The Libyan Crisis; The good and the bad of Gaddaffi; What is to be done?
By H.E. Yoweri K. Museveni: President of the Republic of Uganda: 20th March 2011
By the time Muammar Gaddaffi came to power in 1969, I was a third year university student at Dar-es-Salaam. We welcomed him because he was in the tradition of Col. Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt who had a nationalist and pan-Arabist position. Soon, however, problems cropped up with Col. Gaddafi as far as Uganda and Black Africa were concerned:
1. Idi Amin came to power with the support of Britain and Israel because they thought he was uneducated enough to be used by them. Amin, however, turned against his sponsors when they refused to sell him guns to fight Tanzania. Unfortunately, Col. Muammar Gaddafi, without getting enough information about Uganda, jumped in to support Idi Amin. This was because Amin was a ‘Moslem’ and Uganda was a ‘Moslem country’ where Moslems were being ‘oppressed’ by Christians. Amin killed a lot of people extra-judiciary and Gaddafi was identified with these mistakes. In 1972 and 1979, Gaddafi sent Libyan troops to defend Idi Amin when we attacked him. I remember a Libyan Tupolev 22 bomber trying to bomb us in Mbarara in 1979. The bomb ended up in Nyarubanga because the pilots were scared. They could not come close to bomb properly. We had already shot-down many Amin MIGs using surface-to-air missiles. The Tanzanian brothers and sisters were doing much of this fighting. Many Libyan militias were captured and repatriated to Libya by Tanzania. This was a big mistake by Gaddafi and a direct aggression against the people of Uganda and East Africa.
2. The second big mistake by Gaddafi was his position vis-à-vis the African Union (AU) Continental Government “now”. Since 1999, he has been pushing this position. Black people are always polite. They, normally, do not want to offend other people. This is called: ‘obufura’ in Runyankore, mwolo in Luo – handling, especially strangers, with care and respect. It seems some of the non-African cultures do not have ‘obufura’. You can witness a person talking to a mature person as if he/she is talking to a kindergarten child. “You should do this; you should do that; etc.” We tried to politely point out to Col. Gaddafi that this was difficult in the short and medium term. We should, instead, aim at the Economic Community of Africa and, where possible, also aim at Regional Federations. Col. Gaddafi would not relent. He would not respect the rules of the AU. Something that has been covered by previous meetings would be resurrected by Gaddafi. He would ‘overrule’ a decision taken by all other African Heads of State. Some of us were forced to come out and oppose his wrong position and, working with others, we repeatedly defeated his illogical position.
3. The third mistake has been the tendency by Col. Gaddafi to interfere in the internal affairs of many African countries using the little money Libya has compared to those countries. One blatant example was his involvement with cultural leaders of Black Africa – kings, chiefs, etc. Since the political leaders of Africa had refused to back his project of an African Government, Gaddafi, incredibly, thought that he could by-pass them and work with these kings to implement his wishes. I warned Gaddafi in Addis Ababa that action would be taken against any Ugandan king that involved himself in politics because it was against our Constitution. I moved a motion in Addis Ababa to expunge from the records of the AU all references to kings (cultural leaders) who had made speeches in our forum because they had been invited there illegally by Col. Gaddafi.
4. The fourth big mistake was by most of the Arab leaders, including Gaddafi to some extent. This was in connection with the long suffering people of Southern Sudan. Many of the Arab leaders either supported or ignored the suffering of the Black people in that country. This unfairness always created tension and friction between us and the Arabs, including Gaddafi to some extent. However, I must salute H.E. Gaddafi and H.E. Hosni Mubarak for travelling to Khartoum just before the Referendum in Sudan and advised H.E. Bashir to respect the results of that exercise.
5. Sometimes Gaddafi and other Middle Eastern radicals do not distance themselves sufficiently from terrorism even when they are fighting for a just cause. Terrorism is the use of indiscriminate violence – not distinguishing between military and non-military targets. The Middle Eastern radicals, quite different from the revolutionaries of Black Africa, seem to say that any means is acceptable as long as you are fighting the enemy. That is why they hijack planes, use assassinations, plant bombs in bars, etc. Why bomb bars? People who go to bars are normally merry-makers, not politically minded people. We were together with the Arabs in the anti-colonial struggle. The Black African liberation movements, however, developed differently from the Arab ones. Where we used arms, we fought soldiers or sabotaged infrastructure but never targeted non-combatants. These indiscriminate methods tend to isolate the struggles of the Middle East and the Arab world. It would be good if the radicals in these areas could streamline their work methods in this area of using violence indiscriminately.
