As the wave of protests spreads across the Middle East and North Africa, a remarkable similarity in the way that governments respond to these demands for democracy has arisen. The world’s dictators seem to be reading the same script. Here is my attempt to re-create this script based on the responses of dictators I have seen.
That’s about it. What the regime does after this depends on how bad it was to start with. In Egypt and Tunisia, countries with a long history of political and military institutions and relative freedoms, the government stepped down. In countries like Libya, with no such history, the government appears to be digging its feet in and delivering on its threat to use violence against protesters.
The funny thing is that they expect us to believe this script. It may have worked several decades ago, but we are living in the 21st century. We see through these transparent lies. Someone should tell the dictators of the world to fire their scriptwriters, their lies are becoming increasingly absurd.
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I must say that I agree with you.
Although this script is well used by Middle-Eastern dictators, it's the worst ever.
As for instance, it contradicts itself at some point where it blames external foreigners
for interfering with the regime ( point 1 ) and then when this scenario fails and they
discover that people are now conscious enough to discover it's from the inside, the
regime then tries to gain/regain the same "FOREIGNERS" sympathy and aid by
using the extremists as a scarecrow. They may even push it as far as accusing these
same "FOREIGNERS" with treason !!!!!!!!!!
I mean come on !!!! It's Obsolete already.
They were blundering around in the darkness forgetting that people were getting
rational every single day :)
Exactly, they do not seem to understand that these tactics can no longer work. We are much more rational nowadays.
Excellent post,
Still viable now almost three months and will probably remain so until all dictators are toppled!
Here's hoping that they are all toppled soon :)