Counter-Revolution

"I am against the Revolution"

I noted a couple of days ago that I saw a metro map where the new, official "Shohada" (Martyrs) had been crossed out.  Well, the blog Inanities (which is in English, very informative, and totally hilarious) covered an event about a week ago in support of Mubarak.  The writer has some things published in al-Masry al-Yowm's English edition.

By 5 p.m. a huge “We Are All Mubarak” poster had been erected on stage but numbers remained low – some 300. Asked why this was, Imad said that many of them were women and girls “and afraid to come” and also pointed out that it was an extremely hot day, “unlike when they did their revolution and they had the advantage of it being winter”.

A speaker reassured the tiny crowd before him. “We are millions. We are the silent majority”.

Well, I have to say that the summer revolution of July 8th is turning out well over 300.  And temperatures were very high - high 90s F - with a punishing sun.