Sweeping Changes in the Structure of the
Police Apparatus is Imperative
Time For a Civilian Justice To
Head the Ministry of Interior
Time For a Civilian Justice To
Head the Ministry of Interior
Acting Minister of Interior’s stark and scandalous defense of the police crimes against civilians during the revolution is ambiguous to say the least. During the latest cabinet meeting, irresponsible statements came out of his mouth that should not go unquestioned.An interim minister of interior who is expected to be the catalyst force for laying the foundation of an overall spring cleaning of State police system is vehemently and reprehensibly denying police involvement in the murder and severe injuries of close to 6000 peaceful protestors. Astoundingly he is also denying that there are any activists of the revolution still in his prisons.
Is this man too dumb to know that there are hundreds of civilians arrested during the uprising still in his state security prisons? … We do know that he had transferred close to 300 of them from city state prisons to the remote desert detention facility in the New Valley region south west of Cairo. We also know that those were the injured cases, keeping them from the limelight so that he keeps the public in the dark about their condition. And if he knows, and we are absolutely positive that he does, then he is a criminal thug; a remnant of the criminal regime. What’s he doing in the transitional cabinet? Why is he not in prison with his master, Habib el Addley?
We are fully aware of the limitations and lack of experience of the military members of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. We are also aware that they are in dire need for somebody to manage the state police system during the transition period, but this is a crime in the making. To allow the coyote to guard the chicken coop is a crime against the chickens and the dignity of the coop.
His reprehensible attempt to absolve the state security police of the crimes perpetrated against civilians during the revolution indicates that we are dealing with a criminal remnant of a criminal regime. This may be viewed as a deliberate wedge in the cabinet in order that the old repressive state security system can be reprieved and allowed to recover and flourish afresh.What is really provoking, let alone insulting, is this thug disguised in the cloak of chief police administrator comes out with moronic statements purporting that those who sniper-shot civilians were unknown foreign elements who didn’t even speak Arabic. Their function, he said, was to disrupt the security and harmony of the nation! … Is this man so severely mentally defective or is he just a good old police thug?
There are so many signs of mysterious events with question marks that have accompanied his appearance on the scene as minister of interior in the interim cabinet. There is an irrefutable evidence alluding to the disappearance of massive volume of documents. Torching an entire section of the ministry of interior which happens to be the archival section is another evidence. These are not coincidences, they are deliberate and obvious attempts to destroy damning evidence to spare the old cronies from getting indicted and prosecuted for their crimes against the people during the past 30 years.
Certain truths are still self-evident attesting to the lack of any fundamental and real changes in the Egyptian police system. we are not talking about Traffic Police or public utility protection police, we are talking about the state security police; the horrific state institution which in the past 30 years has terrorized the public, tortured detainees and murdered those who dared to stand up to them.
This apparatus is the most visible sign of the despotic police state of the deposed regime. The putrid mummified-but-still-kicking pharaoh can still be seen in this reprehensible apparatus. It must be dismantled and burned in Hell. … This man; remnant of the criminal system of a wanton police state must be arrested and prosecuted with his master, Habib el Addley, who is now lying in prison awaiting his turn.
The entire nation; people, expert observers, and analysts have unanimously voiced their opinion, quietly sometimes and vociferously most of the time for a Civilian to head the ministry of interior. Whether during the transitional period or subsequent to the presidential election, it is an imperative.
A civilian Law Maker, perhaps a prominent Constitutional or Administrative Justice might just be what Egypt needs right now, in the immediate future and for all time thereafter to head the Top Boss job of the the state Ministry of Interior.
And while many voices are calling for the state security apparatus to remain, being a vital national security institution on the same scope and spectrum of operation as Britain's Scotland Yard or the American FBI, it should not elude anybody's attention that the top boss job for those two mentioned models is always held by a civilian prominent judge.
Experience in the administration of specialized and powerful state security government bodies must be cultured in a civilian environment.
The Supreme Military Council will be most competent, realizing early on how imperative and vital this step is to both the revolution and to the future health of the nation ... How the nation will recover from past egregious police criminal excesses will be determined by how sensitive the government is to people's perception of who represents the police at both the top and popular levels.
Quick and sweeping investigation of criminal excesses, followed by the arrest, indictment of all guilty parties is a Must. Successful and effective prosecution and appropriate, not token, punishments will be the watershed by which line, Egypt will view how any new government respects and regards its people.
A future government's failure to give this extremely sensitive issue its full and unwavering attention, justice and fairness shall not be a portion of its people's judgment. A future government of Egypt that will fail the test of people's judgment shall be condemned into the Rubbish Bin of history with vengeance and derision, then Scorn and Contempt.
The entire nation; people, expert observers, and analysts have unanimously voiced their opinion, quietly sometimes and vociferously most of the time for a Civilian to head the ministry of interior. Whether during the transitional period or subsequent to the presidential election, it is an imperative.
A civilian Law Maker, perhaps a prominent Constitutional or Administrative Justice might just be what Egypt needs right now, in the immediate future and for all time thereafter to head the Top Boss job of the the state Ministry of Interior.
And while many voices are calling for the state security apparatus to remain, being a vital national security institution on the same scope and spectrum of operation as Britain's Scotland Yard or the American FBI, it should not elude anybody's attention that the top boss job for those two mentioned models is always held by a civilian prominent judge.
Experience in the administration of specialized and powerful state security government bodies must be cultured in a civilian environment.
The Supreme Military Council will be most competent, realizing early on how imperative and vital this step is to both the revolution and to the future health of the nation ... How the nation will recover from past egregious police criminal excesses will be determined by how sensitive the government is to people's perception of who represents the police at both the top and popular levels.
Quick and sweeping investigation of criminal excesses, followed by the arrest, indictment of all guilty parties is a Must. Successful and effective prosecution and appropriate, not token, punishments will be the watershed by which line, Egypt will view how any new government respects and regards its people.
