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Why Protesters In Cairo Use Laser Pointers
New submitter Ahmed Shaban writes "Why do protesters in Cairo use laser pointers? At the beginning, they were used to light up snipers on rooftops. Later, it just became fashionable to use them, and such things spread very fast among the youth of Cairo, who can find the high power laser pointers for sale on the sidewalks. The article contains amazing photos of a chopper lit up by green laser pointers."
Then, they (the military) appoint some other guy to be president.
That 'some other guy' was the head of the Egyptian Constitutional Court, and a deputy chief justice for over 2 decades, not some arbitrary pick.
"His name was James Damore."
Ha, if I relied on American news I wouldn't know a bloody thing! Thankfully I'm a European (of sorts). I never said the current situation was peaceful, or desirable. The coup was peaceful, but subsequently the opposing sides have started skirmishing, which is to be expected, and it does look like the army might be a bit more active than before in intervening. This is clearly not good. I also do have serious reservations about the principle of the army removing democratic governments. While I can't condone this, in this particular case it probably averted a civil war, so was the lesser of two evils. This is not a good situation at all, but that is not what my original post was about. I posted because half the preceding posts were full of ignorance and bigotry and it pissed me off, that's all.
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