His ideology is leaving the Green book is now taking off
The rise and fall of Colonel Muamar Gadaffi
The rise and fall of Colonel Muamar Gadaffi
His ideology is leaving the Green book is now taking off
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Kuna wenzetu humu wanasema aliyekufa siyo Gaddafi. Kumbe NTC walifanya kitendo cha busara,kuwaacha wananchi wa Libya wajionee mwili wa Gaddafi kwasababu wangezika haraka haraka kama ilivyo taratibu na desturi za Kiislamu kuna watu kibao wasinge amini kama kweli jamaa ameuwawa.
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Kumekucha..............lete hadithi!
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Gaddafi mwenyewe keshasema amekufa, sasa nyie mnataka nini?
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MUAMMAR AL GADDAFI IS ALIVE AND IS STILL LEADING LIBYAN RESISTANCE
00h/ Moussa didnt speak today for ISP Algeria
24h/ MAJOR NWO FALSE FLAG IN LIBYA - FREEDOM OF THOUGHT AT STAKE [ 24 August * there is fake photo of someone] -> Libya S.O.S.: MAJOR NWO FALSE FLAG IN LIBYA - FREEDOM OF THOUGHT AT STAKE
'Gaddafi dead' story stinks? 'Skepticism over NATO & NTC reports' - > www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAv1iYzFEKg [Stephen Lendman]
24h/ Gaddafi has 12 doubles--- "There is every reason to believe that the person which was filmed - is a made-up actor " Gaddafi look-a-like." He is simply a double, with the aim to present fraud ofGaddafi's death." http://avangard-akm.livejournal.com/51611.htm
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22h/ Video aboute Gaddafis Died is FAKE!! Look at Date from information about video
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21h/ Alleged video of our Borther Leader Gaddafi dead, BBC apparently confirmed it was fake - > Alleged video of our Borther Leader Gaddafi dead, BBC apparently confirmed it was fake « CounterPsyOps
21h/ Gaddafis Death is Rumor spread by TNC for Hillary Clinton - NOTE: Remember US Secretary was just in Libya instructing the rebels to do whatever it takes. Even that video and telling everyone she was in Tripoli was false. She was not in Tripoli.
Gaddafi was supposedly captured or killed in Sirte, that he was being tracked by satellite to be hiding somewhere deep in the southern Libyan desert. How can he now be captured or killed in Sirte if the town was under siege and in a blockade for weeks? Did Gaddafi somehow travel thousands of kilometres to sneak into Sirte? Then TNCs Mahmoud Jibril (who is about to get sacked) said 68 vehicles with at least eight fighters each crossed the Libyan borders to Mali and Gaddafi is hiding in the southern desert. Pick up a map. Learn geography.
Today is just another day cleaning out garbage news. TSR - > http://thesantosrepublic.com/2011/10/gaddafis-death-is-rumor-spread-by-tnc-for-hillary-clinton/
20h/ Unconfirmed and Contradictory Report: NATO Air Strike Killed Gaddafi: NTC - - BRUSSELS: NATO aircraft struck two military vehicles on Thursday as they fled Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, a NATO spokesman said.
"At approximately 0830 local time (GMT0630) today, NATO aircraft struck two pro-Qadhafi forces military vehicles which were part of a larger group maneuvering in the vicinity of Sirte," said Colonel Roland Lavoie, spokesman for NATO's Libyan mission.
The spokesman didn't say whether Gaddafi was in the convoy or not.
A commander of the Libya NTC (National Transitional Council) said Gaddafi has been killed when an air strike hit a convoy trying to flee Sirte.
However, NATO didn't confirm the media report that Gaddafi was captured or killed.
A NATO official told Xinhua that it is up to the NTC to confirm the alleged capture of Gaddafi, not the military alliance. - >Unconfirmed and Contradictory Report: NATO Air Strike Killed Gaddafi: NTC
19h/ #LIBYA #What if this whole show about the alleged death of Gaddafi seeks only divert attention from the main event? Gaddafi is a figure in his homeland but without the cooperation of the principal chiefs could not have come to establish the structure of government under which they lived before the start of the Libyans genocide. Perhaps the "death" Gaddafi intends to create a curtain to hide the m.rder of tribal chiefs. Without them, the resistance that has remained until now could not have been possible. The NLC does not control Libya, or control, unless, of course, they conveniently assume the leadership of the tribal people affected by imperialism. Manuel Gomez.
I think this comment is spot on what really happened.
remember that the day of the supposed death of Osama Bin Laden and his body was thrown into the sea, was the day after four bombs released over the house of the son of Libyan leader and killing a son and three grandchildren, and numerous other family relatives. Never transcended so important because this drama was quickly covered by the third death straw man Osama Bin Laden, the friend of USA.
The reports have said he has been murdered in his home on the leader Warfala Tribe, a tribe of more than one million Libyans with great political and personal power in Libya. He was a man contrary to arms and fought the war from the beginning to find common ground. He was the representative of the Tribal Council that all the media knows but silent, who run the country since the beginning of the conflict and desdepués of the great gathering of the tribes 2100.
The day after the visit of Klinton and after this lady made apology for murder, was killed one of the best people of Libya, IF this person had the power to change the government, but wanted peace, he wanted to resolve any disagreements with the dialogue. This person had been chosen by his tribe.
Although the U.S. has manipulated us to the extent that it relates only Ghadafi Libya is a total falsehood and among others, the chieftain of the Warfala could stop any law, or introduce legislation by the number of people who supported him and had chosen. This man was against weapons and power was fully born of his supporters, his tribe. It was a key person within Libya and especially in the government of Libya.
Notice that no media in the world talking about this murder?? That's odd, these same media have run a report on something without knowing if it was true or not yet say nothing to a person of the relevance of the tribe Warfala head and representative of the Tribal Council
THE REPORT IS FROM LEONOR /I have problem with internet and link will find later. Thnak you - Libyasos/ [STOP THE WAR IN LIBYA. WE DEMAND IT] -> Leonor en Libia
18h/ 'Gaddafi dead' story stinks? 'Skepticism over NATO & NTC reports' - > www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAv1iYzFEKg
[Stephen Lendman]
17h/ Mathaba Libya news editor said that NATO and Clinton are desperate to show a "victory" in Libya, by way of a compliant media, and the NTC is anxious to provide that "victory" for their masters, in order to secure further support. The NTC leaders and their factions are all fighting amongst each other, and are dissatisfied with the spoils, which so far have not been forthcoming due to the armed population putting up a fierce resistance, and the globalist bankers being unable to keep their promises to the Libyan traitors.
