What can I do? Is something being organised? Is there a civilian unit being set up locally?

Madmen are unfortunately totally unpredictable.

Foreign governments cannot intervene directly because this is something that Libyans need to do for themselves. They are paying a very high price but it will be written in history books that the Libyan people themselves fought for and achieved their freedom. This is not WW2 and they cannot be liberated by foreign armies.

Other countries, including Malta, can help by, for example, sending blood and medical supplies to Benghazi and transferring some of the more badly injured to Malta.

smifsud must be part of the impressive publicity campaign Joseph Muscat was talking about.

Let the Libyans finish him off, they’re doing a good job.

Some Maltese history:
the two year blockade by the Maltese people of the French in Valletta was finished off by the British……..who stayed on for the next two hundred years.

Malta still has over hundred compatriots scattered all over Libya.

There can be no doubt that all Maltese are behind the people of Libya in their suffering under their unhinged leader. Let the MLP hoi polloi follow the example of their erstwhile leaders and keep a dignified silence and to lament their past adulation of the Gaddafi regime.

As dutiful citizens of Malta and irrespective of our political affiliation, let us allow our hard pressed government carry on with its dangerous task of rescuing our compatriots in Libya instead of trying to hypnotize ourselves into believing the canard that the NP ever courted this merciless dictator just as Mintoff and KMB did.

[Daphne – So let’s get this straight, because I fail to understand the line of reasoning: if some Maltese refuse to leave Libya, as is their right to do, Malta must take no stance against Gaddafi? I hardly think so. If Malta wishes to sit on the fence until the last man or woman is out, then it should do what the Americans pretty much did and issue an ultimatum. On such a such a day we’re closing the embassy; we’re organising these evacuation trips on X and Y days. If you’re not out by then, you’re on your own. You can’t hold the foreign policy of an entire nation (and the plight of LIbya) hostage to a few people who thought they would hang about just in case things ‘returned to normal’.]

I bet that had we had Reagan and not Obama as US president the situation would have been different.

If called to, I too would join the ranks to defend freedom and my country.

[Daphne – You’re being called now, Bob. The last thing you want on your doorstep is the Tripolitanian pariah state of Muammar Gaddafi.]

They’ve fled their homes, they’ve probably lost their jobs, they don’t know whether they’re coming or going, they’ve just spent 48 hours sealed into a stationary catamaran followed by eight hours of seasickness, and they’re welcomed by smifsud on timesofmalta.com, who says:

“smifsud
To All who is on the Maria Dolores ….Welcome to Malta …enjoy your stay with us while albieit will be short try some pastizzis up in Valletta …come back to see us ….”

Bob, you and I both know that it’s not “the Maltese” who are brave but the few individuals who are operating the Air Malta flights to Tripoli.

Look at the comments boards on various websites to see how “brave” most Maltese are.