Malta and Italy: bla bajd
They have more in common than they think - and Berlusconi would love to have a platoon of uniformed women guards.
After the Libyans, who has most to gain by getting rid of Gaddafi?
That’s right: the Maltese and Italians.
But we are the ones who are still pissing ourselves, even though the psychopathic menace 250 miles away is being hung out to dry by everyone else.
Gaddafi clearly can’t survive, but Malta and Italy are still thinking in terms of how much we’ve got to lose if we take a stand, rather than how much we stand to gain in terms of peace of mind and serenity of purpose if he goes.
Imagine: no more threats about immigrants, no more feeding the lion so that he doesn’t have us for breakfast, no more high-risk/high-gain business deals with a corrupt regime but perhaps straightforward business instead, no more compromising our integrity by ignoring extreme human rights abuses in the interest of our own survival, no more bullying by a madman, no need to behave like crawling cowards anymore.
You’d think it would be worth it, but no. Here’s that ghastly Berlusconi, still crawling to Gaddafi after he gave a speech promising that all protestors would be put to death.
BERLUSCONI TO GADDAFI, PROTESTERS NOT GIVEN ITALIAN ROCKETS
(AGI) Rome –
Prime Minister Berlusconi called Muammar al-Gaddafi to deny that Italy had furnished Libyan protesters with rockets. The telephone conversation occurred a mere twenty minutes after the Libyan leader gave a speech on television.
Berlusconi wished to discuss Gaddafi’s own statement regarding Italian rockets being used by youths protesting in Bengasi, which Italy’s PM curtly denied.
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Time: Gaddafi has ordered the destruction of oil facilities
Posted on February 22, 2011 by admin
Robert Baer from Time Magazine asks what Gaddafi’s next move will be. While news from the country has been severely limited, Baer says he’s been in contact with someone close to the Gaddafi regime. His source tells him that Gaddafi has already ordered the destruction of oil facilities, starting with the pipelines that supply several Mediterranean ports with oil.
He further states that his Libyan sources say that Gaddafi has told people around him that he knows he cannot take the country by force, but that he can cause havoc and make the tribes regret their disloyalty.
I don’t think think sanctions will have any useful effect at all. He will still continue to get supplies for himself and his military through other channels.
What would break his grip on the country would be the enforcement of a no-fly zone. Air power and transport and his bunkers are what keep him going. The bunkers can only be dealt with by bombing raids, which is probably not an acceptable thing to do at this time but the air power can easily be shut down without actually attacking anything.
Without access to the air Gaddafi would be rendered almost totally harmless in an instant.
I don’t know why the UN does not do that promptly. Is it because they do not have the legal authority to do it or just because they just can’t get themselves to do something effective?
Or is it because there are still foreigners in the country who are still trying to get out on the first available plane?
The enforcement of a no-fly zone is an act of war. It’s not simple diplomatic bullshit, of the type beloved of our politicians.
We’re seeing Kosovo 1999 being replayed scrum by scrum. Back then, the US and the UK, together with their allies, declared a no-fly zone. Soon they were forced to declare a no-military movement zone. When that wasn’t enough, they had to send in ground troops.
And then we’d never hear the end of it from Graffitti and the pacifist brigade.
No anorak remarks this time. I’m not, as someone put it “into GI Joe stuff”. Soldiering means being in a position to take someone’s life, or supporting someone else who’s doing so, and it’s not some game, but a very serious moral choice.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698
2313: The AFP news agency is reporting that Peru has suspended diplomatic ties with Libya
http://twitter.com/ChangeInLibya
“Some people in Malta and Italy make me sick. They are afraid to act because of “illegal immigrant influx”.. well, enjoy the genocide then
8 minutes ago via web”
I’ve just seen those Italian rockets on Libyan TV, or at least I think that’s what they were referring to.
What I saw were fireworks of the sort sold to the public and that are let off among crowds (even in civilised countries). Pretty much harmless unless let off in someone’s face. The labelling was in Italian.
Although I didn’t understand a word of what was being said, I just made the connection between what I saw and Berlusconi’s assurance to Muammar.
Can’t figure out though why he went to the trouble of denying anything, but then he is Berlusconi after all.
Il-vera bla bajd imnalla ghanda il-gvern ingliz li heles lill lil dak ta’ Lockerbe biex il bp tkun tista tista terga tidhol il british petrolium
[Daphne – The internet is wasted on you people when you use it to disseminate and absorb rumours in the same way your mothers used to do at the corner shop. All you had to do was Google ‘British Petroleum Libya’ and ‘Al Megrahi release’ to discover that the first took place in 2007 and the second in 2009. In other words, the BP agreement came two years before Al Megrahi’s release.]
Not to mention the fact that Al Megrahi’s trial was a sham.
Hopefully this will help the many Maltese admirers of Berlusconi see him for what he really is – a businessman first and foremost, who has used Italian politics to further his business empire and legislate to keep himself out of jail.
I just realised that Ghaddafi has a photo frame stuck to his uniform. I tried enlarging and it seems to be an old photo of some sort. Anyone knows what this is?
[Daphne – Libyan national hero Omar al-Mukhtar, who was executed by Italian colonial authorities in the 1930s. ]
When you say that we stand to gain, you are assuming that democracy will follow in Libya.
But another dictator might emerge or worse still, should political parties like the Muslim Brotherhood take control of Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, we could be seeing a united Arab world whose number one enemy is Israel.
Guess who’s on their doorstep?
[Daphne – Think about it. Nothing and nobody could be worse than Gaddafi.]
I hope you are right. Please bear in mind that if Islamic countries wage a jihad on Europe, we’ll be the first nation on the receiving end.
[Daphne – It doesn’t follow that if you’re Muslim you wish to eradicate Europeans. Some Muslims are as bigoted, small-minded and stupid as some Roman-Catholics, but that’s where it ends. It is only our laws in Europe which protect us against the fundamentalist extremes of Catholicism. Before those laws, we were completely exposed to homegrown religious maniacs.]