The news today illustrated the recent successes of “The People” in Egypt. Such changes are nearly universally congratulated publicly by leader of other nations. Simultaneously they are checking behind their own curtains for any seeds of similar discontent.
This is, of course, in the “Spirit of 76” once held in the early United States, embodied in the “Bill of Rights” and held dear at least for the first 50 years or so and the same revolutionary spirit embodied by the like of Lee and some other leaders of the Confederacy. By then however “the union” was considered more important at least to those in power.
Great credit is being given to the newer high-tech so-called social networking and it was very important, of course. In the same new programs one hears about the very potent IBM