Egypt crisis

I’m sorry everybody, for the very long absence but I’ve been in Egypt.  I haven’t reported what was going on there because I know you are getting minute by minute reports from CNN, BBC, Aljazeera (sneakily because they have been shut down for causing lots of trouble and stirring up emotions with lots of lies-according to the authorities-) (Aljazeera has also been accused of lying about the Palestine Papers on their programme, Witness, apparently they took everything out of context giving everything a totally different meaning to what was actually being said)... But what would I know? I’m just a dumb pigeon.

But back to important things now, I have been quite ill since I got back, a funny tummy and I wonder why? Consequently, I have been sitting on or beside my pile, for many hours since I got back from Egypt.  Egypt was lovely and there was a HUUUUUGE crowd gathered in one of the squares there.  I was there too, on top of the Egyptian Museum.   It was very exciting, people shouting all sorts of things and I gathered from my many feathered friends there that they were demanding a complete change of government, from the Top Dog who has apparently managed to steal over $70 Billion to all the ministers who each has managed to steal a couple of billion. BILLION! That is $1 for each  billion pigeon.  Or $1000 each for a million pigeons.  Or 1 million dollars for a thousand pigeons.  It’s obscene isn’t it.  So between all the cronies in the government, they have stolen several hundred BILLION dollars.  PHEW!!!

If I was an Egyptian pigeon,(thank goodness I am not as I believe we are a delicacy there!) I’d want to peck a few eyes out.  As it is, the Egyptians have been amazingly calm and civilised.  They have exercised the most incredible restraint in the most trying circumstances. They have been the most unbelievable revolutionaries ever.  No heads rolling, no massacres.  Oh yes, the governmental mob have tried to stoke the fire but with little success

But what would I know? I’m just a dumb pigeon and this dumb pigeon thinks things are going to change.  Don’t ask me if they’re going to change for the better or for the worse but they’re going to change and change they must whether better or worse.  We can’t sit around trying not to upset the status quo because we’re scared of the future, things have to change and all these gobsmackingly GREEDY fat-cats sitting on top of and squashing their populations need to be pruned.  Just like the French pruned theirs, the Russians pruned theirs, and the Chinese pruned theirs.  OK, admittedly, we don’t want any heads guillotined or Imperial families shot, but just stick ‘em on a boat and send them on their way with a sack of rice and a few groats for them to buy supplies with.

I’ve got to rush off to the pile now.