Thursday, September 8, 2011

Such Violence: CE

Football Trouble in Egypt

                                    "More than 130 police officers have been injured in clashes with fans of one of Egypt's most prominent football clubs following an Egyptian Cup match in Cairo, security sources and officials at the health ministry said."
             After reading that article I could not help but wonder what the police, or the people, did to start a riot. Naturally it does not matter  because situations like those often end up with someone injured or even killed. No matter where it began, what counts is where and how it is finished. It makes me think about,  in those intense moments of violence, have the protesters forgotten what there cause originally was in the first place. When I apply that old term, "actions speak louder than words, " to this predicament, it just yells get SWAT down here to scare people back into there right minds.
             Things like that always end bad, you don't need me to tell you that though. Of course at times people need assert themselves to get there point out in the open. Especially when dealing with public crowds. However, I would imagine the protesters were about sixteen and up, for whoever organized the protest, weather people came in little by little or in big groups. It should not take burning cars, wounded people, or even police for someone to stop and think, "this is getting out of control." We are all "only human," but that should not suggest that, just because of that one fact, people cannot do something as simple as a protest with out a disaster occurring.

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