Peanut Gallery: Ah… Egyptian Democracy in action… the pesky little inconvenient truths of the Arab Spring… swapping one dictator for another.

Good thing we backed the moderate transformed Muslim Brotherhood candidate. What’s that? He’s the new Pharaoh?

Nothing to see here folks… move along.
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Egypt’s Morsi Takes Dictatorial Powers

Egypt’s president on Thursday issued constitutional amendments that placed him above judicial oversight and ordered the retrial of Hosni Mubarak for the killing of protesters in last year’s uprising. Mohammed Morsi also decreed immunity for the Islamist-dominated panel drafting a new constitution from any possible court decisions to dissolve it, a threat that had been hanging over the controversial assembly.

Liberal and Christian members withdrew from the assembly during the past week to protest what they say is the hijacking of the process by Morsi’s allies, who they saw are trying to push through a document that will have an Islamist slant marginalizing women and minority Christians and infringing on personal liberties. Several courts have been looking into cases demanding the dissolution of the panel.
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