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Protesters to Egypt’s Morsy: You have one day to step down
Egyptians who helped overthrow a 29-year dictatorship in a widely hailed revolution have now given the country’s first democratically elected president one day to step down from office.
In a statement posted Monday on its official Facebook page, Tamarod (the “rebel” campaign”) demanded that if President Mohamed Morsy doesn’t leave office by Tuesday, the group will begin a civil disobedience movement, call for nationwide protests and march on the presidential palace, where Morsy’s administration is running affairs.
If the last few days have been any indication, Tamarod’s deadline will most likely be ignored.
Both sides — the anti-government demonstrators and Morsy’s supporters– have dug in their heels.
And the results have been deadly.
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Is pro-Morsy, opposition clash imminent?On Monday, protesters stormed the main headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood, the party that Morsy led before his election. Armed with Molotov cocktails, the mob set the office on fire, shouting, “The people have toppled the regime.”
At least 16 people were killed and more than 780 were wounded Sunday and Monday during the unrest in Egypt, the nation’s health minister said, according to the official Egypt News agency.
Dr. Mohammed Mustafa Hamid told the news agency that eight people alone were killed in clashes at the Muslim Brotherhood’s national headquarters in Cairo. All but 182 of the wounded have left the hospital after receiving treatment for their injuries.
On the one hand
Those calling for Morsy’s ouster say he has hijacked the gains made in the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak and has pushed aside moderate voices.
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They say Morsy’s policies are to blame for a breakdown in law and order, for an economy that’s gone south, and for a gas shortage that has Egyptians waiting at the pumps for hours.
On the other
Those supporting the president say he is the people’s choice and refer to the 13 million votes he earned in elections held exactly a year ago Sunday. They say he inherited a broken system and should be given time to fix it.
“We’re not leaving, and the president is staying,” one supporter told CNN. “We believe in democracy. If people don’t like him, they can vote him out in three years.”
Deadly results
Periodically, the two sides have clashed and the results have been deadly — even before the Sunday clashes.
On Friday, Andrew Pochter, a 21-year-old American in Alexandria to teach children English, was stabbed to death while watching the demonstrations, his family said.
And the Muslim Brotherhood has lost four members to violence in recent days. The Islamist group was shunted aside under Mubarak but is now the most powerful political force in Egypt.
For his part, Morsy says he is ready for dialogue. But the gap between the two camps is wide and only getting wider.
Unclear road map
The demonstrators say they have collected 17 million signatures — roughly 4 million more than what won Morsy the presidency — and all of them call for Morsy to go.
The opposition is made up of various groups and loose coalitions, and not all anti-Morsy protesters agree with the road map the Tamarod campaign is advocating.
Some are loyal to the ousted Mubarak government, while others want the army to intervene.
The army variable
Last week, Defense Minister Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said the army would, if necessary, “prevent Egypt from slipping into a dark tunnel of civil unrest and killing, sectarianism and the collapse of state institutions.”
His remarks raised the specter of a return to the powerful role the military played in domestic politics under Mubarak.
“Egypt,” the government-run newspaper Al-Akhbar said, “is on the brink of a volcano.”
10 Comments on "Protesters to Egypt’s Morsy: You have one day to step down"
TIKIMAN on Mon, 1st Jul 2013 1:32 pm
I wonder is Odumbass will ‘advise’ Morsy to step down like he did to Mubarak. there needs to be protets like that in the US to stop Obamas corruption. The failure of this president is amazing. The world is starting to finally see what a wimp he is and has 0 leadership.
But hey, if immigration passes at least the democrats will have 11 million more voters/people to give away free hand outs. The left is a bunch of freeloaders.
Arthur on Mon, 1st Jul 2013 2:10 pm
Egyptians have become fulltime revolutionaries. This way they are provoking a crackdown from the military to avoid chaos and anarchy.
