Smell of old perfumes.

By: Ahmed M. EL NAHAS – Montopoli, December 16th 2011.

Once again I will talk about the case of Michael Nabil, sentenced to two years incarceration by a “Martial Court”, just because his opinion is not in line with the standards set by the “Supreme Council of the Armed Forces” (SCAF), or its ever lasting sacred “Emergency Laws”; and therefore he had to become subject to these Laws. The cruel codes that were explicitly set to try drug lords, arms dealers and terrorists. Yet it found the elasticity to include an Egyptian middle class intellectual among those categories, thus labeling him an “Enemy of the Republic” condemning him to a long, humiliating and painful “Civil Death”.

Once the term is served, he will not be able to travel, to work or to maintain a family for quite some time.. And why? Because he thought he could freely exercise his right as a citizen and express his opinion saying it publicly out loud, not through an underground clandestine organization.. He wrote his thoughts on his blog with courage, integrity and honesty.

But the “Governing Body” doesn’t/didn’t understand the most elementary of the history lessons: “When opinions or ideas are being continuously oppressed and suppressed, not given the opportunity to come into bright daylight, they will find their way in the guaranteed underground clandestine resistance movements, which will resiliently create faster communications channels to reach vaster scale of sympathising and supporting public, that will give ample room for rumors to surface and substitute facts. Obviously that will drag the entire society into long periods of continuous exhausting unrest”.

Is that the aim?.. Instability?.. Unrest?.. Escalate the Sectarian and Cultural conflicts?.. Divide the nation?.. Cripple its economy?.. Increase social rage?.. Incite for more hate?.. Deploy fear?..

Well, I have news for you.. Precisely that is the prelude to “Civil Wars”. And if that is the reason by which this governing body is stubbornly continuing to defy the people’s legitimate demands, and meticulously employing all of  its capabilities to reincarnate old tactics; then we have no alternative but believe in the existence of a special agenda by which our “Military Élite” is operating in a certain direction and for unexplained reasons. Since the official versions so far were not able to convince  or even appeal, though being nicely groomed.. Yet smelling of a very old perfume!

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