By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
There were brutal lynchings in Egypt yesterday.
Two men were caught stealing a motorized rickshaw. They were dragged to the public square which houses an open air bus station.
They were beaten, stripped and hung upside down.
3,000 people watched. 3,000 people shouted "kill them, kill them." They were killed - but only after they were beaten, stripped and hung upside down.
Witnesses describe and pictures depict a gruesome act of vigilantism.
Last week the Egyptian interior ministry called on the public to make citizens arrests because the police were on strike and law and order was turning to chaos. But vigilantism is almost worse than the chaos.
There is no real sense of safety on the streets of Egypt. There is no justice.
Egypt is teetering, it seems to be on the verge of total collapse.
The rise of Muslim Brotherhood militias will push the anarchy to a new low.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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