If you haven't noticed, this Middle East drama is still going on. Honestly, it seems as if it's catching. All of sudden its like a rebellion fad, "hey, let's all start a riot." Yemen is having a heart attack, at least ten were killed at a protest. Syria cracked down, killed eight and they had a huuuuge protest Douma. I'm not sure why all this is going on, but it's getting ridiculous. I feel like Bahrain, Syria, Lybia, Egypt, and Sudan are all having their revolution at the same time. WHY ARE PEOPLE SO ANGRY? That's my question.
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It's not drama, and it totally looks like everyone's trying to "Pull a Tunisia." But this has gone on in the world since forever; people standing up against a corrupt government. I know that back home(Trinidad) my mother and father were involved in many protests against the corrupt officials who allowed the drug trade to continue. In Russia, in 1917, Lenin lead the Bolshevik revolution and thus began the world's first socialist state. I think Revolution went mainstream after Harriet Tubman helped with that railroad; it was so underground.
I agree with Duke, everyone goes through a revolution period. Heck, we even had one. Take France for example, when they revolted they beheaded their King. The ME could do that instead I guess. In all seriousness though, revolutions are just a part of the world's history and will continue to rage on as the world keeps turning.
But are all these middle eastern countries actually this corrupt, or what? I like if a any of these countries had too many problems before they would have dealt with them as they came up instead of this one big mass protest. I feel like some of these citizens don't even know what they're protesting for.
People do not want to be in a totalitarian dictatorship. They want to be in a democracy. They are tired of being told what they can and can not do. The people who are starting the revolts are people in college or around our age. They are angry because their government can do anything they want. In Yemen the government shot and killed its own people, because they people are speaking up against the dictator. We need people to speak up in our country so that we do not screw ourselves anymore!
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