20 May 2011

Friday: No choice but revolution

It’s Friday again and, of course, everyone has one thing in their minds:

Will we explode again?

The government says that they will forbid protests today. Does that mean they will kill us?

Maybe or maybe not …

They say that they are pulling out from Tel Kalikh … they denounce Obama’s speech …. They say that we are all dupes and fools of foreign conspiracies … they claim that there are no protests, no dissent, than we are all dupes and fools who believe the testimony of our own eyes … they claim that they just want to reform and if we’d just shut up and go away, everything will be fine. After all, they say, there’s no dissension in the army; the fighting between the fourth and fifth divisions in Dera’a was just an illusion; the mass graves were just a delusion; the way that they try to stir up sectarian hatreds is all in our minds;

We after all are, despite our words and our actions, the ones who want to kill, not them. We are supposed to be filled with bloodlust (for the blood of poor innocent secret policemen, or, according to their apologists, the blood of any Alawi to make our matzoh). When we assert that we want democracy, that we are peaceful, that we despise sectarianism, we, they say, are disingeuous. When we have sit-ins and protest marches and sing songs, we are trying to dupe them into letting down their guards, just as we beat ourselves and imprisoned ourselves and killed ourselves just to make the pure hearts of the security services look bad

They say that if we just calm down and agree to go back to the way things were, they will quickly bring ‘reform’.

But we cannot go back. If we stop, we know that there will be no reforms. They will be rounding up everyone who has spoken out, everyone who has protested. They will kill us all except those who can make it out of the country.

We have no choice but revolution; once, there was a chance for reform and peaceful change. Assad promised it over and over and over again. But did nothing. The torture, the detentions, the killings went on. Any credibility is gone.

We have no choice; we cannot stop any more, not until freedom comes.

We have no choice but revolution until victory.

We have no choice but freedom

We have no choice but the overthrow of the regime.

They must go; all that is left to discuss the matter in which they cede power to the Syrian people

Until then

Revolution until victory

4 comments:

Bert Hogervorst said...

If this is so, I think it would be wise to think about how to fill the vacuum afterwards. Or do you think there will be no political vacuum?

Micah said...

Syria is unique to the region. It is a small country that has always had disproportionate influence. Also unique in that Syrians are probably the most educated Arabs in the region.

Syria's real strength has always been her human capital. If the protesters exploit that first and foremost (as opposed to pushing a particular agenda or ideology), Syria will flourish, in my opinion.

Syria is one of those few countries where the future rather than the past, can be the underlying and driving force.

I have been to Syria and it is a nation of dichotomies. I can only hope the Syria of ideas trumps the Syria of ideologues.

I'm betting on the former.

AlkhaniTribe said...

You leave a spot for comments, but honestly what else is left to say...may many more like you join us in our battle for freedom...may our victory be near...may the rebuilding of Syria be a beautiful one...one that returns its pride!

Anonymous said...

FRIDAY FRIDAY GOTTA GET DOWN ON FRIDAY

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