Gaddaffi has been a positive force in Africa
These five points above are some of the negative points in connection to Col. Gaddafi as far as Uganda’s
patriots have been concerned over the years. These positions of Col. Gaddafi have been unfortunate and unnecessary. Nevertheless, Gaddafi has also had many positive points objectively speaking. These positive points have been in favour of Africa, Libya and the Third World. I will deal with them point by point:
1. Col. Gaddafi has been having an independent foreign policy and, of course, also independent internal policies. I am not able to understand the position of Western countries which appear to resent independent-minded leaders and seem to prefer puppets. Puppets are not good for any country. Most of the countries that have transitioned from Third World to First World status since 1945 have had independent-minded leaders: South Korea (Park Chung-hee), Singapore (Lee Kuan Yew), China People’s Republic (Mao Tse Tung, Chou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Marshal Yang Shangkun, Li Peng, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jing Tao, etc), Malaysia (Dr. Mahthir Mohamad), Brazil (Lula Da Silva), Iran (the Ayatollahs), etc. Between the First World War and the Second World War, the Soviet Union transitioned into an Industrial country propelled by the dictatorial but independent-minded Joseph Stalin. In Africa we have benefited from a number of independent-minded leaders: Col. Nasser of Egypt, Mwalimu Nyerere of Tanzania, Samora Machel of Mozambique, etc. That is how Southern Africa was liberated. That is how we got rid of Idi Amin. The stopping of genocide in Rwanda and the overthrow of Mobutu, etc., were as a result of efforts of independent-minded African leaders. Muammar Gaddafi, whatever his faults, is a true nationalist. I prefer nationalists to puppets of foreign interests. Where have the puppets caused the transformation of countries? I need some assistance with information on this from those who are familiar with puppetry. Therefore, the independent-minded Gaddafi had some positive contribution to Libya, I believe, as well as Africa and the Third World. I will take one little example. At the time we were fighting the criminal dictatorships here in Uganda, we had a problem arising of a complication caused by our failure to capture enough guns at Kabamba on the 6th of February, 1981. Gaddafi gave us a small consignment of 96 rifles, 100 anti-tank mines, etc., that was very useful. He did not consult Washington or Moscow before he did this. This was good for Libya, for Africa and for the Middle East. We should also remember as part of that independent-mindedness he expelled British and American military bases from Libya, etc.
2. Before Gaddafi came to power in 1969, a barrel of oil was 40 American cents. He launched a campaign to withhold Arab oil unless the West paid more for it. I think the price went up to US$ 20 per barrel. When the Arab-Israel war of 1973 broke out, the barrel of oil went to US$ 40. I am, therefore, surprised to hear that many oil producers in the world, including the Gulf countries, do not appreciate the historical role played by Gaddafi on this issue. The huge wealth many of these oil producers are enjoying was, at least in part, due to Gaddafi’s efforts. The Western countries have continued to develop in spite of paying more for oil. It, therefore, means that the pre-Gaddafi oil situation was characterized by super exploitation in favour of the Western countries.
3. I have never taken time to investigate socio-economic conditions within Libya. When I was last there, I could see good roads even from the air. From the TV pictures, you can even see the rebels zooming up and down in pick-up vehicles on very good roads accompanied by Western journalists. Who built these good roads? Who built the oil refineries in Brega and those other places where the fighting has been taking place recently? Were these facilities built during the time of the king and his American as well as British allies or were they built by Gaddafi? In Tunisia and Egypt, some youths immolated (burnt) themselves because they had failed to get jobs. Are the Libyans without jobs also? If so, why, then, are there hundreds of thousands of foreign workers? Is Libya’s policy of providing so many jobs to Third World workers bad? Are all the children going to school in Libya? Was that the case in the past – before Gaddafi? Is the conflict in Libya economic or purely political? Possibly Libya could have transitioned more if they encouraged the private sector more. However, this is something the Libyans are better placed to judge. As it is, Libya is a middle income country with GDP standing at US$ 89.03 billion. This is about the same as the GDP of South Africa at the time Mandela took over leadership in 1994 and it about the current size of GDP of Spain.
