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- saxreturns, on 04/16/2008, -4/+159Hooray, Twitter actually finally became useful!
- GerryBot, on 04/16/2008, -3/+142You'd kick yourself if you thought of that but realised you'd never linked your Twitter account to your mobile phone...
- decepticrat, on 04/16/2008, -5/+113While it's great that thanks (in part) to Twitter he was released, his Egyptian interpreter, Mohammed Salah Ahmed Maree, who was arrested with him is still being held incommunicado by Egyptian authorities. Please read the article in full and then please go sign this petition to support the release of Mohammed Maree.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/free-mohammed-mar ... - bxblox, on 04/16/2008, -19/+112Twitter is useless, stop trying to convince me it isnt.
- serif69, on 04/16/2008, -0/+56"I said, 'No' and I stayed for 12 more hours and we started a hunger strike at some point."
This is an example of a man being extremely smart and extremely stupid all in the same situation. - saxreturns, on 04/16/2008, -2/+53Feel free to take your spam elsewhere.
- Dylson, on 04/16/2008, -0/+40You just did that? Seriously? Wow....
- serif69, on 04/16/2008, -0/+37Even if that's the case, who goes on a hunger strike for less than 12 hours, starting in the middle of the night? That basically means they went without breakfast. If that counts as a hunger strike, I've been on hundreds of hunger strikes in the last year alone.
- fkr3, on 04/16/2008, -4/+37lol @ another online petition. You're kidding yourselves if you think you're actually doing something worthwhile signing those.
Donate money or volunteer with Amnesty International or the Red Cross if you actually want to help people like the interpreter. - pintomp3, on 04/16/2008, -4/+33fine. stay in jail then.
- credence, on 04/16/2008, -0/+22FIGHT THE POWER!
- aconaway, on 04/16/2008, -0/+20To Twitter: Help, help. I'm being repressed?
- heavyd14, on 04/16/2008, -0/+20Don't most jails take your possessions and/or cuff you? Kind of hard to send a text without your phone.
- greenlight2001, on 04/16/2008, -1/+21What the ***** do I care what you're doing moment to moment? Do I even know you?
- inactive, on 04/16/2008, -2/+22How about I just use Digg for politic and tech news and not your spam filled piece of *****
- chris8535, on 04/16/2008, -1/+19Buck is a good guy, and we were all worried in our department when he got arrested. But he was there to point out the injustices in Egypt, the riots and the police brutality. He got out, but his translator was not as lucky.
- scuvball, on 04/16/2008, -1/+18"I'm very angry and I'm frustrated. I'm an American and I got released and he didn't. It makes me feel guilty and upset and I'm not going to stop until he gets out," Buck said.
I felt quite the same way when I was in Egypt. There is security all over the place - metal detectors at every door, armed police standing guard everywhere. It's funny, they would let all of us (obviously white) tourists walk right through the metal detectors without stopping us - only paying attention to arabs who would walk through. It does inspire guilt, but there are reasons for this type of security.
In 1997 (http://terror.fredogfrihed.dk/attacks.htm), 65 tourists were killed in Hatshepsut temple by gunmen. Western people (see, white) are not going to go to Egypt to commit violent crime. My tour leader, the bus drivers, all faced tough scrutiny when going through checkpoints where all the tourists with me faced none. Although it sucks to have to go through that type of security as an Egyptian, tourists demand safety and that's the only way the country can provide it. Tourism is the second leading revenue earner for them besides the Suez canal. - numberneal, on 04/16/2008, -1/+16now that's what i call a social media campaign.
- Zihuatanejo, on 04/16/2008, -3/+18If only the Jews had Twitter thousands of years ago.
Twitter: SLAVES - inactive, on 04/16/2008, -3/+17*I
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*You're - rpayne656, on 04/16/2008, -0/+14Buried for the inability to use Google.
- rameznabel, on 04/16/2008, -1/+15i'm from egypt and i want to clearfy somthing, the hole thing begin in the social networking from a facebook group asking for Civil disobedience on 6 April 2008 and it hit the phones by sms and posting the idea in every Egyptian web site and blog comment , also a twitter network was setup to report about the arrested bloggers or people that participate in the Civil disobedience because with Egyptian police it's hard to know what's going on and hard to ask any question
so honestly i can thank the internet for helping the Egyptian people fighting there government
- woohhaa, on 04/16/2008, -0/+13Started a hunger strike you say? That must have been the most terrible 12 hours of your life.
