posted on FB, 4-July-2013
I’m not Egyptian, I shouldn’t be that lucky. But if I may, People from Egypt just reminded us what is Democracy. The Real one. How it was born. In the streets. We as French should remember. Remember how we “invented” it, on Bastille Day, a few years back, when the Fathers of our Fathers went to Paris to depose the King of France (it’s only a figure of speech, don’t go all Historical on me).
Democracy, it’s the People that make a choice. Calmly. Without violence. And with a movement that a Gandhi or a Mandela I truly believe would endorse. They knew what they wanted. And they created a Popular movement, from the PEOPLE, having MILLIONS of petitions signed, literally MILLIONS, and organising those three days of protest.
Don’t you speak to me about “Coup d’Etat”! We French invented the word, we should recognise one surely. And it’s not a Coup. It’s Democracy in its own rights. Its True rights. Its People Giving Rights. And today, the only thing we can do is salute this country for the lesson they just gave us.
I always was, I am and always will be proud to be French. But today, today, I wish I was Egyptian.
I’m not Egyptian, I shouldn’t be that lucky. But if I may, People from Egypt just reminded us what is Democracy. The Real one. How it was born. In the streets. We as French should remember. Remember how we “invented” it, on Bastille Day, a few years back, when the Fathers of our Fathers went to Paris to depose the King of France (it’s only a figure of speech, don’t go all Historical on me).
Democracy, it’s the People that make a choice. Calmly. Without violence. And with a movement that a Gandhi or a Mandela I truly believe would endorse. They knew what they wanted. And they created a Popular movement, from the PEOPLE, having MILLIONS of petitions signed, literally MILLIONS, and organising those three days of protest.
Don’t you speak to me about “Coup d’Etat”! We French invented the word, we should recognise one surely. And it’s not a Coup. It’s Democracy in its own rights. Its True rights. Its People Giving Rights. And today, the only thing we can do is salute this country for the lesson they just gave us.
I always was, I am and always will be proud to be French. But today, today, I wish I was Egyptian.
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