A Syrian reader sent me this: "The funny man is in public again, and this time, using his Secondary School
logic, to lecture the parliamentarians (The Arabic Version contains
too many platitudes that the reader won't find in the revised English
one):
A- about their duties:
... Some are jobless and take money to demonstrate, while others left their jobs because they found it easier to take money for an hour or half an hour (of demonstrations). And there are some teens of 14 or 15 years old who have been given 2000 Syrian Pounds (about US $ 25) to kill... (III)
C- about the opposition
When someone boycotts the elections, he doesn't, in fact, boycott the state, the government or the ruling party, but rather, he boycotts the people itself. The actual voter is the citizen, not the state, not the government, not the ruling party. How can someone say: I represent the people and I boycott the people. This is an unresolvable paradox (He really believe its outstanding!!)
D- about his view of the solution:
Any political action must be based on the foundations established by the people. Among these foundations is the dialogue which must be based to these foundations in order to produce actual results... That's why I use the term political process, rather than political solution... because talking about political solution means that what we're doing now will improve the situation... (Political process: good, political solution: illusion... yeahhhhh.)
This is the man who is leading a nation in the heart of an existential crisis where all its basic postulates became subject of a bloody redefinition process, where its very existence as a unified country became a material for discussions... No comment...
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A- about their duties:
- And if the citizen is the target, then he must be the staring point... If we're working for him, if his interest is our goal, then his point of view should be our compass...
- The relationship between the legislature and the executive is often describes as good or bad. I believe this description isn't true because this isn't a kind of courtesy or competition. It's, rather a relationship of complementarity. A complementarity relationship should be described as being systematic or not. When it's systematic, then we need mechanisms and this is the starting point for any organization in any specific phase. Does he really understand this?
- Just imagine that, instead of few dozens of ministers, we, moreover, have hundreds of parliamentarians who think, develop and implement the plans... I'm sure the development process would be more effective
... Some are jobless and take money to demonstrate, while others left their jobs because they found it easier to take money for an hour or half an hour (of demonstrations). And there are some teens of 14 or 15 years old who have been given 2000 Syrian Pounds (about US $ 25) to kill... (III)
C- about the opposition
When someone boycotts the elections, he doesn't, in fact, boycott the state, the government or the ruling party, but rather, he boycotts the people itself. The actual voter is the citizen, not the state, not the government, not the ruling party. How can someone say: I represent the people and I boycott the people. This is an unresolvable paradox (He really believe its outstanding!!)
D- about his view of the solution:
Any political action must be based on the foundations established by the people. Among these foundations is the dialogue which must be based to these foundations in order to produce actual results... That's why I use the term political process, rather than political solution... because talking about political solution means that what we're doing now will improve the situation... (Political process: good, political solution: illusion... yeahhhhh.)
This is the man who is leading a nation in the heart of an existential crisis where all its basic postulates became subject of a bloody redefinition process, where its very existence as a unified country became a material for discussions... No comment...
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regards".
