Free Michel Kilo Now - Enough Already

How many people need to be killed in Lebanon? Gaza? Iraq so you can prove that you are a regional player??? or do you get personal satisfaction by killing and improsining people or force an entire country to worship you…As long as Michel Kilo and his friends remain in Syrian prisons you are suspect number one in all the crimes and chaos happening in Lebanon.

 I can’t get how dumb you are by not even trying to cover your crimes…you even choose to send all these messages of intimidation so bluntly…but it is not your fault it is the fault of the Syrian people and other foreign powers (hint hint Israel and the US) that allow you to remain where you are; so you can cause as much harm as possible. I am still very confused about why targeted assassinations happen everywhere around Syria but not within Syria??? oh sorry it is usually called suicide or a one way ticket to prison, or dissapearance forever, bombs usually explode in empty areas.

Also, how clever of you to have people’s hearts and minds directed toward libaring a land that you are so happy that it is occupied. Tell those people that the Golan is just an excuse for you to have total rule and control…tell them that you need to control Lebanon because it was a cash cow that needs to remain in safe hands to not give freedom loving Syrians any wrong ideas…tell them that you offer nothing to Syria and people are so dumb for marketing you otherwise. 

You are a big engine of instability in the region and the engine of Syrian backwardness. You are needed to ensure that the region remain in the dark ages…don’t forget to thank your masters for all the wealth that you and your family worked so hard to accumulate: it is ultimately sucked from the sweat of the hard working people, the blood of the innocents, the freedom suffocation, the brainwashing of the young minds and souls.

Syria I cry for your misery…Lebanon hopefully you will be soon freed of the criminal spirits. 

Before we ask how can we get it back or what should we do to get it back…we should ask why did we lose it in the first place: would we have lost it if the evil baath revolution never took place? if the political and military state of affairs in Syria was in a normal shape, would we have kept inviting the enemy to preempt us?

It is easy to blame Israel and the Big powers of the west as well as the Soviet Union for the loss: but the truth is we have to start by blaming ourselves for allowing a bunch of thugs to rule us and destroy the country. We can also blame ourselves for believing or pretending to accept that the Assad family will ever get the Golan back after having cashed the monetary price in full as well as the benefit of being allowed to stay in power.

What happened in the Golan in June 1967 was not a military defeat because there was no fighting on the ground, it was treason for selling out the land in exchange for power and domination of the Syrian people. We can also blame the rotten Baath mentality that we can get the Golan back through instability and faked resistance in Lebanon.

In June 2067, I bet Bashar Assad the second (grand kid of current Bashar) the new leader of Syria will still vow to liberate the Golan. For that he’ll be the new Syrian clown after having won a very popular referendum and silenced some opposition critics by throwing them in jail to keep with family values and traditions.

Viva Syria Libre with the Golan back where it belongs as a price for democracy and modernism to be the source of Syrian pride not defeat and treason.

Saint encouraged me to make what Maureen wrote a new post, makes sense since it seems that the country is too festive to talk about our own prisoners. Let’s hope they get their due freedom soon…

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Talking of nightmares, and having the courage to go on - here is a message sent by Kamal Labwani’s family to the CIVICUS World Assembly held in Glasgow, Scotland last weekend. It was attended by about 1,000 delegates and all of them were given a petition on a postcard to send to the Syrian government demanding the release of all prisoners of conscience in Syrian jails. The family’s message was written shortly before their father was sentenced to 12 years detention.

“The crime our father has committed is that of expressing his opinion. Among other things, he criticized the lack of freedom in our country, the corruption, the poor education system and the longest state of emergency in the world – 40 years.

Our father was detained and sentenced for three years in 2001. When they released him in September 2004, six of his friends remained in prison and he campaigned for their release. Five were released after appreciable pressure by several NGOs like your organization, and foreign governments. Unfortunately, one of the six, Prof. Aref Dalila, remains in prison with a sentence of ten long years.

Our father was arrested again and now he is being charged with an accusation that can sentence him to prison for life or cause him to be executed if Syria becomes involved in a war.

But they didn’t imprison his scent, which we detect in every corner of the house, in his books and in our souls. They didn’t imprison his ideas and his hunger for freedom. They cannot detain his right to dream of a better country where all people are equal before the law. Our Dad still dreams in prison – and thousands of people share the same dream.

Dreams can’t be captured, but sometimes fear can turn dreams into nightmares. Yes, we share your dream, Father, but our daily life has become a nightmare. He smiled when he heard us say this (after he had been shut up for 18 days in solitary confinement in terrible conditions) and told us, ‘Freedom has a price’ and ‘I want you to have the kind of dreams that free people have.’ And then he whispered, ‘Even dreams are different when you live in a free country and I am willing to pay the price so that you may discover this for yourselves, my dears.’

I tell you no secret when I say that we miss him. We miss his daily presence and sometimes we feel not only sad, but angry. When so much injustice is practised one tries to tolerate it, but it takes courage because it is so unfair. People like yourselves, ladies and gentlemen, make anger vanish and dreams possible. Thank you for sharing our sorrows and our dreams.”

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For people who are unaware, Kamal was harshly sentenced to 12 years, so he’ll be in prison for the next referendum and may be 3 rounds of the selection of the people’s assembly. Are the authorities using the post cards to decorate their offices? Will Assad denie the existence of prisoners the next time he speaks some English on TV??? some Egyptian friend was fooled by his innocent young look and was like man isn’t Syria lucky!!!!!!

 Our thoughts are with Kamal, Michel, Aref, Anwar, Faek, Mahmood and all the free people even though some thugs decided to place them in jail in the name of stability! and steadfastness and false nationalism. Also our prayers are for their families who are suffering tremendously.

The Golan was lost 40 years ago in a stupid war because of ignorant leaders, provocative slogans, empty speeches and false rethorics. Having free people in prison is not the way to get the land back or to solve the challenges that Syria faces internally and externally.