Khaled Meets Thomas

Dear Journal,
It is a blessed day. I found the journal of a man named Thomas Lewes. He was from France and he experienced a revolution just like I did. It was exciting to read about, a man going through something that I just went through. In the French Revolution they were trying to get rid of a monarch that had ruled them for over a hundred years. We were just getting rid of some one who had ruled us only 23 years. It took us 23 years to revolt because the President Ben Ali used police to silence us. The French had never complained about their monarch because it had always manipulated them to think that they were less than their King and should never resist. This went on until the enlightenment thinker's wrote their books and they inspired a whole way of thinking. Montesquieu wrote about separation of powers and Rousseau wrote about social contract. In France they did not have Separation of Powers because their King Louis ruled all of France. Also in my country it seemed like we had it because we had a president and ministers however in truth we were just like France. Our ruler, Ben Ali, had ultimate power. As for social contract it never mattered to the king of France or Ben Ali what the majority of the people in their countries wanted, these leaders just did what they felt like doing. To make matters worse during this enlightenment era the French were experiencing unemployment and hunger just like we were in the Tunisian Revolution, yet their king was ignoring them. So all these devastations put together caused the people to call to get fed up with their rulers and revolt. In France men and women protested in crowds, attacked the prison Bastille and even the king’s castle. Also in my country both women and men protested in crowds and recently I heard that some prisons. In France they created the Declaration of the Rights of Man, which was basically declaring they free from the rule of King Louis XVI. They even made the king sign this decree. In my revolution we did not create a constitution however through our protests we did make the Ben Ali promise that he would not run again and he would give us our freedoms. However after promising this to us Ben Ali escaped to Saudi Arabia similarly to how King Louis tried to escape to Varrenes but was caught. Anyways in the end the French Revolution the king, his wife and followers were beheaded for neglecting their people. So I think Ben Ali, his family and his ministers should be quite thankful that they are only spending the rest of his life in jail.