The Bucharest Lesson: bus in the goons [miners, in that case] and have a "revolution" in which the ruling apparatus remains unchanged and a farce of representative democracy.
That lesson was not lost on the Egyptian masters of the goon squad system.
And invoke respect for the father [the Prime Minister, Ahmed Shafiq, handling a journalist "scrum" today in Cairo (src: Nile TV interpreter).]
We need a new term for "police riot": a "goon riot".
June 15. 1990, The New York Times.
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Thursday, February 3, 2011
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