A little over a week ago the Egyptian people, tired of the police state, puppet government run by a dictator, took to the streets to demand their aristocracy step aside. In that time the Egyptian revolutionaries had gone head to head against the oppressive police regime and forced them from the capital of Cairo. Uprisings began springing up in other cities throughout Egypt. President Mubarak has since fired the government while at the same time digging his heels in saying that, though he won't run for re-election, he also will not step down as President. The military has moved in to try and create some sort of order in Cairo and many reports have come out that the military has shown sympathy to the revolutionaries. Looters, many backed by the disgraced police, had been spotted ransacking homes and buildings riding crotch rockets and wielding samurai swords (Ok, I gotta admit, that is pretty epic.). Neighborhood Patrol's aka militia's have began to form in order to secure parts of the city that the military was unable too. Egypt went through a phase of complete information blackout as the internet and cell phone service was cut. And now, a new element, loyalists to the regime, have begun to take the revolutionaries on.
Hey, if revolution was easy, everybody would be doing it.
The brilliance of the current Egyptian Revolution is, just as it was inspired by the Tunisia Revolution, it is inspiring protests and possible uprising in Yemen and Jordan. The Arab World is on fire and it is a beautiful thing to see the people take their freedoms from the oppressors.
(All pictures courtesy of HuffingPost.com)
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