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Originally posted by syrinx high priest
when a lot of people want you dead, you've been a bad boy.
Originally posted by flexy123
Originally posted by syrinx high priest
when a lot of people want you dead, you've been a bad boy.
You still try to reason with logic and common sense - with people like "Revelationdude" and similar?
Much luck!
Social Welfare
A government advertisement appearing in an international publication in 1977 asserted that the Libyan social security legislation of 1973 ranked among the most comprehensive in the world and that it protected all citizens from many hazards associated with employment. The social security program instituted in 1957 had already provided protection superior to that available in many or most developing countries, and in the 1980s the welfare available to Libyans included much more than was provided under the social security law: work injury and sickness compensation and disability, retirement, and survivors' pensions. Workers employed by foreign firms were entitled to the same social security benefits as workers employed by Libyan citizens.
Subsidized food, inexpensive housing, free medical care and education, and profit-sharing were among the benefits that eased the lives of all citizens. The government protected the employed in their jobs and subsidized the underemployed and unemployed. In addition, there were nurseries to care for the children of working mothers, orphanages for homeless children, and homes for the aged. The welfare programs had reached even the oasis towns of the desert, where they reportedly were received with considerable satisfaction. The giving of alms to the poor remained one of the pillars of the Islamic faith, but the extent of public welfare was such that there was increasingly less place for private welfare. Nonetheless, the traditional Arab sense of family responsibility remained strong, and provision for needy relatives was still a common practice.
Originally posted by LightAssassin
reply to post by ironsjack
I don't disagree. I am just saying that his removal isn't being done for the benefit of the population, and if you are even half curious at why I have this opinion then I invite you to look at the 'bigger picture' with a more open mind. Research it for yourself. Look at what else Gaddafi was doing. For Africa.
Short term, maybe this was good, but the long term prosperity is now almost null. The west have their hands in Libya's pocket now. They're even touting about the 1 Billion pounds figure that should be 'payed back' for 'helping' with the 'war' (that was initially just protests).
Originally posted by ironsjack
reply to post by Char-Lee
The rebels acted on their own accord, they united against how they were treated every day. Gaddafi realised that people could rise against him, hence all those human rights promises. They saw straight through that.
Originally posted by LightAssassin
reply to post by smurfy
You think he would have allowed that? I'm pretty sure from everything I have read that his idea was to free Africa from the Western world.
I'm sure instead he would have turned it into a booming economy for Ethiopians.
Now we'll never know.
Originally posted by paraphi
There is a reason why the Libyans turned on him. They were just fed up with being treated like dog crap on Gaddafi’s golden sandals. They were fed up with the brutality of the police state Gaddafi controlled and fed up with the corruption and cronyism.
Originally posted by Flavian
reply to post by LightAssassin
Well, until there is a viable alternative to the banking system, what do you suggest? They say to the world "we need some medical supplies, will you swap for sand?" or "if i lend you Sohail for a few days, will you let us have some tractors?"
Come on, you're an intelligent individual who often makes some great points. Think about it a bit......
Originally posted by ironsjack
reply to post by Char-Lee
Well, no i don't live a paranoid life in my nice little town in Essex. I can go out at night and not be afraid, my family members don't go missing or imprisoned, the countries prisoners don't get randomly slaughtered, i don't get put under a "law of collective guilt", not to mention all the other eccentric and sometimes aggressive things gaddafi carried out.
I don't understand this paranoia you seem to have. There's no point saying "gaddafi wasn't bad, THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT ARE MUCH WORSE!!!!". Dude, you don't have the fear of death or the fear of loved ones disappearing. We are lucky, even though the west's economy has been horribly mismanaged and there ARE things that have been covered up in the past and present, at least this down directly threat your life on a day to day basis.
The rebels acted on their own accord, they united against how they were treated every day. Gaddafi realised that people could rise against him, hence all those human rights promises. They saw straight through that.
Originally posted by Dr Expired
A few years ago approx three from memory Gadaafi was given a standing ovation before he addressed the UN in NEW YORK.
Bloodied, wearing just a pair of khaki trousers, and dumped on a cheap mattress, Muammar Gaddafi's body has become a gruesome tourist attraction and a macabre symbol of the new Libya's problems.
Hundreds of ordinary Libyans queued up outside a refrigerated meat store in Misrata, where the dead dictator was being stored as a trophy. A guard allowed small groups into the room to celebrate next to Gaddafi's body. They posed for photos, flashing victory signs, and burst into jubilant cries of "God is great."
Wounds on Gaddafi's body appeared to confirm that he was indeed killed in cold blood in the chaotic minutes following his capture on Thursday.