{"id":23554,"date":"2014-05-25T19:26:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T03:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=23554"},"modified":"2014-05-25T19:26:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T03:26:57","slug":"sisi-is-torture-and-suffering-confirms-sisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/25\/sisi-is-torture-and-suffering-confirms-sisi\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisi Is Torture and Suffering, Confirms Sisi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orchestrating a military coup against a demcoratically elected government, leading a junta that killed thousands of protesters and has sentenced many more to death for organizing those protests, Egypt&#8217;s incoming president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is worried people think he&#8217;s &#8220;too soft,&#8221; and gave a harsh statement on his incoming regime in a television interview and leaked comments associated with it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not leaving a chance for people to act on their own,&#8221; Sisi declared, going on to promise he would forcibly turn Egypt into a &#8220;first-class nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People think I&#8217;m a soft man. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/25\/world\/middleeast\/egypts-new-autocrat-sisi-knows-best.html?hpw&#038;rref=world&#038;_r=0\">Sisi is torture and suffering<\/a>,&#8221; declared Sisi, who among other things, vowed to send troops to people&#8217;s houses to install energy efficient lightbulbs as a way of solving the nation&#8217;s fuel shortage. <\/p>\n<p>Sisi styles himself as a paternal autocrat, and seems to view Egypt&#8217;s economic problems as personal failings on the part of individuals, promising longer work days and less pay as a path to modernity. &#8220;I will not sleep and neither will you,&#8221; he vowed in the interview. <\/p>\n<p>It should go without saying after killing thousands of people, but Sisi promised he will brook no dissent, saying that the people who oppose his ban on public protests &#8220;want to destroy Egypt.&#8221; Terrifyingly, while being straightforward about his intentions, Sisi remains something of a media darling in the US, as a &#8220;tough on terror&#8221; strongman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orchestrating a military coup against a demcoratically elected government, leading a junta that killed thousands of protesters and has sentenced many more to death for organizing those protests, Egypt&#8217;s incoming president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is worried people think he&#8217;s &#8220;too soft,&#8221; and gave a harsh statement on his incoming regime in a television interview and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23555,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23554\/revisions\/23555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23554"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}