(Image Source: Al Jazeera )   BY JIM FLINK ANCHOR  MEGAN MURPHY One day after negotiating peace in Gaza, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, ignited violence in his own country by announcing a sweeping power grab. Al Jazeera reports on the Morsi decree. “The president’s decree prevents any authority from overruling his decisions, including the judiciary.  It also prevents the assembly drafting the country’s new constitution from being dissolved.” Almost immediately, the opposition organized and flooded into the streets. Former International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohammed el Baradei (bara-die) tweeting. .. “Morsi today usurped all state powers & appointed himself Egypt's new pharaoh. A major blow to the revolution that could have dire consequences...” Tens of thousands of protesters on both sides of the issue spilled into the streets, clashing with one another.  This video from RT notes the decree puts Morsi in a position to be above the law. “....he also decreed that no laws or declarations passed by the president from the time of his inauguration until a new parliament is elected can be overturned by any authority, including the judiciary.” Morsi is not without his supporters.  They too rallied by the tens of thousands near Tahrir Square.  One analyst on the BBC notes, for Morsi supporters, this is a way to break the stalemate that has become Egyptian politics since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak and the election of Morsi. “The claim from President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood is that when they try to change things and improve things, they are sabotaged either by what they call the remnants of the old regime...” But on NBC News, former Congressional leader and diplomatic envoy George Mitchell says, Morsi is throwing the Democratic baby out with the bathwater.  And that’s not good. “As Senate Majority leader, faced with constant delay, frustration, filibustering, I often thought, boy I’d like to be King for a day and not mess with this.  Democracy is tough, it’s messy and Morsi is finding that out.”