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By Antonio Cesar Oliveira
March 02, 2011 "Pravda" -- How can
you call someone a dictator leader who overthrew a corrupt monarchy,
modernized the country, won the highest HDI in Africa, and applied a
direct democracy system of government?
Gaddafi has always supported revolutionary movements around the world.
When the media - in the service of the U.S. - praised the apartheid
regime South Africa, young Gaddafi in Libya trained and sent them back
with the best weapons to win freedom in South Africa.
Suddenly the press began a daily attack on the leader Muammar Gaddafi,
to distill hatred, spreading lies, forging videos for what? What does
it prove? The crimes of the Libyan government? Apparently this
journalistic line was caused by popular uprisings in Algeria, Tunisia,
Yemen and Egypt.
In fact, it is more a question of one more terrorist strategy of the
government of the United States of America to recover influence in the
Arab world. In Egypt, the government fell in U.S. confidence. Mubarak
was merely an agent of U.S. and Israel interests in the region. With
the fall of Mubarak, Iranian ships began to circulate in the vicinity
of Israel, causing unease and anger in the diplomatic environments
subservient to imperialism and Zionism.
After losing Egypt, the U.S. government tries to divide and weaken
Libya, and this effort receives support from the supporters of Bin
Laden, and thousands of Egyptian refugees that over the years have
taken refuge in eastern Libya, fleeing the repression in Egypt. After
the Egyptians came Algerians, Tunisians and Somalis, followers of Al
Qaeda. They enjoyed the hospitality of the Libyans and then the next
thing they stabbed them in the back, triggering a revolt that has left
tens of victims, through sabotage, terrorism and destruction of public
property.
But who is this Qaddafi that the media suddenly started to attack in
all forms, and even in a most cowardly form? Gaddafi led a revolution
to overthrow King Idris, a puppet of Italian and American interests in
the region. At the time, the largest U.S. military base abroad was in
Libya, Qaddafi and his supporters surrounded the base and gave 24 hours
for all invading foreigners to leave the country.
In power, Gaddafi did not like the Arab monarchs, did not build palaces
with gold, not buy luxury yachts or collections of imported cars. He
devoted himself to rebuilding the country, ensuring better living
conditions for the people. Today Qaddafi is not president or prime
minister of Libya, but the media wants him to resign a post which does
not exist.
The lies of the media cannot hide the fact that Gaddafi has supported
the struggles of peoples for liberation in Nicaragua, Cuba, Angola,
Mozambique, South Africa and many other countries, specifically
concretely helping the people who fought for liberation. In practice,
Gaddafi has always been a benefactor of mankind, but for the mercenary
media, a benefactor is one who creates wars in search of profits for
the arms industry or to dominate the world, as were the wars created by
the U.S. in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, El Salvador,
Nicaragua and many other countries.
This utterly ridiculous gossip of wealth and strange customs have
always been exploited by the media, it was with Saddam Hussein, Yasser
Arafat, Fidel Castro, Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez and etc. It is enough to
be a serious ruler that does not seriously kneel down and cower in fear
before the United States and is not intimidated to be demonised and
disparaged by the mercenary media.
Another fact that the media cannot falsify is the HDI (Human
Development Index) measured by UN officials. These data indicate, for
example, that Libya had in 1970, a situation a little worse than Brazil
(HDI of 0.541, against 0.551 of Brazil.) The Libyan index surpassed the
Brazilian years later, and in 2008 was well ahead: 0.810 (ranked 43rd),
compared to 0.764 (ranking 59th). All three sub-indices that comprise
the HDI is higher in the African country: income, longevity and
education.
In the HDI recast the difference remains. Libya is ranked the 53rd
(0.755) and Brazil 73rd (.699). Libya is the country with the highest
HDI in Africa. Therefore, the best distribution of income, and health
and public education are free. And almost 10% of Libyan students
receive scholarships to study in foreign countries.
So what kind of dictatorship is this? A dictatorship would never allow
this kind of policy for the benefit of the people.
Gadhafi wrote the Green Book, the Third Universal Theory, which deals
with controversial and real issues. He complains, for example, about
the falsification of democracy through parliamentary assemblies. In
most countries that consider themselves democratic, including the
United States of America, political parties are organized criminal
gangs to loot the people's money in legislative assemblies, City
Councils, House of Representatives, etc.
This observation - and a book in publication - certainly irritate and
anger them? The defenders of parliamentary democracy? The Green Book,
written by Gaddafi, says that workers should be involved and
self-employed, and that the land must be of those who work it and
those who live in the house. And power shall be exercised by the
people directly, without intermediaries, without politicians, through
popular congresses and committees, where the whole population decides
the fundamental issues of the district, city and country. These words,
which everyone knows are true, revolt and irritate those few who
benefit from the falsification of democracy, especially the capitalist
regimes.
But the press will keep on on forging the news, boiling hatred by
spreading lies, because it is following orders from the U.S.
government, very interested in the large oil reserves of Libya.
Major newspapers and television channels in the world use news agencies
from the United States, all biased, misleading and deceptive. The lies
that the news agencies sell buy public opinion, and most people? By
naivete or misinformation they behave like puppets, repeating whatever
the U.S. government determines and imposes.
This is not the first nor will it be the last, the Libyan Arab people
face powerful foreign powers. Again the Libyan people will win, because
they have the leadership of Muammar Qaddafi, an effective, strong and
honorable guide.
*In a rare interview with Western journalists in January 1986, only
months before the U.S. terrorist bombing of Libya, the Leader of the
Revolution spoke frankly about his life and how he had been
misunderstood by the West. Meeting the journalists in his tent he told
of how he admired former US Presidents George Washington and Abraham
Lincoln and of other world leaders he admires like "Egypt's late Gamal
Abdul Nasser, India's Mahatma Gandhi, Sun Yat-Sen of China and Italy's
Garibaldi and Mazzini." (Really, I'm a Nice Guy, Kate Dourian, Tripoli,
Libya.)
He spoke of his favourite book The Outsider by British author Colin
Wilson and others he likes such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and Roots.
Throughout this interview the profound thinking and innate humanity of
Muammar Qadhafi shone through.
He also stated in another interview: "I see the press as being the
messengers between me and the world to tell them the truth."
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