Image via WikipediaDay of reckoning is a term used to describe the Last Judgment in Christian eschatology.
By Randy Economy
www.Economy4ABC.Blogspot.com
February 1, 2011
Cairo, Egypt
Hour after hour for going on nine days now. Chanting. Protests. Violence. Anger. Frustration.
Today could be the "Day of Reckoning" for the people and country of Egypt.
In just a few hours, (they are gathering RIGHT NOW) Liberation Square will be the site of the "Million Man March."
Will today usher in a new era in the history for Egypt, or will it be a bloodbath of historic proportions?
It is a Day of Rage.
More than a million or maybe as many as three million people will protest against the Mubarak regime.
They plan to go to march on the home of the current embattled President. Will the Egyptian people be allowed to actually protest in freedom today, or will the military clamp down? Who is in control of Egypt right this moment?
Spirits are high.
Image via WikipediaEgyptians are fired up. It is the biggest day in generations for the government. Call it a "clampdown" by the Mubarakites. The stock market in Egypt has been shut down since last Friday. The rail ways are closed. No businesses are opened. Their are at least 50,000 American's stuck in Egypt. The average Egyptian makes less than $2 per day.Within hours, the "Million Man March" will go from Tahrir Square, (9am local Cairo time, or Midnight on the West Coast of the United States) all the way to Mubarak's presidential palace in Heliopolis.
The protesters will demand that he step aside. Or, should I say, if they get that far.
They are planning another protest for Thursday and again on Friday.
The protesters won't be polite and won't ask permission to do what they want on "their" terms!
The government has shut down the internet. No access out of Egypt, but some inventive Egyptians are getting past the internet block by using "old school dial up" methods.
Al Jazeera, the main media outlet in Egypt had six of its journalists arrested on Monday. Equipment, cameras, cell phones, lap tops all pulled from the hands of the reporters.
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeThe world is watching.I will be watching all night long via CNN. America's iconic journalist Anderson Cooper is in Cairo. How in the hell does Anderson do it? He must have skin of leather.
Today, pray for the People of Egypt.
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