The uprising started on Tuesday with beautiful and magical scenes of thousands of Egyptians of all walks of life- men and women, old and young and Muslim and Christian- taking to the streets of Cairo and all major cities of Egypt nonviolently chanting out their frustrations and aspirations. On the spot, demonstrators were intercepted and dealt with by what seemed to all viewers around the world as an organized and ruthless army of security forces.

Water cannons, rubber bullets and tear gas canisters were being shot at protestors at will and as soon as they were forced into side streets they were subjected to physical violence and intimidation.

The brutality of the Egyptian regime in the way it was trying to abort this nonviolent uprising and which was transmitted live by international news channels might have come as a shock to a lot of viewers around the world but for Egyptians it seemed rather expected and typical of a regime that turned their life into a dark tunnel of fear and degradation throughout the years.

The police conspiracy and the fall of the president

Egyptian police forces trying to crush the protesters.

The police department in any free society is supposed to serve and protect the people and not the other way round. But in dictatorships its role is primarily to look after the dictator in return for privileges and authorities offered to them by the regime.

And as the dictator gets more deluded and paranoid over the years so does his security apparatus of officers and detectives. The dictator- people relationship is primarily of fear and submission. You take that fear and submission out of the equation and the relation is redefined again and so disturbed to the verge of uprising.

For ordinary Egyptians the ballot posts and the police stations used to be the most unlikely places they wanted to go to for both were directly connected to the deception and might of the regime. The parliamentary and presidential rigged elections never did anything except securing another term of autocratic power to Mubarak and his chosen ring of corrupt politicians. And likewise, police stations only meant one thing to any average Egyptian and that is humiliation and intimidation by the police thugs of officers and small detectives.

You don’t get to call or address any police officer in Egypt by his job title, no, that’s a taboo, you can only address or refer to him as Pasha – a title equivalent to lord in England- which gave any police officer the satisfaction he needed to feel superior and authoritative. Ordinary people answered to the Egyptian police officer anytime – especially under the implementation of Mubarak’s emergency law- while he answered to no one.

Lately the security apparatus has started to use innovative ways of securing and fortifying the grip of the regime over the Egyptians. They started to use criminals, inmates and thugs to intimidate people away from demonstrations and from ballot posts. Whenever came a time for elections or probable rallies the police stations would release all the into-custody drug dealers and robbers under detention and let them infiltrate protestors in rallies or voters heading to ballots centers to scare them off  and even try and physically harm them so that they would refrain from thinking of voting or demonstrating ever again.

Plan (A)

The regime knew very well that the thousands of Egyptian protestors wouldn’t have managed to contact each other, organize their movements and galvanize on the concept of uprising without using the internet and especially social media like facebook and twitter so the regime first blocked those social media but that was not enough so they shut down the internet and even the mobile phone text messaging… and as the so called anti-riot forces were desperately trying hard with their gas canisters and rubber bullets  to crush the protesters and disperse them the orders for plan (B) were already underway.

As night was falling over Cairo and major cities of Egypt the police conspiracy or rather the treason was already in play;

Plan (B)

At the Friday sunset and as the protestors were keeping their ground and bracing for another round of courageous confrontations, the police forces -and all of a sudden -withdrew from the streets to be replaced by small and rather symbolic infantry units of the military.

The protestors cheered on watching the military units and people clustered around the armed vehicles and shook hands with the soldiers but little did they know what the regime had in store for them.

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