{"id":1112,"date":"2006-07-04T00:37:54","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T00:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2006-07-04T00:37:54","modified_gmt":"2006-07-04T00:37:54","slug":"2006-7-4-back-to-serving-the-people-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"Back to “serving the people”"},"content":{"rendered":"
I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know when, but it was likely sometime during the 1990s Dirty War<\/a> that the Egyptian Interior Ministry decided to change its motto, usually printed on dusty signs that top police stations\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 entrances, from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Police is in Service of the People<\/strong>,\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The People and the Police are in Service of the Nation<\/strong>.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd
Whenever I came across those signs while driving or walking by a police station, or during a demo where I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m getting my share of beatings on the hands of the CSF, I always wondered what \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nation\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd exactly was the Interior Ministry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s motto referring to, that we, the people, together with our brave police officers<\/a> should protect? Mubarak\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s posters were usually present somewhere near the signs, and that always gave me a quick answer to my na\u00c3\u00afve question.
Well, it seems an Egyptian lawyer by the name Nabih el-Wahsh has been a bit upset with the Interior\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s motto too, so he filed a lawsuit against it, demanding the return to the old motto. I had no clue about the case, till I came across this Wafd report<\/a>. The lawyer has won the case (don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know when?), and scored another triumph yesterday with the Higher Administrative Court rejecting the Interior\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s appeal, and ordering the ministry to lift off the new motto from police stations and security directorates in all provinces, as it was deemed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unconstitutional.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd
Thus, now our Interior Ministry is to return to be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in service of the people.” So fellow Egyptians, cheer up… you will be served<\/a>… yes, served<\/a> awi awi<\/em>..<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know when, but it was likely sometime during the 1990s Dirty War<\/a> that the Egyptian Interior Ministry decided to change its motto, usually printed on dusty signs that top police stations\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 entrances, from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Police is in Service of the People<\/strong>,\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The People and the Police are in Service of the Nation<\/strong>.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd
\nWhenever I came across those signs while driving or walking by a police station, or during a demo where I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m getting my share of beatings on the hands of the CSF, I always wondered what \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nation\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd exactly was the Interior Ministry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s motto referring to, that we, the people, together with our brave police officers<\/a> should protect? Mubarak\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s posters were usually present somewhere near the signs, and that always gave me a quick answer to my na\u00c3\u00afve question.
\nWell, it seems an Egyptian lawyer by the name Nabih el-Wahsh has been a bit upset with the Interior\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s motto too, so he filed a lawsuit against it, demanding the return to the old motto. I had no clue about the case, till I came across this Wafd report<\/a>. The lawyer has won the case (don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know when?), and scored another triumph yesterday with the Higher Administrative Court rejecting the Interior\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s appeal, and ordering the ministry to lift off the new motto from police stations and security directorates in all provinces, as it was deemed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unconstitutional.\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd
\nThus, now our Interior Ministry is to return to be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153in service of the people.” So fellow Egyptians, cheer up… you will be served<\/a>… yes, served<\/a> awi awi<\/em>..<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[6,228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}