Egypt is free! Mubarak has stepped down and people all over the country and region are beyond jubilant!
I wish I could be there. I love a good protest and celebration. People are bringing their families, pets and even roosters to celebrate. It's amazing to watch on television.
They're calling this the "Rebirth of Egypt". In a way it is a rebirth of free speech, a rebirth of our own First Amendment. Under an oppressive regime for thirty years the people of Egypt were finally fed up and they did something about it. The people spoke and after 18 days, minimal violence given the situation, and the kill switch they have been heard not only by the former regime but around the world.
Of course we don't know what the future holds. The next government could be worse for Egypt, or for the U.S., or for both. No one knows. I choose to be optimistic that this will be a good thing not only for the Egyptian people and the world community.
Often, too often, we seem to focus on the negatives of free speech myself included. Today on the world's stage we can see the positives of being able to speak openly and freely about the government. Let freedom ring!
It is amazing to see this happen. It is something that we only really read about happening in history textbooks. It is a great chance in Egypt for the Egyptians to govern themselves and have the freedoms that we enjoy everyday. Of course, the middle east is a troubled region of the world, but a new government in Egypt could show the region freedoms that they don't know.
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