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Red Terror Dr.
3rd November 2014, 17:32
Here is an excerpt of Gaddafi's memoirs:

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 Reagan. When he killed my adopted orphaned daughter, he was trying to kill me; instead he killed that poor innocent child.

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, and they told Americans and other visitors 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'a'Deen, 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 to work here with us, in the Libyan Jammohouriyah.

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'a'deen, 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 and 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.

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/110417/Timestwo/t2_07.html



http://www.orwelltoday.com/libyagaddafiwritestory.shtml

Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages
3rd November 2014, 18:07
PS I also tortured people for the CIA wocka wocka

Sasha
3rd November 2014, 18:17
dear diary, today i razed a football stadium and the surrounding working class neighborhood in Benghazi to the ground because their team had the audacity to beat my sons team in the championships. One of my advisors suggested this might one day come back to bite me in the ass. so I had his children tortured and hung him from a lamppost.

DOOM
3rd November 2014, 18:40
dear diary, today i razed a football stadium and the surrounding working class neighborhood in Benghazi to the ground because their team had the audacity to beat my sons team in the championships. One of my advisors suggested this might one day come back to bite me in the ass. so I had his children tortured and hung him from a lamppost.

How dare you insult the anti-imperialist socialist hero of pan-africa? You must be some liberal wacko

Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages
3rd November 2014, 18:54
NATO stooges ITT

Lord Testicles
3rd November 2014, 19:01
In the West, some have called me "mad," "crazy," but they know the truth and 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.

I don't recall him doing much fighting when the rebels dragged him out of that pipe he was cowering in. :rolleyes:

BIXX
3rd November 2014, 19:22
I know next to nothing about Gaddafi but I never considered him anyone that was really worth emulating.

Sasha
3rd November 2014, 19:28
Well its not that we should expect much from TM sockpuppet number pathetic...

BIXX
3rd November 2014, 20:19
Which one was TM? TrotskistMarx?

Creative Destruction
3rd November 2014, 20:41
My little African son, Obama, wants to kill me...

Maybe it's because I grew up in the south, but this just jumps out as wildly racist (in addition to being obviously paternalistic) to me.

Comrade Hadrian
3rd November 2014, 21:32
dear diary, today i razed a football stadium and the surrounding working class neighborhood in Benghazi to the ground because their team had the audacity to beat my sons team in the championships. One of my advisors suggested this might one day come back to bite me in the ass. so I had his children tortured and hung him from a lamppost.

What actually seems to have happened is that guards shot at fans who ran onto the field and stabbed a referee, according to anonymous Western diplomats (quoted in the Herald Scotland).


During the violence, some angry fans ran on to the pitch and stabbed the referee, he added. The rioters then spilled into the streets, stoning cars belonging to foreigners, harassing passers-by, and chanting more slogans. At least two car windows were smashed, diplomats said. ``You know not to go out after a football match in Libya,'' a Western diplomat said. ``When they're happy, the Libyans jump on cars after a football match and when they're upset, they throw stones at them.'' Police erected roadblocks overnight and the city was quiet the next day. ``I think it is a mixture of football hooliganism and political violence which raised the temperature . . . The violence took a xenophobic turn,'' a diplomat said

Speaking of the violence taking a "xenophobic turn," football fans in Bengazhi would use their team losing a football match in 2000 as an excuse to lynch black Africans. Considering the quasi race-war aspect of the Libyan "revolution," this makes sense.

Illegalitarian
4th November 2014, 01:13
Gaddafi was the lesser evil and did a lot of good for people in the region, but the good does not wash away the bad. We have to recognize that bad for what it is, in juxtaposition to the good, lest we fall into the tankie pit of holding up every anti-western dictatorship that has redeemable qualities as truly revolutionary, as something to emulate

Sinister Intents
4th November 2014, 01:31
Which one was TM? TrotskistMarx?

Yeah, I think he's in competition with BolSickle, who I think gave up.


Gaddafi was the lesser evil and did a lot of good for people in the region, but the good does not wash away the bad. We have to recognize that bad for what it is, in juxtaposition to the good, lest we fall into the tankie pit of holding up every anti-western dictatorship that has redeemable qualities as truly revolutionary, as something to emulate

I know practically nothing about Gaddafi as well, but saying he was a lesser evil is weird IMO. What makes something 'less evil' or 'more good' or any variant of that? He was a tyrant like many others and he ruled with his fists with his friends and family that were in power. I'd have to say he still has no redeemable qualities like Kim Il Sung and his family's dynastic reign. There is no good, and neither evil, but not everything is black and white either, I just don't like this weird good/evil dichotomy.

Illegalitarian
4th November 2014, 01:43
I know practically nothing about Gaddafi as well, but saying he was a lesser evil is weird IMO. What makes something 'less evil' or 'more good' or any variant of that? He was a tyrant like many others and he ruled with his fists with his friends and family that were in power. I'd have to say he still has no redeemable qualities like Kim Il Sung and his family's dynastic reign. There is no good, and neither evil, but not everything is black and white either, I just don't like this weird good/evil dichotomy.

"lesser evil" is just a phrase, of course there is no real good or evil. What I mean to say that Libya under his leadership was far better than it is now.

I mean, he was a huge piece of shit but saying that his rule had no redeemable qualities is just not correct. Under his leadership Libya became one of the most developed nations in Africa, the average standard of living skyrocketed and many services and social programs were given to people that even those in the developed world don't often get (healthcare was free and of high quality, women's rights increased exponentially, higher education cost nothing and the government paid for citizens to study abroad, the list goes on).

Again I'm not defending him because he definitely did some really shady shit and opened his country up to neoliberal interests as early as the late 80's, but to while his model isn't one we should be seeking to replicate, condemning him wholly is privileged nonsense that ignores the material gains his reign brought to so many people.


Before some fucknut inevitably tries to say otherwise, again, I am not defending the atrocities of the Gadaffi dictatorship

Sinister Intents
4th November 2014, 01:48
"lesser evil" is just a phrase, of course there is no real good or evil. What I mean to say that Libya under his leadership was far better than it is now.

I mean, he was a huge piece of shit but saying that his rule had no redeemable qualities is just not correct. Under his leadership Libya became one of the most developed nations in Africa, the average standard of living skyrocketed and many services and social programs were given to people that even those in the developed world don't often get (healthcare was free and of high quality, women's rights increased exponentially, higher education cost nothing and the government paid for citizens to study abroad, the list goes on).

Again I'm not defending him because he definitely did some really shady shit and opened his country up to neoliberal interests as early as the late 80's, but to while his model isn't one we should be seeking to replicate, condemning him wholly is privileged nonsense that ignores the material gains his reign brought to so many people.


Before some fucknut inevitably tries to say otherwise, again, I am not defending the atrocities of the Gadaffi dictatorship

I understand, I was just talking about the phrase "lesser evil" What you say initially makes me think of Soviet Russia, but now it's in decline since it became the Russian Federation.