Hesiod at Counterspin Central brings us the inspirational story of an Egyptian civil rights activist who is using the legal system to effectuate change in his country.
Hessiod notes that:
The irony is that, at a time when our toadying, deferential courts are giving John Ashcroft and the Bush adminsitration a blank check to trample on our civil rights, activists like Abdel Mohsen Hammouda are actually IMPROVING civil liberties in a place like Egypt through the legal system.
It is also worth relaying this story if for no other reason than to point out that things CAN change in the authoritarian Middle East. No paternalistic invasions are necessary. Left to their own devices, the people will find a way.
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