the next government

Reuters reports that protestors have formed a committee for the defense of the revolution. That’s a good idea, though I’m not inclined to worry at the moment.

1510: There’s still a great deal of uncertainty about what form of government will eventually emerge. Veteran pro-democracy campaigner and newspaper publisher Hisham Kassem is hopeful. He tells the BBC: “The idea that another dictator will happen in Egypt is out of the question. Mubarak came to power in 1981 during the Cold War, Soviet Union – pre the internet, pre satellite and pre 25 January. The rules have changed completely in Egypt after January 25. People pushed out an incumbent dictator that had been there for the last 30 years. Whoever comes next has to deal with this new reality.”

I tend to agree with Kassem’s views here. Egypt is simply a different place from the one in which Mubarak came to power.