ran a front page story condemning, that s right, condemning recent attacks by pro-mubarak thugs. but the lies from the regime continue. today, egypt s foreign minister said the state of emergency cannot be lifted because they have 17,000 prisoners loose in the streets, and many police stations have been destroyed. and it sounds almost plausible at first, but then you remember that the mubarak regime has been ruling under a state of emergency for nearly 30 years. that man does not know how to rule any other way. the state of emergency allows the police to do what they want, when they want, to whom they want. the demonstrators are saying emergency rule must end. take a look again at liberation square. the protestors are policing themselves, checking i.d.s, patting people down. the chaos is not in that square, the chaos, the real chaos comes from government thugs who have gone on the attack. the mubarak regime has tried to create a crisis. we have shown that night after night. shutting th
going on strike at post offices, textile mills, even at al raman, the main newspaper of open re volt there. a sign perhaps that at least a portion of the government propaganda machine may be crumbling. the lies from the regime continue. today egypt s foreign minister said the state of emergency cannot be lifted because they have 17,000 prisoners loose in the streets, and many police stations have been destroyed. and it sounds almost plausible at first. but then you remember that the mubarak regime has been ruling under a state of emergency for nearly 30 years. that man does not know how to rule any other way. the state of emergency allows the police to do what they want, when they want, to whom they want. the demonstrators are saying emergency rule must end. take a look again at liberation square. the protesters are actually policing themselves. checking i.d.s, patting people
reports of open revolt there. a sign perhaps that at least a portion of the government propaganda machine may be cracking. that government newspaper today ran a front page story condemning, that s right, condemning recent attacks by pro-mubarak thugs. but the lies from the regime continue. today, egypt s foreign minister said the state of emergency cannot be lifted because they have 17,000 prisoners loose in the streets, and many police stations have been destroyed. and it sounds almost plausible at first, but then you remember that the mubarak regime has been ruling under a state of emergency for nearly 30 years. that man does not know how to rule any other way. the state of emergency allows the police to do what they want, when they want, to whom they want. the demonstrators are saying emergency rule must end. take a look again at liberation square. the protestors are policing themselves, checking i.d.s, patting people down. the chaos is not in that square, the chaos, the real chaos
a sign perhaps that at least a portion of the government propaganda machine may be cracking. that government newspaper today ran a front page story condemning, that s right, condemning recent attacks by pro-mubarak thugs. but the lies from the regime continue. today, egypt s foreign minister said the state of emergency cannot be lifted because they have 17,000 prisoners loose in the streets, and many police stations have been destroyed. and it sounds almost plausible at first, but then you remember that the mubarak regime has been ruling under a state of emergency for nearly 30 years. that man does not know how to rule any other way. the state of emergency allows the police to do what they want, when they want, to whom they want. the demonstrators are saying emergency rule must end. take a look again at liberation square. the protestors are policing themselves, checking i.d.s, patting people down. the chaos is not in that square, the chaos, the real chaos comes from government thugs wh
brushes, to repaint the curbs here, the stripes on the curbs and to try to clean this place up after 18 day of a sit-in and days of battle as well. and one of these activists, there was kind of an unspoken plan with the military to end the barricades, to end the sit-in despite the objections of what were described as the minority and to try to start to bring life back to normal. for the first time really, randi, we re seeing that there are no longer the demonstrators maintaining security here, patting people down, demanding passports from visitors. it s wide open now. people can congregate and come and go as they please. they re certainly doing that. there are families here. they re waving flags. it may sound cliche, but what a difference a day makes. ivan watson, do us a favor and keep an eye on that statue for us and let us know if it gets