While Obama symbolises equality, opportunity and democratic legitimacy, Mubarak represents an oligarchic ruling elite whose power is secured by a permanent state of emergency, arrest without trial, fear and torture.
The United States today is home to millions of immigrants and their families who fled their own countries because of their fear of secret police, the dreaded knock on the door in the middle of the night, arrest without trial, surveillance by the Gestapo, the Mukhabarat, the Stasi, or the KGB and now the morals police of the Taliban.
Arrested in July 2009 at a checkpoint while attempting to enter the West Bank, the 25-year-old has been detained under the controversial Israeli "Unlawful Combatants Law", which allows for Palestinians to be arrested without charge or trial for an unlimited time.
Two years later, on the night of the Reichstag fire, Hans was arrested, held without trial and tortured, leading Irmgard to confront his captors despite the huge personal risk.
Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer in Russia, was arrested, held without trial for almost a year and died in custody, as a result of exposing corruption.
Briefings had been conducted amid accusations of the terrorist threat being exaggerated to support UK foreign policy and at a time when large numbers of people were being arrested without being brought to trial, Mr Clarke said.
Te Whiti o Rongomai and comrade Tohu were arrested without reason or a trial and exiled.
And here's the good part: Stapley was arrested without a grand jury trial, without being indicted first, and without a prosecutor assigned to the case.
The group adds that he was arrested without warrant, held in pre-trial detention for two years and at no point was allowed to contact his lawyer.
For decades after Bloody Sunday in 1972, they corrupted law and justice with internment, arrest without trial and without jury and with systematic anti-Catholic discrimination.