Libyans should continue their mass green demonstrations and resistance, and ignore all rumours, as it has been confirmed that Mu'ammar Qaddafi is alive and well and will not be in communications currently for security reasons. One of the main aims of Clinton has been to kill or capture Qaddafi, or otherwise force him to leave Libya, and none of those aims will be granted her. - > Rumours of Muammar Qaddafi Spread by NTC for Hillary Clinton
16:40h/Green Committees have confirmed that the leader is alive, and that the enemy is seeking to take advantage of his being currently out of communications. The aim is to please Hillary Clinton who barked at her Arab slaves that she wants Muammar Qaddafi "dead or alive."
16:15h/ Breaking News: Libya - Received word,that Leader Muammar will speak live on Tv and radio today...stay tuned.G.T.
15:30h/ TV Al.Shababiya - URGENT:::
We thank God that the leader is fine.
He is not in Sirte.
Do not believe lying NATO channel
They want him to communicate, to call TV stations, so they could locate him.
Victorious with God's help
This is reason's of fake news about Gaddafis death ( God safe him) !!!!
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NTC rats want to push down our resistence spirit ! VIVA GADDAFI !!!
***Tommorow 21-10-2011 after the friday prayers we march in all the cities of Libya to honour the blood of our brothers in Sirte in Bani walid in Sebha and in other areas. We march united against the colonialist crusaders under the green flag of Libya.
There are gonna be continious marches on 28-10-2011 and on 11-11-2011.
Intifanda.Libya Liberal Youth to publish the facts for Libya tomorrow
Allibiya TV - قناة الليبية
نؤكد لكم مرة اخرى بشكل لا يقبل التاؤيل:::
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القائد المجاهد معمر القذافى بخير صحة و احسن حال و ما اشيع من تلك الاكاذيب فالغرض منه التأثير على معنويات المقاومة التى مازالت تجاهد فى سرت حتى هذه اللحظة ............ و ايضا من اجل العمل على الغاء انتفاضة غدا الجمعة المقرر استكمالها غدا الجمعة 21-10-2011 ........... لقد هزتهم انتفاضة الشرفاء الوطنيين من ابناء ليبيا ... لا تصدقوهم و سترون باعينكم عندما يخرج احد جرذان مجلسهم الجرذانى لينفى الخبر ... فهكذا عهدناهم .......... فهم منافقون - كذابون - خائنون لا عهد لديهم!
14h/ Al-Jazeera, Reuters, RT and western propaganda distribute lie again
Today Al-Jazeera began to distribute lie about capturing Muammar Gaddafi in Sirte
Rats from NATO want destroy spirit of Green Resistance
They prepare montage - pictures or video
And soon they be distribute it, now they share fake message.
So, libyans fight againts enemies, cos then they use lie against you then you have right way of OUR Resistance
Fight to the Victory!
14h/ Another lie of NATO: Gadafi has been neither hurt nor captured October 20, 2011 After to have declared 8 times the death of general Jamis Gadafi, several times the capture of Saif To the Islam and Muatasim, that Gadafi gave viagra to the Libyan soldiers to violate women and who had attacked with aviation the people of Bengasi, that its Army is formed by mercenary black, that Belhach never has had nothing to do with the criminals of The Qaeda and that true the intention of NATO is to protect to the civil populace today want to us to make think that they have captured in Sirte the Gadafi Leader. The informative credibility of NATO and its sicarios do not exist. The Libyan town resists and will prevail.
Otra mentira de la OTAN: Gadafi no ha sido ni herido ni capturado*|*Al Mukawama Resistencia
14h/ALGERIA ISP / According Zengtena, The Mujahid Muammar Gaddafi is in excellent health and has an excellent moral. The information on the capture of the Libyan leader is simply a lie spewed by the CNT / NATO and broadcasted through their media lies that have sold their objective to become a real journalist NATO soldiers and members of the Qaeda.
This lie was among others made by the CNT / NATO in order to demoralize the troops of the Libyan resistance which are bravely defending the city of Sirte and in other cities are fighting to free them from the clutches of members of the Qaeda and the Nato.
This lie was announced today, to break the second day of Friday's uprisings ,planned for October 21, 2011.
Listen, bums of CNT and sponsors. The Libyan leader is still alive and still determined to cleanse the country of these traitors and western mercenaries [
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Global media distribute lie again
Today Al- Jazeera began to distribute lie about capturing Muammar Gaddafi in Sirte.
Rats from NATO want to destroy spirit of Green Resistance
They preparing photo-montage - pictures or video
And soon they will distribute it, now they share fake message.
They distribute lie about NATO bombing convoy of Gaddafi. Media use rat as a source, rat which run away from Sirte, cause Green Resistance again "invited" rats to the trap in Sirte yesterday, when rats began to feel safe,they got attacked by Green fighters, Only small part of rats including the rat who have video and pictures from Sirte,escaped. Other rats left their own bodies in the city. NOW media used his rats movie as news. NATO-NTC rats don't control Libya they can only distribute fake messages.
Very interesting: NATO didn't confirm lie of the rats about bombing Gaddafi convoy near Sirte. NATO is waiting for a denial from leaders of Resistance, so they could intercept, track and locate their calls. That is one of the reasons for making up this lie.
NATO rats really hopeless, cause Resistance killed rats leaders. Don't ask for denial from leaders of Resistance, i hope nobody from leaders come online with denial. This is what NATO wants.
Very interesting: NATO don't confirme lie of rats about bombing Gaddafi convoy near Sirte. NATO waiting denial from leaders of Resistance, cos want to killl them, it's one of reason this big lie.
NATO rats really hopeless, cos Resistance shooting heads of rats, rats can't to find heads of Resistance. Don't ask denial from leaders of Resistance, i hope nobody from leaders don't come to online with denial
So, libyans fight againts enemies, cos then they use lie against you then you have right way of Your Resistance
Fight to the Victory!
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Телеканал Al-Libiya: Каддафи жив 20 октября 2011, 16:34 [ «АН-online» ]
Телеканал Al-Libiya, поддерживающий режим Муамара Каддафи опроверг информацию о том, что бывший лидер Ливии убит или захвачен в плен. На данный момент полковник находится в добром здравии, передает Agence France-Presse.
«Отчеты о смерти или захвате в плен нашего лидера Каддафи, которые предоставляют лакеи НАТО, являются необоснованными», - говорится на сайте телеканала. Ранее Аргументы недели сообщали со ссылкой на представителя ПНС Ливии о том, что Муамар Каддафи скончался в результате ранений в городе Сирт. - >Телеканал Al-Libiya: ÐаддаÑи жив - ÐÐ-online
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Comments of people:
1. AlJazeera just said 6 days ago that Gaddafi was tracked by satellite in the southern libyan desert! How can he now be in Sirte if the town was under siege for weeks??? Al Jazeera cant cope with its own lies. Dont trust the media! Gaddafi is still alive!
