Stephanie Andrade
Period 2
With the widespread and incredibly violent protests, it's hard not to know about Egypt's revolution. There's no question that these people are devoted to their cause, to get former President Hosni Mubarak removed from office is no easy task. So why, then, are military rulers who promised to lead a transition into democracy more restrictive than Mubarak was? It's obvious that the Egyptian people arent going to blindly follow harsh and unreasonable laws or punishments. They're tired of having their civil rights repressed, as they demonstrated when hundreds of protesters attacked the Israeli embassy in Cairo. This led the government to broaden the country's emergency law to allow the Ministry of Interior to indefinately detain and/or send to military court anyone who engages in strikes. In addition to this, police raided the offices of Al Jazeera, a sattelite TV network. Once they heard about the raid, fears of a crackdown on media and expression escalated. If they dont change something soon, the Egyptian military could have another, possibly more absolute revolution on their hands.
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