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John O'Rourke • 6 years ago

The above article hardly deserves to be commented upon. But the overall situation is very serious. It’s much more so than many obviously believe. So let’s talk seriously.

At the onset of this, using Steve Lendman’s words, “Nuremberg level crime” of the aggression against the sovereign state and people of Libya I had written a letter to The Times (it even had a nerve to publish it) in an attempt to point out glaring incongruities in the statements of crooked politicians who represented the powers behind this undeclared war and coverage of it provided by the mainstream “bought and paid for” media. The response of one creature here, which had obviously failed to find any real arguments, was asking: “What is in it for you?”

What was, and still is, in it for me is one simple thing - adequate perception of objective reality. One can choose to lie to everyone including themselves in pursuit of one’s interests. One can even get away with it for a certain period of time. But the trick is that one cannot lie infinitely. It’s not even a moral but rather a mathematical question. The thing is that objective reality does exist. 2 and 2 does not make 5, the sky is blue, water is wet. And if you occur in the rain without an umbrella you are going to get soaked. Inevitably.

Not so long ago Western powers led by the US invaded the sovereign state of Iraq using as a pretext fabricated by themselves WMD ‘evidences’. This invasion was part of the West’s outright war of conquest, driven solely by its (or rather its elite’s) strategic and economic interests and caused more than one million civilians deaths there - which is twice the entire population of Malta and exceeds the US and the UK military and civilian causalities in WW2 combined. It’s an overt war crime. For such a crime the perpetrators would have been standing before the ICC had the latter in turn stood for anything but the “Imperialist Crime Cover-Up”. Now the pattern - first lies and fabrications, then killing in pursuit of special interests - prettily described as implementing the concept of “responsibility to protect” is being repeated in Libya.

Are those who support this war are really that dull and ill-educated not to understand that? Or just lazy to the extent of being incapable to apply a minimal amount of exertion to research and figure out what is really going on there? But they’ve been provided with all the necessary facts and evidences. Which were indisputable. And they have chosen to turn a bind eye. Is it not brains but will what they lack - being unable to face the truth they prefer to keep swallowing convenient lies? Or do they simply choose to be ignorant? Because they think that it somehow suits their interests? And, in fact, covertly consider cynical killing of little kids with someone else’s hands for money, oil and special interests not a bad idea at all as long as one can place the blame for one’s own criminal actions - or support of such - on everyone around, from Gaddafi to the Chinese, and be sure they can get away with it? Well, whatever the case or percentage of fractions may be here is some bad news for all these species.

You should realise one simple thing - those behind all these crimes are highly unlikely to have reserved a seat in their boat for any of you. So, regardless the outcome in Libya, when this house of cards that goes for US economy and a global Ponzi scheme that goes for world financial system fall apart - which is a quite imminent, though not quite encouraging perspective - and disastrous consequences of such an event inundate the landscape you will find yourself used. Used, thrown away and left to drown. Then you will admit the truth. But that will be way too late. Then you will acknowledge that adequate perception of objective reality is not just of the essence, but, in fact, should be considered the main universal principle of existence if this existence is not to have an abyss as its final destination. But that will be way too late. Because by that moment the face on the target from that of the Libyan people will have already started to morph irrevocably into your own features.

However it will be different. The people of Libya know what they are fighting for. They know what they can die for. And if it’s their fate they will do so like warriors. The fate of cowards who are killing them, their women and their children now with drones from a safe distance and those hypocrites who are observing it while babbling something about democracy will be different. They do not understand that the next ones on the list held by a handful of greedy sociopathic scumbags who are behind this butchery are they themselves. They will understand that and be treading upon each other and cutting each other’s throats trying to make their way to exit. But there will be no exit because that will be way too late.

This case of Libya can be considered exhaustively indicative. With it the “international community” has made a gigantic step towards its own decimation and inevitable subsequent acceptance of the NWO dictatorial rule by the remnants. Towards turning the entire world into a no-fly zone where people will be able to do one thing only - to crawl. This case also manifests that Nietzsche was probably right when saying that man deserves nothing more than contempt. Because at some point it becomes obvious that they act not out of ignorance but it’s their deliberate choice.