4. Gaddafi is one of the few secular leaders in the Arab world. He does not believe in Islamic fundamentalism that is why women have been able to go to school, to join the Army, etc. This is a positive point on Gaddafi’s side.
Coming to the present crisis, therefore, we need to point out some issues:
1. The first issue is to distinguish between demonstrations and insurrections. Peaceful demonstrations should not be fired on with live bullets. Of course, even peaceful demonstrations should coordinate with the Police to ensure that they do not interfere with the rights of other citizens. When rioters are, however, attacking Police stations and Army barracks with the aim of taking power, then, they are no longer demonstrators; they are insurrectionists. They will have to be treated as such. A responsible Government would have to use reasonable force to neutralize them. Of course, the ideal responsible Government should also be an elected one by the people at periodic intervals. If there is a doubt about the legitimacy of a Government and the people decide to launch an insurrection, that should be the decision of the internal forces. It should not be for external forces to arrogate themselves that role, often, they do not have enough knowledge to decide rightly. Excessive external involvement always brings terrible distortions. Why should external forces involve themselves? That is a vote of no confidence in the people themselves. A legitimate internal insurrection, if that is the strategy chosen by the leaders of that effort, can succeed. The Shah of Iran was defeated by an internal insurrection; the Russian Revolution in 1917 was an internal insurrection; the Revolution in Zanzibar in 1964 was an internal insurrection; the changes in Ukraine, Georgia, etc., all were internal insurrections. It should be for the leaders of the Resistance in that country to decide their strategy, not for foreigners to sponsor insurrection groups in sovereign countries. I am totally allergic to foreign, political and military involvement in sovereign countries, especially the African countries. If foreign intervention is good, then, African countries should be the most prosperous countries in the world because we have had the greatest dosages of that: slave trade, colonialism, neo-colonialism, imperialism, etc. All those foreign imposed phenomena have, however, been disastrous. It is only recently that Africa is beginning to come up partly because of rejecting external meddling. External meddling and the acquiescence by Africans into that meddling have been responsible for the stagnation in Africa. The wrong definition of priorities in many of the African countries is, in many cases, imposed by external groups. Failure to prioritize infrastructure, for instance, especially energy, is, in part, due to some of these pressures. Instead, consumption is promoted. I have witnessed this wrong definition of priorities even here in Uganda. External interests linked up, for instance, with internal bogus groups to oppose energy projects for false reasons. How will an economy develop without energy? Quislings and their external backers do not care about all this.
2. If you promote foreign backed insurrections in small countries like Libya, what will you do with the big ones like China which has got a different system from the Western systems? Are you going to impose a no-fly-zone over China in case of some internal insurrections as happened in Tiananmen Square, in Tibet or in Urumuqi?
3. The Western countries always use double standards. In Libya, they are very eager to impose a no-fly-zone. In Bahrain and other areas where there are pro-Western regimes, they turn a blind eye to the very same conditions or even worse conditions. We have been appealing to the UN to impose a no-fly-zone over Somalia so as to impede the free movement of terrorists, linked to Al-Qaeda, that killed Americans on September 11th, killed Ugandans last July and have caused so much damage to the Somalis, without success. Why? Are there no human beings in Somalia similar to the ones in Benghazi? Or is it because Somalia does not have oil which is not fully controlled by the western oil companies on account of Gaddafi’s nationalist posture?
4. The Western countries are always very prompt in commenting on every problem in the Third World – Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, etc. Yet, some of these very countries were the ones impeding growth in those countries. There was a military coup d’état that slowly became a Revolution in backward Egypt in 1952. The new leader, Nasser, had ambition to cause transformation in Egypt. He wanted to build a dam not only to generate electricity but also to help with the ancient irrigation system of Egypt. He was denied money by the West because they did not believe that Egyptians needed electricity. Nasser decided to raise that money by nationalizing the Suez Canal. He was attacked by Israel, France and Britain. To be fair to the USA, President Eisenhower opposed that aggression that time. Of course, there was also the firm stand of the Soviet Union at that time. How much electricity was this dam supposed to produce? Just 2000 mgws for a country like Egypt!! What moral right, then, do such people have to comment on the affairs of these countries?
