Free Michel Kilo Now - Enough Already

My heart is aching from seeing what is happening in Lebanon…very disgusting…every summer something happens and it is very saddening.

Why are we still stuck in the 70s and 80s violent days??? it really says a lot that Lebanon the country with the best potential to be so advanced and civilized…with its brightest people everywhere are ruled by few lunatics that take orders from outside. 

What can I say Assad got the blessing from Iran and Israel to burn Lebanon one more time…Thank you Nasralla for showing us the thug that you are, may you go to hell. You really showed us what the Arab resistance is all about, use weapons and bombs to burn innocent cities…

Isreal must be very happy to expose you to the Arab world, basically another terrorist…also perfect timing with the Israeli celebrations in place, how much did you get paid for this???

No wonder Assad keeps Michel Kilo and the rest in jail because he knows that they won’t accept how Lebanon is being toyed with one more time. Many Syrians don’t know any better so they believe the Syrian propaganda but I truly believe that the Syrian regime is another player (kept in place by outside) in the region that make sure the Arab world never goes anywhere but back to the savage ages.

I am really Sorry Michel Kilo on the eve of 2 years anniversary of your arrest that you are still a victim of oppression with no hope in site. 

Thanks Maureen for sending the pictures of the Amnesty protest in London, can’t but post them again!

Hoping for a better tomorrow, the middle east current situation is heading for a big explosion…unless a miracle happens…Bashar needs to show some dramatic wisdom and do a 180 shift to avoid a lot of bloodshed…opening up and being flexible is his only card, being a hardliner won’t get him anywhere.

Nothing surprise me from Damascus these days except to say “thakhanouha” (going overboard)…unless they have decided to transform all the prisons into cultural ones and make sure all the intellectuals unite inside them. Fayez Sara is a respected writer who always tread carefully between the lines and there is no reason to arrest him at all…I read his articles in the past just like I read those of Michel Kilo before he was arrested and he was pleasant to read. 

Anyway why is this happening??????????????????????????????

Why the Syrian regime keeps showing his middle ages and barbaric mentality !!!!!!!!!! are doctor Bashar and Asma Al Asad really ruling the country? or some low security guys who decide to humiliate the civilized people…anyway if Mr Bashar wants to portray his intellectual wise image then he better act soon and change the mentality of his regime, stop these arrests and allow for some breathing space. If he can’t rule over the security animals then he should retire with all the billions that he made (sorry stole) unless he is a retard who enjoys the glory and all his talks about being educated were just for mere consumption.

Clearly I am not optimistic, and I don’t think any positive change is happening soon based on their mercurial policies in Lebanon…they could sing different tunes and stop arresting people in Syria for any hope to shine. They are playing their spoiler role in Syria and the region perfectly…we can call them the NEW or BIZARRO ZIONISTS, destroying the region better than Israel ever did.

on the Margin, another sad arrest for a blogger Tarek Bayassi

Here is more from Elaph on Fayez (arabic)

في ما يعتقد أنه على خلفية نشاطه العام و مشاركته في اجتماع المجلس الوطني لإعلان دمشق اعتقلت أجهزة المخابرات في العاصمة السورية دمشق حوالي الساعة العاشرة من صباح الخميس 3/1/2008 عضو المنظمة السورية لحقوق الإنسان (سواسية ) الكاتب و المحلل السـياسي الأستاذ فايز ساره و اقتادته لجهة مجهولة.

- الكاتب و المحلل السياسي فايز محمد ديب ساره تولد جيرود التابعة لريف دمشق عام 1950.
- متزوج و له أربعة أولاد.
- كاتب في العديد من الصحف و المجلات و الدوريات العربية منها (الحياة اللندنية والسفير والمستقبل اللبنانية والنور السورية والعرب اليوم الأردنية ) و محلل سياسي ومهتم بالشـأن العام المحلي و العربي و الدولي.
- له العديد من الكتب و المؤلفات نذكر منها:
موسوعة الكاريكاتير العربي ( جزءان)
الأحزاب و القوى السياسية في تونس
الأحزاب السياسية في المغرب
كما شارك بتأليف الموســوعة الفلسـطينية.
- ناشط في مجال حقوق الإنسان و المجتمع المدني و من مؤسـسي لجان إحياء المجتمع المدني و المنظمة السورية لحقوق الإنسان و شغل منصب عضو مجلس إدارة في المنظمة السورية لحقوق الإنسان لأكثر من عام كما شارك في العديد من المؤتمرات و الندوات و ورشات العمل في مجال حقوق الإنسان إضافة لعضويته في الهيئة الدولية لمكافحة الفقر.
- شارك بصفته ممثلاً للجان إحياء المجتمع المدني في تهدئة الأوضاع في محافظة الحسكة بعد الأحداث المؤسفة في آذار من عام 2004ومارافقها من احتجاجات شعبية كوردية.

- يعاني من وضع صحي حرج جداً جراء إصابته بمرض القصور التام في عمل الغدد الدرقية و هو أحوج ما يكون للمراقبة المستمرة و العلاج الدائم.

