I would like to say that I'm tired of hearing people, celebrities, the media and Bill Clinton compare US Occupiers to Egypt et al. Egypt is FIGHTING for what we already have! Egyptian people are FIGHTING, PROTESTING and losing their lives to have a political system like ours in the U.S. and being under a dictatorship for almost 30 years. Therefore, it's silly for Occupiers in the United States to mimic their strife.
How much do you want to bet most of these Occupy protesters in the United States have NEVER voted in their entire lives or voted only once. Oh and puhlease stop comparing yourselves to Gandhi. He was standing up against the British OCCUPIERS! and was not disrupting other peoples lives or creating chaos making his statement!
How much do you want to bet most of these Occupy protesters in the United States have NEVER voted in their entire lives or voted only once. Oh and puhlease stop comparing yourselves to Gandhi. He was standing up against the British OCCUPIERS! and was not disrupting other peoples lives or creating chaos making his statement!
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BBC news
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Tueday November 29, 2011
A second day of voting is taking place in Egypt in the first elections since President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown, with indications of a high turnout in Cairo and other big cities.
The first day of polling for a new parliament was mainly peaceful.
Voting was extended by two hours to cope with long queues and few security problems were reported.
Many protesters occupying Cairo's Tahrir Square have boycotted the vote. [They want change, but don't want to be part of the process. They are shouting in the streets and now here is their chance to say with their vote who they want to represent them. So all of those protesters died in vain? (emphasis mine)]
There had been fears the vote might be delayed after deadly protests against the interim military rulers who replaced Mr Mubarak.
The protesters fear the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces led by Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, which is overseeing the transition to democracy after decades of authoritarian rule, is trying to retain power.
At least 41 demonstrators have been killed and more than 2,000 wounded in the past 10 days, as tensions have flared in the Arab world's most populous state.
Free expression
The BBC's Kevin Connolly in Cairo says most parties seem to agree that Egypt is on course for a record turnout.
This is an indication, our correspondent says, of the pent-up appetite for democracy - allowed free expression at last.
Monday saw long queues form outside polling stations in Cairo before the polls opened and in places queues were said to have stretched up to 3km (two miles).
"We must take part, we must vote, even if we stand here for five hours, so that Egypt can go forward," voter Hoda Abdel Hamid, 43, told Reuters news agency.
"I am voting for the future of my children," she said as she queued in Cairo's Shubra district.
"We were surprised that people turned out to vote in large numbers, thank God," Abdel Moez Ibrahim, who heads the High Judicial Elections Commission (HJEC), told reporters.
Officials blamed a delay to the voting in some Cairo constituencies on the late arrival of ballot papers and a shortage of ink and administrative officers.
Some judges observing the process got lost on their way to polling stations.
State-run TV reported that 25 people were injured in election-related violence.
But monitors reported no major violence or irregularities.
In Assiut, in the south, the army said it had regained control after a shooting incident. Officials denied reports that voters there had attacked polling stations.
There have also been reports that in Cairo and Port Said, candidates' numbers on voting cards had been changed.
Leftist candidate Al-Badry Farghali, in Port Said, told the BBC this had happened to him and another candidate, George Ishaq, a well-known activist.
'Positive'
Independent US observers said there was a high turnout on Monday, with no violence or irregularities.
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