Qaddafi is is dead. That is news to rejoice and celebrate and be very happy about. How he actually died, who killed him, that he did not receive a “fair trial” is irrelevant. Qaddafi was a dictator responsible for untold thousands of deaths over his 42 year reign of terror over Libya, including the 1988 Pan Am Lockerbie bombing. Qaddafi died exactly how a ruthless, human-less dictator ought to die – without dignity!
We can only hope, and we will soon see one way or another, what takes his place in Libya, and whether or not America will have to go back in there. If the Libyans are smart, and have some sense of human compassion, they will begin a new democracy in Libya that is void of dictators and allows for greater freedom for all its citizens. If they are not, terrorists will again exploit whatever weaknesses and vulnerabilities remain and keep Libya from realizing true liberty, and keep America ever busy in that part of the world.
With Qaddafi’s death, the spirit of overthrowing other ruthless dictators is intensifying around the Middle east. Syria in particular, where there have been ongoing protests for many months now, resulting in at least hundreds of deaths, if not thousands, as the Syrian government looks to conceal actual data that might reflect poorly on the nation. In the hours after Qaddafi’s death, Syria has ramped up its killing of protesters, worried – as they ought to be – Qaddafi’s killing has emboldened and inspirited the people of Syria. Indeed, the Syrian people have found new strength, new courage to continue their own plight for freedom and liberty. For now, and so long as its so called President, Bashar Assad, remains in power, that freedom and liberty is on hold.
Say the protesters to Assad:
Qaddafi is gone, your turn is coming, Bashar!”
Granted we (America) would have done well to take out Syria (Assad and his government) back when we went to war with Iraq. Still, the opportunity for removing this vagabond from a power he only acquired with the death of his father, is ripe.
How serious are the protesters in Syria and around the Middle east about removing their old, their decadent, their out of date dictators? Says Bobby Ghosh, deputy international editor for Time Magazine:
Across the Arab world, dictators – as well as rebels – will both be looking at what happened in Libya and thinking, ‘We’ve got to strengthen our resolve.’”
That “resolve” is sharper, quicker, mightier and spreading to more and more people in Syria and around the Middle East faster than it ever has. It is, and it ought to act as, a warning to all Middle East dictators that their time is indeed coming. The people are rising, and continuing to rise, up against them and their brutal, murderous regimes and will exact their revenge upon them in the same way as was done to Qaddafi – without dignity. Bashar Assad will meet the same fate as Qaddafi, if not more harshly, if he continues to disregard the will, the “resolve” of his people; if he continues to kill them as they protest for better rights, more freedom and liberty; if he continues to suppress them while he lives in the lap of luxury protected only by his military which he, as is common among all dictators, cravenly, cowardly hides behind.
And let us not forget about another highly disturbed, highly unstable and highly history-retarded dictator - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran. His time will come as well, and he will meet a fate he had neither hoped for nor expected if he is unwilling to accept the fact that his people are human beings and ought to be treated with more respect and given more freedom and liberty and more control over their own lives. And his fate might just be sealed not by the people of Iran but by its other unstable leader, its religious dictator – the one they call the “Supreme Leader”. He warned Ahmadinejad his post could be removed at any time. And with removal of his “post” also comes removal of the protection that comes with that post, giving the people a better chance to “do away with him”.
It is all well and good to envision the “removal” of these bloody dictators, whether that means a peaceful transition to a new government or a coup in which “removal” leads to the death of the dictator. Throughout history there have dictators, many of whom have met their fate by the hand, the sword, the noose, the knife, the axe, the guillotine, etc. of their own people as they rise up against them and overthrow them. Which is why they always hide behind their military and bodyguards as long as they can and hope to die in their sleep at a very old age. It is why, as in Syria, they employ their military to kill their own people en mass in order to intimidate them and weaken their “resolve” and give them that chance to “die with dignity” in their sleep at old age.
What the current crop of dictators don’t understand is that the people’s “resolve” has never been stronger, has never been more organized, has never had as much wide spread support as it does now, among its own people, and people around the world watching, including America which at this time is keeping a close eye on everything going on in the Middle East, in South America, Asia and wherever dictators roam freely.
The time for dictators is waning. Freedom, the concept of freedom, the reality of freedom, the power of freedom and the proof that freedom is better than suppression and enslavement is much too strong, much too desirable, for these corrupt dictators to to keep under lock and key so they might remain in power.
The time for the end of Assad, for Ahmadinejad, for all the rest of the scum that are preventing their own people from realizing freedom is coming. So we ought not be surprised or disheartened if we wake up to the news, in the near future, that these dictators have indeed been killed, and killed without dignity, in the same way as was Qaddafi.
We ought to look to this time with a smile on our face and a happy heart. Remember when the Wicked Witch of the West met her death, and everyone sang, “Ding Dong, the Wicked Witch is dead”?
Every time a dictator meets the fate they deserve – to die without dignity – we’ll be singing that song, or something similar to it.
Death to dictators – long live freedom!
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