Unimpressed with earlier calls for massive protests in Lebanon to force the Democratically elected government of Lebanon to step down, Hezbollah is calling for another protest this Friday.  Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the Lebanese government “has proven it is incompetent and has failed to fulfill its promises and achieve anything significant.”

Opposition groups said in a statement that they “call on all the Lebanese of all sects and parties … to gather peacefully and stage an open-ended sit-in to protest the absence of real political participation and to demand a national unity government, whose priority is to decide a new election law.”

They called on supporters to carry only the Lebanese flag and to avoid displaying party banners or posters.

Of course they don’t want Hezbollah flags or Nasrallah posters.  It makes for an entirely different message sent to the world. And now even that this is a known quantity, does anyone want to make a wager with me that the press will still under-report the involvement of Hezbollah when these protests occur?

Lebanon Prime Minister Fuad Saniora warns that Lebanon’s democracy is in danger from Hezbollah, clearly a group who accepts democracy when it works in their favor but rejects it when it wants complete power.

“We will not allow the overthrow of the democratic system, its foundations and its institutions … We are staying in our place,” Saniora said in a nationally televised address . . .

“Lebanon’s independence is threatened and its democratic system is in danger,” he said, adding: “Do not be afraid and do not despair. We have a rightful cause. Threats will not deter us. Maneuvers and ultimatums will not terrorize us.”

Why the Lebanese population allows Hezbollah to put a seige upon their government continues to baffle me.  The entire Hezbollah-Israel war was started by Hezbollah and dragged the entire nation of Lebanon into the conflict.  Hezbollah is proving they have little regard for the will of the people within Lebanon, just like every other Islamist group.