She is Faransa
She is a lady-thug, a profession that is usually practiced by the low classes, who didn't have enough education and rather got criminal background, and as I said before, she doesn't talk, she acts immediately, and her voice is both the slung tongue and her powerful hand.
Okay enough of this silly talk.
The entire world spoke about the violence that occurred in the Phase Two of the Parliament elections 2005 in Egypt, already 3 people were killed ,hundreds were injured and people are frightened , surely you had seen some news report of course not on the Egyptian National Television but on al-Jazeera and others real news channel , and you saw the strange battles between the thugs " It is the first time I know this word in English , I learned it from the Dostor Newspaper this week," and the electors from a side and the other candidates parties and groups .
Who hired them? well lets see the whole scene, those groups come male and female, all with criminal records, go and threat electors and prevent them from voting, hit the other candidates and followers especially the banned Muslim Brotherhood, and all under the eye and ear of the police and security forces and even under their protection ……Well it is not Ramadan Riddle but I fear that NDP began to lose its temper.
In the second phase I was terrified to know see that scene in Al-Jazeera which they kept repeating it in their news in the day of the elections, where a man, a thug throwing a desk over a group of ladies who were going to vote in one of the School to frighten them and make them go away and so the cheating can be done peacefully in the Committee. I won't talk much about why NDP use these Dirty methods or how we could prevent it; I will speak about Faransa ……
Khalety Faransa "Aunty Faransa" was a block buster comedy that was presented last year in Egypt starring Egypt 's leading actresses whom I love them so much Abla Kamal "This lady deserves an OSCAR " and Mona Zaki. The movie is written by Balal Fadel, the famous sarcastic writer in Dostor newspaper "I read his page all of it every Wednesday especially "Alamain", the movie is a comedy a bout the life of two ladies thugs who only live on quarrels and how the society look to them and how the younger lady, Faransa's Niece "Zaki" wants a better future for her and her little Sister whom she fears her from this dark life, Light comedy many people didn't like because of the Slang language used and even some said how come a civilized country like Egypt produced such movie and the women's repetition…..Bla bla bla. After watching this movie and after watching what happened in the last elections' phase I believe that this reality movie more than a comedy, Fadel put the Poison in the honey as we say in Egypt.
There is a master scene in Khalety Faransa in My opinion which will explain why I made this relation between Faransa and the elections.
The Scene is like this:
- Faransa and her niece are arrested by the police after some quarrel and already they could go to jail yet the police officer will make a devil deal for them , already there is in the room , a devil invoice , a man from the ruling party "Didn't say that he is from the NDP but anyone can understand that" , the officer said that they will be set free if they do a favor for the government, and here the devil invoice completes the deal: "Haja " used to describe the person who comes back from pilgrim from Mecca in a way of respect in Arabic language " Faransa , there is a bad man that is standing against us in the elections and we are wondering if you and your quarreling-trouble making- thaugs ladies can stop him" Batta , the rebel niece of Faransa asks "why you consider him bad ?"the officer answers "Shut up " yet the devil invoice says "because he spoils young men and girls ,this is for Egypt's sake"
- In the elections, we found out that the bad guy is a professor in the faculty of Political science and he is an opponent of the NDP candidate ,and the candidate is supported by Faransa's love a drug dealer and her brother in law who works in prostitution and so Bata while hitting a college girl has this little chat with her aunt " How come this man is good while a drug dealer walks beside him ?" and her aunt of course because she adores the drug dealer ignores this fact but she is in wonder how come this dirty brother in law walks beside the NDP candidate , and then Batta and her hands pulling the hair of the college girl began to ask her if she was a bad girl who wanted to spoil the people "the same words in Arabic " , and who is this evil man and so on and the moment the truth is revealed Bata says to Faransa " we are deceived " , in less than a second Faransa led the quarrel to the other side and the scene ended with Abd Halim voice's chanting " Ya ya Baldy " " oh my country ".
Did you see the relation? The truth in the movie those two quarreling ladies are kinder than in the real life, Balal Fadel already is considered a writer from the opposition and so I guess what wrote is what he is wishing to happen to the NDP.
The thugs ladies and men are usually highly profiled criminals with so much hate to the society, with crimes from prostitution to drug dealing to become hit men some times , coming from very low classes with failure in study that cause them to hate and desicpe the educated class or anyone who has some certain level of Knowledge, they exist in every society in the world, the mixture of poverty with ignorance, criminal intention and hate so much hate, they hate this society as they believe it is the fault of this society that made them such unacceptable personalities , partially there is some truth but being poor and uneducated is not an excuse of being a criminal , they can sell their own livers from money , their kids , anything for money , they are for rent , to be used in Quarrels that can even reach to become a hit men as I said before " in Alexandria , an opponent candidate to NDP was being stabbed but fortunately he lived. Knives, Swiss knives, hydorlic acids, sticks and even swords are their weapons not to mention their other weapons from making Chaos and sexually harassing women are other destructive weapons they used.
