It seems that we need to re-clarify our stances- after all what we have done for the sake of Egypt- so that our opinions can't be confiscated and our message can be delivered, as it must be, free of impurities and distortions. Hence, we convey our message directly and honestly to the President of the republic. We have every right that the president --whom we have chosen and supported with deep faith-- should listen to our message, especially in this critical period of our history. Mr. President, you know well our position from the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group, and you know well the sufferings we underwent due to our decisive and firm stance against it, its ideas, and allies since the reign of former President, Hosni Mubarak till its ascend to power after the January 2011 revolution through the June 30 Revolution, and the subsequent clashes. Mr. President, you know well our position towards ousted President Mohammed Morsi al-Ayyat from the first moment of his assuming power in Egypt. You know that we faced him alone in December 2012, only four months after he took power when we filed a complaint accusing him of treason and conspiracy with a foreign country. I was alone in a fierce fight against a terrorist group that owns its agents both at home and abroad. At this time, all security services advised me to withdraw from such a big battle that they thought I could not go through alone. However, I was convinced that governments have their own necessities, and peoples have their choices. The security services have their own necessities that govern them as security institutions working under an elected president whatever they think about him. I had my own choices, as a politician and journalist that saw him a spy who cannot govern this country. This was my firm stance towards the June 30 revolution from the very beginning. God knows to which extent I and my family have suffered for months as we were mobilizing Egyptians in the streets and squares for the departure of this terrorist group within a period of time not exceeding a year. A few days before the June 30 revolution, I met with a large number of senior police officials; I asked them directly whether they would support or leave us into the lurch? I told them we would take to streets on June 30 to oust the Muslim Brotherhood. Their answer, which is still sticking in my mind, was: "It is your country. If you come to streets in millions, we will support you, if not, we will support legitimacy". I can mention the names of those officials, and everything was recorded. We have wandered the governorates of Egypt from north to south to urge the masses to revolt. We held meetings throughout Greater Cairo in full view of the security services of the Muslim Brotherhood, who were watching our movements day and night. On May 17, 2013, we came to the Tahrir Square in tens of thousands to promise people from that we would bring the Brotherhood and its leader back to prisons over killing protesters. We were the first to go into squares since June 28th, and we stayed there until the July 3 statement. We have learned from the history of our country to say our word in time and in an appropriate language. We never neglected the issue of national security while facing those who betrayed the January Revolution. We exposed them to the whole world through recordings that came to us by accident. We faced trials in as much as 29 cases; we never trembled. We stripped those who could have mobilized millions to take to streets, of the mulberry leaf with which they had covered their nakedness, and we prevented them from leaving their homes when we publicly exposed them on television. We were instructed by all the security authorities, without exception, to stop broadcasting the recordings. The then interim President, Adly Mansour, called upon us to stop broadcasting the recordings. Dr. Hazem El-Beblawi, then Prime Minister, filed a lawsuit to the Attorney General to investigate the veracity of the recordings. However, we saw the recordings as the most important work we can do for our country at this time to protect the Egyptian national security. When terrorism began to attack us after June 30, we were the first to face it with naked chests. Terror groups put our names on assassination lists to frighten us. We defended our country at home and abroad. We wrote, translated and met foreign officials abroad to explain to them the magnitude of the evil that these groups bear for Egypt and the humanity in general. We have prepared a huge file that contained plots against the Egyptian national security on its eastern border, plots cooked in Qatar and Turkey. We are now translating this file to submit it to the International Criminal Court. We did not ask for help from anyone. We felt that it was our role that we had to do without bidding or advertising. When we said that there was a security deficit that requires accountability regarding the attacks that hit two churches in Tanta and Alexandria on Sunday, we were not penetrating the national security, but defending it. This is our right, Mr. President, which is guaranteed by the Constitution as journalists, parliamentarians, and good citizens. We supported you and took to streets, holding your photos. We elected you because you had a project for a modern and civilized Egypt which believes in freedom of speech and expression. What happened, Mr. President, to find our newspaper confiscated? We have the right to ask and we have the right to get an interpretation for such a security deficit. What is in this opinion that penetrates the national security and requires confiscation? We support you, believe in you, and stand behind our army and police; this is our opinion, why don't you accept it? We support the Egyptian president, whom we believed in and called for his election. We support the Egyptian national security. We stand against those who tamper with it, even if the price was our lives. We still see a security failure in what happened that requires accountability. Mr. President, we will keep shouldering our responsibility to carry the torches of truth whatever the cost will be.
