By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
Yesterday Hosni Mubarak was wheeled into a courtroom in the police academy in Cairo, Egypt. He was placed in a metal cage with his two sons and several other defendants.
Mubarak, the former president of Egypt, was being tried on three charges:
# 1: the deaths of people who died during the January revolution that ousted him from power
# 2: corruption in a Sinai development deal
# 3: corruption in a gas deal that cheated Egypt out of natural gas while selling it to Israel
Egyptians seem of two minds regarding the Mubarak trial, and both sides came out and made their voices heard.
One side says try him, convict him and kill him - he was a ruthless dictator, a thug and a tyrant. They say the new Egypt must make a symbol out of old man Mubarak.
The other side says that over the three decades of his reign, Mubarak accomplished important and positive feats for Egypt - now he is old and sick and just let him go already. They assert that his greatest crime was staying in power too long.
The trial was pushed off and will continue on August 15. In the meantime, Mubarak is being moved to a Cairo hospital, close to the court proceedings.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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