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Egypt: 19 Americans among 43 foreigners facing prosecution

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How glorious is the revolution in Egypt and the Arab spring now?


Egypt: 19 Americans among 43 foreigners facing prosecution
By Oren Dorell, USA TODAY

CAIRO – Nineteen Americans are among 43 foreigners working for groups that promote democratic activities that will be prosecuted for operating illegally in the country, Egyptian officials said Monday
Among the Americans is Sam LaHood, son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. Sam LaHood and five other Americans are in Egypt while the others have left, according to a statement from the Egyptian prosecutor's office.

Altogether, 43 people face trials over illegally operating in Egypt and receiving funds from abroad without permission from Egyptian authorities for their human rights and pro-democracy groups. Egypt charges that they fund and support anti-government protests. The groups deny that.
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Egypt: 19 Americans among 43 foreigners facing prosecution
 
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Grimm you do realize the revolution isnt over in Egypt yet....
 
Why do you want the world to suck so much? Why do you gloat over people suffering?
 
As if being a US citizen offers legal immunity around the world...
They are idiots, they should have sensed that the military already has taken power.
Their work in a sense, IS anti-governmental, though that itself is not justified for any arrest
 
How glorious is the revolution? I don't know yet, the revolution is still in progress; and like any revolution, it's likely to be the kind of chaos that tourists and other visitors to Egypt should avoid.

I have never visited a country that was in a state of civil unrest or war. I'm not a soldier and I have no intention of suffering or dying horribly.

That Egypt took some of our people does not change the balance of the situation.
 
Grim17 said:
How glorious is the revolution in Egypt and the Arab spring now?

Egypt: 19 Americans among 43 foreigners facing prosecution
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Gloating aside, which leaves nothing else besides a link to an article, the article brings up a good point about the directions revolutions can turn, and how they can turn ugly. I was an optimist about the Egyptian revolution, because I had no reason not to be, but clearly the path to democracy at this point is extremely fragile, and even if a democracy is created the kind of government it may produce may not be better from a foreign relations perspective than the previous one.

Look at revolutionary France, that exactly didn't turn out well.
 
Do you guys think that if these 19 Americans were college kids at any of the Occupy sites, Grimm would be stating "how great a democracy we have"? ;)
 
Wiseone said:
and even if a democracy is created the kind of government it may produce may not be better from a foreign relations perspective than the previous one.
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See this is what pisses me off about these debates. The notion that somehow the right of Egyptians to vote, not be imprisoned without trial and push for better working conditions is somehow less important then whether they like us or not. What do you think they are going to do? invade?
 
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