It’s a touchy subject that no one wants to talk about, but everyone thinks inside their head. Why should we, the taxpayers, be the one to the pay the price (literally and figuratively) for the “security concerns” of our politicians? Why should our taxes fund the uniformed bodyguard’s salary carrying around shopping bags for some big-shot’s wife’s shopping spree at Aishti in Downtown Beirut? Why should our neighborhoods be closed off and armed police and army suffocate our traffic, kill our businesses and make it an entire ordeal to just get into our homes with no electricity or water?

Not Our Problem

We can definitely sympathize with politicians worried about someone blowing them to smithereens. After all, most of them are warlords who did the same to others, so for sure they’re gonna be scared shitless that someone is gonna do that to them. But, how is it my problem? How is it yours? Why should a patient in an ambulance die because his highness doesn’t want to get stuck in traffic like we do every fucking day of our fucking lives in this cesspool of corruption?

You’re too afraid of the risk this job entails? Quit. Go on your vacations and never come back, but don’t put us through hell so you can drive around with your parade of uniformed gang-bangers yelling, beating and humiliating the people that pay your salaries.

It’s Not Security, It’s Vanity

If someone really wants to kill them, no matter how many roads they close and armored cars they make us pay for, they still will. This isn’t about security, it’s about prestige. How many motorcades do you see on an average day? Do they really expect us to believe that every mid-level politician is at risk and needs this much taxpayer-funded security?

It’s just another dick-measuring exercise. Who has more used, imported American SUVs to zip by you with brainless muscle-heads waving their submachine guns in your face to move, but don’t move for an ambulance transporting someone who needs help immediately.

It’s like everyone with tinted windows. Those are either to get blowjobs in private while in traffic, do drugs on your dashboard, or pretend like you have some status when all you did was grease the palms of whoever got you that “license”. They’re all symptoms of wanting to show off, when everyone knows all y’all are just flash without any real bang.

Catch the Criminals

If you’re all so worried about getting blown up, why hasn’t a single assassination been solved? Why have no culprits been brought to justice? Why are taxpayers the ones that pay the price for your ineptitude, or simple unwillingness to bring justice for crimes committed?

Catch the bad guys, and you won’t need to close down the entire city to shuttle between your useless lunch dates and photo opps while you waste the country’s time with petty bickering over who gets which slice of the corruption pie.

Pull Unnecessary Security Details

It’s amazing that when a wife is raped and murdered, we don’t have enough cops to act. But, if a za3im wants to go out for drinks, it’s like the alien invasion is upon us and there’s armed personnel every 5 meters “facilitating” traffic for the “VVVVIP”.

Stop using our cops and soldiers as road-closers and shopping bag carriers. Let them do their jobs, the ones we pay them for. I don’t want to pay a cop to carry some bimbo’s shopping bags. I don’t want to pay them to close the roads in front of ambulances either.

Many security details have been pulled, and a road next to where I live was finally opened after being closed for years for some idiot MPs and their relatives who live close by. Spoiler alert: they weren’t assassinated.

So, stop wasting our money and personnel on being bag carriers for your wives, and drivers of your spoiled brats to the school we pay the tuition for.

Pull ALL unnecessary “security” details and chauffeurs, and open all roads closed for “security” reasons.

Khlosna ba2a. You want to milk every last penny out of this country with your corruption and ineptitude, at least let our ambulances get to their destination, and our cops do what they should be doing: serving the community, not the scaredy-cat, obnoxious show-offs we call our leaders.