Cry in your ear ... do something
As part of the goals of the Kuwaiti Humanitarian Society, I sacrificed my comfort, and announced on Twitter that I am ready to receive requests from those in need via my private phone.
I knew the consequences of that and the extent of the inconvenience I would have to face, not only because of the large number of people in need, but also because the ‘need’ is pressing, and often the caller may not take into account the discomfort it may cause the person at the other end because in the current circumstances the comfort of others means nothing to the caller.
My intuition is sincere as I discovered the next morning that there were calls and text messages in the early hours of the morning, as if the people who called me were machines who have no feelings especially the ones who need help the most.
I was not angry or did not repent for this unjustified mistake except for what happened 30 years ago, when our homeland was invaded by the criminal Saddam.
This bothered me, especially since I am receiving thousands of messages and calls, and there is no slightest exaggeration in them. The messages are from individuals and heads of families who are ‘stuck’ because their salaries have been stopped, their daily incomes have been interrupted and they are hungry. Add to this the problem of paying rents and other obligations in life.
The source of the anger was not the poor living conditions of these people, and the need of many of them for a piece of bread – this is not an exaggeration -- but for the crime committed by almost all state agencies against all these people and those who sold them illusions.
I have proof of many “dishonest” citizens who at the expense of the sweat of these people make money in thousands of dinars (they receive between one and two thousand dinars from each of them for residence permit) and then throw them onto the streets. They sold these people dreams of becoming rich overnight.
Who allowed an expatriate to come to Kuwait and work whose income is not more than 200 dinars and who has a family whose number is frightening?
Who brought these families into the country to live on charity, and renew their residence permit year after year? Who allowed hundreds of families in the country who do not work or have sponsors and yet a large number of them suffer from disabilities?
I am a father and have a disabled person in my house and I know what disability means. How can some of these families sometimes have three disabled persons? How does a 90-yearold live among us in miserable conditions? Who are the sponsors of these people? How do the concerned authorities and monitoring systems allow all these people (a large number of them) to live outside their legal workplaces?
How did the thousands of “dishonest citizens” who are trading in visas succeed in escaping the law? Why does the state support them or protect them? Why are there so many unexplained errors in Civil IDs that don’t mention where these people are working and who are their sponsors? Does not the authority have the best computer programs? Why do the members of the same family have different names on their civil IDs? Why are there so many civil IDs which do not show where the holder works and who is the sponsor?
We allowed the conditions in this beautiful and small country to deteriorate for a long period of time where deviation increased and with it honesty decreased and deprivation increased. We are demanding not only to amend the composition but also to increase the penalty for human traffickers.
We do not need three million expatriates to work for us. I say this despite the fact that I benefit financially from their presence, but the interests of the countries should not come at the expense of individuals.
Yes, there is a category that needs to sell their cars. Others need to rent their apartments and yet others need to promote their products and getting rid of the excess labor will harm the interests of all of these, but do you know of a homeland that exists only to please me and the car dealer, the airline, and the furniture seller?
Our homeland is slowly disappearing right in front of us. What we see is similar to an invasion which is more dangerous than what we were subjected to by the vile Saddam. Fortunately for us, in those days there were people willing to help us against those who invaded our country and violated our sovereignty. But today, we are the invaders, we are the ones who violate the rights of others, and we have lost much in this area, so no one will come or volunteer to help us.
This country is now run by a small category of people loyal to the government and it is my right as a citizen to shout in the ears of this ‘category’ and I ask this category to rule with his/her conscience, fear for our beautiful homeland, and stop this criminality, and prove to the world that our nation is not worth what the spoilers are doing – crimes against the nation. If my cry has reached your ear do something.