Libya: Defiant Gaddafi: “People who don't love me don't deserve to live”
This post is part of our special coverage Libya Uprising 2011.
Libyan dictator Muammar Al Gaddafi allegedly addressed supporters in Tripoli's Green Square, promising more gloom and doom to people protesting against his rule. In his latest speech, broadcast today on Libyan TV, Gaddafi called on Libyans to defend their country, adding that he would burn it if people don't defend him.
“I'm in central Tripoli now,” he said. “The people who don't love me don't deserve to live,” he added, as more top Libyan officials and entire Embassies and missions abroad continued to desert him.
Tweeps were quick to transcribe his speech as he was yelling it from a rooftop of a building, dotting their reports with condemnations to a tyrant whose horrendous acts against Libyans has left the entire world in shock over the past few days.
Here's a run down of reactions from Twitter:
@SultanAlQassemi: Gaddafi now in TV “I'm in central Tripoli now. The people who don't love me don't deserve to live” #Libya http://yfrog.com/gz9w3frj
@SultanAlQassemi: Gaddafi: “I am not a president, I am not a king, I have no constitutional or administrative authority .. but the people love me.”#Libya
@SultanAlQassemi: Gaddafi “Dance and sing, we will be victorious”
@SultanAlQassemi: Gaddafi: “The revolution made Italy kneel before Libya” “We will beat any foreign conspiracy against Libya like we beat previous ones”
@SultanAlQassemi: Gaddafi: “When the need arises we will open the weapons depots & arm the people” “Libya is the leader of the third world
@SultanAlQassemi: Gaddafi now in TV “I'm in central Tripoli now. The people who don't love me don't deserve to live” #Libya http://yfrog.com/gz9w3frj
@NottingHillBly: No one is fooled, your protesters are few and far between. Go now Gaddafi #Libya #greensquare http://yfrog.com/h8gtrcj
@exiledsurfer: #Libya #gaddafi green square supporters #tripoli http://yfrog.com/h28l6wrj http://yfrog.com/h4axbndj http://yfrog.com/h4x6nkkj
@eduardgrebe: Does Qaddafi intend to be taken seriously when he blames the uprising on “hallucinogenic drugs”? #Libya
@drxee:#gaddafi: “Their ages r 17. They give'em pills at night, put hallucinatory pills in their drinks, their milk, their coffee, their Nescafe.”
@episteme05: Gaddafi was talking about dignity, I guess he was on drug!!! #Libya
@Malik_73:#Libya Gaddafi clearly had too much Nescafe before he made his last speech.
@sukmeov: Daffy #gaddafi says in his speech “sing, dance and be happy.”. Who is he? #LadyGaga?!
@jaywltrs: Gaddafi threatens while wearing Elmer Fudd/Ralphie hunting hat. Cossack fur, fedora, or even a bowler would've been more menacing
@angeloyap: Yo bro, just leave – Mubarak to Gaddafi
@sultanalqassemi: Reuters: List of diplomats, officials who desert #Libya‘s Gaddafi http://bit.ly/ho0djl
@LuluWahed: Confirmed: Colonel Ali AlArash, commandor of Oil installations announces frm Albariqa tht he joined the revolution #Libya #gaddafi #Jan25
@anouaramrani:#gaddafi is playing a big act. A dangerous man with an IQ of a donkey. So very unpredictable!#Libya
@anonoid: State TV is asking people to send images of “victory & joy” for Gaddafi on . You know what images to send them #OPLibya
@rrrgggbbb: The question for Friday: will #gaddafi last the weekend? #Libya @blogdiva
@lamisk: When Qaddafi's fortune is returned to the Libyan people, meet the new nation of millionaires!#Libya
Observers see it as a desperate attempt by Gaddafi to hang on to power.
This post is part of our special coverage Libya Uprising 2011.
