had already happened in Iran, has just happened in Tunisia. And now could expand like wildfire in Egypt, Albania and then who knows. Young, unemployed, angry, angry most of the time. Willing to die like in Tunisia in order not to accept living in dictatorships that force them to not see a future for them and providing a monthly stipend of € 80 by the peddlers. I have two common denominators: they live in countries where corruption is king, and democracy is a concept expressed only on web pages. And here the second denominator: the Internet. The protest started from there and if he has taken on a political hue is only because the opposition have used this anger. A bit like it happened in Italy with the Purple People, which massive mobilization of December 2009 has been gradually diminishing when the protest is, as it were, institutionalized.
exists a theocratic dictatorship in Iran. But the children of the Eighties grown in the myth of the Islamic revolution of 1979 are now adults. Do not chase the myth of the West, are proud of their culture, are religious, but they are not fundamentalists. Some, even in Europe, they could be accused of cultural relativism. In reality they have just realized that you can open the world without losing their identity. And they understand that democracy is not synonymous with infidelity to their cultural background. When Ahmadinejad's regime has stolen their right to vote, took to the streets. They've got arrest, torture and kill. They got the attention of the world that then was turned away, preferring to focus on Sakineh.
In Tunisia "the bubble of anger" has broken out for lack of a future. The corrupt regime of Ben Ali has led to the extreme large sections of the population, while a minority risicatissima live in wealth. A script already seen in Africa. Now Ben Ali has fled, but the revolution was accomplished and many of those guys are afraid that a dictatorship is replaced by another. The men who now ferry the country to phantom elections are the same who got rich with the old regime. A scene from "The Leopard" that threatens to extinguish the fire that wiped out Ben Ali.
In Egypt the situation is similar to that of Tunisia. The "Pharaoh" is called Mubarak and guide the country for thirty years. Here, too, as elections are held in Iran, but they are just a smokescreen. Mubarak is old and sick and, as a good Pharaoh, he plans to leave the scepter to his son Gamal. The unemployed youth of Cairo are angry. Many of them have a culture to be spent for the good of their country. But will the son of the despot, who lives in opulence, to decide for them. The danger in Egypt is also religious. The opposition fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood and frightens the West evokes the specter of a new Iran. Will the young Egyptian combine the rejection of fundamentalism Iran's desire for democracy in Tunisia?
In Albania, in theory, applies to democracy. But since communism is no more to lead the way for this piece of land overlooking the Adriatic sea is one man: Sami Berisha, former personal physician of Enver Oxha, the old tyrant who ran the country before the fall the Wall. Protests (peaceful) going on for days, as well as repression (many already dead). All of a largely indifferent slice of Europe which does pull a few minutes to flip Berisha.
Who is next? Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria, the hero of the war of independence from France but the country's leader for 12 years already? Morocco's King Mohammed VI (traditional monarchy) or Abdallah II of Jordan (very close to the U.S. and less traditional Moroccan colleague)? Or Lukashenko of Belarus, "persona non grata" by the European Union?
Anger mounts and the era of the Web, as evidenced by Wikileaks, travel information and, correspondingly, increases the "organized dissent." That the "contagion" begins.
exists a theocratic dictatorship in Iran. But the children of the Eighties grown in the myth of the Islamic revolution of 1979 are now adults. Do not chase the myth of the West, are proud of their culture, are religious, but they are not fundamentalists. Some, even in Europe, they could be accused of cultural relativism. In reality they have just realized that you can open the world without losing their identity. And they understand that democracy is not synonymous with infidelity to their cultural background. When Ahmadinejad's regime has stolen their right to vote, took to the streets. They've got arrest, torture and kill. They got the attention of the world that then was turned away, preferring to focus on Sakineh.
In Tunisia "the bubble of anger" has broken out for lack of a future. The corrupt regime of Ben Ali has led to the extreme large sections of the population, while a minority risicatissima live in wealth. A script already seen in Africa. Now Ben Ali has fled, but the revolution was accomplished and many of those guys are afraid that a dictatorship is replaced by another. The men who now ferry the country to phantom elections are the same who got rich with the old regime. A scene from "The Leopard" that threatens to extinguish the fire that wiped out Ben Ali.
In Egypt the situation is similar to that of Tunisia. The "Pharaoh" is called Mubarak and guide the country for thirty years. Here, too, as elections are held in Iran, but they are just a smokescreen. Mubarak is old and sick and, as a good Pharaoh, he plans to leave the scepter to his son Gamal. The unemployed youth of Cairo are angry. Many of them have a culture to be spent for the good of their country. But will the son of the despot, who lives in opulence, to decide for them. The danger in Egypt is also religious. The opposition fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood and frightens the West evokes the specter of a new Iran. Will the young Egyptian combine the rejection of fundamentalism Iran's desire for democracy in Tunisia?
In Albania, in theory, applies to democracy. But since communism is no more to lead the way for this piece of land overlooking the Adriatic sea is one man: Sami Berisha, former personal physician of Enver Oxha, the old tyrant who ran the country before the fall the Wall. Protests (peaceful) going on for days, as well as repression (many already dead). All of a largely indifferent slice of Europe which does pull a few minutes to flip Berisha.
Who is next? Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria, the hero of the war of independence from France but the country's leader for 12 years already? Morocco's King Mohammed VI (traditional monarchy) or Abdallah II of Jordan (very close to the U.S. and less traditional Moroccan colleague)? Or Lukashenko of Belarus, "persona non grata" by the European Union?
Anger mounts and the era of the Web, as evidenced by Wikileaks, travel information and, correspondingly, increases the "organized dissent." That the "contagion" begins.
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