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ALEXIS MADRIGAL - Alexis Madrigal is a senior editor at The Atlantic. A former staffwriter for Wired.com, he's the author of the forthc oming history of clean energy in
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Egyptian Activists' Action Plan:Translated
Egyptian act ivists have been circulating a kind of primer to Friday's planned protest. We were sent
the plan by two separate sources and have decided to publish excerpts here, with translations intoEnglish. Over Twitter, we connected with a translator, who translated the document with
exceptional speed.
What follows are side-by-side translations of nine pages from the 26-page pamphlet. They were
translated over the last hour and pasted up in Photoshop to give y ou an idea of what's in the protest
plan. While the plan itself contains specifics about what protesters might do, these excerpts show
howonemight equip oneself for clashes with riot police. Egyptian security forces have repeatedly
beaten protesters as the level of violent repression of demonstrations has ratcheted upwards. For
more context on the pamphlet itself, the Guardian UK ran a summary of it earlier today.
As yo u'll read, the creators ofthe pamphlet explicitly asked that the pamphlet not be distributed on
Twitter or Facebook, only through email or other contacts. We're publishing this piece of ephemera
because we think it's a fascinating part of the historical record of what may end up becoming a very
historic day for Egypt.
The pages included are 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 12, 1 3, 22, and 26. You can click to (roughly) double the size of
the images.
Update 8:21pm: People have asked why these particular pages were chosen. We had limited
resources, so we knew we'd only be able to translate an excerpt. My guiding principles were to
stay away from the small amount of tactical information in the pamphlet. I nstead, we ran the
more general pages. There is nothing in these pages that goes beyond standard advice and broad
political statements. Broadly, we were trying to balance the historic nature of the document and
protest with the safety of protesters. Publishing this excerpt was the compromise at which we
arrived.
Update 8:48pm: Our translator requested that his name and Twitter handle be removed from the
post. We complied.
Updated 8:57pm: Added context around why this information might be necessary for protesters.
Update 9:32am: A refinement of the document's translation has been made. Meanwhile, the
Internet remains shut off in Egypt as protesters across the country clash with security forces
wielding large amounts of tear gas and powerful water cannons. While the Internet remains shut
off, @Jan25Voices is tweeting updates from phone calls with Egyptians.Al Jazeera English is
providing excellent coverage from the ground.
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Shocked to see this here. Tomorrow night would be soon enough for this ephemera--
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Agreed. What a poor decision - why ignore the wishes of protestors for more pagev iews? You
could've waited on th is.
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Cablegate: "Agreed. What a poor decision - why ignore the wishes of the foreign service for
more pageviews? You could've waited on this.
iPhone 4 scoop: "Agreed. What a poor decision - why ignore the wishes of the Apple for more
pageviews? You could've waited on this.
Pentagon files: "Agreed. What a poor decision - why ignore the wishes of the military for
more pageviews? You could've waited on this."
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People are actual ly defending the publication of this? Free press, yes, of course.
Should the journalists embedded with the troops in Afganisthan giv e away their
position before an offensive too?
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Weird, I don't think the Egy ptian police are reading The Atlantic to figure out
what's going on. They'd hav e copies of this within hours of it being printed.
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if i found it, so will they .
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But I think they 'd hav e copies soon after t hey were printed. I don't
think they 'd be searching the internet which, last I heard, no longer
works in Egypt.
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because they have super powers and x-ray vision, by your
argument they have internet as well. they're human. there are
underground movements who've managed to stay underground
because they've become expert at avoiding torture. there was
risk involved in this but egyptians have more heart and faith
than cold armchair politicians. outing them was unnecessary
and completely subversiv e to their cause - how is it good to defy
their express wishes - AT ALL?!
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It's all over twitter.
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Hey, the instructions are surely meant for the first few hundred
or thousand recipients of the broschure to protect the *authors* of
it. Perhaps also to win some time, which was probably well taken
care of. Surely the security forces have infiltrators among any
large group of people and as soon as chaos starts, infiltrators can
snap some photos, grab any info or leaflets and head back to HQ.
So relax every body and figure out how to help the egyptian people
rather than screan about publishing. Call your senator or
something.
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It wasn't 9 hours ago when he published it. Nobody else had published
it at that stage.
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I wasn't talking about 9 hours ago, I meant "now".
As in "possibly as a result of the online publication of this
brochure, the brochure is now being mentioned all over twitter".
Apologies for being somewhat vague.
