A wave of anger stormed Egypt, following a video of a Tuk-Tuk driver that went viral on Wednesday, October 12. In a program on Al Hayah TV, a correspondent was gathering opinions about the country, and this driver burst his feelings out about the poor conditions he's living in; bashed with a choky voice how the situation has deteriorated; yelled about how ridiculous the prices of everything have hiked; and addressed the illiteracy that the authority should be responsible for.
"You watch the [national] TV and find Egypt like Vienna. You go to the street and you find it like Somalia's cousin," said the driver.
The genuineness and the reality-check of his words touched thousands of social media users, and the video was considered one of the fastest videos to ever spread like that in Egypt.
Al Hayah TV, which is pro-government, of course took the video down although it had spiked already. And the authority and its militia, as expected, twisted the content of the video and took it to a whole another level.
Neglecting every word the driver addressed and ignoring the rage that ignited in thousands of people as they watched the driver that presented them, authority pages on social media started spreading that the driver belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood, and/or that he was lying about being a Tuk-Tuk driver.
And to be honest, the excuse of "he's part of the Muslim Brotherhood" has existed for three years and it has now become outdated and very, very lame.
Let's say the driver wasn't being honest about his real job, or let's say he really was from the Brotherhood... Weren't his words powerful? Didn't he speak on behalf of thousand others? Didn't his words quake the social media because they hit hard in the face and brought our attention to the black reality?
Is everyone now, including those who even took it to the streets against the ousted-Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Morsi, belong to the MBs? Can't it simply be that these people really have used up all and any hope they had for the country? Can't it simply be that they can't live like this anymore? Can't it not be a crime to have other ideologies, even if I or you or anyone else disagree with?
People are starving on the streets. The existence of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat is spiraling out of control. The U.S. Dollar has reached almost 15 Egyptian pounds in the black market. The members of parliament and ministers almost do nothing at all to help the people, to the extent that they now can barely find and afford simple necessities as rice and sugar, as the driver mentioned. The Interior Ministry is working with all its might, to oppress people and spread lies and force teenagers and other youth to serve their lives in prison. Young Egyptian army soldiers are getting killed at the borders every now and then for nothing, because the regime is too busy oppressing and stealing and destructing, instead of taking care of the soldiers.
Isn't it about time to stop pretending Egypt is fine when everything in it is very obviously cracking down?
The situation hasn't just become bad; it's ugly. Horrible. Shaming. And terrifying. Egypt shouldn't be like this and it sure as ever doesn't deserve to be ruled by a regime that is as filthy as the one ruling now.
So is the authority, and of course topped with the president, ever going to learn to respond properly? Isn't it time to start working harder to feed those who are starving? Isn't it time to stop lying and pretending Egypt is fine when everything in it is very obviously cracking down? Isn't it time to face reality and address the issues that will be the reason to the destruction of this country? Isn't it time to, at the very, very least, loosen the oppression and release those who are spending their lives in the unjust prisons?
The people are not going to hold for much longer. As the clock ticks, every hour, every minute, every second, the rage builds up, over and over, higher and higher, more and more. And by the time this volcano erupts, it will be too late to save anything in the country.