May God be with Egypt
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| [ 16/06/2012 - 09:57 PM ] |
By Khalid Amayreh
Employing legalistic chicanery,
blatant deceit and contemptible conspiracies, the remnants of the
Mubarak regime seem hell-bent on aborting the Egyptian revolution.
On Thursday, 14 June, the so-called
Constitutional Court, an entity that was utterly silent during 30 years
of corruption, tyranny and repression under the previous regime, issued a
hasty decision, dissolving the People's Assembly or Parliament.
This parliament was elected only three
months ago in perfectly transparent elections observed by the entire
world and supervised by the Egyptian judicial system. None of the judges
then questioned the legality and transparency of the elections. They
all boasted about the democratic credentials of the ruling junta, saying
that Egypt was entering a new era of human rights, political freedoms
and civil liberties.
With the last round of parliamentary
polls, it became clear that the Islamists were the winners. This
infuriated the "Mubarak party" which began ranting and raving about "an
Islamist takeover of Egypt" and the "monopoly of the Ikhwan" over the
Egyptian scene.
Such disgusting canards and vociferous
accusations were repeated so often that one would get the impression
that the Islamist arrogated, not earned, their electoral victories.
Some of the small leftist and Nasserist
parties went beyond the pale of decency and common sense in vilifying
the Islamists for winning "more seats than they should" as if the
Islamists were supposed to ask the voters to vote for them sparingly or
parsimoniously.!!!
The discourse employed by the leftists and
pseudo liberals in the aftermath of the parliamentary elections was so
mendacious, so malicious, so repulsive and above all markedly
preposterous that it portrayed the Islamists as "hijackers or stealers
of the people's will." The utter depravity of these so-called
"democratic forces" reached such a point that a casual listener to these
hypocrites' lies and vindictive falsification of the facts would think
that the real problem lies with the Ikhwan, not with Zionist Mubarak
regime.
More to the point, the de facto rejection
of the democratic process by these pseudo liberals and pseudo-democrats
underscore their hypocrisy and despotic impulses. In the final analysis,
feeling gleeful and going into a state of ecstasy over the dissolution
of a democratically-elected parliament, which exhausted the poor country
and cost her hundreds of millions of dollars, shows the utter falsehood
of their democratic claims.
I can't understand what could justify the
dissolution of a democratically-elected parliament only a few weeks
after was elected? Indeed, if there were true legal gaps rendering the
parliament unconstitutional as the mouthpieces of the regime keep
parroting, such gaps should have been determined and tackled from the
very inception, given the fact that the elections were held under the
supervision of the justice system from A to Z.
However, the fact that the court said
nothing and did nothing until the eve of the presidential elections
suggests more than a foul play.
More to the point, one would wonder if the
Constitutional court would have dissolved the parliament had secularist
and liberal forces won the elections. The answer is left to each and
everyone of us according to his or her honesty.
In every democratic country under the sun,
the elected representatives of the people have the right to write the
constitution or select a body of experts to do the job. However,
according to Mubarak's shipyard dogs, this right must be withdrawn from
the elected representatives and given to losers that were ejected by the
masses.
There is no doubt that the dissolution of
the parliament represents a blatant rape of the will the Egyptian people
by the military establishment along with the remnants of the judicial
establishment, a body that was always at Mubarak's beck and call.
Hence, it is imperative that the current
judicial establishment be subjected to a process of thorough
purification lest that establishment continues conniving and colluding
with the tyrannical military establishment in order to reproduce the
Mubarak regime and take Egypt back to American-Zionist bondage.
To put it simply and straightforwardly,
the current judicial establishment can't be entrusted or relied upon to
uphold justice in Egypt.
Two weeks ago, the Egyptian justice system
acquitted nearly all the pillars of the previous regime, including
hundreds of murderers, thieves, and conspirers.
True, Mubarak and his interior minister Habib al-Adly were sentenced to life imprisonment, probably under public pressure.
But what is the fate of the murderers of
more than 850 Egyptian protesters? Who killed them? Did the killers come
from Mars or another galaxy? And why is it that the burden of proof
lies with the victims' families and lawyers, not the state.
Indeed, what is the state’s raison d'être
if not to protect the lives of its citizens and uphold justice? The
state can't just tell the families of the victims, "sorry, we don't know
who killed your loved ones, and may God's mercy be bestowed on them."
The state is guilty of breach of trust.
I don't know how the Egyptian scene will
evolve following the presidential elections now underway. Will the
notorious Constitutional Court declare these elections null and void if
the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate Muhammed Mursi wins the polls?
Everything is possible and nothing can be
taken for granted, because the orphans of Mubarak are alive and kicking
and will not cease their treacherous and treasonous acts unless they are
eliminated. But nothing other than the continuation and intensification
of the revolution will guarantee their elimination.
Egypt is going through a crucial and difficult period. May God help Egypt
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