أغنية "جنرال سليمان" تدخل الموسيقي زيد حمدان إلى السجن

Actually if they did arrest him, that will give the song and the singer major publicity. I would have never known about it if it wasn't for this.... Sort of a good tune regardless of the content

This is terrible news!

You can't repress freedom of expression and the song was not at all bad against Sleiman.

Mr President, you are already marginalized in power, and head a Government led by Hezbollah. You seem to be undertaking their repressive ways too!

Mr President, you risk losing whats left of your remaining support base amongst M14 Christians!

General Suleiman.... Go Home!

President Suleiman's undemocratic decisions embarrass Lebanese both at home and abroad. He is promoting a culture of fear and censorship. Shame on him!

So this was uploaded on YouTube in August 2010, 11 months ago and was arrested only now? That doesn't make sense.

And he was able to access his facebook account from prison to update his status to 'arrested'?! This seems like a hoax or a badly reported story.

This is such a clear violation of freedom of speech, which this bum is supposed ti protect. Go home!

Very Well done and bravo the general security . This so called African singer , should stay in Jail , and should be an example for others that are tempted to insult the President and the Presidency .

There are laws in Lebanon , they should be respected . Hariri era is over , Lebanon is no longer a Jungle .

Le Phenicien !

Under your rotten logic, Aoun et les 40 voleurs should all end up in jail for a coupe of lifetimes for having insulted the president so many times !

And don't you lecture people on respecting laws when all March 8 does is piss on every single law of this country !

Le Phenicien ... go home !

LOL @ Rotten Logic!
Can U imagine someone calling himself a human being and talking about laws in Lebanon and respecting them while the parties he supports all they do is assault the laws each and every day by attacking police patrols and media personel and on and on and on... Really Le Phenicien You are More Stup|d than anyone can imagine! But Hey! Who am I to judge You... You dont need judgment anyway! Look who U follow with Your political opinions! SAD!

@ Rotten logic ,

Sorry but GMA nor March 8 have never insulted the President like you pretend or insinuate . That is another lie from you and your march 14 or what ever is left from them .

I can imagine why you call yourself rotten !!

I think he is referring to the other lunatic general who should go home.

art is art weather its music or mohamad charicatures posing naked, its ART and FREEDOM OF SPEECH, this story if its true is unacceptable on every level, even though it doesnt make any sense to me that this man is arrested now and over this song, we'll have to wait and find out, perhaps he was arrested smoking hashish on an open highway and somehow they linked it to this song, or its a mass publicity stunt.

Shove it le Phenicien ...

Aoun insulted the president and just about everyone who doesn't abide by his rotten logic. This is his only means of dialogue ...

Proof ?

http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArchiveDetails.aspx?ID=240728
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8rAtpkSSsM
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2011/1036/re152.htm
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/May-26/Lebanons-mufti-blasts-Aoun-for-bigotry.ashx#axzz1TK068sRv

The list is huge if you google it !

Go home Le Phenicien, wash the wax out of your ears so you can hear, rinse your eyes so you can see ! And quit drugs ... so you can think !

What a weak and pathetic president. Under his watch HizbIran took over Lebanese institutions by force of arms and intimidation ushering the darkest age in Lebanon's history when freedom and democracy are mortally wounded and the achievements of the Cedar Revolution evaporated. This alone should make Suleiman one of the worst presidents Lebanon ever had, a disgrace to the Cedar Revolution, a tool of HizbIran and its useful idiots. Plus, his frequent visits to the butcher of the Syrian Spring makes him a partner of this criminal regime endangering Christian survivability in the region.

No doubt, Aoun wrote the song and passed the Lyrics ......LOL....

@ Rotten logic ,

As a politician , GMA or any other Lebanese politician , has the right to ask the President political questions like GMA did !

When President Sleiman got involved openly in the elections , GMA reminded him that he was elected as a consensual president , therefor he was not entitled to interfer or to take sides politically in the elections like he did ..

Please in your answer in case you have one , let it be right and not insulting if you dont mind . You dont have to show us that you are a bad loser , we know it .

Thank you .

@Le Phenicien

Sorry I had no right to use this language.

However, I don't understand your statement. I don't deny the right of Aoun or any lebanese to question things and seek answers.

My only concern was to demonstrate that he and his allies have insulted the president and other politicians publicly in the past on numerous account. I don't see them landing in prison although all lebanese are equal in front of the law. Maybe it's because they are above the law like their allies ?

The only losers my friend are the lebanese people who are governed like sheep by a bunch of thugs and who are brainwashed to death and cannot think for themselves. I'm not March 14 but i'm definitely not supporting March 8 ! Like Zeid Hamdan states so clearly ... they should all go home ... and take their sheep with them !

