Sunday, February 27, 2011

Death to tyrants

I look forward to the time when Col. Qaddafi, a murdering, vicious thug, will be strung up, shot or otherwise removed from the earth by a rebellious Libyan mob. I hope he shares the fate of his former colleague Saddam Hussein, who hid alone in a small hole for weeks, like the rat he was, and then he was hung. Hitler commited suicide, Mussolini was strung up by his feet, Ceacescu was shot, Milosevic died in captivity. Death to all tyrants!

These people deliberately controlled their nations and murdered individuals at will, while preaching to the rest of the world how they should behave. There is no doubt that the Lockerbie bombing was ordered by Qaddafi, nothing happened in Libya without his orders. Libya was on the UN Human Rights Countil until yesterday, when even the other members recognized the utter stupidity of that, and voted Libya off, the first time that has ever been done. Will they actually establish sane rules for who can be represented on the UNHRC. Probably not, since that would require some States to vote against themselves. Of 85 resolutions that the UNCHR have passed 53 of them have been targeted against Israel!

Qaddafi has chosen to go down fighting, and this will result in hundreds if not thousands of casualties in a Libyan civil war, that noone is in a position to prevent. The UN Security Council is busy voting sanctions against Libya, but it's too little, too late, as usual for the UN. They missed the Rwanda massacres, the Algerian uprisings, the the Bosnian and Kossovo crises and now the Libyan civil war. The question is what will replace the tyrants in Libya and other Arab countries, such as Tunisia, Yemen, and Egypt.

Although there have been revolutions that have stopped at a middle way, resulting in democracy, such as the British Civil War, that Cromwell and his fundamentalist Protestants lost, and the American Revolution, most revolutions have descended into worse autocracy than they replaced. This includes the French, Russian, German and Iranian revolutions. This is partly because a revolution leaves a power vacuum, that the most ruthless and well-roganized extremists take advantage of. The Bolsheviks, to rationalize and justify their taking over the democratic forces in Russia, and then killing them, claimed that they were "the vanguard" of the revolution. In other words, they knew better what to do in order to establish a so-called "people's republic." All such forces use similar euphemisms to justify their arrest, torture and killing of their potential rivals. This will no doubt happen also in Libya as well as elsewhere in the Arab world, before any uprisings lead to a democratic system. Expect the worst, but hope for the best.

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