Egyptian blogger Sandmonkey calls it quits

Another voice is silenced, blogger Sandmonkey's final post was yesterday. As Michelle said, a light dims in Egypt.  A place where there are precious few lights.

Today is going to be the day that I've been dreading for quite sometime now. Today is the day I walk away from this blog. Done. Finished.

There are many reasons, each would take a post to list, and I just do not have the energy to list them. As anyone who has been reading this blog for the past  month, I think it is apparent that things are not the same with me. There are reasons for that:

One of the chief reasons is the fact that there has been too much heat around me lately. I no longer believe that my anonymity is kept, especially with State Secuirty agents lurking around my street and asking questions about me since that day.  I ignore that, the same way I ignored all the clicking noises that my phones started to exhibit all of a sudden, or  the law suit filed by Judge Mourad on my friends, and instead grew bolder and more reckless at a time where everybody else started being more cautious. It took me a while to take note of the fear that has been gripping our little blogsphere and comprehend what it really means. The prospects for improvment, to put it slightly, look pretty grim. I was the model of caution, and believing in my invincipility by managing not to get arrested for the past 2 and a half years, I've grown reckless. Stupid Monkey. Stupid!

Sandmonkey really didn't have much choice.  It's obvious the Egyptian government will not stand by and allow bloggers to tell the truth.  The shame is ours, or more accurately our United States Government's.  The billions of dollars we have sent to Egypt have done nothing to help the Egyptian people, it has only succeeded in shoring up a repressive government.  It's disgraceful.

If SM is going to avoid the fate of Kareem (or worse) his only option is to stop blogging.  Sandmonkey's final words to his readers:

May the day comes when I rant once again….

Love you all,

The Sandmonkey