Blog Prompt 7: 200 word reflection

I would like to talk about this article in this blog post:http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2089390,00.html


It is a shocking scene to see so many people, mainly the youths of Egypt, go onto the streets in the masses. It is shocking because of two things. Firstly, the youth are the ones that now dare to stand up and overturn the government, and secondly, the things that the citizens of Egypt have to go through, and the time that they spent under the tyranny Hosni Mubarak. There is no justice in Egypt currently; everything is up to the corrupt government to decide. The police are corrupted, beating random civilians on the streets, and the government is also terrible, hiring thugs to scare the people to cast votes that favour the ruling government. The riot police are seen beating up the rioters, which has no link to "controlling the riot". It is an uneasy sight to see such atrocities being done by the government in the Middle East. Another sad thing to see is that the government allow the police to be corrupt, and even encourage corruption to make up for their measly pay. The wrong doing police, mostly those high ranking ones, are also being protected by the government such they can retain their jobs or in more complicated situations be transferred to other sections in the law enforcement. It is both sad and irritating to see how deep corruption can go, and how difficult it is to eradicate it, especially when corruption is everywhere. Next to nothing has been done in the Middle East to help this corruption and I cannot help but feel how lucky we are in Singapore. So what if our ministers get paid more? As long as they are corruption free, this is already the greatest blessing to me.