5. Another negative point is going to arise out of the by now habit of the Western countries over-using their superiority in technology to impose war on less developed societies without impeachable logic. This will be the igniting of an arms race in the world. The actions of the Western countries in Iraq and now Libya are emphasizing that might is “right.” I am quite sure that many countries that are able will scale up their military research and in a few decades we may have a more armed world. This weapons science is not magic. A small country like Israel is now a super power in terms of military technology. Yet 60 years ago, Israel had to buy second-hand fouga magister planes from France. There are many countries that can become small Israels if this trend of overusing military means by the Western countries continues.
6. All this notwithstanding, Col. Gaddafi should be ready to sit down with the opposition, through the mediation of the AU, with the opposition cluster of groups which now includes individuals well known to us – Ambassador Abdalla, Dr. Zubeda, etc. I know Gaddafi has his system of elected committees that end up in a National People’s Conference. Actually Gaddafi thinks this is superior to our multi-party systems. Of course, I have never had time to know how truly competitive this system is. Anyway, even if it is competitive, there is now, apparently, a significant number of Libyans that think that there is a problem in Libya in terms of governance. Since there has not been internationally observed elections in Libya, not even by the AU, we cannot know what is correct and what is wrong. Therefore, a dialogue is the correct way forward.
7. The AU mission could not get to Libya because the Western countries started bombing Libya the day before they were supposed to arrive. However, the mission will continue. My opinion is that, in addition, to what the AU mission is doing, it may be important to call an extra-ordinary Summit of the AU in Addis Ababa to discuss this grave situation.
8. Regarding the Libyan opposition, I would feel embarrassed to be backed by Western war planes because quislings of foreign interests have never helped Africa. We have had a copious supply of them in the last 50 years – Mobutu, Houphout Boigny, Kamuzu Banda, etc. The West made a lot of mistakes in Africa and in the Middle East in the past. Apart from the slave trade and colonialism, they participated in the killing of Lumumba, until recently, the only elected leader of Congo, the killing of Felix Moummie of Cameroon, Bartholomew Boganda of Central African Republic, the support for UNITA in Angola, the support for Idi Amin at the beginning of his regime, the counter-revolution in Iran in 1953, etc. Recently, there has been some improvement in the arrogant attitudes of some of these Western countries. Certainly, with Black Africa and, particularly, Uganda, the relations are good following their fair stand on the Black people of Southern Sudan. With the democratization of South Africa and the freedom of the Black people in Southern Sudan, the difference between the patriots of Uganda and the Western Governments had disappeared. Unfortunately, these rush actions on Libya are beginning to raise new problems. They should be resolved quickly. Therefore, if the Libyan opposition groups are patriots, they should fight their war by themselves and conduct their affairs by themselves. After all, they easily captured so much equipment from the Libyan Army, why do they need foreign military support? I only had 27 rifles. To be puppets is not good.
9. The African members of the Security Council voted for this Resolution of the Security Council. This was contrary to what the Africa Peace and Security Council had decided in Addis Ababa recently. This is something that only the extra-ordinary summit can resolve.
10. It was good that certain big countries in the Security Council abstained on this Resolution. These were: Russia, China, Brazil, India, etc. This shows that there are balanced forces in the world that will, with more consultations, evolve more correct positions.
11. Being members of the UN, we are bound by the Resolution that was passed, however rush the process. Nevertheless, there is a mechanism for review. The Western countries, which are most active in these rush actions, should look at that route. It may be one way of extricating all of us from possible nasty complications. What if the Libyans loyal to Gaddafi decide to fight on? Using tanks and planes that are easily targeted by Mr. Sarkozy’s planes is not the only way of fighting. Who will be responsible for such a protracted war? It is high time we did more careful thinking.
