Open message to all fellow free activists!

[Comrade Bassam]

It's time to get back to the scenes!

After many years of a general "down" feeling among good active citizens in Lebanon, most of which USED TO believe in FPM as their home and safe heaven, it's time to retrieve the flames of leadership!

Some NGO-like organizations tried to inherit FPM's spirit that dropped down due to many factors such as:
1) Emigration of excellent leaders and cultured ground masters.
2) Huge negative political occurrences such as the assassination of Rafic Hariri and all the waves of absurdity that followed.
3) Bad visionless expansion plan by
4) Terrible behavior of some corrupt opportunistic FPM activists parachuted to perform critical tasks that cannot tolerate mediocrity!
5) The loss of direction in matter of purpose of existence, which definitely lead to spontaneous political strategies never interconnected upon any kind of clear vision.
6) The rise of "real-politics" as a hollow coverage of corrupt behavior.
7) The rise of the ugliest forms of cheap partisan behavior, especially at the level of youth.
8) The dangerous successful conspiracy against the FREE youth and universities sector in FPM.
9) The bad economic situation... NOT!
etc...

However, most of those movement were nothing but failed trials to gain appearance by some idiots who wanted to feel like having a role in political and/or social life. The maximum they could get was a few pages in some prestige lousy magazines, but never really succeeded in creating any living spirit in civil society despite the massive funding they attract from international governmental and non-governmental institutions.

Many great people, most of which I have known from this forum, failed to find any sincere channeling of their active talents. Society fell in absurdity and FPM, as a mass, didn't survive that wave. Only few preserved their IQ and quality and always kept thinking outside the box and witnessed with great sorrow the dangerous drop in all virtues and principles of their societies.

Back like 10 to 15 years ago, FPMers, without any kind of stupid organizational hierarchies, but just with a minimum sense of good citizenship and mission and public duty, were there in every corner raising the flames of hope in tomorrow!

FPMers back then, myself included, were like bees in the streets, in universities, at home, in neighborhoods and in all circumstances, raising the flags of modernity, intelligence, good citizenship, human virtues, democratic thought and behavior, free will, critical thinking and all those great human values!

With that spirit, we had great campaigns with massive impact, stuff like selling Lebanese goods (khodra and kaak), campaigning for better environment, joining red cross and armed forces ranks, anti-drug campaigns (w ya haram if you dare do a drug test today on FPM activists in schools and universities... and please don't challenge me to prove that! If you don't believe, go inquire by yourself like I did!), great social awareness and patriotism clips (like the ones Ghassan Rahbani used to do). We founded hundreds of great organizations that are the most powerful now today in their fields (I won't name them but they are the most renowned in Lebanon and their leaders that used to be hardcore FPMers find no channel to their talents in the movement today anymore).

FPM today is sinking in sh*t... Where are we from the examplary activists that each and every one of you knows, most of which are definitely reading this message!

Where are the examplary activists that everybody used to raise their hats for everywhere, in public and in secret?

We became nothing but a bunch of corrupt thiefs (and please don't challenge me to prove that too... rou7o bromo 3al maketib el entikhabiyyeh w choufo chou ken 3am bi sir!), a bunch of ignorants spread in villages and performing like the grandparents of my grandparents used to do, either as partisans or as mentally retarded "felle7in" in politics and social behavior!

We became nothing but a bunch of opportunists who would sell their souls for money, legally or illegally!

Chou baddna ne7keh ta ne7keh!

You all know everything from your daily life and daily stuff you encounter.


Bass mich masmou7 that we shut up, remain silent and watch our society die like that! No this is not happening! La WALLAH this is not happening, not even on our dead bodies!

This society and this country were born to live! We are Lebanese and we are proud to have been born and raised in this holy land!

We are the ones who taught all the past new generations what it means to be a proud Lebanese, so now we sit at home w notloub el setra?

No no no! Enough is enough!

I hereby publically call all the great activists to lift their spirits and gather back, each in his own neighborhood and with the people who are still available around! We have tons of excellent elements and we are all ready to bring back the glory days!

It's time to move, meet, gather, draw visions and launch campaigns!

Forget about that rotten party and rotten partisan hierarchies filled by idiots and thiefs and opportunists!

We have a country to serve... If not for the sake of the living, at least for the sake of the great martyrs and I'm sure each one of you knows at least more than ten of those very closely!

It's now or never! Time to move!

And now I'm open for your comments :)

[supersonichadi]

Instead of fixing the situation, change the way people think, and let other parties change their behavours, we became like them: Secterian, fighting for positions and chairs, feudal. Am still an FPMer, and still believing in the leadership of GMA, but something must be fixed in order to straighten things up.

[Placebo]

And yes, i fully agree. the hierarchy set by FPM as a party is horrible. the hay2at are lousy and worst of all, the So called "Makana intikhabiyyé" of FPM, (which consists of the hay2at member) is more than amateurish.

[kmarthe]

Congrats CB on this excellent thread. I join my voice to yours. I hope those who can relay our message to GMA directly (without any intermediate, cos intermediates tend often to distort the message intentionnally or non-intentionally), please do.

[oscard]

unfortunatly, i agree with u.
this does not mean i disagree with FPM political decision or GMA, but i agree that FPM did not only fail keep his activists, but succeeded to bring down his activists.

cheers,

[LubnanALkawi]

there was a time when FPM really fought for winning just one MP seat.
it was these days that was good! it was these days it was played clean!
And with one MP, FPM thought it was enough to make their voice heard and make the change.

Today 18 MPs and still not enough! and at what price, dirtiness?

[oscard]

Originally Posted by LubnanALkawi

there was a time when FPM really fought for winning just one MP seat.
it was these days that was good! it was these days it was played clean!
And with one MP, FPM thought it was enough to make their voice heard and make the change.

Today 18 MPs and still not enough! and at what price, dirtiness?

i find that FPM did play it clean to get all its MPs, and i support it so far.
BUT my problem is the FPM structure and deliverables are not what i was hoping for as an activists similar to many other people i know.

many of us prefer not to be active members any more, but this does not make us FPMer. i support its political decisions, but i cannot be member of such a party structure.

[BOILER]

I can talk about many in my committee who stopped working cause they used to do all the work, and the one wearing the tie getting all the glory!
The president had no time for our meetings and activities.
He has his own business.
But he comes from a big family that can bring a lot of votes in the municipality and general elections.
I stopped being active a while ago.

[joseph_lubnan]

Comrade B, it is very hard to energize a popular movement within, while it is labeled and burdened by the party. Too much inertia and too many inhibitors. You must energize it from the outside under a new banner, or otherwise try to reform the party if you can.

[LubnanALkawi]

Originally Posted by oscard

BUT my problem is the FPM structure and deliverables are not what i was hoping for as an activists similar to many other people i know.

many of us prefer not to be active members any more, but this does not make us FPMer. i support its political decisions, but i cannot be member of such a party structure.

this is the first step of what leads people to quit.

first it start with being less and less in activities and later on no activities at all then quitting then maybe totally disagreeing with the party!