Growing up in apartheid South Africa, I was raised to hate Muammar Gaddafi (among others). He was a “brutal, ruthless, murderous dictator“, I was told. He was also “funding and arming those ‘terrorists’, Mandela’s ANC”, I was told. I was not told about all of the great things Gaddafi did for his country.
LIBYAN LIFE UNDER GADDAFI’S ‘DICTATORSHIP‘
For instance, did you know that under Gaddafi, nobody in Libya ever got an electricity bill? Like healthcare and education, electricity was free. If you wanted to study or seek healthcare overseas, the government paid for it. (Tell me, what kind of “brutal totalitarian dictator” just allows people to come and go, in and out of the country, as they please…and pays for it?)
If you got married, you got a free house and $50k to get you started. If you had a child you got $5k. The cost of bread and gas was ridiculously low. Every Libyan profited from the sales of Libya’s oil. Gaddafi also “turned the desert green” and provided millions of Libyans with fresh water through his Great Man-made River project. Safe to say, under Gaddafi, Libya was stable and thriving.
But then…Muammar went and did a “silly” thing.
THE SPEECHES THAT GOT GADDAFI KILLED
In 2008, speaking at the Arab League conference in Damascus, Gaddafi asked America; “Why Iraq? What is the reason?” He reminded everyone that Bin Laden and AQ were not 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 recently deposed after Syria was overthrown) laughed.
Then, in September 2009, Muammar Gaddafi delivered another epic 90-minute diatribe before the UN General Assembly that could arguably be called the speech that got him killed (kinda like JFK).
For starters, he questioned the validity of the UN charter – which states; “Armed force shall not be used save in the common interests of all nations.” However, since the establishment of the UN, “65 wars have broken out. Are those wars in the common interest of us all?”, he asked. “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 called for an open investigation into the assassination file, in addition to the war files. He asked dangerous questions like; “Who killed Patrice Lumumba, and why? Who killed JFK and why?” On that last one, he added; “The whole world knows that JFK wanted to investigate the Israeli Dimona nuclear reactor.”
He also demanded to know the identity of the masked executioners who hanged Saddam. “Do you know what people are saying?”, He said. “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 worth 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 said: “Muammar Gaddafi signed his own death warrant on the day he gave that speech.” In a follow-up video, Owens reminded us how Gaddafi wanted to challenge the petrodollar and replace it with a gold-backed African currency. Of course, as Owens pointed out, “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 at the UN came the so-called “Arab Spring“, which began in Tunisia in December 2010 and quickly spread throughout the region by early January 2011. Protests that erupted in the Libyan city of Benghazi on 16 January reached Tripoli and the broader Middle East by 25 February. On 9 March Gaddafi warned the UN against 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 biggest assault on an Arab country since Iraq in 2003, and NATO took command of Libya’s no-fly zone. On 8 September, while in hiding, Gaddafi issued a defiant message promising never to leave “the land of his ancestors”.
THE (ILLEGAL) MURDER OF MUAMMAR
On 20 October, cornered by rebel forces and pinned down by NATO air raids, Gaddafi and his son and inner circle were found 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 same day.
On the day of Gaddafi’s brutal (and illegal) assassination, war criminal, Hillary Clinton – during an interview with CBS News – famously chuckled over early reports of Gaddafi’s death and said (on camera); “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 were right; that Gaddafi was indeed a tyrannical dictator. Doesn’t he still deserve a fair trial? Instead of being tortured and lynched by a NATO-backed mob? As Putin asked, during his visit to Denmark, on 22 October 2011; “Who gave NATO the right to murder Gaddafi?”
Also… if Gaddafi was such a bad guy, such a terrible tyrant…how come our dear, beloved, sweet, saintly messiah, Mandela…thought the world of him? Was Madiba such a terrible judge of character that he would befriend a murderous, tyrannical, despotic dictator?
Btw, folks, Gaddafi was illegally murdered, and his thriving African country was destroyed – by the US…while a BLACK man – who is half KENYAN – was POTUS. Let that sink in.
Now ask yourself one question…
IS LIBYA BETTER OFF TODAY?
With Gaddafi gone, Libya – once Africa’s most prosperous democracy – was soon overrun by militant extremists who quickly turned the country into a hornet’s nest of clashing factions, and Libya descended into a bloody civil war that still rages to this day. And, lest we forget, in 2017 the world watched in horror as slavery made a big comeback in Libya. All courtesy of US/NATO.
Despite Somalia and Libya now lying in ruins…the Western Axis was not done with Africa yet.
What say you, SA? Did NATO have the right to murder Gaddafi and destroy Libya – in the name of ‘democracy’?
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