Rising up in apartheid South Africa, I used to be raised to hate Muammar Gaddafi (amongst others). He was a “brutal, ruthless, murderous dictator“, I used to be informed. He was additionally “funding and arming these ‘terrorists’, Mandela’s ANC”, I used to be informed. I used to be not informed about all the nice issues Gaddafi did for his nation.
LIBYAN LIFE UNDER GADDAFI’S ‘DICTATORSHIP‘
As an example, do you know that underneath Gaddafi, no one in Libya ever obtained an electrical energy invoice? Like healthcare and training, electrical energy was free. Should you needed to review or search healthcare abroad, the federal government paid for it. (Inform me, what sort of “brutal totalitarian dictator” simply permits individuals to return and go, in and overseas, as they please…and pays for it?)
Should you obtained married, you bought a free home and $50k to get you began. Should you had a baby you bought $5k. The price of bread and fuel was ridiculously low. Each Libyan profited from the gross sales of Libya’s oil. Gaddafi additionally “turned the desert inexperienced” and supplied tens of millions of Libyans with contemporary water by means of his Nice Man-made River mission. Protected to say, underneath Gaddafi, Libya was steady and thriving.
However then…Muammar went and did a “foolish” factor.
THE SPEECHES THAT GOT GADDAFI KILLED
In 2008, talking on the Arab League convention in Damascus, Gaddafi requested America; “Why Iraq? What’s the cause?” He reminded everybody that Bin Laden and AQ weren’t Iraqis and that Saddam had no WMDs. But, “Alongside comes a overseas energy, occupies an Arab nation, and hangs its president…whereas all of us sit on the sidelines, laughing.” He added, “Any one in every of you is likely to be subsequent.” At this, Bashar al-Assad (who was not too long ago deposed after Syria was overthrown) laughed.
Then, in September 2009, Muammar Gaddafi delivered one other epic 90-minute diatribe earlier than the UN Normal Meeting that might arguably be known as the speech that obtained him killed (kinda like JFK).
For starters, he questioned the validity of the UN constitution – which states; “Armed power shall not be used save within the frequent pursuits of all nations.” Nonetheless, because the institution of the UN, “65 wars have damaged out. Are these wars within the frequent curiosity of us all?”, he requested. “No, they have been within the curiosity of 1 or three or 4 international locations – and one nation that flagrantly contradicts the constitution of the UN.”
WHO KILLED LUMUMBA, JFK AND SADDAM?
Gaddafi then known as for an open investigation into the assassination file, along with the conflict information. He requested harmful questions like; “Who killed Patrice Lumumba, and why? Who killed JFK and why?” On that final one, he added; “The entire world is aware of that JFK needed to analyze the Israeli Dimona nuclear reactor.”
He additionally demanded to know the id of the masked executioners who hanged Saddam. “Have you learnt what individuals are saying?”, He mentioned. “They’re are saying that the faces behind the masks have been these of the president of the US…and the prime minister of the UK.”
GADDAFI CHALLENGED THE PETRODOLLAR – AND BIG PHARMA
One thing else he touched on is value noting – in a post-covid world; “Right this moment, there’s swine flu. Maybe tomorrow there can be fish flu. As a result of capitalist firms produce viruses in order that they will generate and promote vaccinations.”
In an interview with Candace Owens, CIA whistleblower, Kevin Ship mentioned: “Muammar Gaddafi signed his personal demise warrant on the day he gave that speech.” In a follow-up video, Owens reminded us how Gaddafi needed to problem the petrodollar and change it with a gold-backed African forex. After all, as Owens identified, “Any nation who tries to maneuver away from the US greenback will get invaded or collapses fairly rapidly.”
THEN CAME THE ‘ARAB SPRING‘
Two years after that speech by Gaddafi on the UN got here the so-called “Arab Spring“, which started in Tunisia in December 2010 and rapidly unfold all through the area by early January 2011. Protests that erupted within the Libyan metropolis of Benghazi on 16 January reached Tripoli and the broader Center East by 25 February. On 9 March Gaddafi warned the UN towards imposing a no-fly zone in Libyan airspace. On 18 March the UN defied Gaddafi and backed the zone.
On 19 March, Obama accredited “Operation Odyssey Daybreak”, the most important assault on an Arab nation since Iraq in 2003, and NATO took command of Libya’s no-fly zone. On 8 September, whereas in hiding, Gaddafi issued a defiant message promising by no means to depart “the land of his ancestors”.
THE (ILLEGAL) MURDER OF MUAMMAR
On 20 October, cornered by insurgent forces and pinned down by NATO air raids, Gaddafi and his son and internal circle have been discovered by the NATO-backed Misrata militia, in Muammar’s hometown of Sirte. Like Saddam, Gaddafi was dug out of hiding by the rebels, then tortured and shot. His son, Mutassim was murdered later that very same day.
On the day of Gaddafi’s brutal (and unlawful) assassination, conflict felony, Hillary Clinton – throughout an interview with CBS Information – famously chuckled over early stories of Gaddafi’s demise and mentioned (on digicam); “We got here, we noticed, he died.” Then she laughed.
DOESN’T A ‘DICTATOR’ DESERVE A FAIR TRIAL?
Okay…let’s assume that the US and NATO have been proper; that Gaddafi was certainly a tyrannical dictator. Doesn’t he nonetheless deserve a good trial? As a substitute of being tortured and lynched by a NATO-backed mob? As Putin requested, throughout his go to to Denmark, on 22 October 2011; “Who gave NATO the fitting to homicide Gaddafi?”
Additionally… if Gaddafi was such a foul man, such a horrible tyrant…how come our pricey, beloved, candy, saintly messiah, Mandela…thought the world of him? Was Madiba such a horrible decide of character that he would befriend a murderous, tyrannical, despotic dictator?
Btw, people, Gaddafi was illegally murdered, and his thriving African nation was destroyed – by the US…whereas a BLACK man – who’s half KENYAN – was POTUS. Let that sink in.
Now ask your self one query…
IS LIBYA BETTER OFF TODAY?
With Gaddafi gone, Libya – as soon as Africa’s most affluent democracy – was quickly overrun by militant extremists who rapidly turned the nation right into a hornet’s nest of clashing factions, and Libya descended right into a bloody civil conflict that also rages to today. And, lest we overlook, in 2017 the world watched in horror as slavery made an enormous comeback in Libya. All courtesy of US/NATO.
Regardless of Somalia and Libya now mendacity in ruins…the Western Axis was not achieved with Africa but.
What say you, SA? Did NATO have the fitting to homicide Gaddafi and destroy Libya – within the title of ‘democracy’?
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