Tunisia riots - gunmen loyal to country's leader riding around shooting

[The Straight Story]

As thousands of British holidaymakers fled the North African nation, its cities echoed to the sound of gunfire and looters continued to go on the rampage, despite a heavy security presence.

In the capital, Tunis, gunmen in plain clothes drove around spraying the streets with bullets, in an apparent effort to intimidate protesters off the streets.

At least two people were believed to have been killed, with eyewitnesses reporting bodies left lying in a city centre square. Senior Tunisian military sources said the gunmen belonged to factions still loyal to the country's strongman leader, President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, who fled to Saudi Arabia on Friday night.

"It is certain the presidential police are behind all this," added Taoufik Ayachi, a Tunisian analyst. "They still hope to regain power."

In a symbolic celebration of the end of Mr Ben Ali's rule, cheering crowds tore a portrait of the former president outside the headquarters of his ruling party on Mohamed V Avenue in the centre of Tunis.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/tunisia/8262026/Tunisia-riots-Fears-mount-over-violent-power-struggle.html

Some will trust only the govt with guns, or their factions and the cops - because they believe that you and me are a threat to them while governments and those working for them are good.

More people in the world have died from our government and it's arms than from our citizens and theirs.

Who you gonna trust - Bush, Mitt, Sarah or your neighbor? Guess the propaganda has worked when we fear each other and trust people we have never met (of course we have not met most those in govt but we just simply trust them).

The enemy is not us, but we have bought the idea that we are the enemy and those we elect are good and should be trusted while you and I are suspects - from TSA to camera's all over, etc and so on.