Egyptian Revolution in a Nutshell

Try to imagine if …

On June 30, 2012, democratically elected Barack Obama wins the election by a razor thin margin of 50.7% of the vote, takes the oath, and is sworn in as president of the United States.

The first five months of his term go relatively smoothly, where he makes almost no decisions (except for some dubious presidential pardons to a dozen convicted terrorists, including some convicted for their part in the assassination of a former president, and issues pardons to a number of convicted criminals and drug dealers ).

Suddenly, on Nov. 21,  2012, and despite his razor thin victory margin, President Obama issues a presidential decree giving himself sweeping powers, to the extent that his future decrees become un-contestable in any court, beyond all judicial review and  in effect his decisions henceforth are akin to the word of God.  His laws are a new Bible.

Nationwide protests erupt as a result of this decree and 1.5 million Americans organize a sit-in at the White House to peacefully request he rescind his presidential decrees.

Some of Obama’s hard line Democratic Party supporters attack the peaceful sit-in outside the White House with guns and shoot five peaceful protesters dead.

A few weeks later demonstrators of the hard core Democratic Party surround the U.S. Supreme Court, preventing the justices from convening so as to prevent any judicial review of the president’s decisions. Instead of protecting the judiciary, Obama dissolves the U.S. Supreme Court and labels its members all “traitors to America.”

One short week later, he fires the U.S. Attorney General and personally appoints a Democratic partisan to replace him without going through the Constitutional due process.

A month later, he annuls the U.S, Constitution and forms a “constitutional committee” to draft a new constitution in four days, (the committee includes no Republicans or Independents, no Muslims or Jews, and only a handful of women …  and is composed primarily of Democrats & religious hardline preachers).

In a referendum not supervised by any judicial branch ( as judges all over the U.S. boycotted the process ), this constitution narrowly wins, and President Obama ratifies it the very next morning (despite it having only receiving the approval of 18% of all Americans).

Within a month, he invites top global terrorists, known jihadists and al-Qaeda members, from all over the world, to a rally in Yankee Stadium, where he cuts ties with and declares war on Canada.

Throughout this whole time, the U.S. economy is sinking, the stock market collapsing, foreign investment has all but stopped, tourism has died, and electricity, fuel, and water shortages are a daily occurrence.

Unemployment has almost doubled, and the U.S. dollar has lost 20 percent of its value globally.

Oh, and President Obama also outlines his new plans to lease the entire Silicon Valley area to China for 50 years (with full administrative control)…

With only .07% majority, democratically elected President Barack Obama has done all the above in his FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE!!!

Ultimately, on June 30, 2013, 110 million Americans take to the streets in 50 states to peacefully and politely demand — for four straight days — that democratically elected President Obama leave office immediately, and that he not serve his remaining three years.

Instead of listening to the people, President Obama goes on TV during prime time hours and threatens the nation with veiled and not-so-veiled threats.

To protect the 110 million Americans, the Joint Chiefs  of Staff of the U.S. military ask Obama to step down, and because Congress was dissolved earlier this year due to the unconstitutionality of its election, the country is turned over to the chief justice of the Supreme Court.

That’s it in a nutshell.

Who would you say had “legitimacy” in this case if it had been America?

“Democratically” elected President Barrack Obama, or the 110 million Americans who, in effect, fired him?

Dahab, Egypt Bombings

As many of you know, I have been living in Cairo, and I want to set the record straight about the events in Dahab over the last few days. I was not there on the day of the explosions, but I was there the day before and the day after. I first heard about the bombings a few minuites after they happened when a friend outside of Dahab called me in Jordan to see if I was ok, after assuring her that I had come to Jordan for the day to visit Petra, she informed me of the explosions.

What follows is the most detailed account I have been able to gather, which may or maynot agree with what the media has been saying:

Monday:

Just after 7PM, as the restaurants were filling up for dinner, 3 suicide bombers situated themselves at some of the busiest places on the main strip of Dahab. The first explosion happened infront of Alcapone restaurant, (just north of the foot bridge), the second on the south side of the bridge and the last in the street just south of Ghazala market.

Those who were hurt were carried by friends and onlookers away from the blast area and put in the backs of trucks which carried them to hospitals in Dahab and Sharm el-Sheikh. A large number of people in Dahab are trained in emergency first aid because of the diving industry there, and this was very helpful in keeping people alive untill the first ambulances arrived over 20 minutes later.

The driver of the car which brought the bombers to Dahab, switched the license plates before heading south to Sharm el-Sheikh...this is why he was caught. And, the officers at the checkpoint near Sharm found materials used to make the bombs still in the car.

Tuesday:

The people of Dahab, now bombarded by secret police and media, organized a peace rally. Hundreds of men, women and children walked up and down the streets of the city chanting and waving banners of peace. The railings of the bridge, which were significantly damaged in the blasts, were re-built and painted by the end of the day and Ghazala marker was open for business.

That night an eerie silence decended over downtown Dahab. As we ate dinner (a few shops north of the first bomb) we felt like we were whispering our conversation and shops were closing early. As we walked back to our hotel we found a large gathering in the street. It was all the workers and many shop owners from the whole street. They had all come together to help the staff of Alcapone and Aladdin clean up the restaurants and wash the street clean.

It was decided that the two restaurants would open for lunch the next day. We made flyers -"Stand against violence"- inviting people to come and show the world (and all the news cameras) that terrorism doesn't work.

Wednessday:

Early in the morning I walked to the southern half of the city (not hit by any of the blasts). I passed out our flyers and told people what was happening. When I ran out of flyers I returned to the restaurants where everyone was getting ready to open. We did what we could and then went in to the restaurant to wait for people to come. By noon every table was full. The media swarmed around the two restaurants, filming, interviewing and doing live broadcasts out front.

Later that night there was a candlelight vigil all throughout the streets of the city.

Thursday:

Today there was a charity dive - a group dove just in front of the bridge and placed a peace flag on the reef there.

The city mourns but it also rebuilds. A charity barbeque is being organized for the victims families and many tour groups have called to confirm their reservations. Dahab will recover.