I know I should have made a poll and let you choose yet I could not find a public personality that we can all agree that he or she is the one because we have too many personalities that appeared this year and proved to be the Person of the year in its field whether it is politics or arts or sports...etc
Here I am talking nationally not internationally
Still I chose my Person of the year 2007
He or she is not one single person but they are 55,000 Governmental employees
My Person of the year 2007 in Egypt is The Real Estates tax collectors across the country
Those great men and women were the first Governmental employees to protest and make a strike for a complete 11 days since the 1919 Revolution , yes since the 1919 revolution no governmental employee had protested against the government till the those great men and ladies fed up from the broken promises
Those men and ladies came from all over the country ,from Cairo and Alexandria ,From Delta and Upper Egypt and From Sinai to stay in the street of Kasr El-Ainy in front of the office of the Prime minister 24/7 in the month of December , for complete 11 Days , they even brought their families with them and slept on the cold street till the government fulfil their demands
They did not give up any of their very modest demands and they were not fooled by the government sweet words
They succeeded because they knew that they were the powerful party here , they did not feel afraid from the Police on the contrary they were bold because they know they were right and the rest of the people would have answered back aggressively if anything had been happened to them by the Police forces
These people inspired us in a way or another and they showed us that we the people are the real power which the government and the regime really fear ,the anger of the White collars .
The government in the end had to listen and fulfil all their demands because they could not jeopardize leaving them more days in the winter till the Eid and the New year
Real Estates Tax Collectors you were the bright star in the dark Sky , May Allah bless you for your stand and gives us some of your courage and Patience in order to get back our lost rights
The Real Estates Tax Collectors were the first to change the infamous slogan "with blood and Soul we will sacrifice whoever the president's name is" to "With blood and Soul we will get food to our Children"
BY the way I am anxious to hear about the Person whom you think deserves to be the Person of year 2007 in Egypt
What? You don't think it's Jimmy cuz he finally stopped foolin' around and screwing everything in a skirt and got MARRIED to a rich blonde bitch? LOL. Hey for that he deserves a nomination at least! It's hard work giving up all those easy girls that are at your beck and call because you are the ruling family's son.
ReplyDeleteSeriously I'd vote for the Mahalla textile workers who went on strike during Ramadan or the tax collectors. Egyptians are finally demanding their rights. And about time!
@anonymous, well stop fooling around and getting married are not the only thing he did for sure this year , you forgot his activity in NDP !!
ReplyDeleteAnyhow the Mahalla textile workers deserve this title ,I forgot them and remembered the tax collectors as their strike was so recent
the Textile workers did not manage to take back their rights but also they managed to get rid from the CEO of the company who was removed by a ministerial decree after the strike , this is a victory of its own