Yoweri K. Museveni
PRESIDENT
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This is one of the best political arcticle presented on this blogg! We need more of these.Nice input from Mr.Museveni even though he sometimes potrays himself as a big fish in a small pond.
Protecting his back ka ukijuwa you are next in line.You have bulled your citizen and neighbours enough museveni
Gaddafi and his Military is eating this>From the Imperialist Masters>http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/libya-protests/hardware.htm
God feel mercy on these gnus-crossing river mara to be cured by a witchdoctor>
Zambia “shall freeze” the Libyan Government’s shares in a telecommunications company and other investments, the country’s Finance minister told Parliament.
“We all know that LAP Green is owned by the Libyan Government and could be owned President Muammar Gaddafi. If it is, the answer is very clear, it is subject to sanctions,” Dr Situmbeko Musokotwane told the House late Wednesday, amidst a barrage of questions from parliamentarians who wanted to know what ties Gaddafi-family has with LAP Green and Zamtel companies.
“The government understands that there is a high likelihood that the shares in Zamtel, which are held by LAP Green Network, are covered by the UN Security Council Resolution of 1973 therefore those shares shall be frozen,” Dr Musokotwane said.
No-Fly Zone
Despite a long controversy and public disapproval of privatisation of Zamtel, the Zambian Government in July 2010 sold 75 per cent of the state-owned fixed-line phone operator to Libya Africa Investment Portfolio (LAP) for $257 million.
Zambia owns the remaining 25 per cent of the shares.
LAP Green Network is a component of the Libya-Africa Investment Portfolio, which is part of the Libyan Investment Authority, the sovereign wealth fund for the North African nation.
However, Dr Musokotwane assured the House that the freezing of LAP Green assets in Zamtel “does not involve any interruption of or impediment to normal operations of Zamtel”.
Foreign Affairs minister Kabinga Pande said Zambia supported UN Security Council’s imposition of No-Fly Zone on Libya.
Zambia would like to emphasise to the Libyan authorities for the need for cessation of all acts of violence and attacks on civilians, said Mr Pande.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/03/25/all_the_colonels_kings?page=0,4
..A defiant Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi Thursday warned of chaos if anti-government protests continued in the country and accused Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden of duping young people into participating in the violent demonstrations.In a phone-in to state TV the embattled leader warned Libyans that protests will lead to chaos in the country Xinhua said citing an Al Arabiya TV report.If you want to live in this chaos its up to you he said adding that he felt sorry for those who got killed in the clashes.According to BBC Gaddafi said that young people were being duped with drugs and alcohol to take part in destruction and sabotage.In the phone call from the town of Al Zawiya broadcast live on TV Gaddafi said the protesters had no genuine demands and were being dictated to by the Al Qaeda leader.The telephone call was said to be an address to the people of Al Zawiya 50 km west of the capital where there has been renewed gunfire reported in the streets.Bin Laden… Do not be swayed by bin Laden he said.It is obvious now that this issue is run by Al Qaeda.
Libya, propaganda and imperialism
08.09.2011
A shot of Libyan hero Muammar al-Gaddafi playing lovingly with his grandchildren on a sofa. An idiotic comment on SKY News, that this seemingly normal behaviour from a grandfather shows just how close the ties of clan can be in this part of the world. The question is, to what extent to westerners actually believe this nonsense?
Has anyone heard a more ridiculous example of propagandistic imperialism, where common affectionate human and universal values are warped and corrupted by some western pig, who corrupts a loving family scene of Grandpa playing with his grandkids into some kind of a freak show, where “Wow, the monster has feelings” and where “Wow, those clan bonds must be strong”. One wonders whether the sickening and slobbering piles of lard sitting at home on their sofas with their newly acquired plasma TV screens are nodding obediently, snorting and cooing and saying “Cor!”
One can be sure that those who manipulate them know very well what they are doing. I am referring to those who acquired their plasma TV screens by fiddling the House of Commons expenses, then claiming, as someone we all know so well said, “If I have to pay anything back, then I shall”.
