I've always wondered how I would have reacted to the revolution if I was actually there in Egypt right when the turmoil was at its peak. I've also always wondered if I would have been down in the streets contributing to the action with the rest of the citizens. Would I have spent the night in tents in the middle of the street along with the rest of the people? All these unanswered questions seem to anger me because it's during the hardships when you're supposed to show your true patriotism towards your country. There's no doubt that I would have been contributing some other ways of course, such as attending lectures, going around for fundraisers, and other ways. However, I don't know how I would feel like if I went down one day to contribute to the protests and just never returned. I can't be selfish, I have other people to worry about and think about. However, all these doubts and thoughts are coming to me when I'm a few thousand miles away from the action. The condition may have been significantly different if I was to be in Egypt at the time. To be among millions of people with absent fear and ready to remove the corrupt government.
Little kids were out there, fighting, crying...contributing. Everyone knew their roles. There were the people who would spend the night out in the streets in Tahrir Square showing their support and then there were people who would remain at their homes for security reasons. Of course these people still had a hand in removing the government, however they did it a different way.
On January 28, the police force released thousands of criminals from the jails. There is a secret video that leaked showing one of the officers saying this same exact sentence to the prisoners before letting them loose," Alright men, I want you to go out and ruin the country." Word for word. I mean who has the nerve to even say that? And just as this corrupt officer said, the prisoners did. They would go to homes and break in and rob the homes of their valuable items. They would trash the streets (more than they were already trashed) and just add on to the chaos. Now, the citizens had their own way of responding to this nonsense. One way was that late at night, the youth and the healthy men would go down late at night in the streets bearing knives, rocks, and wooden sticks. They would hide around the cars parked along the sidewalks and wait for the criminals to show up. And when they would, the hidden men would jump out of no where and beat criminal up so hard so that he was inches away from death. They wouldn't kill him because they would then go and drop him off at the nearest police station; where he would get beaten some more.
These tactics and plans were among many factors that lead to the success of the revolution.
Little kids were out there, fighting, crying...contributing. Everyone knew their roles. There were the people who would spend the night out in the streets in Tahrir Square showing their support and then there were people who would remain at their homes for security reasons. Of course these people still had a hand in removing the government, however they did it a different way.
On January 28, the police force released thousands of criminals from the jails. There is a secret video that leaked showing one of the officers saying this same exact sentence to the prisoners before letting them loose," Alright men, I want you to go out and ruin the country." Word for word. I mean who has the nerve to even say that? And just as this corrupt officer said, the prisoners did. They would go to homes and break in and rob the homes of their valuable items. They would trash the streets (more than they were already trashed) and just add on to the chaos. Now, the citizens had their own way of responding to this nonsense. One way was that late at night, the youth and the healthy men would go down late at night in the streets bearing knives, rocks, and wooden sticks. They would hide around the cars parked along the sidewalks and wait for the criminals to show up. And when they would, the hidden men would jump out of no where and beat criminal up so hard so that he was inches away from death. They wouldn't kill him because they would then go and drop him off at the nearest police station; where he would get beaten some more.
These tactics and plans were among many factors that lead to the success of the revolution.
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