Libya's Muamar Gadaffi's Last Formal Speech


"In the name of Allah, the beneficent , the merciful.. .For 40 years, or was it longer, I can't remember, I did all I could to give people houses, hospitals, schools, and when they were hungry, I gave them food. I even made Benghazi into farmland from the desert, I stood up to attacks from that cowboy Ronald Reagan, when he killed my adopted orphaned daughter, he was trying to kill me, instead he killed that poor innocent child. Then I helped my brothers and sisters from Africa with money for the African Union. I did all I could to help people Understand the concept of real democracy, where people's committees ran our country. But that was never enough, as some told me, even people who had 10 room homes, new suits and furniture, were never satisfied, as selfish as they were they wanted more.

They told Americans and other visitors, that they needed "democracy "and"freedom" never realizing it was a cut throat system, where the biggest dog eats the rest, but they were
enchanted with those words, never realizing that in America, there was no free medicine, no free hospitals, no free housing, no free education and no free food, except when people had to beg or go to long lines to get soup. No, no matter what I did, it was never enough for some, but for others, they knew I was the son of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the only true Arab and Muslim leader we've had since Salah-al-D een, when he claimed the Suez Canal for his people, as I claimed Libya, for my people, it was his footsteps I tried to follow, to keep my people free from colonial domination - from thieves who would steal from us.

Now, I am under attack by the biggest force in military history, my little African son, Obama wants to kill me , to take away the freedom of our country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free education, our free food, and replace it with American style thievery, called "capitalism",but all of us in the Third World know what that means, it means corporations run the countries, run the world, and the people suffer. So, there is no alternative for me, I must make my stand, and if Allah wishes, I shall die by following His path, the path that has made our country rich with farmland, with food and health, and even allowed us to help our African and Arab brothers and sisters. I do not wish to die, but if it comes to that, to save this land, my people, all the thousands who are all my children, then so be it.


Let this testament be my voice to the world, that I stood up to crusader attacks of NATO, stood up to cruelty, stood up to betrayal, stood up to the West and its colonialist ambitions, and that I stood with my African brothers, my true Arab and Muslim brothers, as a beacon of light. When others were building castles, I lived in a modest house, and in a tent. I never forgot my youth in Sirte, I did not spend our national treasury foolishly,
and like Salah-al-D een, our great Muslim leader, who rescued Jerusalem for Islam, I took little for myself... In the West, some have called me "mad","crazy", but they know the truth yet continue to lie, they know that our land is independent and free, not in the colonial grip, that my vision, my path, is, and has been clear and for my people and that I will fight to my last breath to keep us free, may Allah almighty help us to remain faithful and free."


Now, this is what you call a true
son of Africa. In the league of
Kwame Nkrumah's and Julius
Nyerere (Pun intended).

I would also want to be
remembered like this but in the right circumstance. It is immoral to marry power and cement it on oneself. Of what purpose is economic development if your freedom of expression and speech is suppressed? Of what benefit is economic prosperity if your relatives and friends are killed for having a different opinion?

Human rights supersede economic development and there is no justification for taking away somebody's limb. Whatever Libyans received during his tenure was their right and not a privilege. Capitalism is not perfect but it beats communism by a long way. Yes there are inequalities, but there will always be, because some people are smarter than others, some are more industrious e.t.c

SAY NO TO DICTATORSHIP
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16 comments:

  1. the Libyan despot road to hyumiliation

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  2. Human ri8ts anywea override economic enjoyment!

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  3. This emotional speech does not separate the beast from him.

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  4. I find that to be true @Mikael...he did alota bad dt beats no good.

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  5. Is one of the last fake leaders of this earth who think that they can marry power til death do them apart, but life does have suprises for such people.

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  6. What of the West who commit far worse atrocities. We only need not turn a blind eye & treat everythng with the same scope...arrest G. W Bush, Assad, Mugabe & any other bastard who dares rob us of our electioneering process.

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  7. Thea is no single incumbent in Africa who can be trusted with leading meaningful reforms. Soceity has to down tools once in a while to drive change. Look at Tahrir square....people's driven change can be trusted.

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  8. @Akoth Otieno Dictatorship within the legal framework does not negate economic development unlike rule with bloody iron fist. There is nothing more embarassing of iron-fisted regimes than making one ashamed of telling his/her posterity that they could not resist.

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  9. @Lee thats a true observation..there is a general want of leadership in the world, current leaders are so self-centred. They think states are there houses, the government their kitchen & the armed forces their arm of murder which z swung at will.

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  10. Its like bribing ua people so that you mistreat them...its lackin humane.

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  11. i loved this mans passion for his power.

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  12. Now this is where we find the voices of reason!!!

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    1. I did not know this debate still evokes emotion!!! damn

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  13. Nothings wrong with emotion!!!

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  14. Of despots and their cohorts, cementing power around oneself!

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  15. Power to the people, not to a person!!!

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