Who's in charge? Mixed signals from Egypt's rulers

Exactly one year since the start of the Arab Spring uprisings, violent clashes erupted again Saturday around Cairo's Tahrir Square. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports.

CAIRO -- The echo from the microphones in the room where the prime minister had just finished his press conference on Saturday morning was still ringing in everyone's ears.

Could he have been right?

Prime Minister Kamal Ghanzoury looked journalists, and by extension the Egyptian people, square in the eye and told them the military and the police were not involved in the clashes on Friday -- and if they were, they were only acting in self-defense.


He went on to add that the military exercised restraint and did not fire on the crowds.

But even more surprising to many activists, Ghanzoury said the people involved in Friday's clashes were not revolutionaries.

The three-weeklong peaceful protests outside his office turned violent Friday when, according to him, troublemakers attacked the military.

His depiction was an attempt, protesters felt, to taint them and their sit-in.

Ghanzoury's comments contradicted widespread reports and eyewitness accounts from journalists and activists.

Regardless of the moment that precipitated the initial clash between the military and the protesters, the military's conduct over the past 48 hours has many Egyptians questioning its competence and intentions.

In fact, videos made by eyewitnesses show the military engaged in all kinds of behavior, originally denied by the prime minister, including taunting protesters with rude gestures, lobbing stones at them, chasing them with sticks, beating and dragging them while they are on the ground and in more than one instance, opening fire with pistols.

In the video above, posted on the website of Mosireen, an Egyptian non-profit organization that helps citizen journalists by running a media center in downtown Cairo, alleged members of Egypt's military are seen taunting protesters with rude hand gestures. They can also be seen throwing stones at the protesters in this video.

In another video, aired by a private Egyptian satellite channel, a soldier can be seen aiming a pistol at people who were coming to recover a wounded protester being attacked by a crowd in military riot gear.

In his press conference the prime minister reiterated a point made earlier in a statement by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. All of the families of those killed would be compensated. Those injured would be treated at the state's expense. An independent civilian advisory council created after last month's deadly fighting between security forces and protesters recommended all those arrested during the clashes be released.

But on Saturday, the PM said they were not revolutionaries. In fact, Egypt's general prosecutor ordered 16 people detained for four days pending investigation into their involvement in instigating the clashes and the killings -- and none were members of the military or police. And despite widespread complaints by protesters and human rights organizations, no investigations into alleged military misconduct have been launched by prosecutors.

So why would the military offer to treat those injured and compensate victims if it felt they were behaving illegally? It seems odd for the state to treat so-called martyrs if it viewed them as vandals and agents of foreign hands.

For its part, the military has posted video http://youtu.be/8grDc-iz5wg) on its Facebook page showing what it claims were vandals destroying government buildings. Egypt's historic Geographic Society building was set on fire on Saturday. It was not clear how the fire started in the building, home to some of Egypt's most important historic documents.

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 After last month's deadly clashes, the Supreme Council accepted the previous prime minister's resignation and promised to empower his replacement with the full authority he needs to run the country. The new prime minister pledged that force would not be used against demonstrators. But some analysts say that the new clashes raise questions about his ability to reign in the security forces and about the degree of cooperation between the military and the civilians supposedly running the country.  

In a post on his Twitter page, prominent opposition figure Mohammed El Baradei said that if the PM had all of the executive authority of the president, which includes security in the country, then in what capacity did the military police act against the protesters?

So did Prime Minister Ghanzoury know that within minutes of concluding his press conference, the military would unleash an assault against the protesters? If he did, then he purposely put a civilian facade on a military crackdown, some say. If he didn't know, then, as El Baradei pointed out, how can he restore law and order in the country if he is not in charge of the one institution that has all the guns?

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another great piece of foreign policy brought to you by Obama and Hillary.

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Reply#2 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:03 PM EST

Mubarak must go!

    #2.1 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:58 PM EST

    Doger & Kornfed, do you actually understand or believe he garbage you post? What the F did Obama and Hillary do to create the current conditions in Egypt except pull support for a horrible dictator? Why don't you please go somewhere that you feel they screwed up and fix it and stay there? Would you have been happy living in Egypt under Mubarack? If so, go find somewhere similar and move, please. your blind ignorant hate is so pathetic. Please run for office so you can show the world how stupid you really are. Put up for once, or shut up, please. Some of us got past first grade.

