By nothing more than luck, I am him, only not as brave.

[kpete]

I just saw a man shot to death.
by 4CasandChlo
Fri Jan 28, 2011 at 09:31:36 PM PST

Yes, right from my couch, I saw a man, one I never knew but now have huge feelings for, shot dead. He was unarmed. He was angry, probably hungry, armed only with his sense of decency.

It was on CNN. I saw footage of the uprising in Egypt. The producers/editors at CNN highlighted him. He was part of a crowd, shouting about poverty, injustice, government control and human rights. The crowd fled with fear as the line of police marched toward them. He stayed and continued shouting, one man.

As he stayed, the camera showed him and no one else. He was shot and his body crumpled, he was dead before he hit the ground.

............

This man chose to protest the fate dictated to Egypt's "have nots". He is a better man than me. I am unemployed, have no health insurance, am forty, have a wife and daughter and a doctorate -- I am considered an American "have not", certainly by myself. And yet, I had pizza for dinner. My dog is asleep at my feet. My wife and daughter are asleep in a king sized bed. I "have" -- but only b/c I was lucky to be born into a good family, in a country where opportunity was availabe, for some anyway. By nothing more than luck, I am him, only not as brave.

more:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2011/1/29/939726/-I-just-saw-a-man-shot-to-death.

[niyad]

1. k and r--thank you so much for sharing this

[Solly Mack]

2. k/r

[jannyk]

3. k&r!

[patrice]

4. K&R

[siligut]

5. K&R

If only empathy were prevalent.

[Tansy_Gold]

6. We are not a third world county -- not yet

As much as some of us -- and I have to include myself on occasion -- rail that the US is a third world country, we really are not.

And that is why we do not have rioting in the streets.

We are a long, long way from that, which means we still have time to avoid Egypt's fate. Lots of time. But not too much. . . .




TG, TT