Vice President Joe "Plugs" Biden, in rather obvious support of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, stated emphatically that Mubarak is NOT a dictator.
Stated Biden, "Mubarak has been an ally of ours in a number of things. And he's been very responsible on, relative to geopolitical interest in the region, the Middle East peace efforts; the actions Egypt has taken relative to normalizing relationship with - with Israel. ... I would not refer to him as a dictator...".
Consider:
According to the U.S. State Department, Mubarak has the ability to transfer any criminal case from the civilian judicial system to a military court, and the use of torture by his officials is common. In recent months journalists have been jailed for “ insulting the president.” The U.S. gives Egypt $2 billion in aid a year, including $1.3 billion in military assistance.
Consider:
While in office, political corruption in the Mubarak administration's Ministry of Interior has risen dramatically, due to the increased power over the institutional system that is necessary to secure the prolonged presidency. Such corruption has led to the imprisonment of political figures and young activists without trials, illegal undocumented hidden detention facilities, and rejecting universities, mosques, newspapers staff members based on political inclination. On a personnel level, each individual officer can and will violate citizens' privacy in his area using unconditioned arrests due to the emergency law. Transparency International (TI) is an international organization addressing corruption, including, but not limited to, political corruption. In 2010, TI's Corruption Perceptions Index report assessed Egypt with a CPI score of 3.1, based on perceptions of the degree of corruption from business people and country analysts, with 10 being very clean and 0 being highly corrupt. Egypt ranked 98th out of the 178 countries included in the report.
Consider:
Egypt is a semi-presidential republic under Emergency Law (Law No. 162 of 1958) and has been since 1967, except for an 18-month break in 1980s. Under the law, police powers are extended, constitutional rights suspended and censorship is legalized. The law sharply circumscribes any non-governmental political activity: street demonstrations, non-approved political organizations, and unregistered financial donations are formally banned. Some 17,000 people are detained under the law, and estimates of political prisoners run as high as 30,000. Under that "state of emergency", the government has the right to imprison individuals for any period of time, and for virtually no reason, thus keeping them in prisons without trials for any period. The government continues the claim that opposition groups like the Muslim Brotherhood could come into power in Egypt if the current government did not forgo parliamentary elections, confiscate the group's main financiers' possessions, and detain group figureheads, actions which are virtually impossible without emergency law and judicial-system independence prevention. Pro-democracy advocates in Egypt argue that this goes against the principles of democracy, which include a citizen's right to a fair trial and their right to vote for whichever candidate and/or party they deem fit to run their country.
A couple comments:
- The body of evidence, demonstrating conclusively (to normal, sentient people) that Mubarak IS indeed a dictator, reads like the list of crimes Liberals regularly ascribed to President Bush. Their conclusion: Bush is a dictator. But, somehow, the Uber-Liberal Biden doesn’t find this body of evidence convincing enough to accuse Mubarak of being a dictator. Hmmm….how about that!?
- Veep Biden, during his 10,000 years career as a US Senator, held a position on the Foreign Relations Committee. (Of course, this is also the idiot who, as a Senator for all those years, wasn’t aware that the Vice President of the United States also acted as the President of the Senate). One might wonder what the heck he was doing all those years, since it’s pretty clear that he wasn’t paying much attention to his jobs…..
Folks, Biden is simply being both “a Biden” and a Liberal; supporting dictatorships’ efforts to crush democratic movements.
Shameful.
Hirota: OUT!
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