When we come across a viewpoint so delicately angled so as to incorporate all factions of society and all aspects of a people's awakening, it has a direct and positive impact on morale; reflecting a hope both sound and grounded.
Monday, 7 March 2016
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Friend of the People.
The army is nothing... if not a friend and an ally of the people.
However, although the army is meant to serve in the best interests of the people, once it is given ultimate rule, its power becomes unmitigated.
Clearly, wherever power is concerned, balance of a kind is essential.
Any party unchallenged would bring about
the same results; injustices prevailing, corruption escalating and the down
and outs of society inevitably becoming more and more pronounced.
The way many of us see it is that unless political parties
lay their differences aside, moderate their egos and work together to
form a separate yet cohesive entity, one strong enough to represent
citizens across the board.. then there can be no shift away from
Military regime and detrimentally the army will never be allowed to focus on what it should do best: serve, defend and protect.
The problem we have at present is that people revel in
declaring they are either for or against the army. That should never be
the case.
The army is nothing if not a friend and an ally of the people.
However, cheering the regime for its tangible
discrimination is not conducive to national unity, in fact it may be
felt as nothing short of insulting; for those who have suffered, for
those who have died and for those who continue to suffer and die at the
hands of the astringent mistrials and sentences pronounced, too often
without so much as a legitimate charge. Also equally insulting to the
soldiers who are killed in crossfire, for either being incapable of
judgement or for following blindly the bidding of ill-advised and
ill-advising superiors.
Cheering
moreover is tangibly felt to bear antagonistic undertones; as if to
proclaim nothing took place of any significance in the political arena,
as if the people
of Egypt have now got it right once again and better than ever before,
with the poorer faction seen as an inevitable side issue.. an inevitable
consequence of nothing other than population explosion rather than one
linked to drastically absent welfare. Most poignantly of all
cheering as if all those nationals, citizens and soldiers alike who
gave up
their lives in a dream fight against corruption never mattered nor will
ever matter or count at all.. cheering of the kind, in blunt terms, is
nothing short of distasteful. For many good people it may well appear to
hold national pride but sadly, at closer inspection, all it does is bow
to the dictates of rhetoric.
I would go so far as to say it is pathetic to cheer an
obviously strong regime that fails to deliver on a number of serious
issues affecting all its citizens. After all, we cannot repeat often
enough: The army is nothing... if not a friend and an ally of the
people.
So dare to look closely enough and touch what lies beneath the
surface and you will see that most people are not against military
personnel themselves nor against the poor soldiers who on a continuous
basis give up their lives for the country whenever and wherever called for..
NO,
not against, quite the contrary. They simply do not cheer the regime
itself for a reason.. a reason validated by nothing other than
conscience; a pure and unadulterated conscience. We do not even have to
have taken part in the January 2011
uprising to have one but we do have to remain in touch with our
humanity to perceive one actually exists.
The following video is expressive of so much that has
taken place and that continues to bubble under the surface. It is purely
visual.
The words uttered at the end simply establish it as one of many
perspectives and the makers encourage others to take part in presenting
their own.
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