I have to admit I love this song. From the artistic point of view it’s far better than most of the Lebanese video clips…When it comes to content I think Zeid should have picked up a different political topic e.g corruption he would have spared himself this problem because it’s really not necessary..
I hope they release him soon and I hope he target the dirty politicians who are destroying this country

لبنان ذاهب نحو خنق الحريات فيما الناس راجعة !!!!!!!

never heard of Zeid Hamdan or the song. whoever decided to arrest him made him very well know now, and he deserves the fame. you can bet i will listen to his songs going forward and attend his concerts
you politicians and prosecutors have no brains nor any sense of humour. wish you would indeed all "go home"

Good to see that we're adopting the rules of the Syrian dictatorship again.

i did not see any defamation is this , it is a simple song maybe we should arrest 85 % of the population for voicing their opinion . I'm sure that will show how democratic Lebanon has become under this new majority

This is a huge slippery slope to dictatorship. Freedom of expression must be respected and anyone who doesn't do so regardless of their political affiliations should be considered an ignoramus.

He should be jailed just for making a dumbass stupid song like this

جحا مش قوي إلا على خالته

Liberté d'expression au Liban. Nulle; liberté de circuler au Liban. Nulle. C'est un pays rétrograde. J'ai honte d'avoir du sang libanais. Voila qui renforce ma détermination a ne pas venir dépenser mes euros cet été dans mon pays natal. Que les gardes révolutionnaires et leurs alliés locaux comblent le déficit budgétaire avec leur propre argent.

General Suleiman... go to Tehran! you can repress people better there!

NOW LEBANON just announced that he was released! what a sick nation... wlik kilyom a2raf we a2raf!

Normal he got arrested! this is not my Lebanon! why are we surprised?

bigdig just for the record : go home means pack and leave, resign , you are fired, get the .....out of here and so on ..So the song has an unnecessary political implication..Arresting him for few hours is okay not a big deal. Still personally I would love to see Haifa apprehended because she and the rest of the so-called artists scumbags are destroying the basic ethical values of the Lebanese…the Wawa effect has brain washed thousands of lovely demoiselles..Haifa or Madame plastique has become a role model for the majority of the Lebanese people….
One more thing for the people who are always criticizing the arrest i can tell u one thing the freedom of expression and opinion doesn't mean breaking the law and crossing the red lines….Watch the news at 8 pm . It’s unbelievable the level of provocation is unprecedented for instance the land dispute in Lassa have been portrayed as the fight between good or evil!!!….seriously the government should put a censorship because the media is compl

Le Phenicien Go home !!

i cant believe how silly you are still trying argumenting the lost cause of MA

Rotten Logic just shutted you up and thats what you should do. Punto !

or instance the land dispute in Lassa have been portrayed as the fight between good or evil!!!….seriously the government should put a censorship because the media is completely biased and irresponsible…
Cheers

He got arrested for producing bad music and for saying Suleiman go home? Shouldn't the police be busy looking to arrest the Hariri murder suspects instead? What about the thugs who attack journalists or steel people property? Shouldn't they be arrested? We're definitely in a banana republic and I guess we're all too fat to start a revolution.

Now we need a song against the filthy non-Islamic militia

This a beautiful and light hearted song; I just listened to it for the first time. I hope that this is not an indication of the policies of the new Government, especially the fact that the song has been out for such a long time. Let's hope taht we are not experiencing the results of a new repressive government in Lebanon while the tyrans in the rest of the arab world are being ousted.

شي غريب منعتبر حالنا ديمقراطيين . هيدي ولاية الفقيه . المهم إنو الغنية صارت مشهورة. يلا إرحل و خود معك الحزب الإلهي

We should not forget that this general (Suleiman) worked under another general: Emile Lahoud who was and still is (together with Karame) the worst political person in the history of Lebanon. Therefore he can only be like his previous master : a Syrian agent.
YES YES GO SLUMEIMAN.

Actually I salute Mr. Zeid Hamdan and I am outraged that the Lebanese authoritites dare\d to arrest this man albeit temporarily. I really think that General Sleimane and all Lebanese politicians heed this singer's advice and leave politics and leave Lebanon. I am sure our country will be a better place to live and we will certainly see more money with the people.
One question for Sleimane? what have you done since you became President???

Well guys, to be able to talk about freedom of speech, you guys need to undertsand the true meaning of it. Freedom of speech = Not harming someone else while giving his opinion. Now for the Video Clip, i watched it and i am all in regarding the Warlords and trouble makers, but let's be realistic....... The weapons are their, even Hassan Nassrallah doesn;t have the power to remove them. In my opinion, we shoudl concentrate on Social Security and wellfare of the people rather then weapons and causes we can;t do anything about. PEACE

hahaha.. He was arrested for saying GO HOME President in 2008?!? Oh no, the holyness was insulted.. How dare he? Does he not know he is a saint just like the Hibz fighters?

To this i say:
Mr. Presdient Go blow Mo or Hassan, Go Green and Yellow, Go tan in sporting, Go lube the scud, Go peel a banana, Go poop an assad, Go see Aoun about a wallaby, Go suck a duck... any other suggestions for the next song guys?

This is a good song with a wrong title, instead of General Suleiman, General Aoun should be the real hero of the song.
General Aoun and Hezboshaitan Hassoona

ارحل عمول اجرك معقيلء وجر كل عيل ؟؟؟؟؟؟؟؟؟؟؟؟؟؟؟؟؟ مبروك