yeah right… like they cared about the risks on Deepwater Horizon. It’s all about pounds, shillings and pence

Governments speak in our name even when they say nothing at all. To be silent in such a situation is an excruciating embarrassment at best.

The main piece of ‘evidence’ in the Lockerbie case (electronic fragments of a timer) was faked/planted by the CIA while the main witness (Gauci) turned out to be unreliable – and not just because he was paid for this evidence.

Al Megrahi had appealed this judgement and was to present evidence destroying the prosecution’s sorry case. The release-deal included an all-important condition: that the appeal be withdrawn.

He shall, he shall and his cronies too, just like Saddam, Chemical Ali and the rest.

” roundly condemn the dictator, his methods, his repression, and his violence”

I wasn’t thinking in terms of sending material help but moral support, yes. You put it perfectly in the quoted phrase. However, it seems that Italy and Malta are the ones who are holding back on a harsh condemnation.

Do we stop and think for one moment what repression Ghaddafi will bring on his opposers if he is returned to power? We wouldn’t get to know half the story.

I think the “true” Gaddafi has fled the country days ago and he left his other “doubles” to face the music

To be exact “ahna konna hbieb tal-Libya” – min kien fit-tmun ma kienx daqshekk importanti

Where did you get the idea I said that goverments do not speak in our name, hogwash. What I said was at times silence is also a language ‘spoken’ by goverments on our behalf.

[Daphne – Silence in the face of atrocities is abominable.]

True. But just to clarify, my comment was in jest. Major jest.