Thursday, February 3, 2011

The Egyptian Mubarak tifaper

My attendant trust, on the outskirts of Milan, is Egyptian and today I asked him: "So, when you get rid of Mubarak? ". E 'burst out laughing: "Mubarak good, good! Must stay! ". "But how, and those two million people in the streets demanding his resignation? Those boys massacred by the police? ". "They're paid! "Was the surprising answer.

Paid by whom? By the CIA, the Israelis who fear the fall of the Rais? Denying the obvious is the expedient autoconsolatorio of all subjects met. The Egyptian immigrant who made his money when he returns home and abroad is envied and treated like a gentleman is grateful to the dictator, a bit 'as the merchant or Italian builder that has been enriched with amnesties or evading taxes continues Berlusconi to vote even if it surprises him the horn while the minor daughter.

With a small, insignificant difference, that in Egypt the majority of the population is poor and illiterate. But perhaps this is also the reason why their revolt and we do not. We are illiterate, but with a full belly, the boat and the jeep.

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