What should we do in 2006?
Here are my New Year wishes from a dear friend. New Year wishes! I think it is more of a sermon than wishes. I tought I should share it with everyone. I thus decided to post it. 
The year which has just ended was marked on the geo-strategic and political plan by huge changes. Iraq continues to sink in the chaos.
Israel witnessed some timid improvement, until the fall of Sharon which still might still sink the Middle-East in a status quo. Bush’s project of democratization of this part of planet remains a decoy given the tension that remains. Various disasters from the Tsunami, to the Kashmir; hurricanes Rita and Katrina might be the early signs of an apocalypse of a Super Power.
May God preserve us of his fatal decree! At the eve of this new era, will the humanity be able to get out of its cycle of programmed violence? It is clear that we will not escape the furry of nature which does not cease to mark the time with its presence. We have for a long time lived in imprudence and claim, in craftiness and lie. We lied to reign on the ruins of history.
The most difficult for us at this time is to stop all these mummies of freedom that structure our bastard governances; " for we have not ceased being the gravediggers of our own hopes”, which creates this perpetual logic of conquest and domination.
Dear friends, let us hope that the new year will be full of happiness and hope. For it, we must begin by cleaning up our mental prisons, undergo a transformation and act as new men. The uplifting of the soul begins with our capacity to conquer our artificial paradises, by refusing to be and to live by adoption.
The most pressing issue at this time is the dismantling of alienating structures of democracy. Our mentalities congealed in resignation and fright should come back to life; otherwise, there will be no freedom.
What has been worrisome lately is the rise of this new form of democracy that is drawing up on the African political chessboard, with presidents for life who fiddle around at pleasure with the constitutions of their country; it is the legerity of our leaders in defending the fatherlands; it is rise of the ethno-fascism in governments and monarchs who obstruct democracy.
That’s why I think for my part that the conquest of our freedom, individual and collective, must be our first preocupation. By democracy, we shall support our respectability and refuse every forms of fake compromise. May the New Year be full of happiness and prosperity and that the Lord blesses you! DIDIER S.