Truer words about the relationship between the people and the government have rarely been spoken:
The real reason is simple: Where does the government, the corrupt ministers, the ruthless SS officers and their soldiers come from? Aren't they egyptians? Don't they come from egyptian families and households? Aren't they born and raised here like the rest of us? Well, what does that exactly say about us? Whether we like it or not, the government is a reflection of the people. So if the government is ruthless, corrupt and dictatorial, what does that say about the people? What does it say about the parents of the police officers that order their soldiers to beat up and sexually assault women? What does it say about the families of those corrupt government officials who sign away our future and that of our children for a bunch of dirty money? What does it say about a nation that produces such a government, and accepts it, even as it plunders the country and enslaves its people?
It's a depressing thought, but it's the way that things work. This is why I say that if we cannot trust the common man with powerful weaponry, how can we trust the police and military to use them responsibly? The government is a function of the people that it is derived from; it has no life or moral direction outside of that. It's a hard truth to realize, but every people gets the government that it deserves when they have a government of their own.
Clearly, Egypt is much farther along the path of having a violent and depraved government than we are in the United States, but it is a warning for us to watch. In cases like this, the people don't really want law and order. What they want is power and authority. Things like this are only possible when a nation has given up on the rule of law at the core of its culture, and allowed a semblance of law, that can be used to conveniently justify whatever one wants to do, to rule in the place of real law and order.
Are we not training people in this country that Washington knows best? The clamor for Government health care, more entitlements, etc. is a warning sign here. The rugged individuality that made this country is being washed from the brains of kids. They've managed to almost destroy marriage, to "normalize" out of wedlock births, now they're trying to "normalize" homosexuality. The signs are there that our Constitution will soon be nothing more than a memory to those of us who took the time to read it. The same goes for the Land of the Free.