Glen Carbon, Halloween.
“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, having no place in it.” – A Bend in the River.
(October 10, 2010)
As the people’s revolution gains its first major reward in Egypt today by the resignation of the president Hosni Mubarak after 30 years of iron-fisted rule under emergency military laws, let’s hope that the benefits are enduring and sustainable, and that it leads to permanent victory for the people: human rights, real progress, reform, and justice. More importantly, let’s hope it spreads to other places on the continent where the citizens live in fear and poverty under unyielding despots.