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Egyptian military swarming, beating, stomping, shooting citizens GRAPHIC (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Dec 2011 OP
oh my god-I couldn't even watch all of it-that was NOT WHAT THEY MARCHED FOR! another nightmare StarsInHerHair Dec 2011 #1
That is just terrible. boston bean Dec 2011 #2
vicious vicious thugs Generic Other Dec 2011 #3
Yes--sickening. I assume I am not the only one who sees this as tblue37 Dec 2011 #4
Thats what I thought also. n/t newfie11 Dec 2011 #5

StarsInHerHair

(2,125 posts)
1. oh my god-I couldn't even watch all of it-that was NOT WHAT THEY MARCHED FOR! another nightmare
Mon Dec 19, 2011, 02:33 AM
Dec 2011

it WAS a counter-revolution, after all. It looks like they're using 2x4 pieces of wood.

tblue37

(64,982 posts)
4. Yes--sickening. I assume I am not the only one who sees this as
Mon Dec 19, 2011, 03:31 AM
Dec 2011

bearing a striking resemblance to the way some of our police thugs are treating OWS protesters here in the US, as well?

The Egyptian military in this video are more universally and lethally violent than most of the cops here are, but their actions are striking in their resemblance, especially the way a horde of them gang up on individuals on the ground and beat them repeatedly with their sticks, the way the cops here beat the protesters with their batons.

I don't think it would take much to persuade a lot of the cops here to amp up their brutality to this level. What they are doing already differs primarily in degree rather than in kind.

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