They need an excuse to withdraw NATO from Libya, remember that Clinton was coming, and now Gaddafi got arrested!?!?! Think, people, just think! This can't be truth, he is not that stupid to stay all the time in Sirt!!!
2.Urgent Communique No. 374 (this was online before NATO media broadcasted lies) - from Bomniar- inteligence of the revolutionary cells - Leader moamer kadhafi// There will be false news across Yewish and NATO channels about injured Libyan leader Muammar or his relatives. Our leader is at the front together with his sons, he is stimulating morale of the young people-Death to colonial traitors -and walknawat customers -from victory to victory- organized Bomniar revolutionary cells.
3.That looks so much fake. Look, they say three different stories: that they shot him while he was escaping, that the NATO bombed his convoy, that an ambulance took him and that they've found him hiding in a hole (like Saddam, too much coincidence?). You believe this shit? They provided up to now one fake photo,a still taken from a video, person on that picture looks realy strange, has very strange nose, forehead etc, on top of all, they say that video was taken by mobile phone, but icons shown on the photo reveal that this video was taken by camera. So many lies, and they can't seem to agree on definite lie, before publishing it. 4. This is the second time they are lying about injuries/death of Gaddafi, last time Al Jazeera also showed fake photo also. Whenever NTC are losing, they make up fake stories like this.
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1- The first African satellite RASCOM 1
It was Libyas Kadhafi who gave all of Africa its first real revolution in modern times: by ensuring universal coverage of the continent via telephone, television, radio-broadcast and the many other applications such as telemedicine and long-distance learning; for the first time in history, a low-cost connection became available across the continent, and even into rural areas thanks to a bridging WIMAX system.
The story begins in 1992 when 45 African countries created the RASCOM organization to acquire an African satellite in order to bring down the cost of communications across the continent. At that time, calling from or to Africa had the most expensive call rates in the world, since there was a surcharge of 500 million dollars which Europeans collected annually on telephone conversations even within some African countries, just to transmit voice messages via European satellites like Intelsat. An African satellite would barely cost 400 millions dollars payable once and thus avoiding the 500 million annual rental fees. Which banker wouldnt finance such a project? But the difficult part of the equation remained unsettled: how does a beggar gain their freedom from exploitation by their master by borrowing money from this same master to achieve this?
And so, the World Bank, the IMF, USA, the European Union had needlessly been bilking these countries for over 14 years. It was in 2006 that Kadhafi put an end to the agony of senseless begging from those supposed benefactors in the West who only grant loans at predatory rates; the Libyan leaders put 300 million dollars on the table, the African Development Bank put 50 million, the West African Development Bank contributed 27 million and it is thus, Africa has owned its very own communications satellite since December 26th 2007; The very first communications satellite in its history. In the meantime, China and Russia have jumped in, this time by donating their own technology which allowed the launching of more new satellites; South-Africa, Nigeria, Angola, Algerian and even a second African satellite was launched in July of 2010. And by 2020, we are expecting the very first satellite which would be 100% African and built on African soil, specifically in Algeria. This satellite is expected to be amongst the best in the world, but would cost ten times cheaper, a true achievement.
This is how a simple gesture worth 300 millions dollars can change the lives on an entire continent. Kadhafis Libya had cost the West not only the 500 million dollars annually but billions of dollars from debt and interest which this debt would have generated ad infinitum and exponentially, and contributed towards sustaining the obscure system which continues to rob Africa blind.
2- AFRICAN MONETARY FUND, AFRICAN CENTRAL BANK, AFRICAN INVESTMENT BANK
The 30 billion dollars which M. Obama confiscated belongs to the Libyan Central Bank and was earmarked as the Libyan contribution toward the finalization of the African Federation in its three keystone phases: The African Investment Bank to be based in Sitre-Libya, The creation in 2011 of the African Monetary Fund with a startup capital of 42 billion dollars with Yaoundé as its headquarters, the African Central Bank with its headquarters in Abuja-Nigeria from which, the first issuance of legal tender would signal the end of the CFA Franc through which Paris has been able to pillage some African countries for over 50 years. From this we can understand Frances grudge against Kadhafi. The African Monetary Fund would supplant in each and every way the activities of the International Monetary Fund on African soil a role which, using barely 25 billion dollars in capital, the IMF had been able to bring an entire continent to its knees through questionable privatization policies, as witnessed by the reality of forcing African countries to trade-in one public monopoly for a private monopoly. It was these same Western countries which came 2 knocking at the door trying to become members of the African Monetary Fund (AMF) and its was via a unanimous vote of 16-17 in December 2010 in Yaoundé that Africans rejected this proposition, enshrining that only African countries would be members of the AMF.
It therefore seems obvious that after Libya, the Western coalition will declare its next war against Algeria, since, in addition to its enormous energy resources, that country has financial reserves exceeding 150 Billion Euros. This is much coveted by all the countries which are now bombing Libya all of whom have the same things in common, they are all practically bankrupt, the USA alone has 14.000 billion dollars in debt, France, Great Britain and Italy each have 2.000 Billion in public debt while all the 46 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa have less than 400 billion dollars in total public debt. Launching fake wars in Africa in the hopes of finding the oxygen needed to fuel their economic apnea that would only worsen having the effect of pushing the West further into a decline which began in 1884, during the notorious Berlin Conference. As the American economist Adam Smith had predicted, in his support for the abolition of slavery, «the economies of all countries which practice the enslavement of Black people are in the throes of a decent into hell which would be a rude awakening on the day when all the other nations would awaken»
3- REGIONAL TRADE BLOCS AS AN IMPEDIMENT TO THE CREATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AFRICA
In order to de-stabilize and destroy the African Union which is tending dangerously (as judged by the West) towards a United States of Africa under the guiding hand of Kadhafi, the European Union had tried, unsuccessfully, to create the UfM (Union for the Mediterranean). At all cost, they had to pry North Africa away from the rest of the continent by hammering the same racists themes of the 18th and 19th centuries according to which the African populations of Arab extraction were more advanced, and more civilized than the rest of the continent. That plan failed when Kadhafi would not play along. He had quickly understood the game from the moment when there was all that talk about the Mediterranean which [only] involved some African countries without informing the African Union, but at the same time, inviting ALL the 27 member nations of the European Union. The UfM without the principal engine of the African Federation was dead on arrival, moribund with Sarkozy as its President and Mubarak, its vice-president. It is this same idea which Alain Juppé is trying to re-launch, as he eyes Kadhafis fall from power, of course. What African leaders dont understand is that, as long as it is the European Union which is financing the African Union, we will remain stuck at the starting-line, because under these conditions, there will be no effective independence. It is in this same vein that the European Union has encouraged and financed the various regional trade blocs in African. It is obvious that ECOWAS which has an embassy in Brussels and which gets most of its financing from the EU, is a major obstacle to the creation of the African Federation. It is what Lincoln fought against during the secessionist civil war in the United States, since, from the moment when a group of nations assemble around a regional political organization, that would only fracture the central governing authority. This is what Europe wanted and it is what Africans did not understand by creating one after the other; COMESA, UDEAC, SADC and the Greater Maghreb Union which never became operational thanks in part to Kadhafi who understood the game all too well.
