All Hail the Brave and Beautiful People of Tunisia!
Your demands for freedom and justice are reverberating around the world!
Sadly, the forces of reaction are gathering to ensure that your revolution will fail. At the lead is the counter-revolutionary agent of anti-democratic reaction in chief, the United States. Its allies, Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and, most notably, the State of Israel are, without a doubt, conferring among themselves even now to make certain that despotism and capitalism will reign supreme once the euphoria of this "Prague Spring" has been contained and neutralized.
Somehow, some way, your fever must spread: to Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, North Dakota, West Virginia, Louisiana, New York and New Jersey...
Somehow, some way, tiny Tunisia must lead us all out of slavery.
We are praying for miracles: "Miracles are to come," wrote the wise and unflappable e.e. cummings. "With you I leave a remembrance of miracles."
Brave Tunisia! Your stubbornness and your longing have produced the first miracle: the thug has fled the Presidential palace.
Settle for nothing less than self-determination through radical democracy.
You need models, leaders with political genius. I don't know how you're going to do it, Tunisia, but somehow, some way...
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