I almost jumped in the air, when I read an example of how to use the word ‘autocratic’. Longman says: ‘The President resigned after 30 years of autocratic rule’. I was immediately struck by the fact that Hosni Mubarak, who ran an autocratic regime, resigned after 30 years in power! It crossed my mind that, if Mubarak’s assistants or any of their children had happened to flip through Longman, they would have advised him to resign peacefully, long before the world’s first-ever online uprising forced him to do so. Like Longman’s amazing prediction, the former President’s resignation on February 11, also appears to be an escapable destiny. I should not claim this discovery. It is the Facebook bloggers’. Now that the January 25 uprising has fulfilled Longman’s prediction, let’s get the pleasantries out of the way and discuss the real job on the ground. This unprecedented uprising has removed Mubarak, paving the way for the peaceful transfer of power in Egypt, as well as leading to the formation of an ad hoc committee, which will amend the Constitution within a few days, and the dissolution of a parliament, which was the fruit of massive election rigging. Although the entire nation has been celebrating these achievements, the newly formed Alliance of January 25's Revolutionary Youths dismisses them as not enough. They have renewed their online call for their colleagues to reoccupy Tahrir Square and to put pressure on the caretaker government to eliminate the Emergency Law. The young revolutionaries ignore the scary fact, that tens of thousands of convicts are now hiding somewhere, having escaped from prison. In the absence of an Emergency Law, it will be difficult for the police to rearrest these fugitives and trace the thousands of guns, pistols and rounds of ammunition, stolen by criminals and thugs from the armouries in the nation’s police stations. The revolutionary boys and girls have also dismissed the proposed constitutional amendments as not enough. They want drastic changes in the Constitution, even if the changes obstruct the bid by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to have a new president elected in six months’ time. We must admit that, irrespective of their youth, these protesters have showed amazing perseverance to achieve their goals, proving themselves wiser and saner than their parents. While the youngsters were celebrating their victory, their parents, workers and employees, added to the chaos and instability by refusing to go to work until they get better paid. There are now concerns that it might take several years to get Egypt’s economy back on track. The youngsters, who persuaded Mubarak to leave office prematurely, should sit down with their striking parents to persuade them to go back to work. It is now time to construct a post-Mubarak Egypt, in which human rights, social justice, freedom of expression and hard work are considered to be something cherished. | 
