"MAKE NO MISTAKE .."
My edited version
Ilfahad & Sharaar

[Thaifalla Sharaar's] achievement has been in confusing the public mind, [..].
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law.

We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men -- not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

This is no time for men who oppose [A7mad Il Fahad's] methods to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of [Kuwait] to abdicate his responsibilities.

As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of [our rights], wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend [our rights by not getting up].

The actions of the [Minister of Energy] have caused alarm and dismay amongst our [people], and given considerable comfort to [the "Independents" - il mostagileen].

And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it -- and rather successfully. Cassius [From Shakespeare's Caesar] was right. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

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فليسمحلي الشاعر لو تعبثت بأبياته وأقول

عجبت وأيام الزمان عجائب
ويظهر بين العجائب عظيمها

وما أفسد الكويت إلا عصابة
تآمــر فهدها وشراراها فدام نعيمهــا