نعم لإستقلال القضاء

سبق وعبّرت عن استيائى من تصريحات بعض القضاة هنا وهنا, ولذلك برحب ومتفائل بنتائج الانتخابات
:الأخيرة لرئاسة نادى قضاة الاسكندرية وبتصريحات السيد المستشار رئيسه الجديد

وماذا عن السبب الثاني وراء ترشيحك؟ *

يتعلق برغبة الزملاء والذين ألحوا علي لترشيح نفسي بعد تدهور الأوضاع خصوصا في الثلاث سنوات الماضية وهو ما جعلني أوافق حيث وجدت أن احترام رجل الشارع للقضاء قد انخفض كثيرا مؤخرا بمعني أنه قد حدثت تجاوزات عديدة ضد القضاء واعتداءات علي رجاله حتي داخل المحاكم، وما حدث من أقارب عماد الجلدة خير شاهد علي ذلك،

فالقضاء ينبغي أن يكون في مكان أسمي وفي منصة عالية، بالبعد عن الصغائر وعن التجاوزات التي حدثت مثل اتشاح القضاة بأوسمة القضاء علي قارعة الطريق، ورفع العلم الأسود فوق ساري النادي ووقوف سيدات قيل عنهن إنهن زوجات رجال القضاء في وقفات احتجاجية، ولعلمك فإن الأوسمة لا ينبغي الاتشاح بها إلا في الجلسات العلنية بالمحاكم،

ولا يكون ذلك في غير المكان المحدد له، والدولة فيها سلطات ثلاث والمفروض أن كل سلطة مستقلة، ولا يجوز لرئيس النادي أن يتهم أعضاء السلطة التشريعية بلفظ يستاءون منه، فنحن لا نقبل أن تتهمنا السلطة التشريعية بذلك، وهو الأمر الذي اضطر معه (يقصد الخضيري) للتوجه إلي مارينا لتقديم اعتذاره عما بدر منه، كما ظهر في برنامج تليفزيوني ليبدي ندمه وأسفه علي ذلك، فلماذا نخطئ ونضطر للاعتذار..

إن كرامة القاضي تمنعه من أن ينزلق إلي ذلك والمفروض أن القاضي يترفع ويزن كلماته بميزان ذهب، ولا يمكن لكلمة أن يحررها في مقال قطعا أنه قرأه وراجعه عدة مرات مثلما حدث في اتهامه للمستشار ممدوح مرعي وزير العدل وتوجيه الاتهامات إليه وتناوله بعبارات ماسة كالصفع والركل وغيره، ثم الاعتذار والمطالبة بحمل الجنسية الموريتانية والتخلي عن جنسيته المصرية وترشيحه لعمرو موسي رئيسا للجمهورية بدلا من الرئيس مبارك،

كل هذه الأمور وغيرها مما قد لا أتذكره قد أساءت كثيرا إلي رجال القضاء، خصوصا في الإسكندرية التي كان يرأس ناديها وكان الكثير من أصدقائي يسألونني إلي متي ستتركونه يمارس هذه التجاوزات التي تضر ولا تنفع وتهز محراب القضاء، فكان لابد من أن أتقدم للمساعدة علي التغيير سيما أنني أرغب في أن أكمل العطاء حتي تنتهي مدة خدمتي في القضاء كرئيس للنادي.

...إقروا المزيد

Sidenotes

Mr. Khaled Mesh'al, after cockily leading the Hamas invasion from his remote seat in Damascus (and I think anybody following the news from an unbiased source reporting on the ground - rather than papers relying locally on hearsay "from their domestic sources" for their stories - will clearly see that Hamas calculatingly exploited a crisis to push a political agenda of its own; or in Mahmoud Zahar’s own words: "Sometimes it's necessary to create a crisis to settle another one." That genius concept of Palestinian diplomacy. A crisis, I may add, that Hamas, together with the asshole Olmert, and that other branch of Palestinian resistance Fatah, is largely responsible for creating in the first place), will be arriving in Cairo soon to set his terms. I hope that President Mubarak, after receiving his guest, bids him farewell with a befitting boot in the ass.

As for our anarchists who cheered on agda3 nas's shooting and pelting of our "pigs", and the other ridiculous individuals who felt ashamed by them "to be Egyptian" for their trying to do their job and guard the borders, I think the next time they take up the cause of the poor villagers of Orsaya, or the farmers of Dekerness, I'll take their words with a grain of salt; I assure them that each one of these people had at one point in their lives fulfilled their civic service as a "pig". And each one of these pigs serving now in Rafah does have a family to get back to once again at the end of the day.

Flashback

Over two years ago in my very first blog post I wrote:

There is a difference between using rhetoric as a tactical means to achieve political ends, and between inflating rhetoric until it becomes so big, that it develops a life of its own and its own speaker becomes afraid to confront it. And yet the key thing to know here is that, despite appearances, it does not really develop a life of its own: it's only a balloon, inflated further and further only by the authors' fear to confront it. And it becomes so big until it obstructs their vision from seeing what is actually happening on the ground; in this case, the influx of Palestinians into Sinai and the threat to Egyptian national security that this represents.

One of Israel's age-old arguments since its foundation has been that the Arab world is so big that it can afford to settle the occupied and stateless Palestinians in its own territories - in this case among them, the Sinai - and in so doing, ending the 'Palestinian question' and the trouble resulting from its occupation. And perhaps the biggest reason for its withdrawal is its leaders' realistic recognition of its long-term inability to cope with the growing problems of overpopulation and poverty in Gaza. And yet while Israel confronted this situation by cutting its losses and withdrawing, the Egyptian government seems to have incoherently responded by opening its border full swing. Unlike the Israelis, we Egyptians were neither given a referendum to ask our opinion over the details of the matter, nor given a clue about what is going on - even a month after the border was officially inaugurated on the 25th of November. We do not know for sure how many Palestinians crossed into Sinai, and we do not have an idea of how many still remain on this side and have settled with their kin. We do not know what the border deal entails...again, we were told in the news that the Rafah border will be the gate of the Palestinians to the outside world, but we were told nothing about what this for Egypt particularly means.

