Lebanon : Help thyself God will help

 

When the Lebanese government stormed the oppisition’s TV station MTV on the 2^nd of September of the year 2002 , Lahoud was President , Hariri was  prime minister and Walid Jumblatt had a couple of ministers in the Lebanese Government . This is what I wrote on September the 5th , 2002:

                          

I call upon all my Lebanese compatriots , Muslims, Christians , all of us , let’s  raise up and turn the empty table upside down .  We have all been  cheated in a big way .We have been taken for an ugly ride . I call upon all of us to raise up and shout out the truth to the whole world who forgot that we even exist . For them, things have been  quiet in Lebanon , so what if there is a kidnapping , an assassination here , or an arrest imprisonment and a torture there. Business as usual . No sweat.  It happens everywhere right ? look at what is happening in Tibet , look at what happened to the Kurds look at Taiwan  , we call it REAL POLITIKS ,no dear it is wrong . Lebanon and Syria are after all two brotherly countries. Let them sort out their problems . Who cares .  No dear we have to care. You didn’t care before about a lot of injustices , human rights abuses and dictatorships ; the free world was  punished bitterly with 9/11. You better care this time around. . When people come to a stage where they have nothing more but their chains to lose , then you better care .

 

When the litter hits the fan you will definitely get  your share . So , I urge you : Do care . To my fellow compatriots I say :  no other alternative is left : Help thyself , God will help. I have no doubt that  Hizballah’s leaders are endowed with some wisdom ,clear vision and national allegiance ( ! ! !) . I call upon them to disarm their troops and deliver their arsenal of weapons - every single gun in their possession must be delivered to the Lebanese Army who should have the sole privilege of carrying guns on Lebanon’s soil- I call upon Hassan Nasrallah to prove to the world that the Lebanese are peace loving people. No , I am not dreaming , I want to make myself believ! e that my call would be heeded before it is too late.

I call upon our brave and oppressed Lebanese Army , all its soldiers , Lieutenants,Colonels and Generals , when the time comes , to utterly refuse to fire one single shot  on the  peaceful crowds and demonstrators marching for justice ,freedom and dignity all over Lebanon . Do not even shoot in the air . To the  Syrian occupier , its soldiers, security apparatus and its appointees I tell them : Leave  the  House  before it is too late . The wrath of the crowd , people’s will is beyond what you can handle or endure .

Dear compatriots we all took  this dreadful trip . It lasted for too long . Let’s work it out ,all of us ,let’s  salvage this beautiful but drowning ship . There is no other way but one  way . Raise up and turn the table upside down. What have we got left to loose except our chains ? Let’s all take this  bitter pledge and march peacefully on the road to freedom. Let’s show the world and prove to our children that we deserve the Land of the Cedars.

  

Lahoud  is still president and the Syrian mafia is running amok with Lebanon . God bless the soul of Mr Hariri , and God save Walid Jumblatt from any harm.

 

Long live the Land of heroes , Long live Lebanon.

 

Anwar Wazen , February the 21st /2003