A normal phrase in normal circumstances but oh so loaded with political meanings on this 21st day of January, 2007…

Tomorrow I’m going to work, not because I support the current government, nor because I consider myself as a partisan of the Lebanese Forces political party, no…

I am going to work because I want to tell the likes of Nasser Andil, Wi2am Wahab, Assem and Ali Quanso, Hassan Nassrallah and the whole bunch that no matter what pressure they try to exert on us, no matter how hard they try, the Lebanese are sticking to their hard earned independence.

I am going to work tomorrow to tell Aoun that he does not speak for me, despite his constant claims that he represents what he represents of the Lebanese Christians…

I am going to work to tell the gangs of 8th March that I, and many like me will join me in this, to tell them that we have had enough of their carnivals and careless adventures with only one goal in mind: the destruction of Lebanon as Bachar had promised in case his armies were kicked out of Lebanon.

From the July war to the assasinations of dear dear people, to the fruitless sit in that has succeeded in nothing but destabilize the economy further.

We have had enough of their lies and pretentions…

I want to tell them that although they might have succeeded in buying the cooperation of some of the people, or scaring others into going along with them, or brainwashed groups of youth to believe what they say without casting a single doubt, they have not succeeded in convincing ALL of the Lebanese that they are who they claim they are…

If some have chosen to obliterate the memory of Hassan Nassrallah on the 8th of March claiming his allegiance to Syria from Riad el Solh square while we were asking it to leave, if some have found it convenient to believe that Wi2am Wahab and Nasser Andil have suddenly found the faith and are devout Lebanese Citizens, if some are too brainwashed to believe that the SSNP have not budged one iota off their program to syrianzse Lebanon, I and many many many other like me, others that Hassan Nassrallah may not consider as “ashraf al shurafa”, will not bow to their plans.

Who am I you might ask…well I am a Lebanese, Christian, Maronite from the Kaza of Becharre…with all the meanings that this order of priorities holds. My great grandfather fought the Turks, my grandfather fought the French, my father fought the Palestinians and I have fought the Syrians…and my son will continue the struggle against whoever wrongly feels that he can make this piece of land his.

I know my decision to go to work tomorrow holds many risks…I know that I might get injured and worse might be killed if I am to believe what general Aoun has been threatening with in his well known hidden meanings, in his press conferences so loaded with electricity and insanity, but for me, I feel I am not better than all the martyrs that paved the way for the Cedar Revolution…from Ramzi Irani all the way to Pierre Gemayel may the Lord rest their souls.

This said, I urge all the true free Lebanese, those who hold the spirit of Jubran in them, those who wept when Pierre Gemayel was brutally assassinated, those who felt with the wounds of May Chidiac, those who dreamt of a country free of all foreign intervention, those who aspire in raising their kids the traditional Lebanese way, the family values way to ignore the threats and terror tactics of 8th of March and show them their real size.

Remember, they may enslave your body but they can NEVER own your souls.