      #2.2 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:54 PM EST

      Obama cut Mubarak off at the knees and endorsed his being ousted without even looking at or understanding those behind the protests or who would end up in charge once Mubarak was gone. He did the same thing in Libya and is doing the same thing in Syria. Not that any of the leaders of these countries could be called ideal, but at least they were/are secularists. Now we are watching on country after another in the Middle East going from a reasonably benign secular government to one controlled by Islamic Fundamentalists. The Muslim Brotherhood just won a huge percentage in the elections in Egypt and the Islamists are taking control in Libya as well. It is only a matter of time before the same thing happens in Syria. This "Arab Spring" that Obama and his cronies along with the liberal news media have been touting as this great and wonderful thing for the Middle East is looking more and more like the start of an "Arab Winter." I fear that what we are seeing is the start of a new dark ages for the Middle East with secular governments being replaced by Islamic Republics and the countries regressing back to more resemble a pre-colonial era in the areas of social structures and legal doctrines. This "Arab Spring" is the worst thing to happen to the people of the Middle East since the crusades. Gadhafi and Mubarak may not have been perfect, but they were far better than what we are seeing replacing them. Obama's foreign policy has been very short sighted and not well thought out. He has done more harm to the prospects for moving the Middle East forward into a more modern society than any US president in history.

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      #2.3 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:59 PM EST

      hardtoread has his head up his own ass.

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      #2.4 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:47 PM EST

      Kornfed's right. Mubarak was such a nice guy...

        #2.5 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:22 AM EST

        Sorry children, but hardtoread is right. In Egypt, all Obama did was quit supporting a dictator that the US had been propping up for years. They started it, and had a relatively easy revolution with a minimum of bloodshed. Then they had a democratic vote. Here is where it gets tricky, JS in SD. They (the Egyptians) chose to go with the Muslim Brotherhood. Obama didn't choose them, Hillary didn't choose them, the Egyptian people chose them. Do I think the Egyptians are stupid? You bet. Do I or you or Obama or Hillary have the right to tell them who to vote for? No more than the Egyptians have the right to tell YOU who to vote for.

        "Not that any of the leaders of these countries could be called ideal, but at least they were/are secularists." ---Who killed and tortured their own people to continue their rule with an iron fist. I know you're simply trying to validate your anti-Obama argument, but that is the part of your comment that alarms me the most. In other words, at least they were our 'friends'. They did our bidding, therefore, the murder and the torture they committed to stay in power was/is acceptable to you? Let me say, I agree that we are seeing the start of a new Dark Ages. Let me say that I don't believe there are stupider people on Earth than Muslims. The Palestinians got the chance to vote...look who THEY chose! But we didn't do it. THEY did it to themselves. So are the Egyptians, so will the Libyans, so will the Syrians, et all, because they are stupid sheep being herded by evil Islamic fundamentalists. Obama allowed them to rid themselves of the dictators who were murdering and torturing them, but jumping from the pan into the fire was their decision, and theirs alone. I'm sure Obama doesn't like it anymore than we do, but he didn't get to choose their new leaders.

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        #2.6 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 2:09 AM EST

        right, obama did this. if its bad obama did it.

        i'm sure that obama could have kept mubarek in office. After all, according to the haters, he has no power and everyone ignores him and we are a laughingstock, so therefore its his fault mubarek left. All he had to do was to make another teleprompter speech and the angry crowds in egypt would have said "ok lets all go home".

        or some stupid "logic" like that.

        Obama could have done nothing to keep him in power, short of a full scale invasion and propping him up as an american puppet dictator.

        But the truth doesn't fit the haters world view, so it is quickly discarded.

          #2.7 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:59 AM EST

          JS in SD: You absolutely amaze me. What do you believe Obama could have done to prevent the Arab Spring? Millions of people in the streets fighting against trained, well-armed, military personnel who were killing them by hundreds and thousands and yet they kept the struggle alive until they finally won. And yet, you say,

          "Obama cut Mubarak off at the knees and endorsed his being ousted without even looking at or understanding those behind the protests or who would end up in charge once Mubarak was gone. He did the same thing in Libya and is doing the same thing in Syria. Not that any of the leaders of these countries could be called ideal, but at least they were/are secularists. Now we are watching on country after another in the Middle East going from a reasonably benign secular government to one controlled by Islamic Fundamentalists. The Muslim Brotherhood just won a huge percentage in the elections in Egypt and the Islamists are taking control in Libya as well. It is only a matter of time before the same thing happens in Syria. This "Arab Spring" that Obama and his cronies along with the liberal news media have been touting as this great and wonderful thing for the Middle East is looking more and more like the start of an "Arab Winter."