4- KADHAFI, THE AFRICAN WHO WAS ABLE TO CLEANSE THE HUMILIATION OF APARTHEID
Kadhafi is in the hearts of almost every African as a very generous humanitarian for his disinterested support in the fight against the racist regime of South Africa. If Kadhafi had been a self-centered man, nothing would have forced him to draw the ire of the West by financially and militarily support the ANC in its battle against apartheid. Which is why, shortly after being released from his 27 years in prison, Mandela decided to break with the United Nations embargo against Libya in October 23rd of 1997. As a result of this embargo which was also aerial, no plane had landed in Libya over five long years. To go to Libya, one had to catch a plane into Tunisia; get to Djerba and continue by car for 5 hours to Ben Gardane, crossing the border and going another 33 hours by road across the desert to Tripoli. On the other hand, one could go through Malta and then crossover by night, using poorly fitted boats and reach the Libyan coast. A true ordeal for an entire people, just to punish one man. Mandela decided to breach this injustice and responded to the former American president Bill Clinton, who had considered this visit «unfortunate», Mandela argued: «No nation can claim to itself the role of a global policeman, and no nation can dictate to others what they must and must not do». He added: «those who yesterday where friends of our enemies, today have the temerity of demanding that I should not visit my brother Kadhafi, theyre asking us to be ungrateful and to forget our friends from the past». In fact, for the West, South African racists where kindred whom they were trying to protect. It is for this reason that members of the ANC had been branded dangerous terrorists, including Nelson Mandela himself. It was only in July 2nd 2008 that the American Congress passed a law erasing Nelson Mandelas name and those of his ANC comrades from this black list, not because they had come to terms with the idiocy of such a list, but because they wanted to make a gesture of goodwill to the 90-year-old Nelson Mandela. If today the West has repented its support for Nelson Mandelas enemies and are truly sincere when streets and places are christened after him, how do they justify waging war against the man who brought victory to Nelson Mandela and to his people, Kadhafi?
B- THOSE WHO WISH TO EXPORT DEMOCRACY, ARE THEY THEMSELVES DEMOCRATS?
And if Kadhafis Libya was more democratic than the USA, France, Great Britain and all of those who have a started a war to export democracy to Libya? On March 19th 2003, President Georges Bush dropped bombs on the heads of Iraqis under the pretext of exporting democracy to their country. On March 19th 2011, eight years later and to the day, its is the French President who was dropping bombs on the heads of Libyans under the same pretext of bringing them democracy. Mister Obama, 2009 Nobel Prize winner and President of the United States of America, in order to justify his decision to hurl cruise missiles from sub-marines on the heads of Libyans, the tells us that he is trying to unseat a dictators from power and to install a democracy in that country.
The question which ever human being gifted with the least in capacity for intellectual judgment and reason cannot help but ask: these countries like France, England, USA, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Poland whose only legitimacy to go an bombard Libyans is only based of having auto-declared themselves «democratic» are they truly democratic? If yes, are they more democratic than Kadhafis Libya? The answer, unequivocally is NO, for the sole and simple reason that democracy doesnt exist. Its not me asserting this, it is the very person whose birthplace, Geneva, is home to the organs of the United Nations. That person is of course Jean-Jacques Rousseau, born in Geneva in 1712 who asserted in Chapter IV of Book III of his celebrated «Social Contract» that *: «there has never been a true democracy, and there never will be one»*. In order for a State to be truly democratic, Rousseau lays down 4 conditions according to which Kadhafis Libya is by far more democratic than the United States of America, France and all the others who profess to export democracy into that country. These include:
1- *Dimensions of the State*: the bigger any government gets, the less it is democratic, according to Rousseau, the State should be very small to allow its citizens find ways of gathering and to enable each person to easily get to know the next. And so before sending people off to vote, we should ensure that people know each other otherwise voting for the sake of voting would be denuded of all democratic underpinnings, it is a sham of a democracy to elect a dictator. The organizing structure of the Libyan State is based on tribal groupings which by definition involves people in small entities. The democratic sentiment is more present within a tribe, in the village than in the greater Nation, by virtue of the fact that everyone knows everyone else and that communal life revolves around the same common interests bring some kind of auto-regulation, auto censure is brought to bear at each moment, the reactions or the counter-reaction of the other members for or against the opinions which anyone may hold. Seen from this perspective, it is Libya which better responds to the exigencies of Rousseau, one cannot say as much of the 4 United States of America, France or Great Britain, societies which have become strongly urbanized and where a majority of neighbors do not even say hello to each other and hence do not even know each other, even after having lived side-by-side for twenty years. In these countries, we have moved directly into the following phase: «voting» which we have malignantly sanctified so that many quickly forget that this vote is useless from the moment when I start speaking voting on matters affecting the nations future without knowing ones fellow citizens. We have thus arrived at the stupidity of citizens voting from abroad. Knowing one another and speaking to each other is the essential condition of communication for the democratic debate which should precede all elections.
2- *It requires a simplicity of values and behaviors* to avoid that we spend so much time talking about justice before courts and seeking redress to the many arguments of societal interest which any complex society naturally gives birth to. Westerner define themselves as civilized people who have complex value systems and see Libyans a nation of primitive people, who have simple value systems. From this perspective, once again, it is Libya which better responds to democratic criteria laid out by Rousseau than all those who pretend to give them lessons in democracy. In a complex society, the manifold conflicts are resolved by the law of the powerful, since the wealthier party can avoid prison because he can afford a better attorney and more so, turns the States repressive apparatus against the person who steals a banana at a supermarket, instead of turning it against the greedy financier who brings down a bank. In a city like New York where 75% of the population is White, 80% of the managerial positions are held by White people and they only represent 20% of the prison population.