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No probs - I understood you.
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as i said below, it's on the huffington freaking post.
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so it hit cnn blog which bought me here.. as i use CNN for simply fast
news every one sees..
[Updated 2:21 p.m. (2121 in Egypt)] Alexis Madrigal, a senior editor
at The Atlantic, published late Thursday what is purported to be a
guide to Egyptians on how to protest on Friday . The pamphlet
includes strategies for taking over government buildings anddiagrams showing how to fend off riot police. Read Madrigal's report
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Here's an interesting fact: The Atlantic doesn't work for the protestors.
You raise the issue of journalists embedded with troops giving away their
positions. My opinion there is that journalists should not be embedded with troops.
I'm generally suspicious of any situation where journalists strike deals with the
people they are covering.
It's widely known that during the Iraq invasion, intelligence forces on both sides
were tuned into CNN, and using it as an intelligence tool. This is the natur e of thereal-time reporting of informat ion and it's been this way since 1999 .
The argument that you ar e usingthat it puts people at riskis the exact same
argument that is being used against Wikileaks. While you are certainly welcome
to support the protestors over the government they are trying to bring down, you
need to understand this: Free press doesn't mean "free press when it supports my
side".
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And this is just a reminder of what side the Atlantic is on, with regard to
this issue.
Duly noted!
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Nevermind
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i would like to see you make this argument if your ass was at risk, and as
stated several t imes, wikileaks is past tense and deals with corrupt gov'ts
and their asses, not innocent civ ilians in real time. WASP & yuppy free
press over middle eastern lives' safety , y eah, we got our priorities straight.
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Love the post, Tim.
Realize that the this pamphlet, t hrough the internet, not only goes to the US.
It goes to S'ara, Teheran, Minsk, Caracas, Havana, Athens, London,
Shanghai, and y es Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City(just wait until they
run out of money).
And, in the 21st century, if you think you can wall off information, good
frickin luck. Give it a few y ears and some government's satellites, should
they so wish, can transmit real-time information to insurgents and
guerrillas.
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I agree. By publishing this, the police will not only know where the protestors are, but
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what they look like.
/sarcasm
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oops
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Can't you read? It say over and over again 'do not betray your people' and spread this
recklessly.
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This had been on the internet all night. The Atlantic isn't giving anything away that everyone
doesn't already know.
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The Atlantic was the 1st to publish this and as one person who posted said they did a Google
search and this was the only site who had this at the time
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I saw it untranslated on Reddit last night. As I said, they aren't giving anything away
that everyone didn't already know.
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Fascinating part of the historical record, sure, but this should be taken down, at least unt il after the
protests. They specifically asked for it not be put on websites. Shouldn't we err on the side of caution
here?
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Wow. This was posted prematurely and agains the wishes of the protestors. This could hav e waited
until a fter these protests are over
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Goodness, this is just wrong and irresponsible.
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Agreed.
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I'm kind of confused what every one finds so appalling about th is, nothing in here seems anydifferent than what you could find in the anarchist cookbook, presuming the gov't doesn't
already hav e the leaflet how would this excerpt help them suppress dissent any more.
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My like was an accident.
I definitely do not agr ee on your stance.
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can y ou not see the map?
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to be fair, the map merely shows the largest routes towards the palace. Fairly certain
the police could have figured that out on their own, they're not amateurs.
Unfortunately.
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how would the police hav e known the palace was a tar get? it's located almost 45
mins. from tahrir square. don't defend the stench of this decision.
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well y ou seem smart, committed, and passionate about your cause so just
focus on what is going on now and what you can do..
it could hav e been interesting, or something to do in future revolutions, jeje,
to send out misinformation to facebook and silly places.. as we know
every one looks at facebook, ev en our silly police here after the facts.
still that old parable about the frog trusting the scorpion to give it a ride on
its back across the water applies here.. its in its nature.. and its in the nature
of these media outlets and most users of facebook or the 'net are just silly
little people not really thinking and just wanting to be part of some
american idol moment..
both sides hav e merit.. but the ultimate responsibility lies with those who
published and those who translated..less so as obviously the egyptian
security could have read it in arabic..
luckily i dress like this all the time since living in barcelona.. so im ready for
my personal r evolution but .. hope to be safe in barcelona wants the "crisis"
does more God sent damanage to every one soon...
$$ crisis is the best equalizer in a long time...and it came from our gr eed and
shared lust for money..
