The Factions Shaping Egypt

"To put it bluntly: in earlier times, it was easier to control one million people than to physically kill one million people; today, it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people." Zbigniew Brzezinski, Former U.S. National Security Advisor, Co-Founder of the Trilateral Commission, Member, Board of Trustees, Center for Strategic and International Studies

A quick up front: My postings have become less frequent with a number of big changes in my life. I’ll leave it at that since this website has never been about me, and more about the larger forces shaping our world. I’m also less motivated to write as it seems safe to assume we've hit a critical mass of awareness and mainstream media propaganda has been reduced to the laughing stock of credibility. Over the last few years the number of alternative websites has exploded with what Zbigniew Brzezinski is calling the “the global political awakening", so it seems most of what needs to be said is being said, and time is precious these days.

In any event, here’s an insightful boots-on-the-ground article on the political factions of Egypt. It points towards a direction of a military coup, similar to what put Nassar in power. Here’s a brutal snapshot of what life is like outside of the rioting squares:

Saturday was indescribable. Nothing that I write can describe the utter state of lawlessness that prevailed. Every Egyptian prison was attacked by organized groups trying to free the prisoners inside. In the case of the prisons holding regular criminals this was done by their families and friends. In the case of the prisons with the political prisoners this was done by the Islamists. Bulldozers were used in those attacks and the weapons available from the looting of police stations were available. Nearly all the prisons fell. The prison forces simply could not deal with such an onslaught and no reinforcements were available. Nearly every terrorist held in the Egyptian prisons from those that bombed the Alexandria Church less than a month ago to the Murderer of Anwar El Sadat was freed, the later reportedly being arrested again tonight.

 

On the streets of Cairo it was the scene of a jungle. With no law enforcement in town and the army at a loss at how to deal with it, it was the golden opportunity for everyone. In a city that is surrounded with slums, thousands of thieves fell on their neighboring richer districts. People were robbed in broad daylight, houses were invaded, and stores looted and burned. Egypt had suddenly fallen back to the State of Nature. Panicking, people started grabbing whatever weapon they could find and forming groups to protect their houses. As the day progressed the street defense committees became more organized. Every building had its men standing in front of it with everything they could find from personal guns, knives to sticks. Women started preparing Molotov bombs using alcohol bottles. Street committees started coordinating themselves. Every major crossroad had now groups of citizens stopping all passing cars checking their ID cards and searching the cars for weapons. Machine guns were in high demand and were sold in the streets.

Also GardenSERF has some unique perspective into the revolutionary forces shaping Egypt and how the Hegelian dielectric exploited by the invisible hand of global forces works in practice. It does seem life is imitating fiction.

 There are those in the West who believe in the Hegelian synthesis of opposites and this includes Sunnis and Shiites within Islam. They believe that if these feuding elements within Islam are brought to an eventual understanding with each other, that the new leaders who emerge can be used to keep 1 Billion people under better control in the future.

 

 

Comments

[GardenSERF]

Thanks for the mention and nice to see you get the Hegelian thing. I think it was something Antony C. Sutton wrote which put me onto that many moons ago.

[Admin]

Of course - I always enjoy getting your perspective and am a big fan of the Operation SERF triology. I agree the Hegel point is huge. Understanding how it works in practice goes a long way towards making sense out of modern history and getting a clue into where we're probably heading.