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Originally Posted by shadow1  Did you ever read La Fontaine's les animaux malades de la peste?
The justice system in lebanonhas always been like that fable. |
It's the product of the Lebanese themselves. The mirror is always inside the firmly closed closet.
But it's even worse.
It's only here that La Fontaine's donkey is actually a wolf, the donkey breed is rare if not non-existent.
In Ziad Rahbani's play "bikhsous el karame w el sha3b el 3anid", there's a small time crook and thief who tries to steal a simple Vespa. When he is caught red-handed, he tells the officer that he wants to feed his family. The officer replies with the usual authoritarian tone and the grin of someone trying to caricaturize an irony, "and would you feed them a Vespa".
... then, right after he lets him go (ba3d wasta), the crook becomes arrogant, bounces back and threatens him with all kinds of insults.
On a side note, i would prefer if we keep god's only perfect beings outside of the circus of imperfections we dance in everyday. La Fontaine and Orwell should have been paint-splashed by PETA.
15th September 2008
We agree on that. So no one asked the rule of court/state/dawle/nizam, but did anyone ask Hezbollah and FPM? And if that happened, shouldn't they have, as ordinary citizens like all of us (but also part of the government and the parliament), transferred the case to the ourt/state/dawle/nizam which they should be building?
