Freedom of Expression Lands 3 in Roumieh

Our Dear Fearless Leader Beyond Reproach or Comment

To avoid being arrested, and being unable to go to Carl Cox this weekend, David Guetta on the 17th and the Gorillaz on the 20th, and of course study for my MCATs (which I started today, yay me!) I will not say anything insulting any elected figure in the Lebanese government.

However, the silence in the Lebanese circles has made me uneasy, and I want to share with you some questions that are causing alarm on behalf of many individuals informed on the matter.

Why this has not made enough buzz, I’m not sure, but I attribute it mainly to the unreliable, biased and pitiful journalism on behalf of TV stations and other media outlets which focus on finding ways to incriminate the side opposing their political beliefs instead of getting the facts and allowing people to understand what happened.

I would like to ask, not state or adopt any statement, several questions which I will leave for you to answer:

1. Have the officials who arrested the individuals who mentioned the esteemed President of the Lebanese Republic on Facebook been promoted or given a raise for their investigative prowess?
2. Have the arrested suspects been properly questioned and processed after extended incarceration given the overwhelming threat to Lebanon and Lebanese society?
3. Does the esteemed President of the Republic know what has happened, given his extremely busy schedule and preoccupations?
4. If the esteemed President of the Republic knows of these prisoners, does he support their arrest?
5. Were the loved ones of those arrested informed, because the preferred method would be secretly abducting them and allowing the parents and families to practice espionnage and search and rescue?
6. Have real crimes like murders and rapes been so vehemently pursued? Cause this is a far greater and more urgent topic and all Lebanese authority resources should be poured into this effort to suppress speech
7. Was President Emile Lahoud exempted from that law? Cause back then, the trending topic in Lebanese politics was bashing presidents, it’s fascinating how it is a seasonal law…
8. Will this law be changed, or be enforced and celebrated by a Lebanon that has no problem when freedom means prostitution or drugs, but cracks down relentlessly on online comments?
9. The final and most important question is, is the government hiring people for this new oppressive branch of ‘law’ enforcement? Cause I’d love to get paid to read blogs and Facebook profiles to incriminate people!