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Hi, Ahmed.

How did you know it was me?

Of course, honey,

you're my sweetheart.

So quickly

you said, "Hello, Ahmed."

A revolution that

removed a regime, OK?

Before the people

destroyed it.

Did the Army protect

the revolution?

We didn't protect

the revolution,

we made it happen.

You kids don't

know anything.

I was beaten

with boots and sticks.

I'm bruised from being

beaten all over my body.

I've lived in the military

world for 40 years.

I am honestly telling

you the Armed Forces

are not like this. At all.

You've been entrusted

with a nation's security.

It's your duty.

So all I'm asking is,

how can I entrust a nation

- to those who can't even protect a woman?

Even if I am your

brother, at some point,

I must be tough on you.

I don't understand why.

Why?

When the Army first came

to the streets,

people climbed on tanks

and hugged the soldiers

and clapped for them.

What then? Why?

What's wrong with you?

I swear to you, Ghada, - one day you'll

say you met General Hamdy Bekheit,

and he told you

the following:

None of the guilty

will get away with it.

Whatever happens.

I promise you.

This is a picture of a friend

who took a bullet in his leg.

This is not

an Army bullet.

It doesn't look like one.

The most beautiful thing

about our Square

is that everyone who comes here

follows his conscience,

not some political force.

And that's what

makes us strong.

We're here presenting Cinema

Tahrir to remind us why

we are here,

and to show the people who

ask us why we're still here.

Because only we

can tell our stories.

The revolutionaries

who toppled the regime

have died, been injured,

or gone to prison.

And with no constitution,

they want to hold elections

stained by revolutionary blood,

supervised by those

who killed the revolutionaries.

And they made two ballot boxes.

One for the killer,

and one for the traitor.

Our voices will keep getting

higher and higher,

because the streets

are our ballot boxes.

- - The next Egyptian

president will either be an Islamist

from the Muslim - Brotherhood

or Mubarak's last prime minister,

and that has left

- many of the so-called revolutionaries

with a very tough choice

in a very close race.

I don't want either.

We're stuck between

a rock and a hard place.

We'll have to accept

whatever happens.

Everyone keep

your voices down.

With 51.73 percent,

13 million,

230 thousand and 131...

we have the same problems.

It's crazy, we made a revolution

and no new constitution.

We got a president

without a constitution.

The most important thing

is the new constitution.

And now it's under

their control.

Religion is the biggest problem

we will face in this next phase,

because we have

a new political power

that also claims it's

a religious organisation,

a missionary force,

and this is a disaster.

Magdy, I love you.

But I hate

the Brotherhood.

They made shitty decisions,

and we're in a shitty situation.

You elected a president.

You need to be patient.

For how long?

The President is a man who

I trust with my religion.

Can't I trust him

with my politics too?

This is the constitution

of the Brotherhood.

We are Egyptian citizens.

We are not

Brotherhood citizens.

You were against torture,

and now you're torturing.

Against corruption,

and now you're corrupt.

Who brought

Morsi into power?

The people.

- The people.

Because they felt

you guys were an

oppressed people.

This document will allow what

happened to you to happen to me.

Do you accept that?

- Of course not.

OK, then take this constitution.

It doesn't serve me.

I hated what they did

to you. I went to the

streets because of it.

Why did we go to the street?

Wasn't it to protest

against police brutality?

The Secret Police

that tortured you?

You are allowing the

Secret Police to do

the same thing to me.

And you're saying

"yes" to this.

The people demand

the fall of the regime!

This is the third stage

of our revolution.

We got rid of Mubarak,

then the military.

Now the focus is on

the Brotherhood.

It is a - bigger

challenge, because it will include more blood.

When you're fighting your

own people, it's different

from fighting the regime.

Because, after all,

even if the regime was

extremely violent and vicious,

and if they used all the

weapons they had, it's still

not as vicious

as when the people fight each

other. It's very different.

In the name of God, I am

directing this to the people

who have resorted

to violence.

The time has come

for the law

to judge them

and punish them.

He's ordering his people

to attack us. That's the

message behind his speech.

Go to the streets and

attack the hell out of them.

The Brotherhood has been

f***ing with us for two years.

I didn't see you

today at all.

What did Morsi do wrong?

No one has given him a chance.

My butcher the other day yelled,

"Goddamn you, Morsi."

I asked why. He said,

- "Because it is so hot." -

Is this a joke? -If there were

alternatives, I wouldn't want Morsi.

Honestly, we don't care

about Mubarak or Morsi.

We just want a decent

man to rule with justice.

I don't care if he's a Jew.

We're afraid that

if Morsi falls,

we will be taken

back to prisons.

Why all the focus on the

Brotherhood and how

horrible the President is?

The revolutionaries were your

friends. You lived with them.

There is a fog in the country.

- No, Magdy.

You abandoned one side

and chose the other.

I didn't abandon.

I chose the side that I

grew up with, that I felt

was supporting me.

Magdy has five children.

How does he provide for them?

The Muslim Brotherhood.

All the time Magdy

was playing revolutionary,

being filmed, shot at,

jailed, what did he gain?

Where did that get him?

I never thought

we'd all be divided

into the Brotherhood

and other groups.

I'm sad. Nothing has

changed for my dad.

We haven't gained

from the revolution.

I still can't

get health care.

It's OK.

It's OK.

These are the gains

of the revolution.

She's filled

with tears.

It's OK.

Everything will be all right.

Protests continue in Egypt as

the country's top

opposition leaders

renew calls to topple

the Islamist regime.

The climax

will be an open-ended

strike across Egypt

on the 30th of June.

A grassroots campaign

has gathered over

18 million signatures.

They hope to install

a transitional government

and call early

presidential elections.

Muslim Brotherhood officials,

for their part,

have said that many of

those coming out on

June 30th are thugs.

Our beloved President,

may God make June 30th

a day of pride for Islam

and a day of doom - for the hypocrite

opposition. -

May you destroy them all.

Defeat them and make us win.

- Amen.

Protect us from their evils.

- Amen.

President Morsi

is a line you don't cross.

Meaning?

- Meaning, if you threaten him,

we'll spill your blood.

- Meaning?

Meaning, he's the legitimate

elected President.

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