Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Libya, Yemen, Djibouti, Iran, Madison

What do these places have in common? Uprisings by people who are fed up with repression by leaders who abuse their absolute power. Mubarak, Khadafi--you know who they are. People openly ally with each other across borders and support each others methods to find communication channels despite governments' attempts to shut them down.

After a few weeks of these tumultuous turns, a few things are very clear. One thing that's clear: Who supports democracy and who doesn't. For instance, the United States of America, former bastion of liberty and civil rights has not yet moved to support the indigenous people in any of the popular uprisings DURING the uprisings. AFTER Mubarak gave up, we announced our support for the people's uprising. Talk about fair weather friends! We are very faithful to whomever is in power now.

On the other hand people all over the country and all over the world--including Egypt have sent financial and spiritual support to their brothers and sisters on the barricades in Madison, Wisconsin. You don't need much more information than that to see who supports freedom and who doesn't.

I suppose the best we can hope for from the United States is that we don't attack the enemies (the demonstrators) of our dictator allies in each rebelling country. So far we haven't. But what about helping other rebelling peoples as for example, France and Haiti, helped us in our rebellion from England? Will we never help the peoples in rebellion?

Is the mother of democracy barren of the milk of liberty for young rebellions?

If we will not save the street protesters from death in Libya now, when will we move to limit the continuing loss of life? And why are waiting? Every day we delay means more needless deaths.