For the love of Lara!!

My sympathies go out to CBS reporter Lara Logan, who suffered a brutal beating and sexual assault at the hands of a "dangerous element" within a mob in Tahrir Square.  It is my understanding that this incident happened last Friday.  I'm glad that she is back and recovering in the U.S.

This is, unfortunately, one of about 140 incidents of attacks on reporters since the protests in Cairo began.  It is really sad because these people are only trying to do their jobs.  They were only trying to shed light to the plight of the Egyptian people.  What makes things worse is that journalists are usually an easy target, because they almost always have to be in the crowd when covering a story.

I really wish CBS wouldn't have allowed her to go back, especially after she and two CBS cameramen had been detained by the Egyptian military during their initial visit.  You obviously don't hope for things like this to happen, but she's reported from the streets of Baghdad and came back alright.  So maybe you'd expect a little more from the Egyptian crowd, whom among many of their grievances, was "freedom of the the press", or lack thereof.

It is really shameful and I hope that sooner or later, preferably sooner (REAL SOON!!), justice will be served on behalf of all these reporters who suffered in the line of duty.

GET WELL SOON, LARA LOGAN!!!

R.I.P Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud (36)

The Ripple Effect: No misery in Misri.

The sound of one man's cry gave voice to a revolution that started in Tunisia, toppling the reign of Abidine Ben Ali, and spread through into Egypt, culminating in the sudden end of Hosni Mubarak's 30 year reign.


Tahrir Square

The 21st century calls for not only a new style leadership, but a more modern style of thinking.  Autocracy has no place in this new era; never has and never will.

The MOST important message is that you can not hold on to power when the masses are starving, jobless and homeless.  You can do the right thing, give people their freedoms and inalienable rights.

Give them jobs, raise their standard of living, educate them for crying out loud.  When you die, you die a hero.

Ben Ali & Mubarak a.k.a The Playa haters.

Or you could suppress the masses; and live long enough to become a villain.  What's your pick?  Door #1, or Door #2.


R.I.P Mohamed Bouazizi (1984-2011)


Give the people a voice, listen to them when they speak; and maybe they will listen when you speak.

Fail to study your history, and you will fail; period.  When the people rise together as ONE, they become an unstoppable, immovable FORCE!!  The will of the people can not be defeated, for it is mightier than any weapon!!

To Mohamed Bouazizi: even in death, your memory will live on.  In the years to come, people may forget you (as some are bound to), but history will NEVER forget you.