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The
non-reporting of this story is a prime example of the deception
designed to darken our souls with apathy and ignorance an
arrogant ignorance at that.
Not
so long ago, in a far away land there lived a benign ruler of a
diverse people, a people who had little history of being a
territorially distinct nation. For many of the people in this
country, their nation-state allegiances ended at the boundaries of
their particular tribe.
The
kindly ruler’s problems were exacerbated by the sheer size of his
country a whopping 1,760,000 square kilometers and its
disparate and aggressively autonomous tribal groupings were of no
help either. How could anyone form these huge cultural differences
into one cohesive nation?
In
this hot dry land of mostly desert waste was the additional problem
of food, which was always at a premium. More important yet was water,
which was as valuable as gold.
How
could the head of such a country become a benign ruler of a people
who had no sense of national unity and no willingness to come
together as one people, one nation?
It
is said that when the right man meets the right opportunity, miracles
will occur.
Such
a man appeared: his name was Muammar Gaddafi.
The
opportunity was oil lots of it.
The
country? It was Libya, in northern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea.
If
anyone knows of a national leader who shared the wealth of his
country’s resources with the people of his nation more than
Colonial Gaddafi did, please tell me who that man is or was.
For
years, the banker owned and controlled press demonized Muammar
Gaddafi; but what he accomplished for his people during that time
period seems to be that of storybook legend.
It
has been said, that Colonel Gaddafi was never happier than when he
was in the desert, amongst his people, and was always traveling with
his Bedouin tent. He was truly a man of his people.
And
by operating his country outside the tight financial orbit controlled
and owned by the pathological and morbid International Banking and
Monetary Cartel, Gaddafi made his country and its people the richest
in Africa. As a result, however, he made some very powerful enemies
enemies who will not tolerate any nation to stand on its own and be
economically independent.
It
was, however, his plan to exchange his nation’s oil for gold (or a
gold-backed currency), instead of the inflated US reserve currency
that probably prompted his brutal killing.
Such
men as Muammar Gaddafi only come our way once in a century, proof of
which is how he stood up to the most potent, anti-life power on
earth.
But
in time, the wolves circled and eliminated him, then blackened his
name in history.
This
short piece is my humble effort to give a great man a better eulogy.
Gaddafi’s
government had its own wholly-owned central bank that issued loans to
its people free of interest, as riba
(usury) was not
permitted in Libya at that time. This was, of course, serious
sacrilege to the usurers of Earth and it peoples.
Beyond
the nomadic Bedouin and Tuareg tribes, most Libyan families owned
both a house and a car. Again, Colonel Gaddafi had to be eliminated
as the banking cartel considers middle classes anywhere as threats to
their power.
Before
the fifty-plus daily US/NATO bombings of Libya, and its defenseless
civilian populations began, Muammar Gaddafi’s government gave
everyone free healthcare and education. Libyans enjoyed a literacy
rate of over eighty percent.
Literacy
and an education that teaches critical thinking was also a threat to
the power structure. Had Colonel Gaddafi followed the American model
of governmentally forced stimulus-response education, he might have
bought himself a few more years of life.
Before
the bombings, largely of American origin, life expectancy in Libya
was seventy-five years, the highest in Africa, and about ten percent
above the world average.
Preceding
the US-led air attacks, there was little to no unemployment in Libya.
Note:
The United States of America has long been under the heavy control of
the International Banking/Monetary Cartel; and as a result, today, we
have, at least, 92 million unemployed citizens.
One
of the biggest lies ever promoted by the corporate press is “War is
good for the economy.”
War
destroys economies due to the extensive debt-based usury lending
involved. Strong economies are made by producing in abundance needed
and wanted goods and services that are sold at home and around the
world.
Production,
not destruction, builds a healthy economy.
Libya
was a nation that had the highest gross domestic product in Africa,
with less than five percent of its population classified as poor.
Libya,
a hot, dry, dusty country, long suffered with a lack of clean water.
Under the leadership of Muammar Gaddafi, however, the world’s
largest infrastructure project was completed. It was a man-made,
underground river that provided clean drinking water to seventy
percent of the Libyan people, and held the potential of turning vast
wastelands into farmlands that is, until US/NATO bombs destroyed
its pumping stations, thus destroying the entire project.
In
1991, at the gala opening of the Man-made
River Project, the
good Colonel Gaddafi spoke to the invited dignitaries and assembled
crowd:
“After
this achievement, American threats against Libya will double. The
United States will make excuses [but] the real reason is to stop this
achievement, to keep the people of Libya oppressed.”
The
Colonel’s words were prophetic.
After
American super bombers laid waste to Libya’s water and electricity,
the bombers destroyed the country’s main food supply.
For
many decades, beginning in the summer, thousands of camels made a
three-month journey from the grass- lands of Libya to metropolitan
markets.
Amid
the horrifying wailing and whimpering from thousands of camels and
herdsmen being mindlessly and thoroughly slaughtered, the US/NATO
bombs fell until animal and human flesh were ready to rot in the hot
Libyan deserts.
For
months and years the American mainstream media had demonized Muammar
Gaddafi, often saying the goal was to bring democracy to Libya by
removing their dictator.
So
how did the US government justify the barbarity of butchering
thousands of camels, while people were starving all over the rest of
Africa?
Perhaps
you heard the absurd answer from your own television set:
The
camels were carrying weaponry to support those loyal to Colonel
Muammar Gaddafi.
Sadly
many Americans were happy with that answer never realizing that
certainly, during the dark of nights, Libyan troops could have
quickly transported their weapons all over their country in a matter
of days, not months.
Death
and destruction of all life forms are the hallmarks of the military
forces controlled by the foreign Banking and Monetary Cartel.
The
awful destruction of the once free and independent Libya should serve
us as a moral lesson, representative of our atrocities in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine, where hundreds of
millions of people have been killed, injured, or made homeless in a
radioactive hotbed of chaotic waste, with no known way of cleaning it
up.
For
no military tactical or strategic reasons, depleting uranium (DU) has
been employed in all of our bombings in the Middle East.
But
still, the Western press calls our insane international crimes
against humanity humanitarian
interventions.
I
now ask my brothers and sisters in America and Europe to join with me
in a prayer that the US/NATO axis of evil destruction desist from any
more such humanitarian
interventions.
J.
Speer-Williams
(jsw4@mac.com) |
