Growing up in apartheid South Africa, I used to be raised to hate Muammar Gaddafi (amongst others). He was a “brutal, ruthless, murderous dictator“, I was told. He was also “funding and arming those ‘terrorists’, Mandela’s ANC”, I used to be informed. I used to be not informed about the entire great issues Gaddafi did for his nation.

LIBYAN LIFE UNDER GADDAFI’S ‘DICTATORSHIP‘

For occasion, do you know that below Gaddafi, no one in Libya ever received an electrical energy invoice? Like healthcare and schooling, electrical energy was free. If you wished to review or search healthcare abroad, the federal government paid for it. (Tell me, what sort of “brutal totalitarian dictator” simply permits folks to come back and go, in and in another country, as they please…and pays for it?)

If you bought married, you bought a free home and $50k to get you began. If you had a toddler you bought $5k. The value of bread and gasoline was ridiculously low. Every Libyan profited from the gross sales of Libya’s oil. Gaddafi additionally “turned the desert green” and offered thousands and thousands of Libyans with contemporary water via his Great Man-made River project. Safe to say, below Gaddafi, Libya was steady and thriving.

But then…Muammar went and did a “silly” factor.

THE SPEECHES THAT GOT GADDAFI KILLED

In 2008, speaking on the Arab League convention in Damascus, Gaddafi requested America; “Why Iraq? What is the reason?” He reminded everybody that Bin Laden and AQ weren’t Iraqis and that Saddam had no WMDs. Yet, “Along comes a foreign power, occupies an Arab country, and hangs its president…while we all sit on the sidelines, laughing.” He added, “Any one of you might be next.” At this, Bashar al-Assad (who was lately deposed after Syria was overthrown) laughed.

Then, in September 2009, Muammar Gaddafi delivered one other epic 90-minute diatribe earlier than the UN General Assembly that would arguably be known as the speech that received him killed (kinda like JFK).

For starters, he questioned the validity of the UN constitution – which states; “Armed force shall not be used save in the common interests of all nations.” However, for the reason that institution of the UN, “65 wars have broken out. Are those wars in the common interest of us all?”, he requested. “No, they were in the interest of one or three or four countries – and one country that flagrantly contradicts the charter of the UN.”

WHO KILLED LUMUMBA, JFK AND SADDAM?

Gaddafi then known as for an open investigation into the assassination file, along with the battle information. He requested harmful questions like; “Who killed Patrice Lumumba, and why? Who killed JFK and why?” On that final one, he added; “The whole world knows that JFK wanted to investigate the Israeli Dimona nuclear reactor.”

He additionally demanded to know the id of the masked executioners who hanged Saddam. “Do you know what people are saying?”, He mentioned. “They’re are saying that the faces behind the masks were those of the president of the United States…and the prime minister of the United Kingdom.”

GADDAFI CHALLENGED THE PETRODOLLAR – AND BIG PHARMA

Something else he touched on is value noting – in a post-covid world; “Today, there is swine flu. Perhaps tomorrow there will be fish flu. Because capitalist companies produce viruses so that they can generate and sell vaccinations.” 

In an interview with Candace Owens, CIA whistleblower, Kevin Ship mentioned: “Muammar Gaddafi signed his own death warrant on the day he gave that speech.” In a follow-up video, Owens reminded us how Gaddafi wished to challenge the petrodollar and replace it with a gold-backed African currency. Of course, as Owens identified, “Any nation who tries to move away from the US dollar gets invaded or collapses pretty quickly.”

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 Middle 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 approved “Operation Odyssey Dawn”, 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 inside 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, battle felony, Hillary Clinton – throughout an interview with CBS News – famously chuckled over early reviews of Gaddafi’s dying and said (on digicam); “We came, we saw, 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? Instead of being tortured and lynched by a NATO-backed mob? As Putin asked, throughout his go to to Denmark, on 22 October 2011; “Who gave NATO the right to murder Gaddafi?”

Also… if Gaddafi was such a dangerous man, such a horrible tyrant…how come our pricey, beloved, candy, saintly messiah, Mandela…thought the world of him? Was Madiba such a horrible judge 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 war that also rages to today. And, lest we forget, in 2017 the world watched in horror as slavery made a giant comeback in Libya. All courtesy of US/NATO.

Despite Somalia and Libya now mendacity in ruins…the Western Axis was not accomplished with Africa but.

What say you, SA? Did NATO have the best to homicide Gaddafi and destroy Libya – within the title of ‘democracy’?

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