battikh wroteAly, when did lebanese do a manifestation to gain more civic rights? the only times it happens it was to show their blind support to the warlord they worship.
lebanese never moved for their rights. enno imagine that in a country like lebanon, with all it's diversity, a christian lebanese can't marry a muslim lebanese. it's so damn wrong on so many levels, and affects the life of people in so many ways. it actually affects the whole society. and did anyone make serious moves for this in the history of lebanon? for such a basic thing, a thing that affects our lives much more than faster internet, no one moves. but when it's about doing a manifestation just "nkeyeh" bi the other side, everyone shows up, misses work, misses uni, closes schools, ...
- "oooh we're 1 million, in your faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace"
- " naaaanaaanaaaa naaaaaaaaaa, we're 1 million +1"
that's what lebanese manifestations are all about. so why would there be change if they were never to ask for basic rights? it has always been just to show blind support to some group and nkeyeh bil teineh, never to ask for rights.
Yes exactly all our manifestations, I mean the big manifestations started by the big political parties bring hundred of thousands of people to the street in a blink of an eye to protest for a reason or no clear reason.
BUT you never see people in Lebanon protesting because of hunger NEVER protest about the retarted electricity NEVER NEVER !!!
When do they come to the street ? simply when Mo3arada or Mowelet call them to the streets.
teodorgeorgiev wrote3. Aly, running away is not a solution. If the "western" have been doing like you, where would you go now?
4. Aly, if we do the Mozahara in a smart way, not just impulsive, it will pay off. We will ask for international assistance, making noise...
at the end those idiots above will say: 'khalas.... basita, give those idiots below this fucking Internet and let them shut up. We have got
headache from all this noise"
Your long post shows a nice way to start a nice idea to apply, but I read it somewhere that you are from Bulgaria and you live abroad, so what may work in Bulgaria might not work in here :P
I will give you a simple example :
In Lebanon the price of 20 L of Fuel cost about 30000 LL sometimes more and sometimes less We have Taxi and bus drivers that lives from transporting people (you know what I mean) and those people have families to feed , the price of 20L of fuel was about 20000 LL in the past (and even less) and the government have been raising the price day after day .... Those taxi Drivers cant handle it anymore the prices were increasing in a crazy way, for the past 10 Years Taxi and Bus and Vans drivers have been making manifestations, protests, Riots, cutting the roads for the whole day Crying, nagging on TV, doing everything they could, they got all Lebanese and arab TVs attention they have clearly sent their message to the government and to the world I guess and even though the government never cared and never decreased the 20L of Fuel price and still they increase it sometimes.
So what I mean about those taxi drivers, this thing affected their families, some of them couldnt put their children in schools, even some coudnlt feed their families, In a such situation we had lifes on the edge and the government still doesn't care.
Summary : in life and death situation the government doesn't care, and in internet situation for them it will be an extremely low priority situation that almost doesn't exist.
BUT no harm from trying to do something :D
