And so we hear that the tyrant chooses to remain. The calls of the people fall on the deaf ears of the entrenched elite. The tyrant speaks and the people shake their shoes at him. And then the newly minted Vice President, Omar Suleiman, speaks.
“Go back home,” he says. “Go back to your work.”
Because what’s important is for the people to be at work, for them to be at home with bread in their bellies safe in their beds. We can’t have them in the streets.
“Do not listen to satellite television stations,” he says. “May peace be upon you.”
Peace indeed.