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SharePrint version Font Size Send to friend The only doubt remains as to what extent the political leaders like Cameron, Hague, Sarkozy, Berlusconi and Obama are aware of the details, or exactly what or how many details they are fed. It is hard to imagine Berlusconi researching on the Net – he probably has far more pressing bunga-bunga needs to address. Thank heavens for little girls. As for the others, well, here is a group of…people?…whose cowardly air force pilots have targeted children, in some cases purposefully, to “take out” targets, who have targeted water supplies and electricity grids to “break the population”. So with war criminals like this in charge, no degree of underlying cruelty discovered in their personal lives would come as much of a surprise.
In fact, if you put Muammar al-Qathafi, a hamster, some seeds and a microwave together with David Cameron, it is not very hard to imagine which one would feed the animal and care for it (Muammar al-Qathafi it is said is far more likely to be found outside feeding the animals than inside a building, as indeed was the case when NATO’s cowards massacred some of his grandchildren in a home, in one of the most shocking terrorist attacks in recent years), and which one of the two would place it in the microwave for a ride and sit there tight-lipped taking notes, with a massive hard-on and satanic images lunging somewhere behind his eyes, muttering “You shall be punished for what you have done, you will pay for it…You have to go”. Which of the two would set his Rottweilers on the neighbour’s kitten, singing “Onward, Christian soldiers”?
So for warped and deviant and perverted minds such as these, what to expect when a scene with a grandfather lovingly playing with his grandchildren on a sofa is labelled as “surprisingly normal behaviour” or words to that effect, and when the scene is compared with “tribal bonds” or some such nonsense by one of the west’s leading media outlets?
The media has failed to inform its readers and viewers, and the political leaders such as Cameron, Hague, Sarkozy, Clinton and Obama, the one who insulted the Nobel Peace Prize by becoming Obomber, have failed to make any reference in their war-mongering speeches about the nature of the Jamahiriya system of governance, that it is far more democratic than their systems where someone with a minority of votes can lead a country.
They have failed to mention Colonel Gaddafi’s humanitarian record, his public works, his housing projects, the dignity he brought to Libyans, the dignity he is bringing to Africa, his tremendous development projects across the continent and the fact that in his private life he is an open, pleasant, very nice, kind, animal-loving family man.
Well, between Gaddafi and those who take pleasure in bombing and murdering kids from 30,000 feet, what a difference! Perhaps a few media outlets should begin to tell the truth of the hidden secrets lying behind Camoron, Sarko the Psycho, Obomber Obama, Hague the Plague and Hillary War Zone Clinton, the last two having been exposed as barefaced liars, the first two plain evil and the guy in the middle, well, the guy in the middle, as inconsequential and vapid a waste of time and space as ever existed.
What the western media and political class have done is, so true to form, imposed their own gooey-eyed values of western imperialism on Libya and on Africa. This is a prelude to what comes next, and here it is in plain English in black and white: If the Libyan Jamahiriya goes down, then the African Union is condemned and AFRICOM will recolonise the continent. Africans will again become slaves, the dignity which the Union brought to these brothers and sisters will be lost, their ruling class will become corrupted cliques which direct Africa’s resources outwards while handfuls of peanuts are through at Africans, like the masters feeding the monkeys.
Oh yes, mark my words. It will happen. Africans are about to become slaves once again. NATO does not represent freedom, it is a murderous terrorist organization which thinks nothing of slaughtering kids in their homes and using helicopter gunships to strafe civilians. Talk about “protecting” them is risible. You protect them by bombing their homes, water supply and electricity grids?
And NATO’s instruments at this moment are the rats inside Libya – controlled by foreigners and in many cases themselves foreign mercenaries, these are the spawn of Satan which will stab Africa in the back. That is why it is so pleasing to see African nations such as Zimbabwe and Tanzania expel Libyan ambassadors who go over to the dark side – the side of opportunists who will sell their country to foreigners, destroy the Jamahiriya so that Libya’s communities never again have any say in their government or get to have a channel for their needs to be heard and who eventually will hand Africa over to westerners again. The TNC is the Terrorist NATO Cabal.
