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(10-25-2011 03:59 PM)tenderman100 Wrote:  

(10-25-2011 01:12 PM)Farmageddon Wrote:  

I actually have two friends with families living in Libya and I can tell you that both are ecstatic with the downfall of Gaddafi. They are both expatriates because of the brutal nature of his regime and still lived in fear in the United States because Gaddafi is well known for sending assassins to track down and murder Libyans living abroad.

My friend A. has family living in Misrata and said that her family had told her the entire town had been surrounded by regime forces and was being shelled indiscriminately for months. She was over the moon when she learned that it was the Misrata brigade who finally captured and killed Gaddafi and Mutassim.

There were several protests across the street from my house here in Houston (I live by the Galleria) and I can tell you from speaking with the protesters that I have personally never met a Libyan who wanted Gaddafi or his family to stay in power in Libya. That's just from personal experience.

I find it quite interesting that leftists and Human Rights groups are all bent out of shape about the way Gaddafi was...ahem...."handled" in the final moments of his life.

Lefties always show more deference to unequivocally bad people. Lefties so called peace philosophy is really just a cover for their submission to the perceived strong alpha male. The same way regular folks will behave if they encounter a biker gang.

Their instincts when Gaddafi is captured, is to demand all kinds of special treatment, fair trial, human rights etc. But when regular citizens die horribly in Gaddafi’s rape/torture chambers, they could care less. Their self perception is defined by how much tolerance they can show towards the intolerable. The worse the perpetrator, the more saintly they become in their own mind, when they defend him.

It's classic submission to the alpha.

And the problem is NOT that they demand human rights for Gadaffi. It’s that they don’t give a damn about decent people’s human rights. And hell will freeze over before those on the left gain the intellectual competence to understand this distinction. It will never happen, because it is simply psychologically impossible.

Politically, a leftist thinks like a lizard.

Don't rely on the corporate media to tell you the truth. In Africa I see a whole new perspective to this story. Steve Lurkel had it right-that war had fuckall to do with democracy.