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Egypt: Hobbes Turned Upside Down
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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 803527" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p><a href="http://reason.com/blog/2011/01/30/looters-and-leviathan-hobbes-t" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">Looters and Leviathan</span></a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The false flag claims may seem absurd and time may bare that out but for now it seems that on the Egyptian street, this belief has a presence.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111128053457/http://www.africanaonline.com/2011/01/egypt-collapses-al-jazeera-banned-u-s-citizens-are-urged-to-leave/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">source</span></a></p><p></p><p>Did Mubarak use <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2343843.stm" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">Saddam Hussein's playbook</span> </a>and empty jails in order to change public perception or feed the chaos to his benefit? Or did the prisoners just take advantage of the situation and just free themselves? Time will tell I guess but interesting in what the Egyptian street thinks!</p><p></p><p>Also take note that a gov't may come down not because of force of arms but because of mass non-compliance by the public. Is there a lesson to be learned there?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 803527, member: 2189"] [URL='http://reason.com/blog/2011/01/30/looters-and-leviathan-hobbes-t'][COLOR=red]Looters and Leviathan[/COLOR][/URL] The false flag claims may seem absurd and time may bare that out but for now it seems that on the Egyptian street, this belief has a presence. [URL='https://web.archive.org/web/20111128053457/http://www.africanaonline.com/2011/01/egypt-collapses-al-jazeera-banned-u-s-citizens-are-urged-to-leave/'][COLOR=red]source[/COLOR][/URL] Did Mubarak use [URL='http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2343843.stm'][COLOR=red]Saddam Hussein's playbook[/COLOR] [/URL]and empty jails in order to change public perception or feed the chaos to his benefit? Or did the prisoners just take advantage of the situation and just free themselves? Time will tell I guess but interesting in what the Egyptian street thinks! Also take note that a gov't may come down not because of force of arms but because of mass non-compliance by the public. Is there a lesson to be learned there? [/QUOTE]
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