3- *Equality in rank and in fortunes*. One only has to look at the 2010 FORBES rankings to see the names of the wealthiest people in each of the countries which is throwing bombs on the heads of Libyans and see the difference in salaries with the lowest ranking wage earners in each of these countries and do the same with Libya to understand that in terms of wealth distribution, Libya should be the one exporting its know-how to those who are attacking her and not the other way around. Even from this angle, according to Rousseau, Libya would be more democratic than those who pompously want to export this supposed democracy to that country. In the United States, 5% of the population possesses 60% of the nations wealth. It is the most lopsided, unequal country in the world. 4- *No luxuries*. According to Rousseau, for democracy to exist in a country, there must be no luxuries because, luxury necessitates wealth and this last becomes a virtue, the goal to be achieved at all cost is the peoples wealth fare, «luxuries simultaneously corrupt both the rich and the poor, the former by possession, the latter by coveting; it sells the nation to listlessness, to vanity; if serves the citizens up to the State for dinner, the former to meet the needs of the latter, and each is happy in their role ». Is there more luxury in France than in Libya? All those cautionary tales from employees who have been pushed to suicide, even employees of public and para public companies, for reasons of profitability and hence of possessions of luxury items by one of the parties, are these more abundant in Libya or in the West?
In 1956, the American sociologist C. Wright Mills described American democracy as « a dictatorship of the elites». According to Mills, The United States of America isnt a democracy because in fact, it is money which speaks at elections and not the people. The results of any election there is an expression of the voice of money and not the voice of the people. After Daddy Bush and Son Bush, for the Republic primaries of 2012, there is already talk about Bush-Benjamin. In addition, if political power rests on a bureaucracy, Max Weber has noted that there are 43 millions civil servants and soldiers in the United-States who essentially control the country, but who werent elected by anyone and who do not respond directly to the people about their activities. Only one person (a wealthy elite) is really elected but real power on the ground is held by a caste of rich people who arrive at those positions simply through appointments to positions such as ambassadorships, army generals etc . 5 How many people in these supposedly «democratic» countries know that in Peru the constitution forbids a second consecutive mandate for the incumbent president? How many of them are aware than in Guatemala, not only can the incumbent NOT present himself as a candidate to that position, but none of his/her kin, no member of his family could aspire to that position? How many of them know that Rwanda is the leading nation in the world that is most inclusive of women with 49% of the parliamentarians being women? How many of them know that in the 2007 CIA ranking, of the top-ten best-governed countries in the world, four are African? With the gold medal going to Equatorial Guinea whose public debt represent only 1.14% of its GDP.
Civil war, revolts, and rebellions are the ingredients indicating the telltale signs of an emerging democracy Rousseau argues. Democracy isnt an end result, it is a permanent process of re-affirming the natural rights of human beings and all over the world (without exception) a handful of men or women, should confiscate the peoples power, and subvert it to help maintain themselves in power. Everywhere, we find various forms of castes which subvert the very idea of a «democracy» which should be an ideal towards which aspire and not a label to appropriate or a refrain to be flaunted just because we can shout louder than everyone else. When a nation is calm like France or the United States that is devoid of any political unrest for Rousseau all of this only means that the dictatorial system is sufficiently repressive to prevent any attempts at rebellion. If Libyans are revolting, it isnt necessarily a bad thing. It is when people around the world stoically accept the system which is oppressing them that is very bad. Rousseau concludes: « /Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium -/translation: If there were ever a godly people, they would govern themselves democratically. Such a perfect system of government does not suit human beings». Asserting that Libyans are being killed for their own good is a delusion.
C- WHAT LESSONS FOR AFRICA?
After 500 years of master-servant relations with the West, there is no room to doubt that we have different criteria for judging good and bad. We have profoundly divergent interests. How could one not decry the yes vote by three African countries from Sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria2, South-Africa and Gabon for resolution 1973 authorizing the new form of colonialism called «protecting the people», validating the racist theories which Europeans have been peddling since the 18th century that North African has nothing in common with Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa is more evolved, more civilized and more cultivated than the rest of Africa. Events are unfolding as if Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Algeria werent part of Africa3. Even the United Nations appears to be ignoring the legitimacy of the African Union over its member States.
The goal is to isolate the nations of Sub-Saharan African and to further fragment them and keep them under control. In fact, for the startup capital of the new African Monetary Fund (AMF), Algeria contributed 16 billion dollars and Libya 10 billion dollars which together represented 62% of the 42 billion Dollar capitalization needed. Africas most populous nation, Nigeria followed by South Africa came in far behind with 3 billion dollars each.
It is very troubling that this is the first time in the history of the United Nations that it has declared war on a people without first exploring any path of peaceful resolution to address the problem.
Does Africa still have a place in such an organization? Nigeria South Africa are disposed to voting Yes to any demands from the West, because the naively believe in the promises made to them by this or that nation to award them a place as a permanent member of the Security Council with equal veto rights. They forget that France has no power to grant such a position. If France did, Mitterrand would have done this long ago for Germanys Helmut Kohl. United Nations reform is not on the agenda. The only way to counter this is through the Chinese option: all 50 African countries should quit the United Nations. Theyd have to return another day, and only after they have been granted something theyve always wanted, a position for the African Union, nothing less. 6 This method of non-violence is the only weapon of justice that the poor and weak people like us have. We simply have to quit the United Nations, since this organization by its very structure, and via its hierarchy serves the interest of the most powerful members. We have to quit the United Nations to signal our disapproval of this conception of the world based solely on the crushing of the weaker nations. At the very least, theyd be at liberty to continue doing it as before, but without our endorsement, and not having to suggest that were have endorsed it even though they know well that we were never consulted. And after we have made our point, as we did during the meeting on Saturday 19/3 in Nouakchott through the declaration of opposition to military action, all of which was quietly ignored in order to proceed with the bombardment of an African people.
What is unfolding today is the same scenario already witnessed before vis-à-vis China. Today, they are recognizing the legitimacy of the Ouattara government; they also are recognizing the legitimacy of the insurgents in Libya. It is the same thing which happened at the end of the Second World War with China. The so-called international community had chosen Taiwan as the sole representative of the Chinese people in place of Mao Tse Tungs China. It took 26 years, that is until October 25th 1971 and resolution 2758 which ALL Africans must read, to put an end to this human absurdity. China was admitted, only after it demanded and obtained permanent membership [on the Security Council] and with vetoing rights, if not, she would not join. Once these requirement were met and the admission resolutions were in force, it took another year until November 29th 1972, for the Chinese foreign Minister to issues his response in a letter to the Secretary General at the United Nations no to say Yes or Thank You, but to dispel any misunderstandings, in guarantees about Chinas dignity and respectability. What can Africans expect from the United Nations without taking strong actions which insist on their respectability? In Cote d'Ivoire we saw an official from the United Nations acting as if he was above the constitutional institutions of that country. We have entered into this organization under conditions that we would be serfs and them believing that we would be invited to the table to eat with other nation on plates which we had to wash is simply wishful thinking, worse, stupid. When the AU recognized Ouattaras victory without taking into account the contrary conclusions of its own observers on the ground, only to please their former masters, how could we possibly expect any respect? When South-African President Zuma declares that Ouattara had not won the elections and then changed his mind 180° after visiting Paris, we must begin to question what these leaders are worth who represent us and who speak on behalf of one billion Africans.