The Libyan Jamahiriya is Africa’s last line of defence! Do not say you were not warned. Africa for Africans! African solutions to Africa’s problems! Solutions by Africans for Africans! Africa’s resources should bring dignity to Africans! And who was the MAN behind this project? It sure as hell was not David Cameron, Nicolas Sarkozy or Barack Obama, now was it? So, do Africa’s leaders who recognise these NATO/terrorists as a legitimate government represent the African people? I think not. So…
If you allow the candle to go out brothers, you will be in eternal darkness.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
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Welcome to the new Dark Ages
08.09.2011
The western mainstream media should be going bankrupt, suffering cancellations of subscriptions and a general lack of an audience. After their egregious, transparent dedication to lies and propaganda, why are people still reading and watching? The public should be teaching them a lesson they will never forget.
Instead, all goes as usual. One might assume that this public has accepted and indeed craves their daily feeding of garbage put out by the media.
I did find it quite odd that after the same carnage was unleashed upon Yugoslavia, when the lies were all exposed, that no one had a problem repeating those lies, no matter how much evidence there was to the contrary. Mass graves, genocide, rape camps, Srebrenica…all fabrications proven to be such.
And so the general public has, for the most part, stood idly by while murderers and liars who are our leaders have broken every international law in the book and gone against every concept of human decency. What a state of affairs that murderers and liars are allowed to continue to lead instead of being punished for their countless heinous crimes.
A whimper has gone up as civilians are gunned down by helicopter gunships trying to rescue other civilians buried in the rubble of non-stop “humanitarian” bombing…how low does it get that there is no cry and protest so loud so as not to be ignored, even by those demonic, evil power broker elites seeking to rob and ruin an entire nation in order to steal its immense wealth?
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SharePrint version Font Size Send to friend Let us make no mistake, Libya is or should I say was a country of immense wealth, not only due to its great resources, but also due to the dedication, hard work and leadership of Muammar Gaddafi, without whom it would never have been possible.
When he took power in a bloodless coup in 1969, it was the poorest country in the entire world, despite the resources within. So it cannot be said it’s only because of the resources, the oil and such that the country became so rich and prosperous.
Under Gaddafi, Libya rose to the richest country in Africa, with the highest HDI, highest GDP in Africa and rated above both Brazil and Russia in country rankings at 53rd.
The construction of the Great Man Made River Project for a nation of only 6 million people is truly a wonder of the world and due entirely to the work and dedication of Muammar Gaddafi.
A communications satellite freed Africa from dependence on high fees from outside. Libya had no debt whatsoever, a huge gold stockpile, all accomplishments of the great revolution led by Muammar Gaddafi.
Cutting off food, medicine, water, electricity, is this the way to “protect civilians”? How do you protect civilians by bombing their food and water supplies? How do you protect civilians by cutting off any shipments of food and medicine?
Setting thousands upon thousands of criminals and terrorists upon civilians to murder, mutilate, hang, execute, rape, loot, pillage, burn and destroy…is this protecing civilians? Then outrageously interfering in the internal affairs of this country, declaring these same terrorists the government of that country?
These stinking, bankrupt worthless countries think it’s Christmas now as they shamelessly raid what rightfully belongs to the Libyan people, not them and not their terrorist stooges. They see it as an opportunity to help dig themselves out of the mess they have made of their own economies.
And they have the nerve to refer to Gaddafi as a “fugitive” rather than what he is…still the leader, the leader of a resistance that must be totally victorious.
The fugitives are the leaders Sarkozy, Cameron, Obama and all the terrorists, mercenaries and especially the pilots who mercilessly bombed a country, the civilians, the infrastructure in order to reduce it back centuries, destroying a way of life, a culture, a history.
Is the current scene in Libya the future of all of us? Having to arm ourselves or hide from marauding gangs who kill, rape, mutilate and destroy?
There is a chance that humanity will not descend into a new Dark Ages like this. Support the resistance in Libya and Muammar Gaddafi. Support the removal and prosecution of all war criminals involved in this travesty of international law.
Otherwise, be at the mercy forever of murderers, terrorists, criminals and liars.
Lisa Karpova
Pravda.Ru
Museveni Kaguta >Sodomizing BESJIGJEthe Opposition Leader in UGANDA> Enjoy the Video>
http://jukwaa.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=5377
USA has sent troops to Protect Uganda Oil-wells>http://www.aljazeera.com/video/africa/2011/12/20111287514815721.html