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Hossam Bahgat: Restructuring the Entrenched Security Apparatus
Submitted by mostafa on Sun, 2011-06-12 09:58- 2311 reads
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Stencil fear
Submitted by mostafa on Wed, 2009-04-22 00:36Three days ago, an artist spray painted a stencil graphic on the grounds of down town Cairo by night, which next morning alarmed the state security and prompted wide questioning of people. Possibly on that same night and by coincidence Mo'men, a fast-food chain, stuck small stickers. What Mo'men did was just an ad campaign that has nothing to do with the stencils.
State security investigations (SSI), the ears, nose and throat of the system. Mubarak's iron fist. Started looking for eye-witnesses who can give any clue that will help catch the perpetrators. El Youm el-Sabe3 newspaper first reported the incident along with photos of the graphics.
Certainly for people who are keeping us safe from the eminent Hezbollah threat, this is an inexplicable act of derailment that must signify terror.
El Youm el-Sabe3 reported that officials armed cleaning men with necessary equipment to remove the spray painted graphics. The graphics were, ladies and gentlemen, of a cleaning man without a head. Was the artist — in what could be the cleverest forms of urban art tricks — depicting the officials who are brain dead enough to clear his paintings?
The SSI, in possibly their first successful intelligence gathering mission, managed to find the artist and the man who helped him. They interrogated him, thankfully in Qasr El-Nil police station and not in one of their underground torture dungeons. The man was released the next day from the prosecutors office without charges (he had to pay 100 EGPs bail).
Living in a police state that has zero graffiti artists I would have understood a reaction like this to a graphic depicting a hammer and sickle, Hezbollah, a cross or Kefaya's logo. In any case, this is not the first time someone sprays something on the walls of this city and for some reason the government officials are still unconcerned over April 6 stencil and graffiti everywhere.
State security is now following YOU!
Submitted by mostafa on Thu, 2009-03-05 15:41The way Twitter notifies you by email about new followers brought me an idea. What if instead of user X is following you, something more serious was following you. Something evil that usually follows people.
If you think it was a sick joke or that it ended prematurely, I don't care much. The coolest thing is that I created some inane controversy of tweets, blog posts and copy-cats to feed my ego for a day. Very much like the nonsense that Wael Abbas & Sandmonkey feed on for years. (It is nothing personal guys)
Have a nice day!
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The bastards stole my camera
Submitted by mostafa on Sun, 2005-06-26 21:06Some plain clothes police (they had a walkie-talkie) stole my camera and four or three of them dragged me from my shirt violently in the streets. They did the same to my friends. We were no directly upseting them we were just taking photos of another one of my firends being dragged and beaten.
I feel humiliated. They are so mean and invincible.
This happened infront of the Ministry of Justice and after almost everyone left today's protest. When a few wanted to walk back home and pass infront of the Ministry of inTerror.
Went home, while showering pricking pain on my abdomen. Looked in the mirror found four scratch marks on my abdomen.
More later.


