Pro-Mubarak Forces Attacking Media

The latest word from Egypt is that there are now pro-government gangs, and other pro-government forces swarming the streets, attempts to fight back the revolutionaries who want regime change. These pro-government gangs have taken to attacking foreign journalists and news organizations, while the rebel forces have always treated the journalists more respectfully.

I’m not really surprised. It is usually the state and not the people who are afraid of free speech and a free press. It is the state who has the most to lose when a free press reveals the details of their doings to the people.

Even though our press has always shown its support for a leftist agenda in this country, to the rest of the world, it does represent a freedom which much of the rest of the world does not have. And that is probably why it is such a threat.