          What are you thinking? Do you believe the President of the USA is both the political and supreme religious figure of all the world's religions causing all people to do his bidding? Do you think all the President has to do is to tell the masses of the mid-East, "Be loyal to your dictator because not to do so will violate your oath to me and I, then, will return your acts against me seven fold against you!" Geeeeeeeeeeeez..... What are you thinking??!!??

          There are all kinds of views held by mid-Eastern peoples, and leaders of every group will be trying to mobilize their forces against the others. One good thing in all of it is the people seem willing to take to the streets when they are being injured. Will they do it if another dictator arises? Well, they're doing it in Iran! It's the 21st century and peoples across the planet have access to cell phones, television, computers, etc. etc. High speed communication and transportation have made the world a small, highly interdependent, planet. Yes, there will be problems, disasters, and violence, but there is good news in it all. For one, there are far fewer wars today than at anytime in the history of the human race. People seem to want freedom and security. Freedom, though, means they have the right to disagree and that can lead to violence. The people of the mid-East must work through their problems like the rest of us. There is no perfect world that we'll all reach that is a land better than life. In fact, the "perfect society" may be the one we have reached, a world where problems are solved based on majorities and minorities (majorities on one issue may be the minorities on other issues and the minorities on another issue may be majority on another and the majority on that issue ......) without violence and warfare. That is called democracy!

            #2.8 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:39 AM EST

            ??? Is former president Jimmy Carter the one who is advising Obama and Hillery on how to handle the ME situation? if so in a sense Iran just got bigger. its borders cover half of North Africa and most of the Mediterranean, when they include Turkey its all over. advice turn off your fan.

              #2.9 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:43 PM EST
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              What I in those videos, are Demonstrators attacking Police with rocks. Pretty sure you'd get shot if you did that here in America. The Eygptian police/miliary's reponse is actually very restrainted, considering the circumstances

              • 5 votes
              Reply#3 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:14 PM EST

              actually, this is a revolution that is being hijacked by military and want to forgive everyone who killed an Egyptian during the revolution including Mubarak, and the oinly people that has been tortured, kidnapped, arrested or killed are the rebels

                #3.1 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:51 PM EST

                Only a fool would not realize that its the extremists that are instigating this trouble, the people won their revolution. why do these groups continue taunting the military and calling for more demonstrations they have a goal. and its not stability. the people of Egypt should wait for the elections, it hasn't even been a year yet. they have their Donkey pushing the cart not pulling. the Brotherhood has stepped in and stole the revolution, the liberal Egyptians have lost their dream of a free Egypt. you people that can't see this are foolish to think this is what is best and stupid to cast blame on the interim government, the Islamist are provoking all this. the military wanted the constitution before the elections the Brotherhood wanted the elections first, so they could draft the constitution, why do you think that is so. if they can maintain the unrest and the confusion they can accomplish this goal by keeping the peoples attention from where it belongs.

                  #3.2 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 2:15 PM EST
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                  Enjoy your new hardcore theocracy ruled state Egypt.

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                  Reply#4 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:15 PM EST

                  Not missing Mubarak yet?

                  • 2 votes
                  Reply#5 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:50 PM EST

                  No.

                    #5.1 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:24 AM EST
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                    Civil War.

                    • 1 vote
                    Reply#6 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:51 PM EST

                    romove one dictator another dictator will take its place

                    • 1 vote
                    Reply#7 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:55 PM EST

                    missed up policy toward the middle east lead to chaos, mubrak must go and the result is another dictator wants to take over

                    • 1 vote
                    Reply#8 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:37 PM EST

                    I guess Hope and Change is working as well for the Egyptians as it did here in the United States.

                    • 2 votes
                    Reply#9 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:03 PM EST

                    Ours is working pretty well. Theirs is a work in progress.

                      #9.1 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:25 AM EST
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                      In the videos it looks like the protesters are throwing rocks, I don't blame the Egyptian police for shooting them.

                        Reply#10 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:05 PM EST

                        I guess tourism will be down in Egypt for a little while longer....

                        • 1 vote
                        Reply#11 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:20 PM EST

                        Tourism in Egypt is dead.

