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"I am Jack's frustrated soul,"
                             Echo Inside Me.

Everyday, before my work hours, during my work hours and after them, I read news, I hear what people do, and I always get to a state of disability when it comes to expressing my feelings when I read about some worker strike in Rome, Madrid, London, or New York.

Last week we saw airports coming down to a state of paralysis, we saw lights fading and we saw businessmen, chairmen, and governments bowing for the people's will. And I remembered a question that was addressed to me by an American Former Judge who was visiting Cairo, "Tell me, governments make people or people make governments?" Probably everyone has a theoretical answer and another practical one.

Now its time for me to ask, "what have we learned?" we act worse than disabled people do, we all heard about disabled people rolling their wheel chairs down the streets of western cities calling regimes to stop cutting down their rights in life, and we, people in full health, didn't move a single step ahead to call for our long-time stolen rights.

To those who are not Egyptians or don't know what is going on here, last week, and on a nice Friday, the Administration of Cairo's Metro network announced raising the ticket to 1 LE from 75 piasters (it was 50 piasters before that). People were only surprised, as if it was the first time the government shoves a new suppressing law up their rears.

The first idea I told to a friend of mine who was astonished and at a state of utmost anger is to think of a day when everybody boycotts the metro service, I know its hard, I know you legs will hurt, I know that microbuses are crowded, hot, slow, smells sweat all over, people run over each other to get on the piece of crap, but still, if you pay that much of pain for one day, you will get a prize. Wanna know what kind of prize, actually its not one, its many, and I will list them below:

• You will force the government to dump the price back to 75 piasters a ticket, and if you wanna be wicked, as for a 50 piasters ticket, this way you will be saving half a pound each day, that’s 3 LE a week, and that is a 12 LE per month.
• You will show the government that you are not an ostrich sticking its head in the ground anymore, while an elephant is chasing you.
• You start feeling that you are human once more. Oh, I am sorry for making it so long, I was dreaming, all Egyptians ranging between middle middle class till you get to the base, where you can be friends with all kinds of parasites and diseases, dream for long times, poor they are, poor we all are, poor our government is, poor me and you are going to stay, as long as we act worse than disabled.
• Finally, the 12 LE you save per month could be anything, a gift for your little daughter, half a chicken for you and your family, or the electricity bill.You will get back a part of your shame stained dignity.
• And more……..

Note: I am awfully sorry for sticking disabled people into my writings, but I really know that they are better than we are. And sorry for talking about the base of the community like that, I have relatives in that base, I know that without that base the community would collapse.

THE END
M. Sabry