Morsi should NOT back-down because, if he does, he will set a precedent in which every time he makes a decision, the Mubarak's regime supporters will hit the streets, and force him to back down and reverse it again! If he sets that precedent, Egypt will become ungovernable, and the Revolution will be mired into endless street brawls. That is why every Revolution in history wiped out the old political order, as it did in Libya, and as it is expected to do in Syria. Gaddafi's Warfala tribe, and Zintan (pro-Gaddafi city) residents have launched many protests, but nobody had accused the Libyan Transitional Government for being dictatorial! To understand the position Morsi is in today, one must look at Rwanda in 1994. Paul Kagane saved the leftover Tutsi tribe - after the Hutus massacred 800.000 Tutsis, but then the West accused Kagani of being dictatorial! The ticker? The Hutu government has been the darling of France, whose local French garrison looked the other way while the Tutsis were being massacred! Paul Kagani didn't mind the headlines in the Western media that depicted him as a dictator, and neither should Mohamed Morsi. I still wait to see headlines in the Western media that will call on their close allies, Bahrain's despotic ruler King Khalifa, the Saudi autocratic regime, and other emirs and princes in the Gulf sttes to back down and allow "minimal" democratic principles by his governments! Democracy meas equality for all, not equality for ourselves, and inequality where that serves our global political dominance. Nikos Retsos, retired professor