                          #11.1 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 2:20 PM EST
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                          Be careful what you ask for ,, what you get is probably worse than what you have ,, Now you can break out the Burkas and get ready for the Radical way of life

                          • 5 votes
                          Reply#12 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:44 PM EST

                          Yea!!!! being I like your name you can be my second wife ok :) . oh wait you're talking about Egyptian people ........oh well............

                            #12.1 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:51 PM EST
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                            It seems most muslim nations need a dictator to keep their citizens from killing each other off. There is also video of blacks being rounded up in Egypt and EXECUTED.

                            • 3 votes
                            Reply#13 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:48 PM EST

                            uhuh, Please show me where I can find this video.

                              #13.1 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:21 AM EST
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                              these are the results of an incompetent foreign policy coming out of Washington. Unfortunately this is not the end. While Obama is destroying American values all the thugs of the world are destroying civility, culture and humanity. Where is the hope?

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                              Reply#14 - Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:57 PM EST

                              what foreign policy should have been there? massive invasion of egypt to keep mubarek forcibly in office? Or explain your "brilliant" ideas.

                              obama is destroying american values? like what?

                                #14.1 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:01 AM EST

                                Obama should have stayed out of this one, the problem is he picked a side and he funded the wrong people. this will all fly back in our face. he doesn't know who to befriend and who to avoid, give it a little time you will see, now just move your face a little closer to that fan Obama got for you. its common practice for Muslims to use their enemy as a allies till their cause is complete. then regroup and resume the main cause that is Islams world domination. Vermontguy are you one of those people that pays to go see a movie and only watches the cartoons. the only strategy our leaders have is to be politically correct, damn the outcome.

                                  #14.2 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 3:01 PM EST
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                                  guess Hope and Change is working as well for the Egyptians as it did here in the United States

                                  Working about as well as the "Read my lips - comment" from George Bush Senior.

                                    Reply#15 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:13 AM EST

                                    There is no Arab spring.

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                                    Reply#16 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:15 AM EST

                                    I can not get it - why all of a sudden all this hand wrangling? It was clear as day what it will end up being when the whole thing started. And why do we think that had US policy be different we'd live in a happy world by now? From what I see, it is the EU who is messing things up because they had a misfortune to import themselves a nice Muslim minority.

                                    I feel really, really sorry for the common people in the Middle East - their lives are not getting any better any time soon. The only thing that may help them is not some fancy new foreign policy, but me and you switching from driving cars to riding bicycles. Unfortunately, I do not see this happenning either.

                                    Lets face it - we all, everyone, are responsible for what is going on in the Middle East (unless you are driving an electric car, and even then it is hard to tell because the ingrediens for those batteries come from very un-democratic countries). Every time me and you start a car engine, a drop of blood drops somewhere - be it Nigeria, Saudi, or Israel, or Egipt. We are all in it.

                                    I do not know about you, but I am off to get a fill up.

                                      Reply#17 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:26 AM EST

                                      Another mess supported by Obama, I need not say more other than the blessed Arab spring was a curse.

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                                      Reply#18 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:34 AM EST

                                      what would you have obama do differently?

                                        #18.1 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:02 AM EST

                                        he should have stayed out of it! completely, and let Egypt run itself. same with the rest of them they should have done this without foreign support. would you support someone going to the Vermont state asylum and opening the gates, then wander to the penitentiary and doing the same, and top it off with passing out firearms to the inmates as they funnel out the gate. would you?

                                          #18.2 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 3:16 PM EST
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                                          Sadly no state which is a Dictatorship (of any kind), Communist, Socialist or Religious lead (of any Faith) CANNOT be a DEMOCRACY because their people cannot freely say the following:

                                          'I don't like what you say, but I will defend your right to say it'

                                            Reply#19 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:44 AM EST

                                            Unfortunately, the Middle East is a place where you really don't want to mess with politics. That's a lesson hard learned obviously. Traditions of oligarchy are deeply entrenched. Democracy isn't something well understood in the region. You take away harsh authoritarianism and you wind up with chaos that is far worse.

                                            At this rate there will be no secure access to oil ..the whole region is becoming increasingly unstable. I guess the 'end timers' will be somehow overjoyed at this.

