Massive numbers of protesters, by some estimates 100,000 or more, marched on Egypt’s presidential palace in Cairo, storming the outer gates and entering the grounds of the compound, forcing President Mohamed Morsi to flee.
The protesters were both condemning Morsi’s edict granting himself unchecked power until a new constitution was in place and the referendum, scheduled for a week from Saturday, on a proposed new constitution.
Morsi’s edict has been hugely controversial and has sparked multiple protests, but he has defended it as temporary and designed to prevent an unfriendly court system from ousting the constitutional committee just days before the draft constitution had been finished. With the vote looming, however, the protesters are now condemning the constitution for having been written by Morsi’s allies in the Muslim Brotherhood.
Yet after last year’s parliamentary elections ended in an overwhelming victory for the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), it is unsurprising that party got a solid major of the seats in the constitutional committee. Specific complaints about the draft have been few, with most condemning it on the basis of its authors, and in the end it seems that the referendum will likely pass on the back of Islamist supporters, ending the most onerous of Morsi’s own power grab by finally giving him a constitutionally defined role.
It would be nice if the American people would wake up and take control of their government the way Egyptians have taken control of their government. I have nothing but admiration for the Egyptian people who refuse to sit back and allow Zionist to run their country.
Being a first democartically elected, President Mohamed Morsi can have much more powers than American Agent President Hosni Mubarak – a dictator, If President Morsi like Traitor Hosni Mubarak obey's Isreal, then chances are that President Morsi might get a Nobel Peace Award!
This is 2012, entering 2013.. People around world are scramming for a functioning democracy, they are willing to give their life for it…, this is 2013 entering 2014…., people are…., stop your Undemocratic politics supporting these pop up Islamic or otherwise illegitimate sons of Saudis and UAE whom are out there to satisfy you. That goes for EU and Angela Markell, David cameron, the swedish Neo fascism and das Denise rat mussel the head of NATO.
isn't this about when the credits roll revealing the producers, directers, "writters",,, etc, you know, right at the end, THE END, oo
called it back on Nov 26 http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic.p…
"Supporting Morsi and the MB by bashing on Mubarak is like justifying cocaine by pointing to crack and saying its worse.
The People brought down Mubarak. And it is the People holding the MB from becoming a full copy cat.
The MB went after a very corrupt judiciary. That is true. That does not mean the Qatar backed MB is less corrupt. In fact Morsi has kept much of the Mubarak bureaucracy where it suits him. The MB also controls some crowds who give them unconditional support no matter that they are doing. You can see a lot of that with Obama cultist as well who will support him even when he does the same things Bush did who they had opposed. Its simple identity politics not ideology. However a constitution was needed and the judiciary it seems needed to be gutted to do that however the driving force for a constitution was the people on the street not the MB's benevolence. However the new one is just being written by the MB and the people are not going to stand for that either. Count the day before they storm the palace Iceland style."
Why doesn't Egypt snap up Hillary Clinton as their new leader? She has rapport with Crazy Benny and Obama and would set Egypt on a course that would defy description.
Of course, Gordon Brown is also available and there is Tony Blair…
So, when the democratically elected parliament was dismissed by a handful of "judicial" stooges everything was alright, now, when the issue is quite simple – a proposed constitution would be presented to the Egyptians to be approved or rejected, Morsi morphed into an evil dictator. Right.
What if a majority of Egyptians wants to live in an islamic type state ? Shouldn't be entirely their own business ? Somehow I doubt Christians there have to fear any genuine, i.e. coming from inside Egypt, political regime, but have everything to fear when outsiders meddle, because outsiders always stir up trouble, it's their common MO. Always.
Old Lenny Bruce joke …. "Take my wife, please".
Modern version …. "Take Hillary, please"
When putting together a country, its not all about the 'majority' doing whatever it wants. Every citizen in the country deserves to have their basic human rights respected. If the only thing that exists is 'majority rule', that can be as tyrannical as a dictator or a President.
In other words, only western type democracy is valid which is entirely a minority rule hiding behind claimed rights for all it never respects. Minorities of any kind (everyone of us could be part of one depending on the selection criteria) should veto, according to you, majorities decisions if they don't like them. Especially if the majority is 90%+. I wonder how could Christians have lived in Iraq, for instance, for 800 years after the crusaders lost and now you can hardly find one of them after US liberated Iraqis from tyranny?
More to the point. People in Egypt, after many years of dictatorship, can't figure out (according to you) what they want and vote for or reject a proposed constitution, somehow hurried to a referendum only because the legitimate parliament who was supposed to draft it was dismissed by a judicial court. How short a memory do you think people have?
Hey Mursi, how do you like it? Bashar must be laughing his ass off.