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err brazil... stuck in states now..but will liv e in brazil as for me one of
the best places once things get much worse here and in western
europe and many of these responses are direct results of the "crisis"...
blowback time.. there will be seemingly good (like this) and much
obvious worse things popping up in waves..
focus on self preservation.. and be wise as serpents and gentle as
doves..
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i.e. doves know how to fly away!
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I agree with Jordan. There is nothing that isn't generic in these manuals, and as the
history of protest goes hand-in-hand with police infiltration, I would be shocked if the
Egyptian authorities didn't have copies of the entire manual seconds after it was printed.
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This is absolutely irresponsible. It will still be a fascinating part of the historical r ecord after the
protests.
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Take it down. This is appalling.
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This needs to be taken down - poor judgement by the Atlantic. This has no real purpose for information
but serves a greater purpose for the Egyptian people fighting for their lives right now. Extremely bad
move, Atlantic. Expect better from you.
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Check your emai l for my enraged response. But know this: journal ists are supposed to REPORT the
news, not CREATE the news. You have broken every rule of journalistic integrity right here.
BetterBio, Ty son, and my self hav e NOTHING to do with this article's release during the active
protests in Egypt, and speaking for myself, I hope y our editors have the sense you did not and take
this post down unt il history is that - history - not liv e actions taking place with no one to even bear
witness. Again: I DO NOT support the release of this material, NOR do I support y ou using my head
staffwriter (who volunteered via Twitter, on my recommendation) to translate it.
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If you are one of the sources who produced this document in the first place and you shared it with
The Atlantic, you bear the responsibility as well. Madrigal is disgusting, but once again, the proof
is in the pudding. You cannot tr ust institut ional press. This is self-centered, ego-driven media
sensatioanlism at the expense of a people's revolution for freedom. Releasing something so vital to
the safety and the liv es of thousands of civilians who will be, within hours, on the streetsof Cairoand other major cities confronting goons and armored cars and tear gas and batons and bullets,
rubber and liv e, is criminal. The response of security forces will be har sher in response to what
was printed in this pamphlet. They called the press 'the Fourth Estate" in 1 789. Today Madrigal
reached the lowest lev el of institutionalized media-treating the will of the people with complete
disregard and aiding an oppressive, dictatorial government against them.
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here here. my heart is breaking. the only time it was fun to see the media gaff was when
they were revealing american military positions while 'embedded' in the iraq war. not so
inconsequential then. have we forgotten already? this time it's innocent civilians you're
exposing, not war cr iminals.
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Talk about wasting y our good will
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i don't get y ou but if thought i t was a good idea for cnn to reveal tr oops' locations
then your argument is consistent.
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well you cant control the actions of everyone, and ultimately we are mostly
responsible for ours. y ou seem smar t and committed .so just focus on what
positive action you can do now.. and stay focused.. any one who submitted
something like this , of course, understood it would fall into others hands
eventually... even if just leaflets dropped.. but putting a false one up in the
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future and distributed it would make sense!..
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i am just outraged at cushy metrosexual nerds potentially having an
effect on poor 3rd world residents. y ou're r ight, but wrong shouldn't
go unmentioned and the best remedy is prev ention.
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wow Lena, screw y ou. I was one of the troops endangered by t he idiots you praise. We're
not war criminals you ignorant bitch.
How do you know that you aren't being duped by Islamist revolutionaries who are
using old Soviet propaganda about "peoples revolution" all the while planning a
religious dictatorshipthe same way Iran did? Carter fell for it and Obama may be the
latest useful idiot.
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Pretty sure Lena was being sarcastic: she(?) was criticizing the idiots, not
praising them. See, for example, her(?) earlier post where she(?) said "WASP &yuppy free press over middle eastern lives' safety, yeah, we got our priorities
straight."
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what an idiot...clearly uniformed and just fulfilling the stereotype of ignorant
and boorish army ty pes.
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well, Im watching CNN tonight, and seeing now the fake "pro mubarak
mobs",
which ar e paid protestors, and surely mix of ex police.
this is dangerous, as well I dont agree with the CNN guy who lives there
saying that we could trust waiting until pres elections.
