It looks like some people in Lebanon are suffering post-electoral loss syndrome. That is, the pro-Syria crowd outside of Hizb’allah is going nuts out of office. Perhaps they don’t know what to do with themselves now that they can’t terrorize people’s lives with the government. With this dire impropriety in their lives, it must be hard for them to keep still and play cricket like the rest of the blue hairs, so they’ve had to resort to shooting rival politicians.

Lebanon worried Sunday over the outbreak of post-elections violence that left one man dead and seven others hospitalized as Premier-Designate Fouad Seniora struggled to put together a viable government to guide the nation out of the lingering horrors of Syria’s 29-year reign.

Police are engaged in a house-to-house search in Zgorta and elsewhere in north Lebanon’s Franjieh territory for Youssef Wajih Franjieh, who shot dead Lebanese Forces activist Aziz Saleh and wounded two other LF supporters on Friday, the Beirut media reported.

Youssef is still at large although the standard-bearer of the Franjieh clan, Suleiman Franjieh, had publicly pledged to help bring the culprit to justice. The prominent Franjieh, one of the closest Lebanese allies of Syrian President Bashar Assad, has scheduled a news conference for midday to speak about the shooting affair.

Saleh, 32, was given a hero’s funeral by Samir Geagea’s LF in Besharri on Saturday. Toni Issa, 28, another LF activist wounded by Youssef Franjieh’s fire, died from his gunshot wounds in hospital Sunday.

Geagea sent word from his Defense Ministry prison in Yarze to his rank and file to abstain from vengeful action that could trigger a bloodbath in the land of the cedars.

Geagea’s message was carried by Batroun legislator Butros Harb of Qornet Shahwan, who visited the LF commander in prison and then told a news conference Geagea would be out of jail before July’s end to assume a prominent role in politics.

Meanwhile, a shootout between activists of Walid Jumblat’s Progressive Socialist Party and rival Talal Arslan’s Lebanese Democratic Party erupted in the town of Hlalieh in the Baabda district east of Beirut, leaving five men wounded and hospitalized, including a turbaned sheikh.

Arslanists accused PSP activist Imad Zeineddine of staring a shouting match with their followers in Hlalieh that spiraled into a fist fight on Friday. When several sheikhs intervened to stop the elections-linked quarrel, Zeineddine drew a Kalashnikov assault rifle and opened up. The other side fired back, LDP said in a statement Saturday.

The army intervened, disengaged the combatants and made several arrests in house-to-house raids. An Nahar said police seized Imad Zeineddine, 51, after he fled Hlalieh to south Lebanon’s town of Marjayoun.

What a stupid thing to do, and how admirable the Lebanese Forces responded to it. The possibility isn’t too far from my mind that these people are trying to inflame the situation to be similar to that of the civil war, but after the Cedar Revolution, the ingredients just aren’t there. Nobody is willing to bite on the provocations. This is just a stupid crime, albeit from a powerful family, in which the proper authorities will bring the criminal to justice. In fact, what should be seen as most assuring is that this crime shows that no man, no matter what family he is from, is above the law in Lebanon now.