- govsucks, on 04/16/2008, -0/+13Well, at least he learned a little about middle eastern cultures. :)
- dgendreau, on 04/16/2008, -1/+13fixed link:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/free-mohammed-mar ... - locojones, on 04/16/2008, -0/+12Why is judicar getting dug down? He actually read the article and pulls out the most salient point, a point which completely contradicts the story's title. The authorities offered to let him go and he refused. This is completely independent of the stupid Twitter angle, which has absolutely no relevance to the story after that fact.
- Ndiggnation, on 04/16/2008, -0/+11Thought about that, and then again, maybe you don't want to leave in the middle of the night..
- LoCoPyRo, on 04/16/2008, -3/+14Wait.. so he was offered to be released and rejected. Causing him to have to be bailed out by a US attorney and get his friend sent to another prison? I dont see how Twitter helped him at all.. it sounds like he could have gotton out on his own and he was just trying to make a political and moral statement. I guess he's lucky he comes from such an influential college and they cared enough.
- opiniastrous, on 04/17/2008, -0/+11Not much, but I suppose there is the face that Twitter allowed him to send the message to hundreds of people, maximising the chance that he would be helped.
- judicar, on 04/16/2008, -9/+17... in the middle of the night, hours after his arrest, authorities told him he was free to go. "I said, 'No' and I stayed for 12 more hours and we started a hunger strike at some point.
Then, the Egyptian lawyer hired by UC Berkeley arrived. "I just caved," he said.
Word of advice, next time a foreign country that provides no civil liberty guarantees throws you in jail ... and then releases you. YOU LEAVE. Do-gooders like this deserve what they get. - rpayne656, on 04/16/2008, -2/+10*you're
- airquotes, on 04/16/2008, -0/+8Arabic mainly.. Please read a book.
- Vindexus, on 04/16/2008, -1/+8i think buck is a pretty cool guy. eh points out injusticeis in egypt and doesn't afraid of anything.
(***** you all, I love to meme.) - joegibes, on 04/17/2008, -0/+7takin a dump, wow its not comin out well about 1 hour ago from web
- inactive, on 04/16/2008, -0/+7lol, thanks!
- rhinitus, on 04/17/2008, -0/+7how would this have been any different than just texting someone?
- aliguana, on 04/16/2008, -0/+7you think the Egyptians DON'T take your stuff from you?
If that was in the US, and you Twittered "arrested", all it would mean is your "friends" would come round your house and help themselves to your plasma and the beer in your fridge. - designer, on 04/16/2008, -4/+10Moral of story, never go to Egypt.
- AmICoolNow, on 04/17/2008, -0/+6Can you post your myspace, too!?
- inactive, on 04/17/2008, -1/+7http://twitter.com/jamesbuck/statuses/786571964
- solidus636, on 04/16/2008, -0/+6Wow.
- crawf061, on 04/16/2008, -3/+9To aconaway: What, what? Repressed in the butt.
- ORBAT, on 04/16/2008, -1/+6Did your mother kick you in the head too much when you were little, or were you actually born that stupid?
- JasonHaley, on 04/17/2008, -0/+5Twitter? That's nothing! I once used my iPhone to prevent a weather delay at the airport.
- Kerath, on 04/17/2008, -0/+5They would steal your blood?
- OwdenBowden, on 04/16/2008, -3/+8its Egypt. You are lucky if they tie you up to a non spitting camel.
- kaelyiesta, on 04/16/2008, -2/+7Sigh, governments just love to control people no matter the nation. How did we humans ever come to this point where one man will put another in a confined room against his will for documenting a gathering of people? It seems so absurd once phrased in such a simple, honest language.
- naonao, on 04/16/2008, -0/+5No such thing as a non-spitting camel.
- YodaJones, on 04/17/2008, -0/+4As soon as I signed up for Twitter my penis grew 3 inches. Thanks Twitter.
- petebot, on 04/16/2008, -1/+5why can't they do both?
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