Egypt- Still The Same As Always

The military dictatorship that ruled Egypt with ex-Air Force Chief Hosni Mubarak as its head (he traded his uniform for a business suit and a nice civilian-sounding title after his patron Anwar Sadat was assassinated and Mubarak stepped into Sadat's jackboots) is up to its same old vicious tricks. Namely killing protesters, beating and gassing them, "arresting" them and torturing them, etc. And they like to subject their women victims to "virginity tests"- a bunch of leering soldiers standing around ogling their vaginas while someone checks their hymens, apparently- and then smear them as "prostitutes." (What is it anyway with Muslims and hypersubjugation of women?)

Now an Egyptian military court has just sentenced a 25-year-old blogger and conscientious objector, Maikel Nabil, to three years in prison. His Crime? "Insulting" the military. The "insult" being pointing out their brutality and suppression of citizens. Oh, and also spreading "false [i.e. true]  information." Nabil is the founder of the "No to Compulsory Military Service Movement." But you can't say Egyptian military "justice" isn't speedy- they just arrested him March 28th!

A rebellion might overthrow an individual. It takes a revolution to overthrow a system.