and he is some sarcastic humour out of this, as a comment on the arrest

شو يعني إذا صحفي سوري تمت إستضافته في منتجع صنف خمس نجوم عند ظرفاء المخابرات السورية ؟؟ القصة لا تحتاج لأن تكتب مقالا عنها و عن صاحبها. السيد فايز سارة محظوظ جدا ,تصور لو أنه كان معتقلا في جوانتنامو ,هل هذا أفضل له ؟ كن واقعيا يا سيد غسان و تيقن بأن السيد فايز يلقى كل العنايةطيبة عند مضيفيه , و بالتأكيد أنه يرى نجوم الظهر و بالألوان الطبيعية. من قال لك يا سيد غسان أن الظرفاء لا يعطون العلاج الكامل و الفعال لمريضهم بالغدة الدرقية ؟ هم بالمناسبة يعالجون له كل الأمراض التي يعاني منها ..و ربما يقصون له لسانه الطويل الذي يتناولهم ظلما و عدوانا , كما سيبدلون له نظارتيه التي يرى فيهما سوءاتهم . و لن ينسوا بأن يضعوه في قسم الأمراض النفسية كي يعيدوا تركيب مخه ليتناسب مع واقع الحال في بلد الوحدة و الحرية و الإشتراكية . , آخر علاج سيكون في قسم أمراض القلب و سوف يغسلون له قلبه من الأحقاد السوداء عليهم , التي سكنت قلبه. على الإعلام العربي أن يشكر ظرفاء المخابرات على كرمهم و أريحيتهم .و على الصحفيين العرب أن يكتبوا عن معاناة اي فرد في أي مكان على الكرة الأرضية مع إستثناء سورية في الزمن الراهن

SYRIANS RISE UP AND REJECT THE HUMILIATING STATUS QUO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally I applaud Bilawal (Son Of Benazir Bhutto who said today)

“I believe that the problem is that dictatorships feed extremism, and once the United States stops supporting dictators, we can successfully tackle the extremist problem as well,”

Sorry that is just wishful thinking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But the decision makers in Culture less Syria could may be shock us by releasing the prisoners of conscience. They can help welcoming the celebrities, making them more comfortable that they are not approving a regime that suffocates cultural and free thinkers. The prisoners would really make the celebrations and fireworks meaningful instead of an empty culture that only offers crushing hope and silencing the voices of the society.  Is it too much to ask? Of course, nothing is expected from a bunch of cowards who pride themselves on oppression and the language of terror. 

The Arab and international guests should insist on visiting the prisoners or they better boycott such a tasteless farce. They can also insist on witnessing the destruction of important parts of old Damascus or destroying nature in the name of making money. 

Happy New Cultural Year Michel, Kamal, Aref, the list is becoming too long and be happy that others are joining you I write…

Here is part of the news article:

 Damascus heads into a new year as the cultural capital of the Arab world for 2008, hosting a year-long series of theatrical and musical events, along with talks by renowned intellectuals. American linguist and leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky, Czech writer Milan Kundera and Lebanon’s famed songstress Fairuz are among the personalities coming to Syria as Damascus assumes the cultural mantle from Algiers.

But not everyone welcomes the planned events, with Syrian writer Ibrahim Haj Abdi calling them “ephemeral cultural festivities.”

“Syrian intellectuals might have believed these promises (by the organisers) if only they had been accompanied by efforts to free one of the country’s most important intellectuals, Michel Kilo,” he wrote in Sunday’s pan-Arab daily newspaper Al-Hayat, published in London. Kilo was jailed in 2006 for being a co-signatory of the Beirut-Damascus Declaration, along with nearly 300 Syrian and Lebanese intellectuals. In May this year he was sentenced to three years in prison.

The declaration called for an overhaul of ties between the two states and for Syrian recognition of the independence of Lebanon, where Damascus was the major powerbroker for three decades until 2005.

“My experience with the organisers quickly dismissed any hope… of seeing it revive the role of culture that has been destroyed over decades” in Syrian society, wrote Samar Yazbek.

The cultural year will get under way on January 10 with a fireworks display on Mount Qassiun overlooking Damascus, followed by an official ceremony nine days later.

Could not resist writing a post about this sarcastic matter!!!!!

 A Film about Buthaina Shaaban!!!!!!!!!!! in the Damascus film festival 

“ “في مواجهة بيئة اجتماعبة جائرة من التعصب الديني ..الهيجان السياسي..والتقاليد البالية ..ومع صعود الحركات الاسلامية الاصولية كان هناك امراة عربية واحدة انبثقت من قلب الجمود متحدية الخطر الداهم في طريقها الصعب لتحقيق العدالة والمساواة لجميع النساء 

“To face a difficult social environment of religious fanatics, political instability, outdated customs and with the rise of Islamic radical movements, THERE WAS ONE ARAB WOMAN that came out from the heart of the people challenging great risks on her difficult path to achieve justice and equality for all Women!!!!!!!”

 Bravo, I could not resist the humor…my hat goes off to that woman, what a courage!!!!! you think she lived in Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia 500 years ago!!!! or that Syria in now heaven on Earth in terms of freedoms!!!

This whole ass-kissing is usually reserved for the Assad Gods, not for a woman who did nothing useful in her life except to write and say garbage, twisting logic and making Syrians look like they live in another planet…

If there is any Islamic fundamentalism in Syria (which is a country of a lot of great women –some of them are in jail now thanks to her regime), it is because people like Buthaina nurture that and benefit from it…she does not miss an occasion to make it look like Syria is attacked because it is the real leader of Islam. Not to mention she makes shit as she goes about the lack of freedom in other countries ignoring the freedom that she offers in Syria.

Anyway I don’t want to sound too political or get too emotional…but I think that is what the tragic comedies of our region revolve around, people who have nothing to do but to attract ridiculous attention about how important they are with nothing to sustain their claim!!!!!! no thanks to the idiot who made that film happen!

I wish you all Happy Holidays (Muslims, Christians and Jews) and a better 2008 but we can only dream…

Fares

May 2008 change the idiot mentality of the regime that they become so strong by jailing few intellectuals. Freedom for Kilo, Labwani, Bunni and all the heros that have been too long in jail. If any idiot think they are bargaining chips with the West, they are way off…the West use them to make Syria looks ugly (which is what the regime is doing anyway) but those victims are left on their own, they have no value but to tarnish Syria’s ruling cowards already rotten image.