Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.

Wonka where are you?

You’re hiding behind anonymity.

You don’t need a lot of courage to tell ‘a spineless individual’ in his face that he’s ‘spineless’. If you don’t tell him then you will prove to all and sundry that you are more spineless than ’spineless Tonio Borg’.

How exactly am I spineless?

Legitimacy ceases the moment some action contrary to its definition takes place. The Gaddafi regime became ‘legitimized’ due to inaction or inability of the countries constituency to do anything about it for four decades.

This skewed ‘legitimacy’ was scuttled the moment the masses showed publicly and fearlessly that they did not want the present leaders to continue to step on their most basic human rights and when the first bullet was fired at the demonstrators .

In the absence of democracy for 42 years, the protesters had no other means to get their message through to the regime and the rest of the world other than taking to the streets. They would certainly have preferred to show their displeasure had an election of sorts existed but such a luxury does not exist under dictatorships.

I think you are a spineless lawyer, willywonka.

Mulej harisni mil-hbieb, l-ghedewwa niehu hsiebom jien.

Any clues how much money?

Because Gaddafi is now so universally unpopular, Labour attempt to distance themselves from him but stop short of actually condemning him outright or saying he must go. They have, in fact, criticised the PM for saying that his rule was over.

How would such a condemnation “politicise” the issue, which, in any case, is essentially political?

Ok.

I tend to prefer – as perhaps by now it is self-evident – legitimacy under international law.

But let us be careful. You are using your blog to try and sway public opinion in favour of moral legitimacy. That legitimacy might not necessarily be in our country’s interests.

[Daphne – I don’t ‘use’ this website for anything. I write because I write.]