scientifically, no child is naughty or obedient, coward or brave. a child picks violent behavior from his peers because he finds violence within the four walls of his house. the child is tempted to become jealous because he has been neglected. there is a tendency for a child to get angry if he does not hear words of praise or encouragement from his family. the naughty child is the one who misses the love and tenderness. a neglected child is the one whose parents are too busy. those who are weak in talking, is because the parents do not often talk to them. however, this is in general and may not apply to everyone. ❑ ❑ ❑ i do not remember who invented the popular press expression ‘mama the government’, and perhaps for our wonderful colleague hassan al-issa, this expression befits reality and is in line with the last sunday’s article, which is related to my disappearance with my colleague abdullatif al-duaij about who is responsible for the deterioration of our situation, or deterioration of citizen? in response to the interest of the article, even a little, but from influential parties, this is my response to what they wrote or mentioned: kuwait is unique in its system of government. it is neither presidential nor parliamentary, nor capitalist, or socialist, but a mixture of all that. the government owns 90 percent of the state’s land, either because the oil wells lie in that area or reservoirs, with the production or refining units, military land, and warehouses, cattle farms, factory land, etc, like almost the entire coastal strip. thus, the government has the right to grant, prevent, and confiscate. the state also owns the entire sole source of income, oil, refining and selling it. it is the state, not the companies, that has small and big tenders. in government schools, more than 80 percent of the students receive their education, in line with the government desire and in the manner it deems appropriate. it also determines what a young child or a university student is entitled to receive from a science. the government is the largest employer, and dominates the rest of the business, one way or another. it also decides who is studying at its expense abroad, and who is entitled to receive overseas treatment at its expense as well. it also has the right to prohibit and grant places of worship. it controls 80 percent of its religious studies, and it appoints imams and mosque preachers and gives them the topics for their sermons. it also has full control over the media and has put in place a ruthless publishing law. when a citizen is married, he is often dependent on the generous government’s ‘mama’ grant to spend on his marriage. as soon as he is married, he asks the government for a ‘house’ and continues to receive a housing allowance until this house is delivered to him. when he gets sick, he resorts to government hospitals and is fully dependent on his medicines. when he dies, he is buried in the government cemetery, under its conditions, often with the coffin and by the government workers. thus, the kuwaiti government is fully responsible for the citizen’s morals, from cradle to grave, and thus citizens acquire a majority of the moral qualities from literature, honesty and secularization, and a tendency for peace or violence, self-confidence or surrender to patriotism or negativity. “the government is the one that, with its knowledge or otherwise, has guided these people to become what they are. those who do not like it are self-reliant, free from government control, schools, curricula, marriage allowances, its plots, stores, hospital, kindergartens and universities.

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