I was passing by TV yesterday while my younger brother was watching TV and as he finally found me in front of him away from my room that i rarely leave now, he started to ask me about the changes made in the Egyptian constitution .
His question was so simple
"is the Egyptian changes good or bad ? " he asked
i replied without even thinking : "bad "
he asked "then why does the TV say it is good ? "
he has a point ,media is misleading simple people ...... i dont watch TV at all, part of me says it is because i dont have time , and the other part says there is no use of sitting in front of it watching lies and meaningless episode
My brother represents the simple street man .. because the model of the simple street man is just like my younger brother .. will believe anything comes from the TV because he doesnt know any other source of information , besides the ordinary street man doesnt know what is the Egyptian constitution doing .. all what he think of is food , prices , clothes , salaries ...
the link between all this and constitution is lost , he doesnt care about constitution ,but as he watches TV , TV will start writing in his white blank sheet all the facts that will stay with him till he dies .
This sad fact means IF the TV is neutral the results will be great , he will know both advantages and disadvantages then decision is left for him ,unfortunately this is not the case in egypt , local Egyptian TV kept planting all kinds of lies about the constitution ,kept inviting people who just say , wow , this is a gift from our beloved president , how sweet of him to do this to his people , we should kiss his hands for this !!
I didnt watch TV much in the past few days , but i watched two programs which was enough for me , one of them talking about changing item no 88 and the other was talking about the benefits behind this last constitutional change
Both of them didnt say aword about disadvantages or even invited one from the Opposition parties to talk about his opinion , TV just kept showing president mobarak saying his historical speech about changing the constitution , showing patriotic songs all the day about Egypt and its new step towards the future .
Local Media channels is under siege , not allowed to do its main rule , only used by the national party and government to serve one purpose ... spread lies to the simple street man who is mostly uneducated and mis-leaded .
My brother is a living symbol for this terrible effect of Local media , he was mis-leaded and confused , he sees in the news that Opposition parties will boycott the referendum , and sees honest parliament men leaving the room at the time of vote (simply because they are only 100 and national party soldiers are about 300 so the changes will pass with or without their approval) while watching in the same day a program talking about the greatness of those changes , who will he believe ?
everyone going to the referendum knows very well the result of this referendum before he go , even if he is going to say no , if you asked him why are you going ? he will reply : when god asks me what did i do to stop it , i will tell him i went and said no .
after 25 year of rigging the results of election Educated voters are now two group , group goes to vote knowing the his well will be rigged , and another group(the majority ) choose not to bother themselves anymore .
If the government is rigging with one way , it will be simple and easy to say it is happening , but the ironic part is that the government uses all dirty means in parallel
-switch the boxes filled with voters papers with another boxes written by them
-spread fear around places of vote by renting thugs
-force employee in the governmental institutes to vote with YES otherwise they will get punished or maybe fired
-force employee who are responsible for boxes to write papers by themselves and vote for people who didnt attend
-take buses full of voters and go from place to another and make duplicated votes
-buy voters and give them money (usually poor people ) to vote for them
All this and more happens ever time an election is held in egypt ,leaving no place for justice or real freedom
last elections was a living proof , there was a little space of freedom (very little) and the result was that national party people was minority <-- ah i forgot to talk about this last dirty move
national party before any elections makes a funny play , some of his loyal men leave the party , and enter the elections as individual , the same place has the national party representative and the spare one who is related to national party , people dont vote for the national party representative and vote for the other one , after elections is over , this fake person announce that he was mistaken when he left the party and he would like the party to forgive him for his sins , and the party cries and says .. come come , we forgive you
this was un-noticeable before because national party gains majority any way ,last time he didnt achieve the majority , and suddenly hundreds turn to be national party who left the party at the time of elections
