It Never Bahrains But it Pours.

In between Egypt's revolution and Libya's attempt at collective suicide there was another attempted uprising in the middle-east. In Bahrain protesters flocked into the capital's Pearl Square calling for the overthrow of Bahrain's monarchy. It was after it emerged that Pearl square was really just a roundabout things started getting weird.

Firstly there was a regional debate over whether the army should be used to police these middle-eastern protests. Most everyone agreed that it was a bad idea as it tends to make people more angry and make the protests bigger. The King of Bahrain then decided to send in the military to clear protesters from Pearl Square and in doing so open a dialogue with Britain over the Climate Camp movement.

Then there was a regional debate over the role that Marxist trade unions had played in the Egyptian uprising. Again most people agreed that it only increased the protests but then the King of Bahrain ordered his state sponsored trade union to issue a call out for protesters to return to Pearl Square. A few did and I believe they still remain there much like a few veterans of Britain's Democracy Village/Peacestrike remain in a depressing little camp outside Parliament square.

So, in short, the King of Bahrain was arranging the protests in his own country to gather intelligence on the good guys and make himself richer by creating instability in the middle east to drive up the oil price. The Libya situation was the British monarchy attempting to insulate itself against these price rises by stealing Libya's oil reserves.

I'm sorry I didn't mention this earlier but I didn't think the best way to calm down the protests was explaining to the protesters that the King of Bahrain can be a bit of an a**hole at times. It is important that the protests in Bahrain stop though because all the protesters are achieving at the moment is strengthening the King's position and I'm guessing that's the exact opposite of what they're trying to do.