Dictators in disguise.

President of Egypt, Muhamed Morsi has passed a decree giving himself sweeping powers. After the spontaneous revolution last year leading to the overthrow of the Mubarak regime elections were held in November and a parliament was constituted in January of this year. However, one third of seats were supposed to be contested by independents but members of the Freedom and Justice Party, which is the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, stood as independents winning 100 of the 235 seats. This was challenged in front of the Supreme Court which cancelled the results of these seats thereby annulling the entire parliament. An assembly has been formed to draft a new constitution but this has been similarly hijacked by islamists leading to boycott by moderates and Christians. An appeal has been filed in front of the Supreme Court. To protect this assembly as it writes an Islamic constitution based on Sharia Morsi has declared that he has the power to rule by decree, the courts cannot change his orders and this assembly cannot be annulled even by the Supreme Court. He has argued that this is to protect democracy. Democracy comes from 2 Greek words _ " Demos " which means " common people " and " Kratos " which means " rule or strength ". Unfortunately, democracy has come to mean winning elections any which way either by vote rigging as done by Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, by bribing voters with taxpayer money as by Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and the Congress in India or by brain washing people with false advertising with money from billionaire vested interests as we saw in the US recently. Once an election is won it is taken as a green light to plunder the exchequer, pass laws to restrict freedom and use the police to silence any dissent. On 18 November a 21 year old woman, Shahin Dhada of Palghar in Maharashtra asked on her Facebook page why there was a bandh in Mumbai on the death of Shiv Sena leader, Bal Thackeray. Another 21 year old woman, Rinu Srinivasan posted like on these comments. Both women were arrested by the police for " hate speech " and Shiv Sena thugs trashed the hospital of Dhada's uncle. Aseem Trivedi was charged with sedition for drawing cartoons lampooning the parliament. Yet there was no action against the Congress loudmouth when he blamed Hindu activists for the attacks on Mumbai in 2008 and said that Hemant Karkare, Chief of Anti-Terrorist Squad in Mumbai had been killed by Hindus. Not only was this extreme hate speech but, by covering up a Pakistan sponsored terrorist attack, he was guilty of treason. More than 160 members of parliament have been accused of serious crimes, others are protecting them. Criminals hate being criticised and criminals love democracy. Ask Berlusconi.