Is Egypt Free at last??

I have taken my time to comment on Egypt, mostly because I haven't found it. I have been working quite a bit and I really just haven't been able to. It's also been very dificult to comment on something we don't completely understand. Al Jazeera is giving us a lot of info, but I don't know how many of you tune on, and I myself haven't really been able to. But even Al Jazeera has been hiding info (it too is a a product of foreign policy), they mostly talk to English talking people,  so we aren't actually able to get information from your average Caireine slum dweller, rubbish scavenger or fruit vendor. Moreover, the last time I watched Al Jaz they were talking about protests, but at that point in time didn't tell us what the chants were, now this is important. It's very different to chant "Mubarak out now" than "We want change, we want democracy we want socialism", I don't think the latter would be apropriated though, Egypt isn't ready. It would be 1917 again, a repetition of already made errors which just paved the streets for a new tyrant under another banner, an even bigger lie.

Yesterday Mubarak stepped down, after thirty years in power, after almost three weeks of on-going protests that have swept the world's attention. Mubarak's forces tried to hold up as much as possible, it has been difficult to know who the military were backing. There have been times where army and people backed each other up or protected each other, others in which people were shot down for shouting. Now they are the ones controlling the country, they have vowed for a smooth transition, but it is the people who will have to keep them in check. Their barricades must stay strong and Tahrir square must continue to be the centre-point of the revolution, because it has not yet ended. I believe the people will get democracy in Egypt, a democracy still bad, resembling ours, but a democracy nontheless. I hope Egypt and Tunisia manage to create a liberal democracy in which all people will be represented. This would become an example for the rest of the middle East, where the masses have yet to rise even though the conditions in Algeria, Morocco, Yemen and so many other nations differ so little.
All I know is that the Egyptian and Tunisian people spoke out and it worked, who says it can't elsewhere, in places where the government is less powerful? This is the best vid on the Egyptian revolution and here you can find how Tunisia is starting to take on its rebirth. The words "We will not be silenced, whether you're a Christian, whether you're a muslim, an atheist. You will get back your goddamn rights and we will have our rights one way or another", from a protestor are probably to become one of the lines of the revolution. It is a people's revolution. I'd call it for bread and butter. they want food, but they also want to become western, they want to become secular.
Jefferson said that "when the people fear their government it's a tyranny. When the government fears its people it's called liberty." We could say that both Tunisians and Egyptians are more free, but they still need their food and they're still going to have to fight for rights we consider normal, whether they are women's, gay or workers'. The future for them is young and full of hope.

And if you want to know what the Kiwi army is doing in Egypt check it out.