re: #24 Gus 802

“We don’t want to deal with Egyptian society with police tools.” — Omar Suleiman

So now the authoritarian rulers are warning, threatening, the Egyptian populace of an impending police crackdown? They are the definition of a dictatorship at this point.

Well, I don’t think its that clear. If there were massive protests in America, and people were burning down buildings, throwing rocks, smashing windows, disrupting business, and threatening to hang the president you can be sure there would be a massive clamp down. The protests are directly challenging the state, and by extension a variety of laws, and probably 99 percent of governments around the world, democratic or not, would attempt to crush such as resistance.
That being said, I totally support the Egyptian uprising.