Gaddafi: still a great man and friend of Malta, according to some
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October 22, 2011 at 6:27pm
Just like the Ukraine nurse who loved her sugar daddy Gaddafi and thinks he was good because he was good to her, some Maltese people are really the limit.
Read this comment posted on timesofmalta.com beneath a report about Gaddafi’s death:
JJ Debono
Today, 14:42
The world has lost a good man or shall i say a good leader!, lets face it he might have been an ass’ol in the first degree, but he did stabilize the country and made Liby rich and no crimes or hardly any, and many many Maltese earned a good living in Libya and not forgetting he was Malta’s friend.
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For heaven’s sake!
A first-class idiot.
Matt, if this man is a first class idiot, what are we going to call Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando? Qieghed ipoggi il-PN u l-PL f’keffa wahda.
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando
A small island state such as Malta had to maintain friendly relations with it’s stronger neighbour, Libya. I don’t blame both of the major parties in Malta for doing so.
[Daphne – I think his far greater crime is his inability to distinguish between it’s and its.]
Made Libya rich! Just short of at least $200 billion in his own and sons’ pockets. Several Libyans in Tripoli itself still lived in shacks in unmade roads.
If only Joe Sammut would oblige and explain.
U iva he murdered a few people here and tortured some others there and did some other annoying things, but he also built hospitals and even some sports centres for his citizens I hear so he can’t be all that bad.
He even gave us children’s allowance so we should forgive him for all his little misdeeds.
C.Falzon, are you for real?
Is it today’s weather that makes you sound so…?
[Daphne – He’s being ironic, Silvio.]
You mean sarcastic?
Well can you blame him for saying that?
Lets face it, many Maltese measure friendship by what they can get out of it. Like many supporters of both the Nationalist and Labour Parties. No solid fibre in them just quivering jelly.
“No crimes, or hardly any”
No, not at all, unless you count:
random kidnapping
torture
intimidation
massacres
imprisonment without trial
forced disappearance
lynching
summary execution
terrorism
targetted assasination
cronyism
@ La Redoute
W’ ejja, qieghed tesegera gbin ! Qieghed tigdeb..dawk il-kapitalisti Amerikani w Eworopej xorbulek mohhok jahasra…
Please JJ continue your 35 year hibernation marathon.
Flood the Mediterranean with illegal immigrants. He was responsible for all those who drown in the middle of the sea.
And he also built a nice glass house in Hamrun.
So refreshing to read something that is not simplistic, populist and blinkered:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2011/10/muammar_qaddafi_should_not_have_been_killed_but_sent_to_stand_tr.html
The Hague does not issue the death penalty, Frank.
I am sure, that after years of posturing in the court, and even a verdict of incarceration for life, not one thinking Libyan would feel that justice had been done.
Possibly they, including myself, are too ‘simplistic, populist and blinkered’, however I do perceive that they are feeling somewhat ‘refreshed’.
@ Frank
So easy to criticise and reason out when one is just a ‘spectator’. Can anyone imagine what the majority of the Libyan population has passed through, these last four decades at the hands of this tyrant and his followers?!
Cathartic it may be, but the fact of the matter remains that new Libya has started out on the wrong foot.
Libyans could have chosen to show the morality and justice that the monster they have deposed did not have.
And please spare me the sanctimonious tear jerking bull shit. Of course I cannot compass what Libyans have been through, neither can I begin to understand what the raped woman or orphaned child of a murdered parent have been through either.
Do I applaud the summary murder of the rapist or the murderer?
I think not, but you are free to of course. By the way, once there was a little thing called the Nuremberg trials where a number of monsters were given due process.
[Daphne – Yes, the prime purpose of which was pour encourager les autres, and it appears to have not served that purpose at all.]
Frank. by an chance, would your middle name be Chamberlain?
Daphne, Il était pour décourager pas encourager d’autres!
[Daphne – Actually, the saying is ‘pour encourager les autres’. Even the French use irony sometimes. Read up here: http://www.everything2.com/title/Pour+encourager+les+autres ]
Like KMB, JJ Debono is simply expressing openly what many – if not most – Mintoffjani feel privately.
At the moment it’s not expedient to declare support for Gaddafi so most Labour sympathisers hide their feelings but, deep down, they are still pro-Gaddafi, just as they are rabidly anti-EU.
“Gaddafi made Libya rich”.
For “Libya” read “Gaddafi”.
Libya made Gaddafi rich.
Nothing yet from the Exile in Brussels ?
Now that Gaddafi is dead, it seems like we have avoided the “vindication.”
My under-10 yesterday gave a classmate of hers (the son of a Labour MP) a telling-off because he was boasting that his grandfather was “best friends with Gaddafi”. (“Do you think that’s something to be proud of, how silly you are?”)
@ C Falzon. this is the maltese version: Mhux hekk! Lili qatt m’aghmilli xejn. Anzi meta kelli bzonnu – ghinni. Lir-ragel tawh prowmowxin kif tlabbtu, u lit-tifla tawha mejzonett kif staqsejtu ukoll. Miskin Gaddaffi, kef kellu jispicca.
Let’s not and NEVER forget that Air Malta was being sold to him some 10days before all this happened.. What does that make the other party?
I don’t know what to say, give me something more tangable..
Ninu
[Daphne – A Super One rumour, which you believe. Incredible.]
If you insist on using posh words like ‘tangible’, then at LEAST learn how to spell them before you do so.
I cannot but agree with JJ Debono. Gaddafi was one of the greatest leaders of our time, and I might also add that he loved his people so much that he chose to stay in Libya, not flee with his family, so that he could fulfil his destiny and surrender himself to the rebels.
In the videos of his capture, it clearly shows that while they were beating him, and were about to kill him, he had already forgiven them.
struth! You for real?
I’m going to assume you’re joking. Because no one can be so screwed up in his logic as to believe Gaddafi loved his people.
His refusal to step aside way back in February cost the lives of 50,000 Libyans and ruined the lives of countless others.
He did not surrender to the rebels.
He was dragged out of a drainage pipe with nowhere else to flee.
[Daphne – And he begged for his life and promised gold in return for being allowed to live. Really brave and dignified.]
The only thing he loved about ‘his’ people (and he really thought they were his to do with as he pleased) was the adulation he demanded from them.
@ Daphne: I beg to differ; what I watched on Al Jazeera as the event unfolded, was a surrender and the reporter said he had told his captors “Don’t shoot”.
The English reporter also said that he was captured uninjured and that he had watched him being “slapped and kicked”.
Who am I to believe?
[Daphne – Surrendered? Oh, you mean as opposed to lying down and digging his nails into the dirt while screaming ‘I will never surrender’?]
Joe Borg, many Maltese people still think that Mintoff was one of the greatest leaders of all times, too. It takes all sorts.
He didn’t make Libya rich, he made himself and his family and cronies rich. Get it straight!