Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is now facing trial in his own country for his role in the deaths of protesters that led to his removal from power.
If found guilty, he will face the death penalty.
Can this man get a fair trial in a nation freshly incensed his thirty-year tyranny?
Who will testify against him? The same military leadership which he commandeered during his long tenure in power, the same political group-think currently presiding over law and order in a nation on the brink of another tyranny or outright chaos.
For a nation that is attempting to reassert itself as a nation abiding by the rule of law, this kangaroo court of political vengeance flies in its face.
Reminiscent of the sham show trial mounted against the deposed British Monarch Charles the First, Mubarak is at the mercy of a forever biased assembly, one which has only one interest, and that is not justice, but revenge and an open expiation of long-festering resentment from the oppressed youth who now populate the country.
Mubarak's death will effect no order, no stability in a nation now running on mob rule. Just as the execution of Charles the First gave way to the oppressive Commonwealth of religious fanatic Oliver Cromwell, just as the execution of King Louis XVI ushered in a Reign of Terror in which no Frenchman was safe from the Law of Suspects and the Bloodthirsty Directory, the public humiliation and diminution of the man Hosni Mubarak will spell the doom for the rights of all in Egypt, a terrible precedent for a region now barely tasting the first hint of political and populist efficacy in many years.
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