Africa will achieve strength and real freedom through its capacity to act after thoughtful consideration; and when it takes responsibility for the consequences of its actions. Dignity and respectability come at a price. Are we prepared to pay that price? If not, then our place will continue to be in the kitchen, in the bathrooms, working to ensure the comfort of others.
Jean-Paul Pougala
Geneva
Source: Libya1
It was Libyas Kadhafi who gave all of Africa its first real revolution in modern times: by ensuring universal coverage of the continent via telephone, television, radio-broadcast and the many other applications such as telemedicine and long-distance learning; for the first time in history, a low-cost connection became available across the continent, and even into rural areas thanks to a bridging WIMAX system.
The story begins in 1992 when 45 African countries created the RASCOM organization to acquire an African satellite in order to bring down the cost of communications across the continent. At that time, calling from or to Africa had the most expensive call rates in the world, since there was a surcharge of 500 million dollars which Europeans collected annually on telephone conversations even within some African countries, just to transmit voice messages via European satellites like Intelsat. An African satellite would barely cost 400 millions dollars payable once and thus avoiding the 500 million annual rental fees. Which banker wouldnt finance such a project? But the difficult part of the equation remained unsettled: how does a beggar gain their freedom from exploitation by their master by borrowing money from this same master to achieve this?
And so, the World Bank, the IMF, USA, the European Union had needlessly been bilking these countries for over 14 years. It was in 2006 that Kadhafi put an end to the agony of senseless begging from those supposed benefactors in the West who only grant loans at predatory rates; the Libyan leaders put 300 million dollars on the table, the African Development Bank put 50 million, the West African Development Bank contributed 27 million and it is thus, Africa has owned its very own communications satellite since December 26th 2007; The very first communications satellite in its history. In the meantime, China and Russia have jumped in, this time by donating their own technology which allowed the launching of more new satellites; South-Africa, Nigeria, Angola, Algerian and even a second African satellite was launched in July of 2010. And by 2020, we are expecting the very first satellite which would be 100% African and built on African soil, specifically in Algeria. This satellite is expected to be amongst the best in the world, but would cost ten times cheaper, a true achievement.
This is how a simple gesture worth 300 millions dollars can change the lives on an entire continent. Kadhafis Libya had cost the West not only the 500 million dollars annually but billions of dollars from debt and interest which this debt would have generated ad infinitum and exponentially, and contributed towards sustaining the obscure system which continues to rob Africa blind.
2- AFRICAN MONETARY FUND, AFRICAN CENTRAL BANK, AFRICAN INVESTMENT BANK
The 30 billion dollars which M. Obama confiscated belongs to the Libyan Central Bank and was earmarked as the Libyan contribution toward the finalization of the African Federation in its three keystone phases: The African Investment Bank to be based in Sitre-Libya, The creation in 2011 of the African Monetary Fund with a startup capital of 42 billion dollars with Yaoundé as its headquarters, the African Central Bank with its headquarters in Abuja-Nigeria from which, the first issuance of legal tender would signal the end of the CFA Franc through which Paris has been able to pillage some African countries for over 50 years. From this we can understand Frances grudge against Kadhafi. The African Monetary Fund would supplant in each and every way the activities of the International Monetary Fund on African soil a role which, using barely 25 billion dollars in capital, the IMF had been able to bring an entire continent to its knees through questionable privatization policies, as witnessed by the reality of forcing African countries to trade-in one public monopoly for a private monopoly. It was these same Western countries which came 2 knocking at the door trying to become members of the African Monetary Fund (AMF) and its was via a unanimous vote of 16-17 in December 2010 in Yaoundé that Africans rejected this proposition, enshrining that only African countries would be members of the AMF.
It therefore seems obvious that after Libya, the Western coalition will declare its next war against Algeria, since, in addition to its enormous energy resources, that country has financial reserves exceeding 150 Billion Euros. This is much coveted by all the countries which are now bombing Libya all of whom have the same things in common, they are all practically bankrupt, the USA alone has 14.000 billion dollars in debt, France, Great Britain and Italy each have 2.000 Billion in public debt while all the 46 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa have less than 400 billion dollars in total public debt. Launching fake wars in Africa in the hopes of finding the oxygen needed to fuel their economic apnea that would only worsen having the effect of pushing the West further into a decline which began in 1884, during the notorious Berlin Conference. As the American economist Adam Smith had predicted, in his support for the abolition of slavery, «the economies of all countries which practice the enslavement of Black people are in the throes of a decent into hell which would be a rude awakening on the day when all the other nations would awaken»
3- REGIONAL TRADE BLOCS AS AN IMPEDIMENT TO THE CREATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AFRICA
In order to de-stabilize and destroy the African Union which is tending dangerously (as judged by the West) towards a United States of Africa under the guiding hand of Kadhafi, the European Union had tried, unsuccessfully, to create the UfM (Union for the Mediterranean). At all cost, they had to pry North Africa away from the rest of the continent by hammering the same racists themes of the 18th and 19th centuries according to which the African populations of Arab extraction were more advanced, and more civilized than the rest of the continent. That plan failed when Kadhafi would not play along. He had quickly understood the game from the moment when there was all that talk about the Mediterranean which [only] involved some African countries without informing the African Union, but at the same time, inviting ALL the 27 member nations of the European Union. The UfM without the principal engine of the African Federation was dead on arrival, moribund with Sarkozy as its President and Mubarak, its vice-president. It is this same idea which Alain Juppé is trying to re-launch, as he eyes Kadhafis fall from power, of course. What African leaders dont understand is that, as long as it is the European Union which is financing the African Union, we will remain stuck at the starting-line, because under these conditions, there will be no effective independence. It is in this same vein that the European Union has encouraged and financed the various regional trade blocs in African. It is obvious that ECOWAS which has an embassy in Brussels and which gets most of its financing from the EU, is a major obstacle to the creation of the African Federation. It is what Lincoln fought against during the secessionist civil war in the United States, since, from the moment when a group of nations assemble around a regional political organization, that would only fracture the central governing authority. This is what Europe wanted and it is what Africans did not understand by creating one after the other; COMESA, UDEAC, SADC and the Greater Maghreb Union which never became operational thanks in part to Kadhafi who understood the game all too well.
