The Guardians of the Cedars Party issued the following weekly communiqué:
The capacity of the Lebanese people for patience, endurance and obstinacy over pain has exceeded the imaginable. No nation in the world has endured the oppression, adversity and humiliation that Lebanon has gone through at the hands of its existing political establishment, both the loyalist and opposition camps.
More amazing is that the people, or at least some of them, continue to indulge in their allegiance to this class and their readiness to take to the streets in support of this or that side, instead of rising up against all those who brought them to this bottomless pit of despair, misery, and suffering, and who have squeezed them between the fear and anxiety over the future and the starvation of today.
The ruling majority has relinquished its role of savior since March 14, 2005 and has dissipated all the hopes that were pinned on it. It has gradually relinquished the gains, slogans and goals of the revolution until it is no longer but a soulless body and a majority on paper.
And if the majority is paralyzed and without immunity, the opposition on the other hand is beset with a graver disease, namely political profligacy, arrogance and bombast that inevitably leads to demise. Since its beginning, this opposition has done its best to undermine the political life cycle of the country and void it of its constitutional institutions one after another. It also has contributed to undermining the already decaying economy by occupying public and private property in the center of the capital. More dangerous than all of this is the decision taken by one of the opposition leaders to convert Lebanon, and only Lebanon, into an open war arena against Israel after he hijacked the decision-making of the Lebanese people and forced them into a futile war which will, next time around, devastate everything.
Nothing can explain the deadly silence of the Lebanese people over this egregious injustice that is inflicted on them, and the reasons that prevent them from rising against these degenerate vultures that make up the political establishment and which have transformed Lebanon from the country of peace and freedom into a country of war and the manufacture of death; from the country of prosperity, abundance and pride into a country of indigence, poverty and destitution where people nowadays sift through garbage looking for food!
This black page of our history, which is being written by the political establishment, must be turned one of these days. How long will those starving inside their houses wait before storming out in the streets with their pitchforks? How long, I ask our people, will they wait?
Lebanon, at your service
Abu Arz