Donald Hank
The neglected Libyan public
By Donald Hank
It was supposed to be all about the Libyan people. Remember? Yet missing in all the news on the subject of Libya are
Reported are only reactions of world leaders and the new government, i.e., influential elites who have no interest in how the people are treated but everything to gain financially and politically by playing along with the Western Ruling Class — aloof imperial strong men who hypocritically and absurdly supported the illegal torture and murder of prisoner of war Ghadaffi on "humane" grounds — but pretended to care about human rights long enough to take out this moderate leader and replace him with a radical who staunchly defends the lopping off of body parts and stoning as punishment for crimes and even sexual indiscretions. Welcome to democracy, Libya!
Virtually every Western "leader" supported the brutal torture and murder with gleeful words, even laughter or complicit silence.
It is reminiscent of how the US unilaterally instigated a coup in Iran to oust the "tyrannical" Shah only to see him replaced by a tyrant 10 times more heinous and cruel. Or for that matter, how they instigated a coup in Egypt to topple the "tyrant" Mubarek, who in fact was the most Western-friendly stabilizing factor in the region, only to replace him with an unelected military government that raided a Coptic Christian monastery the day they assumed power, wasting no time in stripping off their masks.
How deceitful our elites. How utterly gullible their subjects!
Will we ever learn?
Actually, we always do. After it is too late, like right now!
Read: http://www.medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=1&Itemid=8
© Donald Hank
October 29, 2011
It was supposed to be all about the Libyan people. Remember? Yet missing in all the news on the subject of Libya are
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1 — the reaction of the LIBYAN PEOPLE to the rising specter of Sharia law. (Wasn't it they whom we so bravely bombed residential areas to "save"?). They have had 40 years of a moderate Western-style judiciary. But they were lured by Western propaganda to seek "democracy" by overthrowing their moderate leader. The narrative was that they would be free, with a strong suggestion that Western style democracy was on the way. Now some are certainly already seeing that their new unelected Sharia law-advocating "leader," the favorite of the Western Colonial Empire, is far from the freedom they expected.
2 — an analysis (poll) of Libyan street opinion on the murder of Ghadaffi. All of a sudden, journalists supportive of "democracy" are oblivious to public opinion. But we're used to that now, what with bailouts being decided far above our heads and reporters giving our objections short shrift. It's only our money, after all.
Reported are only reactions of world leaders and the new government, i.e., influential elites who have no interest in how the people are treated but everything to gain financially and politically by playing along with the Western Ruling Class — aloof imperial strong men who hypocritically and absurdly supported the illegal torture and murder of prisoner of war Ghadaffi on "humane" grounds — but pretended to care about human rights long enough to take out this moderate leader and replace him with a radical who staunchly defends the lopping off of body parts and stoning as punishment for crimes and even sexual indiscretions. Welcome to democracy, Libya!
Virtually every Western "leader" supported the brutal torture and murder with gleeful words, even laughter or complicit silence.
It is reminiscent of how the US unilaterally instigated a coup in Iran to oust the "tyrannical" Shah only to see him replaced by a tyrant 10 times more heinous and cruel. Or for that matter, how they instigated a coup in Egypt to topple the "tyrant" Mubarek, who in fact was the most Western-friendly stabilizing factor in the region, only to replace him with an unelected military government that raided a Coptic Christian monastery the day they assumed power, wasting no time in stripping off their masks.
How deceitful our elites. How utterly gullible their subjects!
Will we ever learn?
Actually, we always do. After it is too late, like right now!
Read: http://www.medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=1&Itemid=8
© Donald Hank
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