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Muammar Gaddafi
(Al-Gadhafi, Qaddafi)
Highlights of the racist Arab, Islamic fascist, butcher and brutal dictator: Muammar Gadhafi:
1) Planting the seeds in the 1970s for the recent genocide in the Sudan. Involved in the bloody violence there, early on.[1] His (pan-Arabism) ‘racist,’ ‘fascist’ influence on Al-Bashir, who brought the genocide upon non-Muslims first (pan-Islamism), then on non-Arabs in Sudan.[2][3] In the 1980s, waving the banner of the “Arab Gathering” (Al tajammu al-arabi) – a “militantly racist and pan-Arabist organization.”[4] Evoking 1930s fascistic Arab supremacy,[5] and Arab superiority.[6][7]
2) Allied with the butcher of Uganda, culminating into strong fanatic ‘Islamic’ ties. (indeed, at the opening of ‘Idi Amin’s Dream Mosque, named after Qaddafi, the crowds chanted “long live Gaddafi”)[8]. Influencing anti-Jewish bigotry on the African leader.[9]
3) Epitomizing his dictatorship and character, the 17 April 1984 shooting at 11 people and killing British policewoman Yvonne Fletcher amid a protest against his brutal regime.[10], which he “apologized” for, at the end.[11]
4) Terrorism, the 1986 bombing of the La Belle Cafe in Berlin, Germany, the 1988 massacre – bombing of Pan-Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and the 1989 downing of a French aircraft. [12][13][14]
In February 1985, Qaddafi called on Black servicemen in the US Army to leave the military, create their own army, and fight “your racist oppressors.” Three months later, infamous anti-white racist [15]: L. Farrakhan of the “Nation of Islam” received $5 Billion dollars interest-free loan from Libya.[16]
5) In 1987 Qaddafi was accused by Chad’s President H. Habre of “bringing a truly racist crusade against Chad and Africa.”[17]
6) In 2000 there was a surge in anti-African racist violent attacks in the Libyan Arab Republic. Thousands have fled.[18] Today, still, millions of blacks are treated with harsh racial discrimination (Arab Apartheid).[19][20]
7) Showing his true racist[21] colors against both: blacks, and “white Christians,” he was “worried” of “Black Europe” and urged EU cash to stop African migrants. He said: “We don’t know what will happen, what will be the reaction of the white and Christian Europeans faced with this influx of starving and ignorant Africans…We don’t know if Europe will remain an advanced and united continent or if it will be destroyed, as happened with the barbarian invasions.”[22]
8) The hypocritical [Qaddafi regime’s] chairing of the infamous anti-Israel bigoted so-called “anti-racism” conference, in Durban (2), 2010.[23]
9) In February 2010, he urged ‘holy war’ [jihad] against Switzerland.[24]
10) The massacres on thousands of his own people (using mass violence, arms and jet fighters on masses of civilian protesters). He’s accused of genocide (2011).[25][26][27]
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References
1. http://books.google.com/books?id=IoF4_7Aq9McC&pg=PA31
2. http://books.google.com/books?id=CZtnAbKkOmIC&pg=PA120
3. http://books.google.com/books?id=_OzBMl-gW2oC&pg=PA44
4. http://www.chgs.umn.edu/histories/occasional/Lemarchand_Issues_in_Darfur.pdf
5. http://books.google.com/books?id=_OzBMl-gW2oC&pg=PA206
6. http://books.google.com/books?id=1g1XkMxXiZEC&pg=PA3
7. http://books.google.com/books?id=IoF4_7Aq9McC&pg=PA31
8. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7305641.stm
9. http://books.google.com/books?id=iNERGngsUOAC&pg=PA253
10. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1225963/Gaddafi-offered-hand-WPCs-killers-17-years-ago.html
11. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7964360/WPc-Yvonne-Fletcher-the-unanswered-questions.html
12. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/23/3146577.htm
13. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/12/terror/main572952.shtml
14. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/gaddafi-has-admitted-his-role-in-lockerbie-bombing-684907.html
15. http://books.google.com/books?id=yKrrSa7WqNwC&pg=PA227
16. http://books.google.com/books?id=rS_DF_x7AIMC&pg=PA16
17. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEED81139F936A35755C0A96E948260
18. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/debates/african_debates/953159.stm
19. http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1313923&ct=8411733
20. http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/02/24/is-al-jazeerah-tv-complicit-in-the-latest-vilification-of-libyas-blacks
21. http://www.salem-news.com/articles/february212011/spirit-of-omar-kh.php
22. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-111393453
23. http://www.unwatch.org/cms.asp?id=730172&campaign_id=63111
24. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8537925.stm
25. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8342349/Gaddafi-speech-was-code-to-begin-genocide-against-Libyans.html
26. http://www.jpost.com/SpecialSection/Article.aspx?id=209545
27. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12576598