Could a Tunisia Type Event Happen In Your Country?

harmonium.ro wrote: ^ Let's hope it won't be another 1979.

A really big YES for Venezuela... Its history has been filled with social unrest...
During the 19th and early 20th centuries making revolutions was kind of a national sport... Then the country was pacified by dictatorships in the first half of the 20th century until civic demonstrations with military help caused the destruction of the regimes and the establishment of democracy...

The late 80s and early 90s saw moments of social unrest due to economic depression (caused by a series of populist governments that indebted the country), from this unrest (including extremely violent riots) our current president emerged as the leader of a failed coup d'etat...

And now people are starting to get angry at Hugo Chavez after 12 years of government (lots of corruption, the highest inflation ever seen in latin-america, violation of private property, attacks to freedom of speech, etc.).
Public civic demonstrations are quite common now days.

harmonium.ro wrote: An inspiring image: christians protecting muslims while they prey http://yfrog.com/h02gvclj

Yes, I think that is quite inspiring, and it worked the other way round too, just before Christmas..

Muslims protect Christians

Yeah, I think stories like these give hope..

Conor Fynes wrote: I live in Canada.... enough said?

So much stability!


And yeah, appears the Egyptian people are not so on board with "we need stability until the election when I will not run again"
Big surprise...
Well hopefully something good comes of all this.
Remember all those "Color Revolutions"? I'm thinking specifically of Ukraine and Georgia which turned out to be pretty big failures....

I guess it is easyer to be overheated in Sahara (espessially when your country is positioned there) much sun can make people go crazy and do crazy stuff, in the arctic era like Canada and Norway it is mostly verry cold or wet so people rearly walk outside, people tends to hold on their frustraition longer and tend to use it on bar fights and (cold blooded murder)

Edited by aginor - February 03 2011 at 15:13

CPicard wrote: aginor, I really hope you are joking.

Edited by aginor - February 03 2011 at 15:51

The worrying part about the Egyptian riots is the enormous power the "Muslim Brotherhood" is earning... and it is a group with known ties to terrorist groups... Hopefully Egypt wont become another Iran...

I think I remember the Shah of Iran was a US favourite and the dismissal of his regime was a major blow to the West, who lost the right to exploit Iran's oil. I'll wiki it a bit and come back.  

The Muslim brotherhood has no power in the streets. It is being given support by the government, however, which sees it as a tool to both "placate" the desire for an alternative government and also to be a reliable partner to the military.

Parallels between Iran 30 years ago and Egypt today are ludicrous. You have to realize these are different religions, Sunni and Shiite, to begin with (as well as different races/populations, Arab vs. Persian).

It has been a secular movement from the beginning, both in Tunisia and Egypt.

Really this is an Israeli/Western propaganda to discourage protests, the people expressly want democracy.