PrestonSturges on Mon, 1st Jul 2013 2:30 pm
>>there needs to be protets like that in the US to stop Obamas corruption
A quick reminder of the Bush days, when a number of people from the White House actually went to prison:
US Attorneys General fired for not being political enough
Patient neglect at Wakter Reed
Scooter Libby outs CIA agent Valery Plame
No bid contracts in Iraq for Haliburton and Blackwater that waste billions and endanger soldiers
Hurricane Katrina
Ignored the “Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US” briefings that warned about 9-11 attacks
Jack Abramoff goes to prison for bribing Republicans
Republican Duke Cunningham goes to federal prison for taking defense contrator bribes (money and prosttitutes)
CIA chief Brent Wilkes hires known crook Dusty Foggo as #3. Foggo and Wilkes resign when the FBI raids Foggo’s homne and office
Mark Foley, chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, resigned over the House page scandal: sending sexually explicit messages to pages.
Coverups in friendly fire death of Pat Tillman
Dubai ports deal put US port security in hands of middle-easterners
Presidential adviser Claude Allen caught stealing thousands of dollars in store merchandise
“Jeff Gannon” a male prostitute gets White Press passes under a false name and gives Bush softball questions
Leandro Aragoncillo naturalized Filipino-American in Cheney’s office (previously Gore’s) accused of spying for the Philippines and France, pled guilty, sentenced to 10 years
AIPAC espionage scandal; former DOD employee Lawrence Franklin pled guilty to passing information on Iran to Israel through two AIPAC employees
Monica “Loyalty oaths” Goodling used political considerations in violation of federal law and DOJ rules departmental policy in hiring decisions in a wide range of non-political career positions.
Mineral Management Service (MMS) employees getting sex, drugs, and bribes from oil and gas companies.
And of course…..
About a dozen attacks on US embassies that nobody called “scandals.”
And
Lying us into the Ieaq war
Arthur on Mon, 1st Jul 2013 3:14 pm
There is not a jota difference between Bush and Obama. Both are mediocre people who are told what to do, to say, to read aloud in front of a microphone. They are there for the photo-opps. Mission accomplished, etc. Neither Bush, nor Obama sit behind the desk and worry about world problems, they don’t. Both play croquet on the carpet of the whitehouse, they text with their wives and dad (Bush) or daughters (Obama). And basically they wait until their handlers come in to tell them what to do. People like David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, Dan Senor and whoever it is today. These people are in direct connection to the real power brokers in the CFR and similar organisations and think tanks.
BillT on Mon, 1st Jul 2013 3:18 pm
The Revolving Dictatorship started in 1980 and has become more public recently. At least Reagan was openly and actor, even if his fans supported him in the role of President. Since then they have all been actors, doing the bidding of the elite.
PrestonSturges on Mon, 1st Jul 2013 4:09 pm
>>There is not a jota difference between Bush and Obama.
I think the first commenter would disagree – the GOP still wants to micromanage the rest of world through military intervention.
GregT on Mon, 1st Jul 2013 5:11 pm
Food insecurity, mass unemployment, and energy shortages will not disappear with another change in government. Obama would better serve his country by taking steps now to address these same problems at home, before Washington looks like Tahrir square.
PrestonSturges on Mon, 1st Jul 2013 5:53 pm
….maybe America’s religious lunatics need to pay attention to the sort of uprising that can occur when a small group of people claim that their religion entitles them to political power.
Arthur on Tue, 2nd Jul 2013 8:21 am
“I think the first commenter would disagree – the GOP still wants to micromanage the rest of world through military intervention.”
And so do the Democrates. Can’t remember them opposing any intervention. Lybia and Syria is ‘their’ work, if you still want to believe in American democracy.
Here on Sean Hannity a real American hero from the non-communist left, straight from the belly of the political beast about the real state of affairs in US politics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh8sOmNme0s
He was thrown in the slammer on a pretext for 7 years because he dared to touch the zionist crown jewels: the holotale (Demjanjuk).
PrestonSturges on Tue, 2nd Jul 2013 5:58 pm
My mother (a life-long Republican) has started to complain that Dad is beginning to suffer from “Fox News Dementia.” Because he is too frail to get out of the house much, he has Fox day time programming cranked loud enough to rattle windows (he’s kind of deaf). When he’s not glued to the set, he’s bellowing Hannity talking points.