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                                            Reply#20 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 5:04 AM EST

                                            I'm not an end timer but this is beginning to resemble Revelations Israel is getting into a nutcracker, with a Muslim Union forming all around them, its looking bad. are we to be the leaping Lion from the west. if civil war breaks out in the ME then it could spread to Europe, you could have Muslim uprisings through Indonesia as well, the old CCCP satellite countries are largely Muslim, Islam is the worlds second largest religion, we cant stomp out all the fires they start, and they are starting them all around the world. Asia, Asia Minor, Africa, Indonesia, Europe, North America and as far as Australia, with one goal in their mind world domination its at our doorstep. take off the blinders, there end game is to control you. and if you don't submit then you must die so they can have one world under Allah. its a cult thing.

                                              #20.1 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 3:45 PM EST
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                                              Attention class. Your next assignment is a report on "The Night of the Long Knives".

                                                Reply#21 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:21 AM EST

                                                Toasty and company are again busy posting about subjects they do not understand. Their far leftist ideology leaves them clueless about the real world.

                                                Here's what Obama and his cast of clowns have done, they believe that democratically elected governments in the Muslim world is better than dictatorships. But they, either intentionally or unintentionally, ignored the fine details, namely that the majority in this region is poor, illiterate and superstitious. The radical Islamic parties coordinated with the military to rig the election in Egypt. Even Tunisia which has a more secular population ended up with radical Muslim majority winning the election. Events in both countries such as Salafi's attacks on liberals and Universities are disturbing but you guys, Toasty and company, couldn't care less because you are not living in this backward corner of the Word.

                                                What's happening now in the Middle East is similar to the Iron Curtain, we witnessed in Eastern Europe after WWII. Today, Obama and his clowns brought to the Middle East a Shariah Shackle which will keep this part in the World in the stone ages for years to come.

                                                • 1 vote
                                                Reply#22 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:31 AM EST

                                                oddly, the obama haters congratulated bush for his work in iraq that led to the arab spring. I guess he was the first clown, eh, coptic? lol

                                                how did obama "bring" this to the middle east? your inane idiology is showing.

                                                  #22.1 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:12 AM EST

                                                  Really Copt? You honestly think we should have sent US soldiers to die in another war suppressing a revolution against a tyrannical dictator? Shed US blood to enforce an authoritarian regime? Because kiddo, that's the alternative.

                                                    #22.2 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:39 AM EST

                                                    vermontguy, Bush and Condi made the same mistake when they thought that they can bring democracy to Iraq and to Palestine. But after Hamas took over Gaza, any honest observer would have known the peril of trying to promote democratic rules in Islamic countries. Many radical Muslims believe that democracy is from the devil, and that they are using it only to take over the Government. Similar to the communist play book, radical Islam enters only one election and rewrite the rules after winning. This is happening now in Egypt.

                                                    Toasty, no I do not want USA to be involved in this God forsaken area one way or another, but we have been sending the wrong messages for a long time. Do you know that Senator Kerry last week on his visit to Egypt met only with the current rulers of Egypt and the MB, why he did not meet with representatives of the youth movement who ignited this doomed revolution?

                                                      #22.3 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:59 PM EST

                                                      Coptic Christian I'm sorry but you are wrong if you think you can squeeze one ounce of intelligence into the voids that Toasty and vermontguy are saving for possible storage. like many on the FAR LEFT that space is for rent.

                                                        #22.4 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 3:59 PM EST

                                                        D Buck, I agree with you. I only respond to their mindless postings as a public service; to help others see through the holes in their convoluted arguments.

                                                          #22.5 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 6:23 PM EST

                                                          So wait, your objection to all this is that one Senator didn't meet with student protesters? That's what all your fuss is about?

                                                            #22.6 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:21 PM EST

                                                            No Toasty, this is one of many actions this administration has taken. I referred to them in previous postings and I would not bother to repeat them for you. If you look up what I have posted this year on this blog you will find many postings about the youth revolution, the way it was stolen by MB and the Salafis, and the misguided policy of Obama in supporting radical Muslims in the Middle East.

                                                            BTW here's how a leading Salafist view Kerry's visit to Egypt, as reported in a major Egyptian Newspaper.

                                                            http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/105/29056/Egypt/Elections-/Kerry%E2%80%99s-visit-to-Islamists-is-a-sign-of-our-streng.aspx

                                                              #22.7 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:23 PM EST
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                                                              The key to Egypt's future is the Egyptian Constitution. The Egyptian military should be leading and overseeing a full redrafting of the Egyptian Constitution with the help of the Egyptian people. Then and only then should democratic elections be held. - Rick Carter

                                                                Reply#23 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:40 AM EST

                                                                (Anything else is really "putting the cart before the horse". I personally believe this is what we desperately need to do right here in the United States as well.) - RC

                                                                  #23.1 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:48 AM EST

                                                                  Rick, actually the constitution as planned by radical Muslims will be the key to Egypt demise.

