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Opposition Rejects Morsi Move

Egyptian president puts security in hands of the military

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 9, 2012 4:33 PM CST

(Newser) – Mohamed Morsi's decision to surrender the nearly dictatorial powers he'd granted himself wasn't enough to quell the fury on the streets of Cairo today, as crowds marched on the presidential palace, the New York Times reports. Morsi has responded by placing government institutions under military protection until after next weekend's controversial constitutional referendum.

That referendum is protesters' main beef. "We are against this process from start to finish," a spokesman for Egypt's main opposition group said today, calling for even more sweeping protests on Tuesday. Opponents say the proposed constitution is too heavily influenced by Islamists, and want the vote pushed back, Reuters reports. "Holding a referendum now in the absence of security reflects haste and an absence of a sense of responsibility … which risks pushing the country towards violent confrontation," the spokesman said.

Egyptian protesters push army soldiers standing guard in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 9, 2012.
Egyptian protesters push army soldiers standing guard in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 9, 2012.   (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Protesters chant slogans during a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012.
Protesters chant slogans during a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012.   (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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HANKHILL
Dec 10, 2012 11:49 AM CST
muzzibrohood will kill anything that gets in its way!!!!!!!!!!!!
milosleubner
Dec 10, 2012 12:50 AM CST
Education?    Okaragozian -  are   you  asking   for  education  of   a  professor,scientist,teacher,priest -    all that  education  is  based  on  the  outside  of  the  human being ,in   the  common thinking mind  ,on    thought which  is   old  , dead  information ,  very  limited ,habitual  , enforced   ,fearbased   ,inside -out   existence in   which  we  are  like  a  chained   dogs   trusting and fearing the  owners because   we   are   not   allowed  to  live  our  own  lives ,  our   believes  have   replaced  unnoticably  our   connection  to  real , out of time life  in  milions  of  ways. So   we   are  stuck ,asleep  and   we  are  not   aware  of  it and   we  force   our   children  to  "die"   the   same   way -  we -personally  and  more  and  more   so   the   "society '  in   which   emperor   has   no  clothes  but  it  is  politically  incorrect  to  mention  that. The   thought  takes   away  our  true   functioning  ,  based  on   the  "unknown"   when   we  look  ,smell  ,feel ,  hear   ,see   without  explenation ,where at   the  unknown in   front  of  us,  the   wonder  the   thought  doesn't   recognize  and   file  (in  its   super  primitive   way)   will  not  be  put   away as  "tasting  like  chicken "  but   it   will  remain  in  the  point  of  our   attention  outside  of   time  and  thought .where we dance,sing and laugh without knowing how and why..   You   are  the  university  ,  observe  your   functioning  within  with  interest  and  awe    , see  the  negative  emotions  robbing   your   soul  of   energy over  and  over  , observe in   real  time - no measuring -   without  judgment  of   yourself   or  others because  you  are  the   victim and  the  victimiser . And   so  are the  "others''  . To   avoid   judgment  doesn't  strip   you  of   choice,on  the  contrary the  first  time  in  your  life it   will  be   "your"   choice ,your   responsibility ,your risk, your gain ,and   your  "education' which  will   change   your  life and  all the   things   will reveal  themselves   to   you.   You  are  a  machine  ,so   se it  working,all of  it   -  hope,vanity,sentimentality,hate,  despair,boredoom anger, identification   with religion ,race,political ideas,jobs ,  concept  of   sanity,endless  forms  of   fear,cyclic  thoughts  -   all  that   and  much  more   will keep   going  on ,except   there   will  be  a  observer  who   steped  an  inch   aside   and   is   keeping  himself  awake  -   because  of   interest.And  the  glue    holding   all this  new  stuff  together  will    not  be   fear  ,worries  as  before  but   something   else.There must be a purpose to our mortal life. See me   there. '
extremenewsjunkie
Dec 9, 2012 10:00 PM CST
Five thousand years of tyranny is enough.
 

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