Comrade Amer sent me this (I cite with his permission): "It is too much, I watched today. They use youtube videos as time-fillers because they have no material and find no decent guests to peddle their line, while the potential Syrian speakers would scare people or embarrass themselves. They take a 100 person demonstration, and they show it for 10 mnts, we are all - 300 million Arabs - supposed to sit and watch 100 pixelated people demonstrating in Edleb and listen to their every chant. Then they show another one in Dar`a. And so on. When done, they repeat them all over again. It is not only propaganda, it is boring...And there is this guy... Abu Ja`far. He pissed the hell out of me. First he calls from Homs, he is like "All of Homs, ALL OF IT, is out today, the women, the kids, the cats, immense crowds". The anchor realizes it is a bit incredulous, so the question he comes up with after a moment of hesitation: "and how is the police treating you?". Abu Ja`far says no clashes have happened so far. 10 minutes later, Abu Ja`far calls again, "they're attacking us, they're massacring us!". What happened? He says that 4 buses full of Shabbi7a were unloaded and attacked them with sticks and knives. Ya3ni a massive demonstration was supposedly suppressed by 80 goons? On Facebook it is funnier, Barq is reporting 400,000 people demos in Hama (Hama and all its countryside is much less than that)".
PS Last week, Aljazeera reported that more than 100,000 turned out in Ma`arrat Nu`man. That is like a quarter, if true.
PPS I was thinking. Hamah's population is like 700,000 people. So the figure of 400,000 seems high although the footage of the protest I saw showed a very big demonstration.
PS Last week, Aljazeera reported that more than 100,000 turned out in Ma`arrat Nu`man. That is like a quarter, if true.
PPS I was thinking. Hamah's population is like 700,000 people. So the figure of 400,000 seems high although the footage of the protest I saw showed a very big demonstration.
