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On 2/21/11 9:44 AM, Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:
> So, who is now enemy of the people and killing them?
>
> http://www.google.com/#q=Libya&hl=en&prmd=ivnsulm&source=lnms&tbs=nws:1&ei=q3liTboVh8ezBu7f9LUI&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=4&sqi=2&ved=0CBsQ_AUoAw&bav=on.1,or.&fp=bc3757e578a738f7
>
> Libya was at position 146 out of 178 countries in Transparency
> International's Corruption index for 2010.
>
> And here is Libya's Human Rights record which is in urgent need of
> reform::
>
> http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=Libya:+Human+Rights
>
>
> I have followed Colonel Qadhafi's chequered career since his
> overthrowing of King Idriss, the King of Libya in 1969. Today, I am
> disappointed
>
> Whilst incensed by Dr. Aliya Tilde's Discourse on alleged Arab
> racism here,
>
> http://fridaydiscourse.blogspot.com/2011/01/trivial-11-southern-sudan-welcome-to.html
>
> I still recall a time (1982) when all of Jerry Rawlings' bodyguards
> were Libyan (till they were decimated by others in Ghanaian Security
> who thought that it was a national affront, for a Ghanaian president
> to be body-guarded by Libyans.
>
> It also got to a point when Flight-Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings himself
> flew over to Libya in 2000, to take back home some of his Ghanaian
> countrymen who had been the victims of xenophobia, unlawful
> imprisonment and alleged racism in Libya.
>
> http://www.info-ghana.com/u.s._of_africa.htm
>
> True : when not sponsoring war in Sierra Leone and Liberia, or the
> desecration and. destruction of Jewish cemeteries in Benghazi and
> Tripoli by purposefully constructing a road right through those Jewish
> cemeteries in those cities, the by now reformed Arab revolutionary -
> and so we thought, ( after Reagan's and Thatcher's bombings) the by
> now rehabilitated Colonel Qadhafi having spent billions of dollars in
> Africa outside of Libya, for example – admirably, among other things,
> donating a billion dollars worth of food aid to Zimbabwe when that
> country was in dire straits and facing famine., was now a new man.
>
> Now, like other people in that region, the Libyan people want change,
> political reform and better living standards, for which purpose
> peaceful demonstrations started in Benghazi (different tribe from his)
> and have since spread to his headquarters in Tripoli.
>
> The Sunday Observer headline for yesterday best expresses what I feel
> about Qadhafi's "Green Book" ideology in action : "Revulsion as
> Gaddafi sets his army on Libyan people."
>
> One is left wondering, is this how Colonel Qadhafi upon obtaining
> what would have been the final glory of being the first elected
> president of the United States of Africa would put down a a peaceful
> demonstration against tyranny in say one of his states, Nigeria?
>
> "We are not Egypt " he says , "We will fight until the last man, the
> last woman, the last bullet," ( al-Qadhafi Jnr.)
>
> http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=We+will+fight+until+the+last+man%2C+the+last+woman%2C+the+last+bulle
>
> Question is, does he have a future after this? Where?
>
--
kenneth w. harrow
distinguished professor of english
michigan state university
department of english
east lansing, mi 48824-1036
ph. 517 803 8839
harrow@msu.edu
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