No, we have no followers in Egypt. But ah, how we are needed there! We send our best wishes to the Egyptian people in their struggle against oppression.
I thought it was most telling that the Egyptians know they want to be rid of Mubarak, but don't know what they want in his place. This is one of the drawbacks of dictatorship: the dictator becomes the only imaginable governor. This, I think, is why the British people don't overthrow their own unconstitutional electoral tyranny.
On tonight's BBC News we saw a commentator caught between two protesters, one who wanted an Islamic government to replace Mubarak and another who wanted a people's democracy - whatever that is supposed to mean.
They could have a True Democracy government such as TWOP is working for - for more details see our website, www.twopforum.webs.com. While we have the deepest suspicion of the autocratic nature of Islamic states, it would be wonderful to see the world's first government that enabled Muslims to have strong influence over government policy, while allowing non-Muslim opinion also to count. Such an arrangement is completely possible under our system. How ironic it would be if Egypt chose this course!
One final observation: it is interesting that the Egyptian authorities shut down the Internet when they realized the depth of the crisis. Considering that the Internet is the foundation of the True Democracy of the future, it shows that the dictators understand its power. When the people of Britain understand it too, the days of our current oppressive regime will be numbered.
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