ANOTHER TYRANT IS DEAD, and whoever it was who found him is now a million quid better off ( if the stories of a reward prove correct). Good luck to whoever it was who found this villain from a graphic novel.
It is now time for the long suffering Libyan people to celebrate their tormentors departure after 42 years of fearing the knock on the door, and struggling to curb their tongues for the sake of themselves and their families.
Thousands of Libyans have been tortured in the most cruelly imaginative of ways, while hundreds of thousands more have been executed at the mere whim of the colonel’s paranoid personality.
As with Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi threatened his countrymen with the unpalatable prospect of a family dynasty ruling over them for decades to come: but as with Saddam, such a prospect has now been put to rest.
His end, when it came, was as brutal as he deserved. One of the troubles of revolutions is that the revolutionaries harbour their own forms of justice when it comes to ridding themselves of a particular ancient regime. Which is something the revolutionary Left are fond of glossing over – their idealistic panorama of the way they wish us all to live cannot be polluted by such a reality.
Gaddafi was removed from a drainage pipe, wounded. He was then set upon by his captors who served him up their brand of revolutionary justice. Just Like Mary Antoinette, the Romanov Nicholas, the fascist Mussolini, and more recently the communist Nicolai Ceausescu of Romania - all of them found themselves on the receiving end of revolutionary justice.
Revolutions are a bloody and brutal business and are to be avoided whenever and wherever possible. Gaddafi’s ego could not contemplate allowing the reforms necessary for his people; and so he paid with a brutal finale.
He did however mange in his later years to convince some Western leaders that he wished to come in from the cold. As a result Tony Blair wasted no time in offering a rapprochement to the Libyan tyrant; and that most respected of liberal academic establishments, the London School of Economics, guaranteed that one of Gaddafi’s sons should receive a degree through cheating, while also accepting large amounts of the Libyan people’s oil money.
This embarrassing display of Heap-like cowering by our institutions, businesses, and so called statesmen, before this demented bully brought disgrace to this country. Both Blair and Brown sought to tame this animal, just as Blair believed he had done with the IRA. The one and the only trait Blair shares with the now late Colonel Gaddafi, is his ego.
On the other hand, David Cameron did restore our reputation with the people of Libya. He gambled and won; and he deserves the rewards of victory both personally and politically. For the new Libyan government will, when handing out contracts, remember those nations like our own who took the risk and helped them be rid of Gaddafi.
THE BRITISH PRESS’S COVERAGE of Gaddafi’s death embraces the colourful (the tabloids), the responsible (qualities), and the conscience driven (the Guardian and Independent).
The headlines in the tabloids would have found much sympathy among the silent majority. The Sun announced “That’s for Lockerbie”; the Daily Star chimed in with “Mad dog is put down”. While the Times and the Telegraph suggest that he got what he deserved, but by using a more civilised and less popularist prose.
However the Guardian and the Independent are not so sure about the way he got what he deserved. Of course they both agree that he was a bully to his people, but nevertheless found themselves disturbed by the video images taken of his death.
No doubt that in the coming days and weeks, when the emotions are played out; the human rights brigade will challenge the legitimacy of Gaddafi’s death. Indeed the United Nations (whose Human Rights commission allowed Gaddafi to be represented) has already announced its own inquiry into the way the butcher was butchered.
No one, except this group of moral relativists, care how this man met his death. Compared to how he made many of his fellow countrymen and women meet theirs, he got off relatively lightly. The trouble is, is that such people have a far greater influence than their numbers suggest on our culture, and will be its ruin if politicians continue to fear their rebukes.
The video of Gaddafi’s death is disturbing; and it should have been shown. Apparently the BBC are now facing complaints from their Guardianista viewers regarding their unedited showing of the finale.
The trouble is, is that all other broadcasters throughout the free world also transmitted in full, Gaddafi’s end. If the BBC were to obey their liberal instincts and edit the demise, they would have been the only broadcaster to have done so and made themselves look foolish - but would have, nevertheless, still been admired by their fellow liberals.
THE WORLD has been relieved of yet one more tyrant and the world should be grateful for his demise. He was behind the downing in Lockerbie, the killing of a British policewoman, and the arming of the IRA. Yet our liberal’s remain discomforted by the way in which Gaddafi met his death.
This country is, and has been for over forty years, in the grip of the kind of social liberalism that today’s Guardian displays - they even opened a web-site poll to discover how their like-minded would vote over the nature of Gadaffi’s death. Surprise, surprise …
Libya now has the chance of a peaceful and prosperous future. Her oil revenues will hopefully be under the control of a democratic government who will, when elected, use them to benefit their nation and its people.
Possibly, if all works out, Libya will become an oil rich nation whose largesse is evenly distributed among its people. Libya stands on the threshold of prosperity and social advancement. If the wealth is utilised properly by whatever government is elected to power, then the country will diversify and create new industries.
Libya can call upon thousands of second generation and skilled Libyans, who’s parents sought the sanctuary of the West during Gaddafi’s reign. These exiled Libyans can help drive the Libyan nation forward beyond a dependence on oil and help create new industries that can compete with other nations.
If everything is handled properly, and Libya stands the best chance within the Arab world of so doing; then this north African nation can prosper, and its people, after 42 years of tyranny, can inherit the prosperity that the many sacrifices made by those young men who were prepared to take on Gaddafi made on behalf of their nation.
Libya deserves our blessing for its future. Both David Cameron and Nicholas Sarkozy took a chance by first of all finessing a UN resolution that allowed them to act against Gaddafi.
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