A month and a half ago, President Mohamed Morsi failed to oust Egypt's chief prosecutor Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud, causing political disrupt for some time and putting us (revolutionaries) in another tough position, having to choose between supporting one of Mubarak's regime's remnants or supporting the Muslim Brotherhood President in his attempt to interfere with the judiciary system in a clear violation to the basic principle of separation of powers. After the first four days of clashes in Mohamed Mahmoud Street – which left one martyr and hundreds of injured protesters – Morsi issued a decree granting himself powers over all Egypt's courts, all the while claiming that it is the only way to “protect" the revolution. We were waiting for the Supreme Constitutional Court to soon rule dissolving the constitutional assembly and demand a new one, after the resignation of one-third of it leaving only Islamists in the assembly; but Thursday's decree, not only freed Morsi and the constitutional assembly from judicial oversight, but also gave Morsi legislative powers without any kind of judiciary oversight. Thus, not only can no one appeal on his decrees, but as well as that the dissolution of the constitutional assembly and the parliament's lower chamber is now impossible. Simply, for many of us, Morsi's decree looks exactly like the attempted coup done by the SCAF not long ago to put an end to the revolution and start another era of tyranny and looking back in history, according to article 191 in Egypt constitution 1956, the so-called “Revolution Command Council" was granted the same immunity from judicial oversight in the name of “protecting the revolution" which paved the road very well for 60 years of military rule. It is baffling how the Muslim Brotherhood who are practically in power right now with the majority in the parliament, constitutional assembly and the presidency are still mobilizing for protests every time the opposition stands against one of Morsi's decisions. It is in fact scary for all revolutionaries who have always stood risking their lives in exchange of a civil state, far from the Islamists and the military junta, to see Morsi seizing God-like powers over the country. Despite the current ongoing clashes, the newly appointed chief prosecutor asserted that he will prosecute any “instigation against the current regime" from any kind of a media outlet, while on the other hand the former chief prosecutor Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud is still determined that he will not quit his job, claiming that he is still the legitimate chief prosecutor supported by the Judges Club. During the last press conference Ahmed ElZend (Head of Judges Club) referred to Mahmoud as Egypt's chief prosecutor, called for a strike in all Egypt's courts while simultaneously starting a sit-in in the Judges Club on Tuesday along with considering withdrawing trust from the Supreme Judiciary Council if they kept their ongoing support of Morsi's decree. As the anti-Morsi sit-in in Tahrir enters its second day with more than 15 political groups demanding the dismissal of Morsi's cabinet, cancellation of the last constitutional amendment and the prosecution of all the police officers responsible for killing protesters during the past 20 months starting from January 25th 2011 up to the incident of Gaber Salah, who died yesterday in the hospital, he was initially shot in the head and died as a result to the complications of his injury. The Muslim Brotherhood are still using their loyal supporters everywhere to mobilize a protest on Tuesday to support Morsi's decrees despite of the fact that most of the thousands who went out to support Morsi yesterday did not even know the name of the appointed chief prosecutor according to videotaped interviews by El-Watan newspaper. Since the Muslim Brotherhood won the majority of the parliament's two chambers and the steady, yet tremendous decrease of their popularity after watching them in action, it is getting alarmingly worse for them, much faster than anyone had expected after beating and murdering protesters, following Mubarak's and the SCAF's footsteps. Only this time it is under Morsi's rule who claimed to support freedom of expression and the revolution. If Morsi did not take back his decisions and continued to be as stubborn as Mubarak, it will definitely not end well for him as now it is not just the revolutionaries who are standing against him but everyone in Egypt who doesn't believe in the Muslim Brotherhood. All is enraged by his latest actions, and those are not a few that Morsi's brotherhood can oppress. It will definitely lead the country to chaos and the demands for ousting Morsi will increase as people's patience will not hold for long. We did not oust Mubarak to create another Gaddafi and put him in power, none of Egypt's presidents have ever had the legislative, judicial and executive powers all together and it is totally unacceptable to allow creating a Pharaoh in the name of “protecting the revolution" or with any other excuse. Morsi has always been mentioning how he won the elections fairly in a democratic process and that he was “chosen by the people" not putting into consideration that he won by 52 percent of which almost half of them gave him their vote just because they would have done anything to prevent Shafiq from winning. ** The author is a blogger and a networking engineer who studied at the GUC in Egypt. He has been an influential commentator on all things Egypt and blogs at justanegyptian.com. Follow him on Twitter.
