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Feb 17, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
It is now time for Kaieteur News to reprint in its entirety the January 29 column of Peeping Tom. Here are a few choice excerpts:-
“The protests that are taking place in Cairo and other Egyptian cities are not indications that there is going to be political change. They represent visible examples of discontent within the middle class, mainly over rising food prices.
“The protests are not going to test the security forces and they are not going to force the government to step down. These protests will peter out as was the case in Iran just after that country’s general elections.
“All the babble therefore about the possibility of the government falling and the outside chance of the military taking power should the situation become ungovernable is idle speculation.
“The government will eventually get down to addressing some of the economic concerns being expressed and within two weeks these protests are going to get stronger and eventually fade out.
“The time is not right at the moment for regime change in Egypt. And so following in the footsteps of Iran what the world will witness within the next two weeks is some amount of protests which will die out as so many similar causes have done over the years.
After Iraq and Afghanistan, the people of the Middle East are not going to be very interested in western-style democracy, at least not right now.”
Just to show that the above was not a temporary moment of insanity here are some hilarious gems from the February 4 article :-
“Those behind the protests in Egypt should have consulted with certain local forces before embarking on their ill-advised course to call on their country’s President to step down. They should have restrained themselves and not get carried away with what was taking place in Tunisia. That part of the world is not ready for western-style – or even what is being touted as people’s-power – democracy.
“How can under one per cent of the people in the streets force a sitting head of government to demit office?
“All it took in Egypt was one simple address to the nation by an aging president for confusion to descend within the ranks of the demonstrators. Mubarak showed how wily a politician he was. There was no chance that under one per cent of the people could force such a powerful leader, a man who is a national hero, to step aside and allow his country to descend into further chaos because some persons, like those in Iran two years ago, got excited and believed that through social networks they could create some sort of revolution.
“All it took is one simple speech by the President of Egypt, in which he made concessions, to throw the entire protest movement into total disarray.”
The anti-Mubarak movement – there is nothing pro-democracy about them – will now struggle to regain the momentum. One speech is all that it took and an entire movement is falling apart.
The struggle is over. Nothing that the international community can say, including appeals for a role for the opposition in the transition process, is going to make any difference.”
Robin Muneshwer

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