[Cowperson]

Originally Posted by transplant99

Man... have been trying to stay away from watching this continuously, but switch over every once in a while to see if anything has really changed. Unfortunately it has...and not for the good.

It is starting to get dark there right now, and it appears likely this is going to get really really REALLY ugly in the next 8 hours or so. As someone on TV mentioned, the Iran playbook for squelching an uprising is in full effect and the most ominous page before heavy bloodshed has been played. The military is rounding up all journalists and getting them far away from the epicenter of this thing for "their own safety". This almost assuredly means that the thugs and/or the military is going to open up on the demonstrators when night falls.

Very rarely in history has a revolution occurred without a lot of violence and death, and I fear we are truly on the precipice of seeing it occur once again. Mubarek is defiant, his opposition even moreso, and the guys in the tanks are going to have to point their weapons towards one side or the other. Either way, thousands stand in harms way when/if that happens.

Scary stuff for not just the Egyptian people, but all over the middle East and by default the rest of the world.

Quote of the day:

“The street is not afraid of governments anymore,” said Shawki al-Qadi, an opposition lawmaker in Yemen, itself roiled by change. “It is the opposite. Governments and their security forces are afraid of the people now. The new generation, the generation of the Internet, is fearless. They want their full rights, and they want life, a dignified life.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/03/wo...b.html?_r=1&hp

and Fareed Zakahria in Newsweek with the headline: "How Democracy Can Work In The Middle East."

http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...045888,00.html

Cowperson