But there are still exceptions and it gives a flicker of hope. One of them are those who are alone now against this whole killing machine engaged by madmen spawned by our crazy world in which instead of shooting someone’s grandchildren in the head one can drop a bomb on them and call it a “humanitarian mission”. These people are fighting and dying now for their homeland. They are fighting and dying now for the truth. But they do not give up.

Go the brave people of Libya!

You are heroes, you are our hope.

Every single sentient being on this planet is with you.

Whatever waits us ahead you have already won.

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Alex Ellul John O'Rourke • 6 years ago

@ORourke: I cannotunderstand your point; first you lambast NATO for bombing gaddafi's military assets, thus helping the Libyan people remove him gaddafi from power, then you hail these same Libyans as heroes, which, of course, they are. Can you make up your mind about the Libyan conflict? In my worls it is veryy simple. Libyans were just fed up with gaddafi's corruption, tyranny and atrocities. They just could not take it any longer. But more than that, they could not accept the fact that gaddafi's sons would take over for the next 40 years. So, do or die, they just went for the impossible and they won. They did it because NATO destroyed gaddafi's military power from the air while the people took care of the small arms fire power at ground level. NATO just made the ground level for both sides. Meanwhile, the Libyans were so much united against gaddafi that the latter could only muster an army of a few thousand Libyan soldiers threatened with instant death if they defected, and other thousands of mercenaries who were promised heaps of money if gaddafi won.

The Libyan people have practically oudone all negative predictions that came out from 'military experts' Arab analists, journalists and main stream media heavyweight commentators who were always predicting a long and drawnout war that would take years. BUT IT DID NOT. Because there was one thing gaddafi did, which many thought impossible: Gaddafi managed to UNITE all Libyans. This fact will reverberate for years and will be the main driving force for a successful democratisation of Lbya.

The Libyans are not fools, They have shown tot he world how intelligent they are. They have convinced the democracies of the world, the UN, the Arab Legue and all thatthey can meake it. They have won the respect of all level headed people, democratic politicians except for the African Union, an organisation run by corrupt pro-gaddafi cronies, and the o'Rourkes of the world.

The Libyans have sacrificed tens of thousands of their youths, men, woman and even children bombed by gaddafi's Russian-made grads and other missiles. They will not let Libya be run by any other sort of dictator. It was too big a sacrifice to forget what tyranny is.

The western democracies have always tried to save the world from tyranny, but the o'Roukes of this world seem to be always trying to re-write history and make us forget the harm, injustices, deaths, and suffering that was showered on our planet by that master of tyrants that was the Soviet Union, now putinised into a false democarcy, still trying to support dictators such as gaddafi, Assad, Ahmedinejad and their tryrannical club.

But time has always been on the side of the righteous and against the evil ones. That is how humanity has developed; The GOOD always triumphing on EVIL. hat is how we came out of the caves and built a society that has rules, courts, police, administrators, instead of anarchy, barbarism.

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Alfred Falzon John O'Rourke • 6 years ago

@ John O'Rourke

Lenghty and nauseating panegyrics in shamelessl defence of a Fascist killer regime led by a corrupt military madman posing as RAIS do not only fail to impress but are an insult to our intelligence!

We now look forward to the rebuilding of Libya on a sound, democratic basis, even though we know that sinister elements from the unwept and unsung Khadafi era are doing their best to sow chaos and pessimism, but they WILL NOT PREVAIL!

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C Muscat John O'Rourke • 6 years ago

Thank you Mr O Rouke. It is clear and simple to say it in lay terms that the people of Libya are the lambs for sacrifice to the Gods. This time the Gods - NATO - are in a better position because they just sent bombs over a small nation without inflicting on themselves any harm.

In my opinion, it is a shame the way the people of Libya were decimated by giant Goliath. It was clear that different measures were used between Libya and Syria. In Libya, the powers to be wanted to take it all without any compromise without any try to go round the table.