11 Feb 2011

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Here is how my day went, here in Alexandria.

Went after 12AM and joined a march going to block all the entrances to local government TV station.

About 300000 people surrounded it, others went to protect the power/electricity facility near it.
The army won’t let us go inside but the speakers everyone heard us.

Then a friend called and i told him my motto (which i stole from a friend)

“Today is a good day!”

So we went to al-qaed ibrahim mosque (which is the start of any huge protest/march in alex) we walked towards the presidential palace in Ras Al-teen [6 Kilometers or more].

Al-Arabia news said that protest was 2 kilometers long!

We surrounded it at 3 or 4PM

The army won’t let us in, not because of the presidential palace being there but because that’s a military area, the navy bases are here etc etc.

Note: We love and respect the army (Unlike the police).

We camped there and the army gave us bottles of water, a high rank officer approached us by 5:30 saying “You guys can go home, All your demands will be fulfilled”.

They said it yesterday so we suspected it could be a trick.

Then at almost 6PM the vice president Omar Suleiman showed on TV declaring that mubarak will FINALLY leave.

The video was very weird, the speech was less than 140 characters!

I mean c’mon that’s not twitter, and his voice was shaking as well.
Then the celebrations started!!

Alot of grocery stores owners came out giving out free stuff for people on the streets, Cars honking in a rhythm, People singing the national anthem.

After celebrating for hours we sat in a coffee shop to rest our legs.

(I am in the middle)

I know i am not the guy (in this video) though i posed infront of a tank

We walked miles and miles, we stood in the sun for hours, we slept in the streets for days.

A friend told to me “We chose to live 17 days in hell, just to live the other days in heaven”
And that’s completely true.

Al-Ahram the national newspaper which was supporting him all the way long published that the people have taken down the regime.

People in my age, have been born in mubarak’s reign saw the same faces, same actions, same injustice, same problems GETTING BIGGER, same corruption, same police brutality.

Time for Egypt to be strong again, after this protest took out the dictator and the bastards benefiting from the corruption.

We are only half-way through democracy.

We took out the bad guys off the government, time to get the good guys in place.

And NO ONE is gonna steal our victory, people have to understand this.
Egyptians are not letting anyone steal this win, not the muslim brotherhood, No one!

Jan25 was the start not the end.
People can smell the freedom in the air!

If that rainbow showed up in another day people wouldn’t have noticed it.
Now we are looking up for our rights.

“Freedom is taken, not given.” – T.E. Lawrence