As it was mentioned in the movie and in real life and as I said before they sell themselves to anyone for money even the devil, even to the government to the police and security forces, after all the government can send them to jail, in this year the NDP used them a lot, so much, in the famous riot in the Journalism Syndication where the ladies journalists were being harassed and in the elections especially the second phase last week, the winds of change!!!!!!!!
I don't know if I should feel pity over those thugs as social class or hate them, or what!?
I see that disgusting scene and remember it, the one where this criminal throwing desk over the ladies and I got angry, then I remember the young man who was killed in Alexandria in the Quarrel, this young man is younger than me only 20 years old and ironically he was just walking in that damn street, and he didn't elect or even has an election id, just walking by in Peace to become the martyr of the war of democracy and I become very sad.
The police and the thugs became the language the NDP and the government use to back up its power in Egypt, not the army and military rule, no we are fooling ourselves if we say that the army rules us as in Nasser days, we ruled by the NDP whose members didn't join the army, most them even escaped from mandatory service of the army as they got a flat foot!!!!!! We ruled under a military law, yes I know but I ask you where the army is now?
The police issue is very deep yet the thaugs and the quarrel and trouble makers make me think so much, as they belong to the low class, the class that got a really voting power in the elections, the low class that the labors, the peasants and farmers belong to, the low class which sell their votes to get money and even sell their votes to get a meal, just one meal for one hour and after that they will go back to their hunger.
In these elections 2005 billions were spent to buy votes , the minister of inhibition gave the people in his area flats and home appliances so they vote for him , Mustafa El-faky who was declared a loser at night ,yet in morning he was winner distributed meals of liver "very low cost meal "!!!
I once asked a professor in University about India, How it became the biggest democracy in the world, The U.S doesn't have this title, India with its large population most of them are under the poverty line, ignorance, sickness and illiteracy, How come !?
He answered me saying that Politicians there go to people and explain to them in very simple way the importance of their voting power and how it can change their lives either from hell to heaven or heaven to hell, it is their own choice but this is in India, already a country with Democracy and constitution and Parliament not like in Egypt yet the idea here that political culture or the voting culture as they keep saying in TV day and night.
Yet question here why in India there is no thugs and Quarrel and trouble makers with all those parties and so on? And why they exist in Egypt? Simply because in India there is democracy while in Egypt there is no democracy, there is dictatorship.
The end from Khalety Faransa Movie:
Batta while knowing the truth from the College "Tell me gal who sent you? Who is this bad guy? You want to spoil the university youth."
The college girl "No one sent me , I am here to support my professor and he is good guy , he wants to be a Parliament member so he can help in making a better future for youth and making you stop hitting people ."
Batta Stopped pulling the girl's hair "So you are not a bad girl"
"If I am bad girl, you too are a bad girl"
the low class people or the working class aren't doing thuggery stuff.in fact they were mostly the ones subjected to thuggery and intimidated by knives and swords . since they are the biggest voters block - in number, and they are voting in percentage much higher than the almost boycotting middle class, i remember a conscript telling me once: " elente7'bat hiya el nas sha3byeem" pointing to the uptown buildings we were facing, out of which no one came out to vote- . the low class neighborhoods is where thugs acted most in alexandria. that's where the voters where, and that's where violence can pass almost un-noticed. aljazeera took what? 2 or 3 footages of the violence. so we saw it on tv, while the poor got to witness it. if it was in a middle class area you would have got people with voices - doctors, professors..etc- talking about what they witnessed. as for 25th of may , sometimes i wonder would 25th of may get so much attention if it weren't journalists and lawyers who were harrassed?
ReplyDeletejust few days after the beni sweef fire tragedy another tragedy that involved peasants happened but it didn't get much - if any- attention.
but i digress!
my point is: no! it's not about a class of uneducated people with anti-social behaviour. it's about thugs who attacked and intimidated mostly those same lower class voters.
just few hours ago while i was at the office of an opposition candiadte on the eve of re-run elections, 2 young uneducated men came to inform us of criminals being called and given weapons in preparation for tomorrow. where will those criminals hit? i think they will do that - as they did last sunday- in the not-so-classy area of the constituency.
I always wondered what happen if the opposition parties paid the thugs more money?! Will they turn on NDP instead?
ReplyDeleteAlso why would not any one explain to those thugs that the life of their children will be better if the NDP is no more. Even criminals love the best for their children.
Did any one try to talk to those thugs or at least pay them? I am serious!
@ Mohamed got your point , in fact you are right about something that we don't give attention much attention to the lower class and that's why all those tragdies happen including the thugs
ReplyDelete@egyptian-in-USA,talking is better than paying , and yes no every person is 100% criminal