Originally Posted by Mouwatne  Most probably what you will read will be the least important of all what is written because I am neither affiliated to your party nor to an opponent or allied party of yours. I am one of those people who remain unheard in this country. I chose your forum because it is the most read forum and I hope that someone in this universe would read me.
Why?
I have the eminent necessity to voice my opinion, feelings and experience in the Lebanese daily and political life of what is so-called “politics”. Usually Lebanese tend to survive on three factors: (1) Playing lotto (During the war it was playing poker, Muslim and Christian men played poker and lost huge amounts of money and properties, but at least they shared something), (2) Taking Xanax and Co. (During the war people did not need it, only militants used Cannabis), and finally (3) The most important issue on which Lebanese feed is “politics”, this however never changed, sectarianism, feudalism, vote-catching policy (French: Clientélisme) , zaiimism, cannibalism and barbarian politics since ever and till the status quo.
I am a Mouwatne Mich 3edye. I do not nurture on Lebanese politicians, but on the dream of a modern developed state which preserves human dignity and respects human rights and equality. Meanwhile I may be in urgent need of Xanax but I eat chocolate instead (Minor effects of overweight are the results). I cannot afford playing lotto, anyway I am convinced that the “curse” on my country is a malediction reflected in my life.
I am a Mouwatne Mich 3edye, because I am ktir 3edye. I refuse the thought anarchy but abhore the more the mentality of zaiimism and mahsoubyet. The result was: I became financially poor. The win was: Liberty and Freedom. Yes, I am free to think whatever I want, to do whatever I want. I do not receive orders from anyone, but the price is “poverty”. So I came to think about this country and its politicians. In the modern state I have in mind, the state is free and economically self-sufficient. The population produces enough to live in dignity and the policy-makers are free.
Unfortunately the Lebanese politicians are not free nor is the system self-sufficient. The money policy led by Riyad Salameh, for example, is to give small loans with constant interest rate (i.e. Even if I pay part of my loan after few years, I still pay the interest rate for the whole amount of the loan while in developed countries one pays the interest rate for the amount left and not the initially taken loan). Foreigners and the rich Lebanese in the Diaspora can benefit from the interest on savings but I have to pay the bill, and with me thousands of people. I also have to pay the bill for the monopolies in a so-called “free economy”. A contradiction per se. In a free-economy there aren’t 2-3% who own 90-95% of the country’s money.
Lebanese politicians are not free. How can they be free when their policy is dictated by small men from foreign countries? Small men who have massive power because they come from powerful countries. Take for example the US Administration which pledges, vows and insists on Lebanon’s independence and sovereignty. Falakouna fya. This same US Administration has installed its small men in the Lebanese infrastructure to dictate to our “great” men “what” to say and to do. In Beirut they established a media center directed by a US Agent who gives directions to Amin and his Selim El-Sayegh, to Walid and his Rami El Rayess, to Samir and his Tony Abou Najm and Elie Baraghid, to Saad and his Nader El Nakib what to say and do. They refused to work with Carlos Edde, the US Administration gave the directives that he is “not M14” and has an independent “too complicated” program, “uninteresting” he said, when Edde exposed his self-developed electoral law which gives more independency from feudals. The rest from “kettle el Moustaqbal” are meanwhile included in the circle of directives. Everyone receives trainings on what to say and what to do. Top priority for the Republicans who lost the elections is one motto: “DIVIDE TO CONQUER”. It is the same logo the US Agent has in his office. Divide them as much as possible. Incite Geagea against Aoun, Hariri against Nasrallah, Jumblatt is a bit harder to manipulate although he gets his lesson they said. It is eminent to divide the rows the US Agent clearly said, however when the US first decided to divide the Muslims against each others through Shia and Sunni it did not end happily so the plan is to divide Shia against Shia, Sunni against Sunni and Christians against Christians. And our politicians play their game.
I am Mouwatne Mich 3edye, threatened in my own country. I abhore the policy of Hizbullah, but at least I recognize that Hizbullah rendered the dignity of the Shia who were for a too long time oppressed. Yet, Hizbullah are not free, they get paid from Iran. I abhore Aoun’s change in a Christian leader, I was aiming for a modern progressive state based on socio-economic issues. And his party just like other parties receive ulterior payments. I also do not like his choice of language which does not improve the society. Anyway, I did not find this politician staff or team who cares about the people. Where are the politicians who ensure the school fees, the social security, the health system? Those are essential for the people, not the challenges on who is more sectarian, more patriotic with words but no actions.
In the next post, if you allow, I’ll discard more, more of the ugly face of daily life in Lebanon. Today I really need a Xanax, but can’t afford it. I am poor, deprived from the ability to buy food, but I am free. Freedom has a high price.
It is OK if you do not publish what I wrote. I would not be surprised. Who wants to know what others thinks? Who cares anyway? Who cares?????
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