Reply #2: This could be disastrous. (On the other hand its hippy heaven)

[Flabbergasted]

Protesters Seek Leader’s Ouster in Lebanon

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 1 — The official goal was to overthrow the government, but the atmosphere was bizarrely festive today as hundreds of thousands of Hezbollah supporters poured into the center of Beirut, banging drums, chanting slogans, pressing shoulder to shoulder as they surged past army troops seeking to keep order.

Hundreds of thousands of protesters from Hezbollah and its pro-Syrian allies massed in downtown Beirut today.
Families with little children, old people and young people all heeded the call of Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim party and militia, packing buses and cars all over the country. By nighttime, however, only several thousand demonstrators remained, smoking water pipes, playing music and vowing to stay, some in tents, until the Western-backed government falls.

“We are having fun, yes,” said Hussein Hanoum, 27, of Hermel in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon, as he lay across a sidewalk in the midst of a huge crowd. “We have no work. We have nothing else to do, so we came to overthrow the government.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/01/world/middleeast/01cnd-lebanon.html?hp&ex=1165035600&en=67d200735b613ff6&ei=5094&partner=homepage