Saturday, January 26, 2013

Death on the Nile

I'm confused. Whenever I read a news story about the soccer riots in Egypt I get the impression that Egyptian soccer fans think they have a right to riot during and after a soccer game and that they aren't doing anything wrong, even if people are killed in the process. Is that it? I'm not really sure, but that's what I'm getting out of all this hoopla.

French Soccer Fans Confused Me A Long Time Ago


I also get the impression that Egyptian authorities think they have every right to arrest rioters who caused the stampede deaths of other soccer fans and that Egyptian courts think they have the right to condemn these criminals to death. I do, too. But now, after death sentences are finally handed down, they're rioting again and — my apologies if I'm wrong here — they're rioting again because Egyptian soccer fans (at least most of them, at any rate) think they're above the law? Is that it? Because, if that's it, I wouldn't go to Egypt to take a goddamn shit.