Egypt

This is a shout out to every Egyptian who is fighting for a true democracy in Egypt.   Free from fear or reprisal from a government who think they can hang onto power by fear and through abusive behavior.  Those people have risked their lives, their families, their possessions to try and force change.

The U.S. has supported Mubarak for decades because they decided the devil that they knew was better than the devil that they didn't know.   He is an 82 year old dictator that has ruled Egypt with an iron fist, emplacing secret police who have run wild for decades, arresting people, imprisioning people, torturing and abusing the Egyptian people.  It is wrong and it simply has to stop.  For the U.S. to support the emplacement of another of Mubarak's cronies as VP is insulting to the people of Egypt.  I don't blame the protestors one bit for feeling insulted by the gesture and even more insulted and angry that the U.S. who has funded Mubarak's reign for all these years would be so haughty as to say "Here, why don't you take this instead. This is better than what you have now."  Sometimes it insults me to think my government behaves the way it does.

I guess time has long since passed when we felt like we actually had some semblance of control over what government does.   We see in the Egyptian people what it takes to cause change.