Black Wednesday

Today, the 1st of June 2005, Egyptians will wear black, as a way to “peacefully” protest against the harassments that took place last week on the day of the referendum. Several incidents, where men and women were beaten up, harassed and assaulted by the security forces, took place all around Egypt. “The country is boiling” everyone back home says to me. For many decades, Egypt did not witness such outrage and anger on its streets, and finally when Egyptians woke up from their fifty-years-nap, the question is: Where do we have to start from? What should be changed, in order to have REAL Democracy? Is it the constitution, the government, the political parties, the peoples’ mentality…or all of the above?
Do we have a democratic basis yet?