I was watching some of the videos that came out of Tahrir in Egypt during January and February of this year - what a moving experience. Today, over six months later, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF, a Mubarak bunch of lackeys) are arresting activists left and right, ordering military tribunals for them one after the other. Some of the evidence presented against those activists are tweets and Facebook pages they used to express their opinions. That is not a good turn of events since recently the Army arrested an ex-officer who was helping secure the field hospital in Tahrir in a sting operation.
Recently BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit Authority) shut off all cellular communications to thwart some civil action in California. Similarly, Prime Minister Cameron of the UK said the UK will ban all forms of social networking after the riots in London. It is becoming ever so clear that those fascist governments are becoming more and more concerned with the increased mobilization and involvement of people that is being aided by social media. Now we can mobilize action against corrupt politicians in Egypt as easily as we would in the USA. We can communicate our hopes, aspirations, frustrations, disappointments and share them with the world. Those governments are more afraid of the people they govern than any outside enemy. That is becoming more and more evident.
The role social media plays today as a catalyst can be easily replaced and I wish to inform those governments that there were riots and revolutions before there was ever Twitter, Facebook or Google+. People when cornered are going to do amazing things, there are not enough bullets in this earth to kill someone who really has to defend himself and family with nothing to lose.
The New enemy is you, me, freedom of speech, the Internet, social media and people who are fed up with any corrupt system of government. A system of government that only wants to protect itself and will go to extremes to do so.
Tunis, Egypt, Yemen, Libya and Syria thank you and the snowball effect already started it will not stop there. I, for one, am sick of DC and the corrupt politicians that are running my country. They all must be recalled and we need to start afresh with younger more pro-active people with a fresh view and another set of rules that allows us to monitor them and recall whomever is corrupt and not doing their job.
