that unless you are rich, the only representation you can have is either if you are facing jail or eviction from a house you own, so medical negligence cases, compensation for all sorts of things, divorce and child cases will not receive legal aid; welfare and housing subsidisation is to be cut so that if you can’t find a job, disabled or not, you will not be able to afford even a rented room;wages are being frozen whilst rent and utility bills are allowed to rise by a 7% average; citizen advice centres that help people who haven’t the funds to fight all sorts of situations like debt, welfare, housing and other problems, are having funding cuts and many will have to close; street lights at night are being switched off; 10,000 police are losing their jobs (remember the UK is no bigger than many states in the US so this number is massive) with an extra 2 million job losses predicted; in each local council area, many services we have come to expect in a civilised society will cease, whilst the bankers who caused this continue to earn bonuses, and not one member of the government who have brought about these changes, are affected since they all have private wealth.

    What has happened in Egypt and elsewhere proves that people will unite together to say ‘NO MORE’, for the sake of their fellow man, but even recent history shows that what replaces those regimes results in much worse. In the west we have become a selfish insular society, believing we can have whatever we want when we want it, though many of us know that real life is not about that and we are ready and willing to unite and work together for something better. The main problem lies with ‘those at the top’, the very ones cutting services and increasing prices ‘because the market demands it’; in fact, they demand it, creaming ever more off the top and not caring a hoot for ordinary poor people who will not afford to eat or heat their homes, whilst they still have a home that is.

    I don’t think the citizens of the UK will take what is happening ‘lying down’; civil unrest is expected here, and no doubt it will be met with brutal force no different than what has happened in Egypt and elsewhere. What will come after that who knows?

    1. Thanks for the comments, Clare. Change always involves strife and conflict. The key is to grow both in and from the experience. That requires HONEST and committed reflection on how the messes were created in the first place and what remedies we might contemplate that will truly benefit the human condition. Change is by nature hard. But if we’re not changing, we’re not growing. And when we’re not growing, we’ve ceased to be alive.

  2. what I find so great about all this is that despite all the violence the regime used, the protesters remained peaceful and anyone who entered the square was searched to make sure they didn’t bring any weapons. Very peaceful and beautiful to see how the whole country is pulling together protecting the streets from all the thugs.

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