Also there is the Natonal Public Radio documentary involving actual tapes from Jonestown, edited and produced as a 2 hour radio program: Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown. It may be found at: http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/jonestown.html

Those are the flags of all the countries that licked his butt.

X’ghamel daqshekk specjali f’hajtu biex ghandu dawk ir-“ribbons of merit” kollha?

The only thing that could stop this mad man is a military intervention by the west.

Dan isbah: muzika u lirika ta Alfred Sant u Raymond Agius
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc4yI20W1Ag&feature=related

There also were defectors and survivors from Jonestown, those who had the good luck or courage to act.

In the case of Gaddafi’s Libya, once the psychological liberation began with the people’s sense of their own empowerment, and their hope for ultimate victory became real in its evidence and human sacrifice, against the slaughterous rage of their jailor, their course towards liberation and freedom was set in motion.

Eventually, after Gaddafi is gone, there will be plenty of time for post-hoc psychological analysis. The disturbing part, along with the horrors and suffering of the Libyan people, is the fact that Gaddafi had his supporters, or even admirers, from outside Libya.

There seems not to have been the moral equivalent of a U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan from California, as in the Jonestown case, to pursue the cause of justice and freedom on behalf of the Libyan people.

In the aftermath, once Libya has been freed from its tyrant and the system of coercion he created (and we also have allowed for 42 years), the western world will have a large moral debt of reparation for its sins against the Libyan people.

Malta has its own historical legacy in this regard, along with Gaddafi’s long-standing blackmail of the western world over Libya’s oil.

Where in this long history have there been the voices and actions of moral courage raised against the tyrant? There have been legitimate reasons to fear the beast, if not for ourselves, for the potential destruction Gaddafi is still able to inflict upon those around him.

But the world he controls is shrinking fast.

At the very least for now, the world and its individuals must show solidarity with and for the whole of Libya, for those who have freed themselves already, and for those who await their liberation in Tripoli, which is the center of the end to come.

For our moral support is part of the positive equation that will bring an end to the conflict, once Gaddafi is dead (most likely) or brought to justice.

The final conflict and the suffering and human cost ahead are still so very worrying.

# Dery, Show us your evidence I am a psychiatrist myself and there is not one shred of evidence that Gaddafi is mad or a drug user (two different things – but you’d talking out of your hat aren’t you ?).

No-one who is mentally ill can hang on to power for 42 years, play off the Europeans like he did.

[Daphne – No, he’s just a psychopath. But you must admit the current scenario has qualities of Nero and Tiberius about it.]