Mubarak spoke and he expected everyone to shrug their shoulders and go home. Now the recently instated vice president is saying that there will be no negotiations until the protests stop. That is ridiculous. If this were a bunch of Americans, they would probably do what they were told and go home. These people have been dealing with corruption for far too long to just go home now.
With condescending announcements like this, things are only going to get worse from here. Especially because Mubarak supporters are choosing now to make their presences known via molotov cocktails and random assaults on anti-government protestors (while the protestors form human chains to keep the Mubarak supporters out of Tahrir Square). The military, that was keeping the peace in the past week and a half, is now threatening violence to those who don’t go home now. Go check out the live stream at Al Jazeera, no one is going home. People are just getting worked up.
Stay tuned, folks.
UPDATE: The Egyptian government’s secret police are seeding themselves among the Mubarak supporters to lead them into the square and incite violence.
