Muammar Gaddafi – A dictator who was dictated to
It all started with Osama Bin Laden this year and the success charts on the world policing charts of the western powers have been adding one masquerading son of a bitch after the others in the ‘gone for good’ section.
Libya is now a liberated democracy and people are celebrating their new found independence that will soon allow them ‘even easier’ access to Coke, McDonalds and Ford automobiles. In exchange for all this, all they need to do is welcome the oil companies like BP with open arms and take them to their oil wells (they WILL find the oil wells either way - welcome or unwelcome).
Earlier this year, the Arab spring ensured Egypt joined the fancy bandwagon of democratic nations. Today, 6 months later, as I sit back watching the news – I have a smirk on my face and the Egyptian people have blood on theirs. There is chaos in the streets and people are disillusioned with their freedom. Nothing has changed! ( Kinda reminds me of all the Anna Hazare supporters in India who will witness the same if the Lokpal bill gets passed).
Muammar Gaddafi, known to the world as the sexual maniac with the penchant for well endowed Ukrainian nurses and a tantrum throwing ability that made a 6 year old spoilt brat look mature ruled Libya for over 3 decades.
Most people are happy that he was gotten rid of and Libya ‘must be’ a better place without him now.
Those people are the same ones who believed Taliban bombed WTC and there were WMDs in Iraq. In my personal thesaurus, I like to mention these people in the category of retards.
What baffles me is that the same Champions of Human rights – the flag bearers of righteousness who came half way across the world to ‘rescue the Libyan people’ suddenly went quiet when Gaddafi was shot point blank in the head after being arrested alive. Gaddafi did his fair bit of horrible stuff and was not a fantastic leader or a great person by any standards – but sure didn’t have t be shot like that while alive.
I summarized the last few years of Gaddafi’s rule and you decide if the people were genuinely being tortured: A few stark reminders of the Libyan regime’s ‘oppression’:
1. There is no electricity bill in Libya; electricity is free for all its citizens.
2. Home considered a human right in Libya – Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a home. Gaddafi’s father has died while him, his wife and his mother are still living in a tent.
3. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 Dinar (US$50,000) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family.
4. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans are literate. Today the figure is 83%.6. Should Libyans want to take up farming career, they would receive farming land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and livestock to kick-start their farms – all for free
5. The price of petrol in Libya is $0.14 per liter.
6. Libya has no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – now frozen globally.
7. A portion of Libyan oil sale is, credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.
8. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $ 0.15
9. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man-Made River project $27 billion, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.
10. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law.
Somehow the US/NATO suddenly decided that the people are ‘oppressed’ and human rights are being violated.
Saudi Arabia has the worst track record in Human rights and it went to the extent of sending tanks to neighboring Bahrain when Shia majority protestors wanted a change of Sunni regime . Hundreds were killed in cold blood but the western world looked the other way.
Thank you ARAMCO and the ass kissing Saudi/Bahraini kings, your countries will not be invaded, keep killing whoever you want.
It is obviously clear what the reason for invasion was - LIBYA HAD ITS OWN OIL & MONEY AND THEY DIDN’T WANT TO SHARE IT with anyone.
Italy is as complicit as anyone else in exploiting Libya. Berlusconi had a personal relationship with Gaddafi that mutually helped both nations; Italy gained more in absolute terms.Italy promised to invest industrially n Libya and in exchange got oil at discounted prices.
The Italian navy unofficially reduced their operations by over 50% since 2008 since a new disturbing trend started. Gaddafi and the Libyan navy were assigned to intercept and destroy boats carrying African immigrants and asylum seekers before they reached Italian waters.
No one ever questioned why Illegal immigration to Italy dropped significantly over the last few years.
Italy was the ultimate beneficiary, poor Africans died and Gaddafi got the blame.
Of course, Italy is an awesome country – Geneva Convention signatory and has nothing to do with this.
What further baffles me is that the US talks about massive human rights violations and violence in Libya as one of the reasons they chose to come half way across the globe to deliver ‘justice’.
What about Mexico? It RIGHT NEXT’FUCKIN’DOOR and violence levels can be compared with Liberia and Congo!
Oh wait, but Mexico is a Christian country and doesn’t have oil. That explains it, inn it ;-)
So now, Libya joins the league of liberated countries like Iraq, Afghanistan and Egypt. Justice has been delivered, Gaddafi is dead and the Americans have successfully managed to secure new friends in the Islamic World.
