Please Britain, don’t let Mubarak inspire your response to unrest | Mona Eltahawy | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/12/riots-egyptian-mubarak-civil-liberties
Water cannon? Calling in the army? Shutting down or disrupting mobile phone messaging services and social networks in times of civil disorder? Oh the irony of ironies. Six months after my country’s dictator, Hosni Mubarak, stepped down after 18 days of a popular uprising, British prime minister David Cameron, members of parliament and the security services were seriously discussing those draconian measures in response to days of riots.