• Egypt referendum: 'No' campaign virtually non-existent, activists arrested for putting up posters
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[img]http://imgkk.com/i/ekyf.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25706182[/url] [quote]Drive around Cairo these days, and you get the message very quickly. The military installed authorities want a massive "Yes" vote in the forthcoming referendum. Lampposts, billboards and buildings are plastered with posters bearing a large white tick. They are hard to avoid. Spotting any posters from the "No" campaign is a lot harder. People have been arrested for putting them up. And you will not hear much from opponents of the new constitution on TV and radio - either state-run or private - though the airwaves are flooded with endorsements of the document. This distorted campaign has attracted some strong criticism from abroad. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington has called it "a flawed and undemocratic process". Democratic or not, the referendum is seen by many as more than a ballot on a new constitution. It is widely viewed as a verdict on the removal of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.[/quote] [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/10569259/Arrest-of-No-campaign-activists-on-eve-of-referendum-in-Egypt.html[/url] [quote]The posters said: “No to the referendum, No to thuggery by the interior ministry". So naturally, when the police arrested the man found with them, they started beating him up. “So, you think we are thugs?” they asked him. “Well, this is what thugs we are." “Then they started punching me in the chest,” said Mahmoud Emam, the man in question. Mr Emam, an Egyptian political activist, is one of a diminishing number of people openly campaigning against a new constitution the military-backed government is putting to a referendum today and tomorrow/on Tuesday and Wednesday. It will be the third constitutional referendum in as many years, since the overthrow of ex-President Hosni Mubarak, and this time the authorities want to make it last. “Yes” posters have been affixed prominently to lamp posts along main roads, and the logo features heavily on television broadcasts, which are unanimously positive.[/quote]
No matter how hard you try for a democratic process of government where every citizen from the great to the lowly has equal say, you always end up with tools who believe either in might makes right or outdated religious codes.
All those people died for nothing, well done.
I guessed they learned to not make the same mistake as Pinochet.
[QUOTE=Reshy;43525475]All those people died for nothing, well done.[/QUOTE] What made you think a silly revolt would lead them to anything positive? They brought down a dictator and put up an even more savage person in his place.
[quote]“So, you think we are thugs?” they asked him. “Well, this is what thugs we are." “Then they started punching me in the chest,” said Mahmoud Emam, the man in question.[/quote] WOW WELL DONE YOU SURE SHOWED HIM
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