The Ministry of Defense demonstrations, which started by followers of Presidential hopeful Hazem Abu Ismail (whose mother acquired American nationality led to his exclusion from the race), has ended tragically yesterday. The demonstrations, which started peacefully enough with mildly aggressive rhetoric demanding the chnage of article 28 of the constitution (that allows no challenge to the of the Elections High Committee), picked up some liberal folowers as the days went. As usual, for some unfathomable reason, agression started when unknown elements (??) began to attack the demonstrators. Demonstrators attacked back and more aggression ensued. Then, the army cracked down an demostrators yesterday. The end result: a renewal of the aggression cycle, more than 300 arrests in addition to a 100s of injuries and a number of dead.
At this point, I seriously doubt all efforts to ratinalize or analyze the events that happened. The conspiracy theories flying around assume extremely high levels of intelligence on the part of SCAF, Muslim Brotherhood and Salsfis among others while I believe that the outcome we have reached can only tell of the extreme stupidity of most of the political actors at this point. No one can unleash chaos ande then control it; this defies the nature of chaos. A number of the activists seem too happy with their newly found voice and urge others to take uncalculated steps and in certain instances even irrational ones. The call for agressive confrontation with the army is really beyond rational thinking which brings to mind Einstein saying :“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.”
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