He said
a) US is behind the change and waiting possible until elections for him to
leave
b) the people..
right, if they wait, and people disburse mubarak could easily use his
henchmen to intimidate people, arrest others, and silent the people on
daily
basis.
he could rob more until he leav es..
and we, the US, have not taken a strong stance yet, and even if we did it
would just be words or withholding cash..ooohh... that doesn't mean we
would
do anything else to force a change.
we probably would be stuck sucking back up to him if he stay ed in power or
simply hav ing a strong enraged foe, with people that hate us too..
if he doesnt go now, it will be much worse... and i think fur ther
geopolitical things and economic crisis fraud results will pop up elsewhere
in the world to divide everyones attention..
we will have lots of problems ourselves here in states in 6 months once
cities go broke, states almost do etc..
we are being stitched up and this is a pivotal event for everyone i fear..
and i dont think it will work out like we all want now..
unless we force change now not september
he is basically saying screw off to the world, his people and US now.. why
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should we expect more..friendly things in the future and beyond that he
va lues his pride over us..
hopefully as the bible said the pharoah was raised to fall to show God's
power.. pride comes before a fall would happen this time but I fear God is
doing other things against the international status quo right now and has
bigger pharoahs to fall..
prob us..:( im moving to brazil!
the inflation our FED is exporting and govt supported bank fraud crap is
going to make it worse for every one..we should not cover up others sins
and
greed and theft
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Did you go to journalism school to get this profound understanding of journalistic ethics?
Reporting about news that comes your way is what journalism is all about.
I didn't hear any one standing up for t he US government when wikileaks dumped all those
diplomatic cables online and the news media shared them far and wide. What y ou're suggesting
here is exactly the same thing, just the other way 'round. I'm not passing judgement on either
decision, but it seems quite consistent to me.
Let me guess -- you're all for free file sharing , r ight? Free and unfettered distribution of any info
over the Internet, r ight? Well, then, laddie, there's a back edge to that sword, too.
So please spare us this phony self-righteous indignity, and grow up.
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I didn't take the Atlantic for a publication that would stop at nothing to get more readers. This is
completely disgusting and reprehensible. This should be taken down as soon as possible.
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Thats ridiculous, the press are who make you free in the first place. The government have theoriginal document in anycase.
What is the real concern is WHO orcustrat es the leaflet ? As in any country the demonstrators
are organised idiots
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the press may make info free (as atlantic does not charge now) but they do not make a
person free..
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are y ou part of the egyptian government or did you send it to them before y ou posted?
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Please take down this page immediately ! You ar e blatantly defying the wishes of the activit s and
impairing the success of the revolution.
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To take issue with the publishing of excerpts (9 of 26 pages) from this document is to love
transparency and a free press only when it suits you.
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before wikileaks there was no transparency - get real. since when are governments' rights more
important than the people's?
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I'm confused. I said nothing about Wikileaks. And the Atlantic is not a governmental body.
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By publishing th is tactically sensitiv e pamphlet, the Atlantic is choosing to support
the Egyptian gov't over the Egyptian citizenry. It's not that complicated.
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transparency is a fantasy and shouldn't be stacked against the people. the at lantic can
publish this when your fucking government can be transparent about guantanamo.
where was colin powell's transparency? and this isn't news, by publishing this, as
previously stated, the atlant ic has become part of the conversation.
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Egyptian army is pouring fuel on the streets the protesters planned to use, ready to light em UP
if t rouble starts... FREE PRESS BBQ
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Source?
Unlike the police, the Army's been somewhat helpful to the protesters so far, if busy keeping
any one out of the national mu seum.
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Publishing this leaflet before the planned Friday protest in Egypt is inexcusable. Concurrently we're
getting r eports the internet is Egypt has been either partially or fully cut off and SMS serv ices also
suspended - eery parallels with the behav iour of the Iranian Government after the post-election riots
in Iran in June 2009. Joe Biden has just stated Mubarak is not a dictator, despite him being in power
for ~30 y ears v ia r igged elections, and the country being under emergency laws for each of those
y ears. So we know the government's position on Egy pt - and it's "you're on your own Egyptians".
On his twitter Alexis Madrigal has said (verbotim) "I think this may bring home to some Americans
what's actually happening in Egypt." I hav e sent him a link to an Associated Press video which shows
a protestor being shot in the street, presumably by Mubaraks's security forces. So far 8 or 9
protestors have been killed that I've heard of. I've asked Madrigal to post this vid alongside the leaflet
- it's a far more viv id description of what is happening in Egy pt.
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Great scoop. There are no tactical specifics here that aren't right out of demo activism 1 01 and neither
activists in Egypt nor the predominantly western hand-wringers in this thread are in any position to
tell reporters what they 're allowed to cover.