4- KADHAFI, THE AFRICAN WHO WAS ABLE TO CLEANSE THE HUMILIATION OF APARTHEID
Kadhafi is in the hearts of almost every African as a very generous humanitarian for his disinterested support in the fight against the racist regime of South Africa. If Kadhafi had been a self-centered man, nothing would have forced him to draw the ire of the West by financially and militarily support the ANC in its battle against apartheid. Which is why, shortly after being released from his 27 years in prison, Mandela decided to break with the United Nations embargo against Libya in October 23rd of 1997. As a result of this embargo which was also aerial, no plane had landed in Libya over five long years. To go to Libya, one had to catch a plane into Tunisia; get to Djerba and continue by car for 5 hours to Ben Gardane, crossing the border and going another 33 hours by road across the desert to Tripoli. On the other hand, one could go through Malta and then crossover by night, using poorly fitted boats and reach the Libyan coast. A true ordeal for an entire people, just to punish one man. Mandela decided to breach this injustice and responded to the former American president Bill Clinton, who had considered this visit «unfortunate», Mandela argued: «No nation can claim to itself the role of a global policeman, and no nation can dictate to others what they must and must not do». He added: «those who yesterday where friends of our enemies, today have the temerity of demanding that I should not visit my brother Kadhafi, theyre asking us to be ungrateful and to forget our friends from the past». In fact, for the West, South African racists where kindred whom they were trying to protect. It is for this reason that members of the ANC had been branded dangerous terrorists, including Nelson Mandela himself. It was only in July 2nd 2008 that the American Congress passed a law erasing Nelson Mandelas name and those of his ANC comrades from this black list, not because they had come to terms with the idiocy of such a list, but because they wanted to make a gesture of goodwill to the 90-year-old Nelson Mandela. If today the West has repented its support for Nelson Mandelas enemies and are truly sincere when streets and places are christened after him, how do they justify waging war against the man who brought victory to Nelson Mandela and to his people, Kadhafi?
B- THOSE WHO WISH TO EXPORT DEMOCRACY, ARE THEY THEMSELVES DEMOCRATS?
And if Kadhafis Libya was more democratic than the USA, France, Great Britain and all of those who have a started a war to export democracy to Libya? On March 19th 2003, President Georges Bush dropped bombs on the heads of Iraqis under the pretext of exporting democracy to their country. On March 19th 2011, eight years later and to the day, its is the French President who was dropping bombs on the heads of Libyans under the same pretext of bringing them democracy. Mister Obama, 2009 Nobel Prize winner and President of the United States of America, in order to justify his decision to hurl cruise missiles from sub-marines on the heads of Libyans, the tells us that he is trying to unseat a dictators from power and to install a democracy in that country.
The question which ever human being gifted with the least in capacity for intellectual judgment and reason cannot help but ask: these countries like France, England, USA, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Poland whose only legitimacy to go an bombard Libyans is only based of having auto-declared themselves «democratic» are they truly democratic? If yes, are they more democratic than Kadhafis Libya? The answer, unequivocally is NO, for the sole and simple reason that democracy doesnt exist. Its not me asserting this, it is the very person whose birthplace, Geneva, is home to the organs of the United Nations. That person is of course Jean-Jacques Rousseau, born in Geneva in 1712 who asserted in Chapter IV of Book III of his celebrated «Social Contract» that *: «there has never been a true democracy, and there never will be one»*. In order for a State to be truly democratic, Rousseau lays down 4 conditions according to which Kadhafis Libya is by far more democratic than the United States of America, France and all the others who profess to export democracy into that country. These include:
1- *Dimensions of the State*: the bigger any government gets, the less it is democratic, according to Rousseau, the State should be very small to allow its citizens find ways of gathering and to enable each person to easily get to know the next. And so before sending people off to vote, we should ensure that people know each other otherwise voting for the sake of voting would be denuded of all democratic underpinnings, it is a sham of a democracy to elect a dictator. The organizing structure of the Libyan State is based on tribal groupings which by definition involves people in small entities. The democratic sentiment is more present within a tribe, in the village than in the greater Nation, by virtue of the fact that everyone knows everyone else and that communal life revolves around the same common interests bring some kind of auto-regulation, auto censure is brought to bear at each moment, the reactions or the counter-reaction of the other members for or against the opinions which anyone may hold. Seen from this perspective, it is Libya which better responds to the exigencies of Rousseau, one cannot say as much of the 4 United States of America, France or Great Britain, societies which have become strongly urbanized and where a majority of neighbors do not even say hello to each other and hence do not even know each other, even after having lived side-by-side for twenty years. In these countries, we have moved directly into the following phase: «voting» which we have malignantly sanctified so that many quickly forget that this vote is useless from the moment when I start speaking voting on matters affecting the nations future without knowing ones fellow citizens. We have thus arrived at the stupidity of citizens voting from abroad. Knowing one another and speaking to each other is the essential condition of communication for the democratic debate which should precede all elections.
2- *It requires a simplicity of values and behaviors* to avoid that we spend so much time talking about justice before courts and seeking redress to the many arguments of societal interest which any complex society naturally gives birth to. Westerner define themselves as civilized people who have complex value systems and see Libyans a nation of primitive people, who have simple value systems. From this perspective, once again, it is Libya which better responds to democratic criteria laid out by Rousseau than all those who pretend to give them lessons in democracy. In a complex society, the manifold conflicts are resolved by the law of the powerful, since the wealthier party can avoid prison because he can afford a better attorney and more so, turns the States repressive apparatus against the person who steals a banana at a supermarket, instead of turning it against the greedy financier who brings down a bank. In a city like New York where 75% of the population is White, 80% of the managerial positions are held by White people and they only represent 20% of the prison population.
3- *Equality in rank and in fortunes*. One only has to look at the 2010 FORBES rankings to see the names of the wealthiest people in each of the countries which is throwing bombs on the heads of Libyans and see the difference in salaries with the lowest ranking wage earners in each of these countries and do the same with Libya to understand that in terms of wealth distribution, Libya should be the one exporting its know-how to those who are attacking her and not the other way around. Even from this angle, according to Rousseau, Libya would be more democratic than those who pompously want to export this supposed democracy to that country. In the United States, 5% of the population possesses 60% of the nations wealth. It is the most lopsided, unequal country in the world. 4- *No luxuries*. According to Rousseau, for democracy to exist in a country, there must be no luxuries because, luxury necessitates wealth and this last becomes a virtue, the goal to be achieved at all cost is the peoples wealth fare, «luxuries simultaneously corrupt both the rich and the poor, the former by possession, the latter by coveting; it sells the nation to listlessness, to vanity; if serves the citizens up to the State for dinner, the former to meet the needs of the latter, and each is happy in their role ». Is there more luxury in France than in Libya? All those cautionary tales from employees who have been pushed to suicide, even employees of public and para public companies, for reasons of profitability and hence of possessions of luxury items by one of the parties, are these more abundant in Libya or in the West?
