Bahrain Update

My reliable source on Bahrain sent me this:  "Ayat Al Qurzumi, the 20 year old poet that was jailed and tortured for reading a poem was apparently forced to apologize to the King on Bahrain TV.  This short documentary shows Ayat reciting the poem   (Ignore the corny distracting music in the background - I have no idea why they always do that) Its the first time I heard her poem.  It is really powerful.   Everyone I am talking to is predicting that the escalation of these forced apologies and the rush to try the doctors and journalists is in preparation for the King pardoning the prisoners next week.  (Even if this is true, I doubt that all the prisoners will be released especially the anti-monarchists.)  This way the government thinks that they can start on a clean slate and have the opposition parties beg for the government to bring Bahrain to its pre-february 14 days.  What the government fails to understand is that there is no going back.  The demands of the february 14 movement are not new.  The same demands existed for decades now and the government has constantly failed to meet these demands.  The crackdown simply has escalated the demands.  People are now calling for the downfall of the entire regime.  The minimum the protestors will accept would be a full constitutional monarchy with an elected Prime Minister and Parliament. A lot of people will not even accept that.  The Youth of the Feb 14 movement have already said that they are against dialogue.  What remains to be seen is how the opposition movement deals with the immense anger on the street.  Any agreement reached by the opposition has to be approved by the protestors. Otherwise it just won't work.  After all, the opposition can't control the people. I mean look at the case of Yemen."