According to reports, it seems that only countries led by Islamists such as Lebanon, Turkey, Iran and Palestinian Gaza that are receiving well the Egyptian Revolution and celebrating the intifada. The other regimes are keeping silent. They do fear being toppled and losing their illegitimate power. They are said to be frantically working out ways to prevent a similar situation by means of inducements and sweeteners to their population. Subsidies are being given back to the people, government employees get pay raises and the regimes have all of a sudden shown such benevolence. The Yemeni regime even resorted to doling out cash for people to buy food as well giving Qat to make the people happy. Qat is a leafy stimulant categorised as a drug of abuse by anti-drug abuse agencies. It seems some protestors succumb to addiction and dependency.
At the same time, more tear gas, truncheons and those monster water cannon trucks are being procured. The Yemeni regime employed and armed paid supporters and thugs to terrorise protestors who resisted presumably Qat temptations. Even the social media and network are being pursued vigorously to find measures to control and curb its capabilities. This phenomena of trying to control the internet is spreading to other countries which fear political change even in this region and locally. Algeria and Libya has begun arresting almost anyone suspected of being potential protest leaders and prime movers to avert any likely mass movement for change. Algeria is notorious for subduing the Islamic party by violent repression, torture and wide scale brutal massacres in the 90's. Hundreds of thousands died in the hands of the oppressive regime. Libya relishes in its cruelty and megalomaniac tyranny. Its madness knows no bounds. Libya suppressed the Islamic movement by such vicious methods like arresting youths who pray solat Subuh in jamaah - congregation.
Then there are the absolute monarchies. Morocco is where torture is outsourced to. The United States commissions this royal nation for its extraordinary rendition. Muslim prisoners are snatched and kidnapped by American CIA, brought under much covert measures, flown to be tormented in Morocco. The CIA wants intelligence but it sublets the dreadful dirty work. A prisoner once asked his guard why this was happening. The guard nonchalantly told him Morocco had to show gratefulness and provide the best of services to the United States for all that the regime owes for its survival. American and Nato military bases are in their countries. Commercial interests are privatized against public well being. Such are the monarchies, the kings and their extended royal families who plunder their nation's wealth, serving foreign interests, complicit in subjugating Arab and Muslim rights, betraying the Palestinian cause and squandering the future of their young generation. These are the so called Gulf States.
The amount of bribes and illicit commissions are astounding and astonishing for if they were spent prudently for the welfare and needs of their people, they would have been the richest and the model economies for the world today. In Tunisia, the self declared and publicly hated first lady, Leila Trabelsi was a thief who made decisions for the government. When she fled, she took out all the gold in Tunisia's Central Bank. She is the most cursed person and now all of her shady relatives left behind were arrested. Let this be a lesson to all so called first ladies not to interfere in government and do not become crooks.
In exchange, the United States, Britain and Europe indulge in their wilful hypocrisies. Forking out from their twisted language, wishful democracy while wholly collaborating in the corruption of nations and committing crimes against civilization. Washington and London told lies from the beginning of the Tahrir Intifada until now, pragmatically adjusting their pronouncements and positions to suit what they never envisaged. A common theme is however never hidden, the security and interests of Israel first and foremost never fails to be extolled, a question mostly irrelevant to people struggling to free themselves.
It is the United States, Britain and the old Europe that is keeping and sustaining the old corrupt, despotic and despicable regimes of the Arab and Muslim worlds. It is not doing so out of genuine intent or naivety. The US, Britain and the old Europe are really the purveyors of corruption in the world today.
