This is bad, very very bad

I've been meaning to sum up what happened starting yesterday and uptill now, but I just can't seem to focus. I can sincerly say, I am scared.

Now that its is being screamed from the top of the roofs that yesterday was a well orchestrated subordination. While the Labors Syndicate Union decided to halt their demonstration and postpone it to another time, the opposition continued their subordination!
The union said that the government was not ready to protect them. What the Union failed to mention was that the ones who closed their roads was the opposition. I believe, the army did a fine job considering the danegrous individuals they were dealing with.

The union, could've done a normal demonstration taking place in one sole location, holding some whiteboards with few slogans on them. But no, they decided to paralyze and open up the opportunity for others to paralyze the capital. Slogans and peaceful gathering were few yesterday. Yes, there were few innocent people really asking and demonstrating against the government for a better living.

After that, the opposition continued to close roads, and the infamously airport road. Many flights were cancelled, no flights departed from Lebanon except empty airplanes. The people who arrived yesterday waited and sat on the ground, some who insisted on leaving the airport had to cross on foot a couple of meters with the help of the army.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we the Lebanese, are being dissected and torn apart by two major evil forces, the Haririst and the Hezbollah!

The coming days will unveil the upcoming war, not necessarily a typical civil war which we are used to, but when RPGs, Snipers and bombs are used in a supposedly "peaceful" demonstration, then it is an ugly battle taking place to say the least.

Uuntil now, some of the Future movement members have closed the road in Saadneyil and also in Masnaa, which is the crossing border between Lebanon and Syria in response to the closing of the road to the airport by Hezbollah. The first, claimed that once the airport road is open, they will open the roads on their ends.

What is funny, is how Tayyar.org refers to Future movement members as "Militia" (which maybe they are), but fails to calls the Hezbollah ones (who are doing exactly the same thing, even though they started it, but it's irrelevant at this moment) militias as well.

Congratulations to propaganda, stupidity and cowardness of the Lebanese people.

Israel closed down our aiport in July 2006, and now Hezbollah closes down the same airport in May 2008.

P.S. When Hezbollah was accused of using spy cameras on the road to the airport, they said if anyone removes those cameras are spies for Israel! Seriously?
Moreover, I don't want to be terrorized into doing or believing something, and at this point Hezbollah is terrorizing the government and the people into succumbing into their own demands.

Kudos for all the political parties for ruining Lebanon just when I thought it couldn't get worse.

Peaceful demonstration or politicized one!

I stand corrected of what I said in yesterday's post, today's demonstration has been completely "politicized", meaning we can obviously see the political sides in it. Opposition on the streets and government on the other side indifferent. It is no longer about underpaid workers!

Gaz, fuel, oil prices have increased today.

Increasing the salaries alone, is not the solution, many things should be taken into consideration. This needs a serious study and not just a simple adjustment. Yes, we should go on the streets and ask for things to be solved and improved, but is this a peaceful demonstration?



It has been said by AL Manar that some Future movement members threw a bomb, rocks, and went up on the roofs to observe and possibly shoot by snipers on the demonstrators! And they even clashed with the army. If this is true (I don't think Al Manar is reliable or objective), then we definitely need our leaders to "control" their followers.



Moreover, Tayyar.org has mentioned that ALL schools, shops and institutions in North Metn have closed. Which is not completely true, they did not close, however parents were worried of what might happen today, so not all parents sent their children to schools, and some (mostly official government workers) tried to reach work, but did not arrive due to some closed roads.
As for shops, many have opened, at least near where I live (which is in North Metn, close to east suburb of Beirut)

(Photos are taken from Tayyar.org)

Calls for demonstration due to recent expensive living expenses

Bit by bit, we the Lebanese have been shot by an anesthesia needle, leaving us stoned and high and not comprehending what has been going onaround us. It is true that the prices of food, oil, transportation and everything directly and indirectly related to them have been rising drastically, while we the Lebanese, have been truly wasting time listening to leaders throw back and forth silly, ridiculous, offensive and useless comments and statements.

Nevertheless, it has been decided that tomorrow, there will be a strike, a demonstration, called by the Lebanese Workers Union, and that is to go on the streets against the government, against the fact that the government is not doing anything about it.

Until today, the minimum wage in Lebanon is 200$. Even though few people receive the minimum wage, still having such low minimum wages, lead to having low salaries in general.

Moreover having prices of milk, cheese, bread, vegetables, fuel, school payments, insurance, continually increasing, is not equivalent or even close to equivalent to actually making ends meet or surviving based on the minimum wage or close amounts of paychecks to it.

Hopefully, the demonstrations will be and remain peaceful, and that the army will do its job when necessary and if anything really needs to be taken care of. We do not want violence or that this demonstration take sides, as opposition against government. We want it to be a simple matter and a righteous demand for the average Lebanese citizen, for the father and mother, whom both salaries barely cover food and school for their children, to improve their life.

More articles on the matter can be read on Tayyar.org.