The putschists spent billions on promotional campaigns to beautify and legitimize the murderous coup. But they have failed to trick or hypnotize the hearts and minds of Egyptians abroad, who have just penned a great new epic of pride and steadfastness in the face of injustice and tyranny. They have exposed the failures of the mad military coup by not registering in the voters‘ lists and by refusing to participate in a cheap soap-opera the military is using in its desperate search for a way to fake legitimacy for its traitorous repressive regime.