I am sure Egyptians can only be happy for the new prospects this may entail for Palestinians, from newfound ability to travel abroad, to attracting foreign investment and wealth to the Gaza strip and creating new job opportunities for its inhabitants. But Egypt, whose unemployed population runs at 10.9 % of its labour force (and I think is a moderate estimate), or 2.25 million people, towers over Gaza’s total population of 1.3 million as a whole, and cannot afford to sacrifice critically needed jobs to its neighbours. And our neighbours of the overpopulated Gaza strip, whose borders are now freely open to Egypt, are now geographically closer and may find it easier to make it to the tourist and the less dense population centres in Sinai than can the bulk of the Egyptian population of the Nile Valley, who ironically have to go through a hell of their own of security checkpoints just to make it into Sinai themselves. Will all this in the long term spell a demographic, and even political, change in the future of the Sinai? The opaqueness of the Egyptian political process and the absurdity of both the governmental press and that of the opposition have left us in the dark over matters that are of utmost importance to the country's national security...And I, for one, am dumfounded and confused. There are probably strong immigration laws in place in Egypt to prevent such scenarios from happening, but can the bribery of local officials and Bedouin-facilitated human trafficking find their way around them? It is a tough border to control after all, as Israel failed to locate all the tunnels used to smuggle weapons across the border.

In the end I must say that I reserve my right to be wrong about these speculations, because I am left stumbling in the dark...and this anxiety of opaqueness is the biggest problem after all.

Prophet Seneferu has struck again, but unlike some low-lives this gives me no reason to rejoice.

Innocent yet jagged question

Workers' unions aside; why does Baheyya queen of the blogosphere prop up the Libyan lackeys of Al-Karama every other post?

* And speaking of unions, isn't it a tad bit ironic that a leader of a workers' union strike should also be an activist leader of the Nasserist party? Sort of like a curator of a massive Holocaust museum..two-timing as a leader of the good old Nazi party? Do the Nasserists forget that it was a military tribunal of the Revolutionary Command Council which instilled terror in the hearts of the unions since over 50 years back by executing the union leaders Khamis and Ba'ri just a few weeks after the coup? Or did they erase this minor fact from their collective history? And do they realize that when they protest in support of the judges, in fear of repetition of another massacre of the judiciary, that it was none other than the idol they wave in their banners who performed the only such massacre to date owning up to this infamous name?

Indeed...Mr Abu Eitta was born only months after Khamis and Ba'ri were executed, and only a happy child when the Egyptian judiciary was positively massacred..he is innocent of these events, and, chances are, himself a pleasant and likable man. But the foolish political advertisement is no more excusable than that of the eccentric curator standing over there..solemnly commemorating the Holocaust in his most fashionable swastika boots.

What's next, the Stalinist party for democratic reform? OK, ok..we already have one of several such here...

...انتظروا المفاجأه

؟ ...

... نبذات ميمون عن الحارس الراحل شمشون

... قريباً - بعد غداً غد غداً - فقط - على صفحات ــــــ اللولبية

(... الحبر خلص - إستنوا معانا شوية) ...

مقدمة: لقد كتب الأستاذ ميمون المقدمة لهذه النبذات الإلهامية عن الأخ الراحل شمشون فى 28 برمودة السنة قبل قبل اللى فاتت...راح خبطت فكرة فى دماغه وقاللك ليه ياد يا ميمون مات خلّينا أكثر فقاقة و ننشر المقدمة بتاعتنا بتاريخ
... !النهارده أحسااان؟؟ وهو كذلك - قال ميمون لنفسه - عدّاك العيب

جرى إيه يا جماعة!..هو الواحد ما يعرفش يكتب صفحتين مقدمة على بعضهم)
(... من غير ما يخلص الحبر؟!! ... معلهش, إستنوا معانا شوية كمان

... قريباً - بعد غداً ... فقط على صفحات ـــــــ اللولبية

Discrepancies

Cry Clinton cry:

Hillary sounded silly trying to paint Obama as a poetic dreamer and herself as a prodigious doer. "Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act," she said. Did any living Democrat ever imagine that any other living Democrat would try to win a presidential primary in New Hampshire by comparing herself to LBJ? (Who was driven out of politics by Gene McCarthy in New Hampshire.)

Her argument against Obama now boils down to an argument against idealism, which is probably the lowest and most unlikely point to which any Clinton could sink. The people from Hope are arguing against hope.

Round 2, come South Carolina:

Talk and its meaning seemed to dominate the day.

In the Clinton radio ad, which uses a clip from his recent interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal editorial board, Obama is heard saying: "The Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last 10, 15 years."

An announcer says: "Hillary Clinton thinks this election is about replacing disastrous Republican ideas with new ones, like jump-starting the economy."

Obama's campaign enlisted supporters in South Carolina to denounce the Clinton piece as selective editing. Former Gov. Jim Hodges said Clinton's campaign seemed determined to win "at all costs."

Obama's comment about Republicans came as he discussed elections that represented shifts in political direction. The full quote is: "I think it's fair to say that the Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last 10-15 years in the sense that they were challenging conventional wisdom."

He preceded the remark by noting that John F. Kennedy also had shifted the direction of the country. "I think we're in one of those times right now, where people feel like things as they are going aren't working," he said. "That we're bogged down in the same arguments that we've been having, and they're not useful. And the Republican approach, I think, has played itself out."

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