Egyptian Police Trash American University Press Offices Friday: Homeboy Hosni's Finest Hour

The offices overlook the square, and the police wanted the vantage point from which to fire on the crowd below. So, they broke in. Rule of law, schmool of law, we don't need no stinking law. We're the law, bro! Homeboy Hosni sez so.

While they were at it, they trashed the offices, for good measure.

American University in Cairo Press editorial director Neil Hewison posted his account on the Oxford University Press blog.

Our AUC Press offices were trashed on Friday. The police had broken into the AUC to use the roof of our wing to fire on protesters at the junction of Sheikh Rihan and Qasr al-Aini (we found empty CS canisters and shotgun cartridges up there). And persons unknown ransacked our rooms. Drawers and files emptied, windows broken, cupboards and computers smashed. But it could have been much worse. Meanwhile, the violence may get worse before it gets better.

I’m well stocked with food and water, and there’s a good gang of neighborhood lads downstairs with makeshift weapons to keep our building and other buildings safe. Now that we have internet again I can communicate better and even do some work!

Now, ya'll, jest in case someone thinks that this is some wild-eyed bunch of anarchists pushing revolutionary screed out the door, take a look at their catalog, distributed by those wild and crazy guys Oxford University Press.

Our tax dollars at work, ya'll. Miz Hilary best be packing Homeboy Hosni off to his Gulfstream and finding a place for his scurvy ass to land. With a fortune in the tens of billions, he should find some place warm and dry to finish out his days.

Unless, of course, he really is Obama's special homeboy, and it doesn't matter how many publishers get trashed, or civilians get shot...

Only power matters, right? Never let a good crisis go to waste, right?

(HT Inside Higher Education)