Britain occupied Egypt for 72 years and when it withdrew, our regime occupied our minds. Although its forms and features are changeable, our regime does not think that the Egyptian people deserve a decent life. It does not deal with citizens as a partner in good and bad times, either. It does not have the desire to shake the trees to lead us in the battles of construction through our arms and minds. The ruling regime wants us to be inactive people without a dream or blood boiling in the veins although it sees the world make progress around us!
The regime rested, as nothing can any longer make us move. We have become satisfied with disasters, corruption and the monopoly of power and people. A genius "mixture" turned into a law governing Egypt for more than half a century. A minority controls and arrests everything and a silent majority is satisfied with the crumbs while the prevailing and controlling slogan is: "Let's leave the country to them, life goes on"!
The country and "all possible dreams" got lost because all we do is to sit in cafés smoking hookah and waiting for the impossible. We forget that "God will never change the condition of a people until they change it themselves". We have turned into a lazy people in a country where God created "civilization" when the world was herding sheep!
Corruption and tyranny have run rampant among the people whose grandparents paid a heavy price to get freedom and dignity. Therefore, the government has the right to deal with us as worthless people because we, quite simply, do not have any hope!
As long as the successive governments of "Mr. President's secretariat" do not believe that we have the right to dream, why don't we turn our dreams into reality with our own hands? Why don't we attract the government from its "tie" forward against its will, asking when and how?
We can do this through national, civil and popular efforts, initiatives, dreams and popular campaigns. Have you forgotten that the first modern university in the region was born from the womb of a civil initiative and became Cairo University, which was spoiled by the government's inactivity after years of maturity and flare?
Let's forget the government with its party and regime. Let's compel the government to be an active partner even if through silence. Let us start as we did with the "For a clean Egypt" campaign, in which we – thanks to your help – achieved tangible results by putting direct pressure on the officials, who sleep in their offices or take bribes. There is plenty of evidence of the Egyptian people's ability to achieve the impossible without waiting for drops of life from the government. There is a new generation of media pundits, who managed in a short period of time to overcome the old ones' inactivity. There is an opportunity to launch – altogether - constructive initiatives and popular campaigns, from living in a clean environment to achieving a large scientific and technological renaissance and combating corruption everywhere. Al-Masry Al-Youm has started the campaign and will continue it. We are waiting for other campaigns from you. Let's forget the generations that were involved in corruption, despotism and hypocrisy. Let's make a better future for our children!
