Are Egypt’s anti-riot squads causing traffic jams?
It’s never been safe to protest in Egypt. They call in the anti-riot police whenever a couple of dozen kids take to the sidewalks and start to disturb the peace by shouting inflammatory slogans like ‘Freedom.’ Now, these young rabble rousers should have known better. There is such a thing as Emergency Laws that explicitly prohibit free assembly and that just happens to be the law of the land. And if eighty million Egyptians keep their mouths shut – why should a few dozen agitators have any special privileges. Whatever happened to the concept of egalitarianism? Every law abiding Egyptian has had thirty years to come to terms with the fact that it is just plain illegal to demonstrate. In Egypt, freedom is not free. In fact, it looks like it’s going to be very expensive. If you want to demonstrate, the government will be glad to accommodate you in some dark cell somewhere or let you off easy with a beating. That’s a stiff price to pay for spending an afternoon shouting slogans a
