Happy #NoSCAF day!

Today, or i should say yesterday May 23rd was the #NoSCAF day which many Egyptian bloggers have been promoting and calling for quite some time now on Twitter, facebook and anywhere they can, the idea was simply to publish blog posts criticizing the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) to break the fear barrier and media silence over it's violations. I was supposed to write this post earlier but i got stuck at the hospital and went straight to bed when i got back so i'm writing this now, sadly it's gonna be extra short cause i have to be up in less than 4 hours and be back at the hospital so here goes. Looking a few months back, when we started the revolution on January 25th, the main goals were to free people from their fear from the system, letting people know that a president's main role is merely as a manager or an executive that the people hired to run the country and he's not a God like figure not to be criticized and breaking that taboo and many other goals of course but those where the ones high on my list, the idea of being able to express my opinion without the fear that i might get locked-up or tortured, it was giving everyone a chance to speak up without worrying about the consequences that might follow. Let's take a look about what we acheived on the past few month after the revolution:

• Hosni Mubarak: stayed in a palace in Sharm EL Sheikh protected by his own forces, and when he was supposed to go to trial he acted all sick like a kid who's skipping school and went to Sharm el sheik's hospital, and he's still there.

• Suzanne Mubarak: Released from detention after throwing away some chaneg (24 millions), also was admitted to the same hospital after a presumably panic attack.

• The SCAF issued an Anti-protest law.

• Protesters and detainees are facing military trials not civil ones although martial law is not applied.

• The SCAF started acting like the previous regime, keeping all the decision making to themselves with no representatives whatsoever of the people who made the revolution in the first place.

• The SCAF, more than once used violence against protesters and detainees , starting from beating them down, tying them, keeping them in non-humane conditions, cutting their hair and cussing them to using electric sticks, tasers and even live ammo against them.

• Protesters went to military trial for having a sit-in in front of the israeli embassy after being detained by the army.

• The same army forces who just stood there during the revolution while protesters were attacked and killed by thugs in Tahrir and other places and who were not-so-fashionably late during the Imbaba incident are the ones who didn't waste anytime in beating up and attacking the protesters in front of the israeli embassy and apprehending them and in Tahrir too before that.

• The usage of the Egyptian museum as a torture chamber by the army in many occasions.

• Not taking any action or showing the initiative to investigate these actions.

That's all i could think of right now,and from that we conclude that the revolution is far from over, we still got a long way to go and yet some people are wondering why many activits called for returning to Tahrir square on may 27th.

The revolution is still alive...