{"id":10194,"date":"2013-07-14T08:36:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T08:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/a_surprising_powerful_12-year-old_egyptian_boy.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:34:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:34:56","slug":"a-surprising-powerful-12-year-old-egyptian-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/a-surprising-powerful-12-year-old-egyptian-boy.html","title":{"rendered":"The 12-Year-Old Egyptian Boy Feared by Global Goverments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video of 12-year-old Ali Ahmed speaking about the protest in Egypt<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/ali-ahmed.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2013\/07\/ali-ahmed-thumb-256x244-12892.png\" alt=\"ali-ahmed.png\" width=\"256\" height=\"244\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> is one of the most moving political opinions you will hear &ndash; perhaps ever. After all, this is a child and yet he is more engaged in his government than most Americans&hellip; He understands the political process, has facts, worries about the rights of women &ndash; is concerned about the abuse of power by his government and speaks with a confidence which is absolutely awe-inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>The video was recorded last October and already has seen tremendous viewership in China until it was banned.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the internet, the views of a single global citizen &ndash; regardless of age can bring a nation and perhaps a globe to its knees, changing power structures and influencing the ideas of perhaps hundreds of millions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dR4gkWc9h6o\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt &ndash; the video is a much watch and there is <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324425204578598103661574818.html?mod=WSJ_article_comments#articleTabs%3Darticle\">more<\/a> from David Feith.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m here today to help prevent Egypt from becoming a commodity owned by one person and to protest the confiscation of the constitution by one single party. We didn&#8217;t get rid of a military regime to replace it with a fascist theocracy.<\/p>\n<p>The social objectives of the [2011] revolution are yet to be achieved. Economic empowerment, freedom, and social justice. There are still no jobs. The police still jail people randomly. As for social justice, how can a news anchor get 30 million Egyptian pounds, while some people still pick food from the garbage?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video of 12-year-old Ali Ahmed speaking about the protest in Egypt is one of the most moving political opinions you will hear &ndash; perhaps ever. After all, this is a child and yet he is more engaged in his government than most Americans&hellip; He understands the political process, has facts, worries about the rights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,118,190],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18965,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10194\/revisions\/18965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}