AFRO ALERT: People of Egypt need you help

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I was driving back from dropping my child at school when Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! began interviewing via cell phone one of her producers, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, who made it into Egypt to cover the uprising there. As they were talking, you could hear mobs of Mubarak operatives streaming into Tahrir Square. Apparently the soldiers allowed them to pass.

 

The attacks on the people of Egypt are clearly orchestrated by the Mubarak government. It is also VERY clear, that they were formulating their strategy in close consultation with intelligence forces in several other countries. Ahem. Democracy Now! is reporting that police forces in plain clothes, oil workers, and government employees are launching a violent three pronged attack on the square in Cairo. Call the White House. Ask Obama to make a clear statement, not one open for interpretation, that violent reprisal against peaceful families is not tolerable. 

 

I just sent him this letter under "Foreign Policy" via whitehouse.gov:

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Dear President Obama,

 

Please, I understand the need for diplomatic parsing of phrases, but the people of Egypt need assistance and they need it now. That Mubarak would send his police force, his workers and receive help from oil companies to terrorize and abuse his people is unconscionable. Yes, hardline, "old school" Zionists in Israel are terrified of what a rapid transfer of power in Egypt might mean for them. But as you stated (and I thank you for that) the people of Egypt are to determine what they want. 

 

To that end, it is not appropriate to allow Mubarak to pretend to have "people" who support him. It is not appropriate to have him in place until elections in September. It is not appropriate for our country to be silent on our past support of Mubarak. We must apologize tot he people of Egypt, place our efforts to help Mubarak in their proper historical context, and then support THE PEOPLE.

 

By doing nothing, keeping quite, you will assuredly create the monsters that your "constituents" in the Middle East so terribly fear. Please get ahead of the ball, run off sides if you must, but Mubarak will go to great lengths to "maintain order" because he is of a different order, a different era. He does not understand his citizens; they are from a world that he has never known. There is no political party running this. People simply want to be free. They want to be respected. They want to eat. They want to love.

 

Please, do not stand by and allow a massacre to occur simply because it is politically expedient.

 

Thank you for your swift action in this matter (I trust that you and your cabinet understand what is at stake in "protecting interests" rather than supporting the love of life and freedom.

 

Sincerely, 

Dr. Anna B. Scott

 

 

 

You can read a rush transcript from Democracy NOW! by clicking here.