Egypt and The Baradei …..(2)

If Dr. Baradei indulges in the presidency race without preparations, he shall not have any vote. The reality is that 80 percent of the voters are passive voters. At least 50% of t hose passive voters might not have heard about the achievements of Dr. Baradei and if it happens that they know, they do not care about his international achievements.

The only way that Dr. Baradei may be able to attract the passive voters is through a declared detailed vision that can touches on the livelihood of those silent protesters.

Dr. Baradei has been subject to character assassination in the state media, which is, to the majority of the Egyptians in peri-urban and rural population is the government voice and it is subconsciously obeyed. The state media contents steams from excessive researches about the nature of the belief system of the Egyptians. They are the same population that complain vehemently about every aspect of governance yet they, in hypnotized like manner, vote for the ruling party, either willingly or unwillingly through other means.

Such belief system is fed continuously through proverbs, test balloons and rumors that touch on their routed fear of risk. A typical Egyptian is not a risk taker, thus by nature is the enemy of change. Such attitude results from poverty and deprivation of choices. Another reason being is geo-political nature of Egypt itself, and the socio-economic relation between the government with its brutality from one side and the interest of the individual in avoiding risks.

The ruler of Egypt has to be autocratic, even unwillingly; he is forced to such situation by the workings of the oldest bureaucratic machinery known to mankind. Most of the speeches of the Egyptian rulers are empty of any sign of respect to the voters’ opinion, or that Egyptian leaders are elected to oversee the people’s interest. That shall be a major challenge to Dr. Baradei success.

Another aspect that Dr. Baradei has to face is the brutal and selfish capitalism that exploded in Egypt in the past ten years. Such Capitalists are ready to invest in the sustainability of the current political system at any cost to maintain their monopoly and protect their interests.

Dr. Baradei has been outside the loop of such groups and has been tagged now as a threat to the system, so financing his campaign is confronted with a waves of counter investments and he shall not have except the good will of a bunch of middle class thinkers, that have hardly made a difference in the political landscape of Egypt in the past.

Dr. Baradei has won elections in international institutions through lobbying limited identified interest groups. He has worked through limited campaigns with limited budgets, how would he finance a campaign to 80 million interest groups with high illiteracy rate. That for sure is a challenge that need to budgeted and planned for.

Another aspect is that Dr. Baradei is a technocrat, he is used to office and interest groups politics through a defined set of rules that can be bent but not broken, how would he manage his campaign through presidency’s election landscape in Egypt, where every law could be, if not already, broken.

The wondering mind of

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SOUTH AFRICANS UNDER SIEGE…

On a daily basis, The news media is reporting the security mishaps and turmoil in the country, however the reality exceeds by far the reports… a lot of law abiding neighborhoods are under complete siege, where the occupants are living under restricted movement conditions because of their fear for their lives and property from the armed robbers that are rampant now in the country. The economic crunch, jobs losses and the unrolled migration are among several reasons of the increased number of crimes in South Africa.

In Addition, It is necessary to mention that the aforementioned are not the only reasons of the increased rate of crimes and the state of fear that the law abiding citizens are facing. The enabling legal environment is also one of the major contributors to the crisis. South African law appears to be more concerned with the criminal’s welfare rather than the welfare of the law abiding citizens. The living conditions inside the penitentiary complexes are may be exceeding the living conditions in some of the townships; where basic services are guaranteed, three daily good meals and welfare programs. Coupled with abolishing of death sentence, life inside prison for most of desperate touts is worthy more than his life outside, where the high unemployment rate and lack of basic service denied him a state of productivity.

Having said that the law proceedings needs to be reconsidered; where a criminal can be released on bails, repeatedly, pending trial on his first crime in a highly congested courts. It is necessary to mention that Justice delayed is justice denied .in addition this frustrates the under capacitated members of the police force, whom may simply find no pride in their efforts to curb crime. In some cases the criminal have a guaranteed three meals, which than the families of some of the police officer may lack, while same officer can lose his life defending the community.

Another ridiculous case is the application of the law itself, where, for example, one of my friends told me that they caught a thief with his stolen goods on his street, and in the trial the thief claimed that the owner is the one who dashed him the goods and he did not steel it, thus he was vacated!!!! Honesty this means that the testimony of the thief is more valid than the law abiding citizens.

South Africa is a beautiful country where access to such beauty and ability to invest is prohibited by the state of lawlessness. A lot of communities are taking protection or law in their hands, and when they do that they become the accused rather than the victims.

A lot of investments and growth can be flowing in South Africa if the government is able to:

1. Change the criminal law.
2. Enhance the living conditions for the police by:
   1. Provide houses specifically for police officers at a subsidized rate.
   2. Provide medical hospitals exclusive for the police and their family with minimal cost or free of charge.
   3. Have a comparative to the welfare programs to the families of the police at least like those of the prisoners. (Especially on these social aspects..for info on subject click “Project launched in SA to care for children, mothers in jail“)
   4. Abolish laws that concentrating wealth into the hands of the elites who acts like middle men and direct such spoils to the townships.
   5. Put incentive programs to those investors who build industries near or close to the townships.
   6. Relax the labor laws that are prohibitive, in some cases, to employment and allow the employment to be subject to the laws of the markets. That will save billions of Rands that spent annually on trivial labor disputes that stems mainly from reluctance of self-improvement.
   7. Direct all above savings and major portion of savings to subsidies education , especially tertiary ones, that without it the community shall be always under threat of humiliation and destitute.

It is necessary to know that communities and countries grow and develop when they are taught how to fish and not be given free fish, or even subsidized ones.

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