what "they" can do in a blink....

[kpete]

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e20148c81a000a970c-550wi

............

interesting update:

Under ‘emergency’ for decades, Egypt’s special powers mirrored in post-9/11 US
Indefinite detention. Ubiquitous torture. Secret courts. Special authority for police interventions. The complete absence of privacy, even in one's own home.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/perpetual-emergency-1981-egypt-gave-government-uslike-special-powers/

[tekisui]

1. Dumbest thing they could have done.

[leftstreet]

2. +1

Dumbest thing indeed

[TBF]

9. Absolutely -

it drove people out into the streets to find out what was going on. Love how that backfired on them!

[MrCoffee]

3. And yet, somehow, the protests continue without the almighty internets

How strange. Who would have thought it possible?

[kenny blankenship]

4. And it won't help them one bit

...when the end comes.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. How do we stop them from doing that?

[blindpig]

6. Wouldn't worry about it too much.

With technology there's usually a work-around. In any case revolutions are people not gadgets.

[readmoreoften]

7. Well. No revolution is going to start on the internet. I bet half the goal of this is

to stop the spread of the information to those in solidarity around the world.

[TBF]

10. I think that it was the entire goal - it's not like people were sitting home

watching the Internet in Egypt - they were out in the streets.

[truebrit71]

8. Obama wants to be able to do the same thing here....for our safety of course...

...:sarcasm: