"In the United States, they associate for the goals of public security, of commerce and industry, of morality and religion," Tocqueville wrote in "Democracy in America."
"There is nothing the human will despairs of attaining by the free action of the collective power of individuals."
Two and half years ago the collective power of ordinary Egyptians brought down the 30-year dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak. But the Islamist regime that has replaced it, the Muslim Brotherhood, shows growing contempt for the exercise of this democratic power: the freedom of association.
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