                                                                  Early this year, the Military rulers appointed a committee, dominated by MB members and/or MB sympathizers to suggest changes in the constitution. In March the country voted on these changes, radical Muslims told the country that if you rejected the changes your are not a good Muslim, the changes were approved by a large majority. Based on these results, radical Muslims claimed that the whole country agree with them and what they want is an election of the parliament who should appoint the government and write the constitution, many of them did not hide their plan to declare Egypt an Islamic state ruled by Sharia, and they are now discussing what will be the laws in regard to banning all alcoholic drinks and bank's interests, minorities and women rights, and what to do with all these pagan statues that ancient Egyptians left all over the country.

                                                                    #23.2 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:07 AM EST

                                                                    This is PRECISELY why I said that the Egyptian military should be leading and overseeing this redrafting of the Egyptian Constitution, with the help of the Egyptian people. The Egyptian military needs to reestablish the faith of the Egyptian people in them. The Egyptian military has a longstanding commitment to secular democracy, albeit (so far) very limited democracy because of their previous longstanding commitment to oligarchy. Many of the Egyptian public mistakenly believe that the only way to move forward toward greater democracy is to look elsewhere to their sectarian (religious) power centers for empowerment. However, that would be a very grave misstep for the Egyptian people and any other people on the face of this Earth. Please understand that I have repeatedly tried for over a decade now to warn our entire world that these corrupt Abrahamic religions which many hundreds of millions of people are gravely infected with were all covertly installed by outside offensive totalitarian ETs, who in turn are hellbent on stealing and annexing our extremely valuable celestial real estate. I repeatedly warned everyone for over a decade now that these outside offensive totalitarian ETs were covertly plotting to use their eminent domain rights of military intervention in our sector of the Milky Way galaxy to eventually steal and annex our extremely valuable celestial real estate on the heels of the future programmed Christian Apocalypse or World War III. These ETs were forced to take this covert approach toward territorial conquest in our Milky Way galaxy, because there are Free Galaxy powers located elsewhere in our Milky Way galaxy who currently stand in the way of overt military conquest on a stellar level. Unfortunately, the Obama White House just recently TOTALLY discredited me by denying that there is any evidence of ET or UFO activity around our world in U.S. government hands. That is one of the most BALD FACED LIES which anyone on the face of the Earth has ever told, and one day President Obama needs to be EXECUTED for having his administration spread that grave lie which effectively consigns the entire human race to extinction at the hands of these outside offensive totalitarian ETs. - Rick Carter

                                                                      #23.3 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:30 AM EST

                                                                      Obama team: No evidence of extraterrestrial life


                                                                      By David Jackson, USA TODAY
                                                                      Nov 06, 2011

                                                                      The White House says there is no evidence of life beyond Earth -- and no cover-up by the government -- but scientists are still searching.

                                                                      "The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race," writes an Obama administration official on the White House website.

                                                                      Phil Larson, who works on space policy and communications at the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, also writes that "there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye."

                                                                      President Obama's White House responded to a petition claiming a government cover-up of contact with space life.

                                                                        #23.4 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:35 AM EST

                                                                        It worked for Hitler, for a while

                                                                          #23.5 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:55 AM EST

                                                                          All right, since everyone seems to be patiently waiting for more information, I will continue. I previously stated that all three of the corrupt Abrahamic religions were biocybernetic warfare components of a larger ET designed PWMD, or Program Weapon of Mass Destruction, which in turn is designed to crash and explode our emerging human world in a final programmed cataclysm of global warfare fueled with WMDs, known as the Christian Apocalypse or World War III. I also stated unequivocally that this was "The Highest National and World Security Issue, BAR NONE !!!!!!!!!!!! (More to follow if you all want.) - Rick Carter

                                                                            #23.6 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:29 AM EST
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                                                                            Who's in charge ? The Radical Muslim Brotherhood. Who Else !. They also don't want any Americans visiting there country. If you are a woman, your passport photo better have your head completely covered to Muslim standards or they won't even consider you for for entry regardless who you are.

