Caramblogage

So yes, I am in Egypt. I had hoped to write few posts, beginning with how air you breathe has changed and how you notice it the moment you leave the airport and a new abundance of hope. The latest shift in the wind, caused by the killing of about 75 people after a football game, has me writing about fear instead. There are be those who will try to crush hope through fear. The dominant undercurrent of many conversations has been fear. I have heard of violence, murders, kidnappings, bank robberies. People have spoken of how thing were safer under the old regime, of how such things used not to happen. Which is true, in part. Maybe they were not covered before. Maybe there was a police force in place, who,  matter how ineffective, corrupt and undertrained, did keep some measure of land order in place. Maybe things were better. But why did they get worse? Let's go back couple of weeks. The emergency law was lifted, a piece of very good news. With a single caveat. In case of thug