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Creating delusions

March 8, 2014 at 1:13 pm

After the coup-led government in Egypt failed to bring about anything beneficial or useful to the poor struggling Egyptian people in order to relieve them from their stress and suffering, it recently resorted to creating delusions and selling them to the people through the army generals on their television screens.


The Egyptian people still haven’t recovered from their shock of the AIDS meatball which was sold to them by one of the “genius” generals, but the government surprised them with another equally foolish and immature invention announced by the army. It came in the form of a substance that if spread on the ground, it turns bumpy unpaved roads (all of the streets in Egypt are bumpy and unpaved, which increases the number of car accidents on a daily basis) into paved and smooth roads.

One general said that such inventions are not publically announced because they are as secret as nuclear bombs and should not be publicised.

These imaginary inventions remind us of the Al-Qaher and Al-Thaher missiles and the warplanes that Egyptian army successfully manufactured in 1966, during Abdel Nasser’s rule. At the time, they said that they would reach Tel Aviv and erase Israel off the map, and a few months later, Israel attacked Egypt and hit all our military airports, destroying all of the warplanes. After that, we never saw or heard of any of the planes or missiles.

They sold this illusion to the Egyptian people and numbed the people through the media at the time; we still recall the famous presenter Ahmed Said on Voice of the Arabs radio, one of their mouthpieces who promoted this illusion and the people were then hit with the overwhelming defeat of the Egyptian army and the occupation of Sinai.

Nowadays in Egypt, we are experiencing the same situation and atmosphere of lies, deceit and fraud and the same corrupt media that promotes delusions, but on a larger scale by means of the dozens of satellite stations owned by businessmen whose interests are linked to the military council.

Some of these satellite stations are also funded by the UAE or controlled by the intelligence and security agencies, closely tied to the army and they tell them what to say, doing the same with newspapers.

Everyone is speaking with the same tongue and writing with the same pen; the tongues and pens of the coup-organisers. Like I said, Egyptians are living in the same atmosphere as the 1960s during Abdel Nasser’s rule; an atmosphere of delusion, oppressed freedoms, gagging, injustice and the detention and torture of thousands in prisons; the same atmosphere led to defeat in 1976.

The people woke up from their “Nasserite”‘ coma and the delusion they lived through for many years. What does fate have hidden for us this millennium? What disaster is awaiting us, waiting to wake the people from their “Sisian” coma and delusions?

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