                                                                              Reply#24 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:14 AM EST

                                                                              PLEASE understand, everyone, that this is EXACTLY what these outside offensive TOTALITARIAN OFFENSIVE TOTALITARIAN ETs have previously mathematically modeled and planned for. Below is my MOST URGENT APPEAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                                              WILL NO ONE SPONSOR ME, RICK CARTER, IN ORDER TO GET THIS VITAL ABSOLUTELY INFORMATION OUT THERE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, so we can keep the human race from eventually going EXTINCT !!!!!!!!! NO ONE, GEE, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, NOT EVEN ANY ONE OF OUR VARIOUS NATIONS UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH ???????!!!!!!!!!!!!! (In that case you ALL must effectively be suicidal lemmings, in which case you deserve what you get.) I NEED TO GO PUBLIC WITH THIS VITAL INFORMATION in the most prominent way !!!!!!!!!!!!! Trust me, I am NOT afraid of embarrassing myself, because I ABSOLUTELY KNOW what I am talking about !!!! - Rick Carter

                                                                                #24.1 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:42 AM EST

                                                                                REPRINT: "WILL NO ONE OUT THERE SPONSOR ME, RICK CARTER, IN ORDER TO GET THIS VITAL ABSOLUTELY INFORMATION SECURELY OUT THERE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, so we can keep the human race from eventually going EXTINCT at the hands of these outside offensive totalitarian ETs ???!!!!!!!!! NO ONE, GEE, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, NOT EVEN ANY ONE OF OUR MANY NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH ???????!!!!!!!!!!!!! (In that case you ALL must effectively be SUICIDAL LEMMINGS, in which case you deserve what you eventually get.) I REALLY, REALLY NEED TO GO PUBLIC WITH THIS VITAL INFORMATION in the MOST PROMINENT WAY !!!!!!!!!!!!! Trust me, I am NOT afraid of embarrassing myself, because I ABSOLUTELY KNOW what I am talking about !!!! - Rick Carter

                                                                                  #24.2 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:50 AM EST

                                                                                  PS - I really need to run ROUGHSHOD over everything in this country, if I am to keep our entire country and world from eventually going extinct. I solemnly promise the American people that I WILL INDEED see to it that President Obama eventually gets tried and EXECUTED BEFORE A FIRING SQUAD for his SUPREME LIES against all of mankind if he is found guilty, if the American people will only elect me as POTUS in 2012 !!!!!!!!!!! ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE WILL BE ACCEPTED!!! President Obama has effectively signed his own DEATH WARRANT in my view. - Rick Carter

                                                                                    #24.3 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:58 AM EST

                                                                                    If you were EVER trying to protect my veracity, then EXACTLY what should you have done, you GD evil betrayer of all humanity, Obama !!! (Just remember that when I am cocking the weapon which will help to see you to your demise, you A.H. !!! I intend to see to your future execution when I am Commander in Chief.) - Rick Carter

                                                                                      #24.4 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:45 PM EST
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                                                                                      (Gee, am I doing something ILLEGAL when I say what I intend to do as future President of the United States and Commander in Chief ???!!!!!!!!!!! C'mon, you stin-king betrayers of all humanity !!! I, Rick Carter, am the ONLY hope of you salvation !!! Indeed, it is only me, who has EVER given the human race THE TRUE Gospel or "Good News" FOR THEIR SALVATION !!! I personally stand up against all of you, because if you do me in, then you all of do yourselves in the process !!! So what the HE--LL, let's all go down TOGETHER !!! Whatever happens, "The Truth" absolutely MUST come out, if this EVIL plot is to be countered where it primarily exists, which is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN in the form of these corrupt Abrahamic religions. SO BRING IT ON, AND KILL YOURSELVES, WHATEVER YOU PERSONALLY BELIEVE !!! - RC

                                                                                        Reply#25 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:58 PM EST

                                                                                        YOU, OBAMA, signed the death warrant for the entire human race, and if the American people ever give me even half a chance to sign your own personal death warrant as POTUS, then I intend to see to it that you die one of the most horrible deaths which anyone in the entire human race has ever suffered. (BAR NONE !!! Go to HE-LL, you EVIL, STINKING, LYING S.O.B. !!!) - RC

                                                                                          #25.1 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:06 PM EST
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                                                                                          The ignorant and uninformed are out in number!

                                                                                            Reply#26 - Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:05 PM EST
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