Today, the government of Egypt announced that it was implementing a slew of reforms and appointing panels and committees to investigate and consider constitutional provisions and amendments in an effort to appease the peaceful demonstrators who had taken to the streets for fourteen straight days throughout that country. There were also promises to investigate acts of violence against protesters (there have been nearly 300 deaths reported since the unrest began on January 25th), by both police, and thugs that the government swears it didn't hire to cause the mayhem unleashed in Tahrir Square less than one week ago. The government also vowed to release political prisoners, journalists, and human rights activists, even as persistent reports of harassment and round ups by secret police suggested that the opposite was still taking place.
Under the government's plan, President Hosni Mubarak, the country's dictator/president for the past 30 years, would presumably oversee the proposed transition from Egypt as police state, to an open and democratic country, with the help of his newly appointed vice president and former head of intelligence, Omar Suleiman.
In response, protesters rallied for a ffteenth straight day, in the largest (and still peaceful) demonstrations yet, demanding the same thing they did when they first took to the streets: That Mr. Mubarak stop robbing the country blind, unjustly censoring, imprisoning and torturing its citizens, and resign the office he's held onto for way, and I mean way too long.
Most appalling of all, as of this post, there has been no official apology to Anderson Cooper (pronounced: "my future husband") by Mr. Mubarak and his henchmen for attacks sustained by the news anchor and his crew as they attempted to cover the unfolding unrest in Egypt for CNN earlier this month.
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