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By Sami Ben Gharbia • December 11, 2006 • Filed in: Blogging and Web

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aslama ettwansa
this is the second time that i visit your web site , the first one was just to see what’s happening over here , but today i decided to write a little somthing that maybe , and i’m just saying maybe 99 % of you out there will not like it, well as i said my name is kamel i grow up in sfax few blocks from MR BEN SALEM’s house(arrest) , i studied and i reached college , but i knew that’ll be no chance for me and for alot of ather peeole like me to get a job once we get the diplomat, so i packed and i went to the usa where i lived since 1999.
whene i was back home i use to hate the systeme cause it’s so corrupt, and because you needed a middle man to get to what you want even the simplest thing,and my hate grow bigger seign or hearing about peeple who’ve been in jail or they’re under arrest or they live in house arrest , or someone
who was forced to leave the country and leaving behind him a wife and kids, fearing for his safety… well i saw every thing and i heard a lot of stories,
i left the bled deciding not to come back not because i’m wanted or anything like it, it’s just cause i thought, that i will not be able to melt in that pot.
well i lived in the states since 99 and the love for my bled grow inside of me bigger day after the other i even overcame the hate of the system , i wandered how did that happen, well back home we live uder a tremendous amount of stress and pressure , and that pressure makes us see only the negative side of the subject , but once you stabilise a little you start looking to the picture from both sides , the negative and the positive, that why i say that i like your web site , but i gotta tell you that you’re guys only showing the negative side of the tunisian system , i’m not here to preach about it, but health (women and kids specially) are the top camparing to other countries even the khalidj ones, not talking about africa and all of these countries have more resources than us, and we all got free education (college here cost $4500 a year for the really bad ones)…plus every body has a roof over him not like here where 100ds of thousands of peeple are living deep under the poverety line or homeless…

guys it’s sad what happend to the young ones behind bars , i could’ve been one of them if i stayed there, but i figured my way out. there is always a light even a thin one at the end of a tunnel.
so guys please don’t show our country as just a prison cell or torture chamber , but refer to both sides of the coin like that you get more credibulity and even if sombodey who never heard of tunisa will say after visiting this web site . that we’re like other countries we got a political systeme that has ups and downs not only downs , cause if they start thinking like that they will say hah!!!!!!!! it looks like iraq there let’s take the troops there and topple this dictator and put someone else there ( no matter whom they pic ) we’ll have a new one on top of us and he’ll rule the same or even worse than the one there right now . guys you don’t want this to happen you don’t want tounes to become a coalition forces territories cause this what happened in iraq , the opposution in washignton start wining and crying about what happened to them, they got somebody to belive them , and now us you see there’s three iraq’s fighting each others.

this is what i think of a few political keywords , that they have the same meanings or they lead to the same thing worldwide at all times( thru my point of view , i’m not a teacher , a professor , a doctor, a journalist , a judge or advocat like some of you, i’m just a cook from new york)

ELECTION= a legal process , ment to put someone in power to steal the nation’s money ( not only in tunisia but every where !!!!! yes every where)
ELECTED PERSON=he has a few terms to serve that’s why he has to maximise his fortune before leaving his posution
PEEPLE=tax payers
NATION=big word for something little small it’s just a company with CEO workers and customers , the CEO priorities is to maitain his posution there as long as he could , steal and prvent others (workers with a few exeption ( freinds an relatives)from stealing , satisfie his customers to keep his companie alive ( customers could be big ones that give orders to maintain relatinship or just do trading cause them too are small fishes that need to do business to survive in that sharqs tank)
VOTE=accept to be attacked by a big dog , cause it makes you feel better than beeing attaked by a small dog or someone whoe’s just your size.
guy’s once again i love you all ,and before leaving i want to say one last thing, when you blow into a balloon and you keep putting pressure on it ,it will explode , that the case of all this young kids behind bars they suffered the system pressure and the anti systeme pressure , it was was a difficult situation for them that’s why they ended up like that, hopefully god will help them thru their suffering. guys i’m not an english teacher so if it happens and you post my comment please don’t ask for spell check , they were my thoughts and i decided to share them with you , let’s work to make best things happen
salem


Hi Kamel Thank you for your comment and for sharing with us your idea about the bled.
I like very much the definitions you’ve given to political keywords. In someway it’s the reality behind.

I just have some remarks about the way you are considering the task of sites or blogs like mine.

If you surf the Web you’ll certainly find a lot of sites where the positive side of the Tunisian story is shining. All the propaganda machine of the Tunisian government, all the Tunisian media sites, the so-called independent Media, like Echourouq, Assarih, Essabah,..etc. are talking about the “miracle of the Tunisian model” and presenting it as the outcome of the wise leadership of President Ben Ali. The hard work of the Tunisian people, their efficiency and competence are simply eclipsed. What is positive is the work of Ben Ali, and what is negative - when its existence is admitted- is the work of an obscure and hostile circumstances.

So, giving a space to speak about what’s going wrong in the beld did matter. At least it’s giving some balance to the whole picture dominated by the “positive shiny touristy success story” of the Tunisia of Ben Ali.

You’re always welcome to the conversation and don’t feel sorry about your English, me too, I don’t feel comfortable with that, but we still perpetual learning pupils. And believe me, we are neither doctor nor professors. Actually I don’t even have university diplomas, and that won’t bother me. So keep on talking, keep on thinking. The web is a place where free speech rules.

Cheers, sami


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