It's the same mentality that would have us not publish details of troop activ ities in Iraq because it
'helps' the enemy; or who think that Wikileaks and the NYT ar e 'endangering' liv es by reporting on
leaked diplomatic cables. A free press, when it suits you!
As *if* publishing a few pages from this booklet would hav e any effect on what's going on in Egypt,
other than to increase the awareness level of U.S. audiences currently numb to what is happening
there.
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I clicked like by error, and I don't think I can agree with you. This was stupid, and I am
reassured that a dozen random people agree with me, hav ing nev er met, but I can see from the
comments...there is a mistake to put it up....THEATLANTIC IS TRYING TO INCITE THE
EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT, AND THEN IN THE STREETS THEY WILL LOOK FOR PEOPLE WITH
HOODIES, PAINT CANS, AND POT LIDS TO TARGET. wATCH THE VIDEOS, THEY DON'T
KNOW WHO TO ARREST...ITS RANDOM EXCEPT FOR THE LAWYERS WHO HAVE BEEN
POINTED OUT BY SNITCHES. nobody here has complained of not getting the news, r ather of the
news attempting to change or make the news. The cops have been brutal . Ths Atlantic-
HEO+LLO, OHHH---hav e y ou ever heard of the statu s qou... they dont change until t hey
absolutely hav e to...I think the Atlantic is the status qou....and shame on them for this action,
and one comment reveals that the staff at the Atlantic have lied to their own
reporters!!!SHAME. Now, there is at least one more person out there being hunted by t he cops,
in the name of duh?
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They have snitches identifying lawyers in the crowd but not already tipping off police to
these tactics? People in hoodies, car ry ing spray cans and pot lids wouldn't hav e already
attracted attention?
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that's not the point, hitler knew the bombs were coming, but he didn't know where
from. lu dicrous.
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as well most of you are assuming they will win, the people.. it seems stacked
against them
so once the smoke clears (literally) there will be more crack down against those
who were the intellectual head, ok?
u must understand what is happening now is similar to 1989 east european
breakaway from soviet union.. and only romanian got violent to overthrow it.
we (the US) are not really helping verbally much, which only means if the people
win they will not be happy about us. but thats oke, i dont much like us anymorenor anyone.. ahh sad part of being aware of international events.
still, there surely is a high up pressure to stop this.. other ar ab dictators, status
quo US govt, .. but this is the pandoras box that the US and financial institut es
and day traders seeking only $$$ get.. action = reaction...
i welcome chaos on top of international anar chy. . otherwise the world could turn
out to be just as silly as United States has become.. we dont r eally need the whole
world in prison like here.. but they are being r eleased too now due to $$..
bring it all down, like team america.. !
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well not a direct link t o the pamphlet... obviously.. he makes sense. which means
they could lead to the person who put it out..more sense
as well i had to be careful as its almost automatic nowadays to hit that stupid
facebook like thing or share but then i reminded myself not to spread it..
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You should most definitely share it. By now the Egyptian government has the
WHOLE pamplet. .. not just these silly litt le pages about spray paint and hoodies.
Now it's up to any one outside of Egy pt who DOES have internet access to spread
the word. They need our support in any way possible right now. I'm doing mypart (which is very small but all I can do from where I sit) by educating myself on
the facts, and spreading those facts to everyone on facebook.
Awareness is key r ight now.
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S U B S C R I B E H E L PF A QF O L L O W T H E A T L A N T I CM A S T H E A DS T O R EJ O B SE D U C A T I O N A L P R O G R A MP R I V A C Y P O L I C Y
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'There are no tactical specifics here'
take another look at page four
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General squiggly arrows on an unmarked city graphic, with specific instructions to avoid
any areas already occupied by the police or army. I grok the furor now.
Oh wait...
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o.O you call that tactical specifics? Some red lines on unmarked map? Do you really think
there is any real manuevering tactics that had been planned before hand that are still in
effect? The plan is simple... take over government bui ldings, establish control. The
Egyptian government already knows this, so if they planned any sort of defence it
wouldn't matter which direction anyone went, they are going to end up at the same place
any way ! Besides this whole argument is stupid. The people outnumber the government
100 to 1, possibly 1000 to 1, or even 10,000 to 1. Any police officers with half a brain will
join the people, the rest will be trampled...
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The tact ical specifics amount to 'go that way and shout slogans'. Regardless of the planning
put into the protest, a mob is about as organized as a swarm of bees.
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Well done, Sir.
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