Well, it looks like in this day and age as the world economic crisis continues, countries simply are getting beyond fed up with their government, and they're revolting. In the last three months or so, we've seen this. In the Ivory Coast, United Kingdom, Greece and most recently in Tunisia.
Now Tunisia's neighbors to the east are fed up their leader's authoritarian rule. Egypt experienced major upheaval today in Cairo and the protests were sparked mainly over President Hosni Mubarak's rule and the escalating poverty problems.
Police forces had to come in with tear gas and batons to stop protesters from nearly tearing down government buildings in the area. Still as the hours passed, many Egyptians continued with the protest without fall and as of this time, only two of those protesters and a police officer were killed.
You can see the common trend that is going on here around the world. People are fed up and they are angry, not only due to the struggling economic factors, but the government control has played a major part of the problem. These kinds of protests in many countries controlled by dictators and authoritarian rule, simply do not happen over night, nor to they happen so close to each other as they have been.
All I can say to Egypt is well done. Because I have a feeling in 2011, we're going to start having these same kinds of protests right here in the United States, but probably far more serious than the Tea Party protests we've been having.
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