In 1956, the American sociologist C. Wright Mills described American democracy as « a dictatorship of the elites». According to Mills, The United States of America isnt a democracy because in fact, it is money which speaks at elections and not the people. The results of any election there is an expression of the voice of money and not the voice of the people. After Daddy Bush and Son Bush, for the Republic primaries of 2012, there is already talk about Bush-Benjamin. In addition, if political power rests on a bureaucracy, Max Weber has noted that there are 43 millions civil servants and soldiers in the United-States who essentially control the country, but who werent elected by anyone and who do not respond directly to the people about their activities. Only one person (a wealthy elite) is really elected but real power on the ground is held by a caste of rich people who arrive at those positions simply through appointments to positions such as ambassadorships, army generals etc . 5 How many people in these supposedly «democratic» countries know that in Peru the constitution forbids a second consecutive mandate for the incumbent president? How many of them are aware than in Guatemala, not only can the incumbent NOT present himself as a candidate to that position, but none of his/her kin, no member of his family could aspire to that position? How many of them know that Rwanda is the leading nation in the world that is most inclusive of women with 49% of the parliamentarians being women? How many of them know that in the 2007 CIA ranking, of the top-ten best-governed countries in the world, four are African? With the gold medal going to Equatorial Guinea whose public debt represent only 1.14% of its GDP.
Civil war, revolts, and rebellions are the ingredients indicating the telltale signs of an emerging democracy Rousseau argues. Democracy isnt an end result, it is a permanent process of re-affirming the natural rights of human beings and all over the world (without exception) a handful of men or women, should confiscate the peoples power, and subvert it to help maintain themselves in power. Everywhere, we find various forms of castes which subvert the very idea of a «democracy» which should be an ideal towards which aspire and not a label to appropriate or a refrain to be flaunted just because we can shout louder than everyone else. When a nation is calm like France or the United States that is devoid of any political unrest for Rousseau all of this only means that the dictatorial system is sufficiently repressive to prevent any attempts at rebellion. If Libyans are revolting, it isnt necessarily a bad thing. It is when people around the world stoically accept the system which is oppressing them that is very bad. Rousseau concludes: « /Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium -/translation: If there were ever a godly people, they would govern themselves democratically. Such a perfect system of government does not suit human beings». Asserting that Libyans are being killed for their own good is a delusion.
C- WHAT LESSONS FOR AFRICA?
After 500 years of master-servant relations with the West, there is no room to doubt that we have different criteria for judging good and bad. We have profoundly divergent interests. How could one not decry the yes vote by three African countries from Sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria2, South-Africa and Gabon for resolution 1973 authorizing the new form of colonialism called «protecting the people», validating the racist theories which Europeans have been peddling since the 18th century that North African has nothing in common with Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa is more evolved, more civilized and more cultivated than the rest of Africa. Events are unfolding as if Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Algeria werent part of Africa3. Even the United Nations appears to be ignoring the legitimacy of the African Union over its member States.
The goal is to isolate the nations of Sub-Saharan African and to further fragment them and keep them under control. In fact, for the startup capital of the new African Monetary Fund (AMF), Algeria contributed 16 billion dollars and Libya 10 billion dollars which together represented 62% of the 42 billion Dollar capitalization needed. Africas most populous nation, Nigeria followed by South Africa came in far behind with 3 billion dollars each.
It is very troubling that this is the first time in the history of the United Nations that it has declared war on a people without first exploring any path of peaceful resolution to address the problem.
Does Africa still have a place in such an organization? Nigeria South Africa are disposed to voting Yes to any demands from the West, because the naively believe in the promises made to them by this or that nation to award them a place as a permanent member of the Security Council with equal veto rights. They forget that France has no power to grant such a position. If France did, Mitterrand would have done this long ago for Germanys Helmut Kohl. United Nations reform is not on the agenda. The only way to counter this is through the Chinese option: all 50 African countries should quit the United Nations. Theyd have to return another day, and only after they have been granted something theyve always wanted, a position for the African Union, nothing less. 6 This method of non-violence is the only weapon of justice that the poor and weak people like us have. We simply have to quit the United Nations, since this organization by its very structure, and via its hierarchy serves the interest of the most powerful members. We have to quit the United Nations to signal our disapproval of this conception of the world based solely on the crushing of the weaker nations. At the very least, theyd be at liberty to continue doing it as before, but without our endorsement, and not having to suggest that were have endorsed it even though they know well that we were never consulted. And after we have made our point, as we did during the meeting on Saturday 19/3 in Nouakchott through the declaration of opposition to military action, all of which was quietly ignored in order to proceed with the bombardment of an African people.
What is unfolding today is the same scenario already witnessed before vis-à-vis China. Today, they are recognizing the legitimacy of the Ouattara government; they also are recognizing the legitimacy of the insurgents in Libya. It is the same thing which happened at the end of the Second World War with China. The so-called international community had chosen Taiwan as the sole representative of the Chinese people in place of Mao Tse Tungs China. It took 26 years, that is until October 25th 1971 and resolution 2758 which ALL Africans must read, to put an end to this human absurdity. China was admitted, only after it demanded and obtained permanent membership [on the Security Council] and with vetoing rights, if not, she would not join. Once these requirement were met and the admission resolutions were in force, it took another year until November 29th 1972, for the Chinese foreign Minister to issues his response in a letter to the Secretary General at the United Nations no to say Yes or Thank You, but to dispel any misunderstandings, in guarantees about Chinas dignity and respectability. What can Africans expect from the United Nations without taking strong actions which insist on their respectability? In Cote d'Ivoire we saw an official from the United Nations acting as if he was above the constitutional institutions of that country. We have entered into this organization under conditions that we would be serfs and them believing that we would be invited to the table to eat with other nation on plates which we had to wash is simply wishful thinking, worse, stupid. When the AU recognized Ouattaras victory without taking into account the contrary conclusions of its own observers on the ground, only to please their former masters, how could we possibly expect any respect? When South-African President Zuma declares that Ouattara had not won the elections and then changed his mind 180° after visiting Paris, we must begin to question what these leaders are worth who represent us and who speak on behalf of one billion Africans.
Africa will achieve strength and real freedom through its capacity to act after thoughtful consideration; and when it takes responsibility for the consequences of its actions. Dignity and respectability come at a price. Are we prepared to pay that price? If not, then our place will continue to be in the kitchen, in the bathrooms, working to ensure the comfort of others.
Jean-Paul Pougala
Geneva
Source: Libya1