Libya: The Empire Strikes Back (And Is Weakened At Home)

Brookhaven Truthaganda Pieces:  Libya: The Empire Strikes Back(And Is Weakened At Home)

Crafted from "Ruins" and "Temple" by Joe Lyford. Originally featured on the original soundtrack for "Gauntlet: Dark Legacy".

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This piece is sort of a sequel of the Egypt one. I had originally envisioned, since I had predicted that unrest would spread throughout North Africa and the Middle East, as well as down into the Persian Gulf states, that I should make a whole series of these. I might yet do that. I could probably make one about Yemen pretty easily. Maybe Algeria. Maybe Bahrain. Now Syria's rising, and Iraq...plenty material for Revolutionary content.

I just wish lives weren't lost because of it. It's so stupid to have the war before the Peace Conference. If people would just learn to have the Peace Conference first, they wouldn't have to fight the war, which, after all, always ends up back at the Peace Conference anyway...

I made this piece, as the title says, about Libya, and this is an Uprising that I've followed with great interest, because I've been hoping to see it for a long time. I've disliked Qadafi since Lockerbee, and I've always hoped the Libyan people would choose something better than him. Yes, he accomplished some remarkable things. Yes, it is much to his credit that he's been able to hold Libya together by sheer force of personality for decades. Yes, he has accomplished much. I'll give the Devil his Due. Mohammar Qadafi (the spelling serves as well as any other, I suppose) is not a stupid man, and while he may indeed be a thug, he is not at all unaware of how to take advantage of a situation.

That said, I DO support the aspirations of people in Libya who want to overthrow him. How could I not? I supported the people of Tunisia. Egypt. Bahrain and Algeria. I still do. I support the right of ANY human, just by virtue of their being human, to the right of self-determination. Furthermore, I support the right of ANY human, just by virtue of their being human, to rise against their Government, if their Government is found to be in violation of the Social Contract. The people have a right to charge the Government with breach of contract, and abrogate the transfer of their sovereign power as individual states to a central state. That is, after all, what constitutes Revolution. When people no longer lend their personal sovereignty to the state, that is Revolution.

But foreign intervention in Libya's Internal Affairs? Why is this at all necessary, except to serve the greedy ambitions of a few power-mad individuals (Obama, Sarkozy, Cameron, to name a few). Seriously, are we REALLY supposed to believe that in a world where 22 humans (all that survived the first day of the Cuban Revolution) can turn into an army that toppled the Batista Regime, the people of Libya were so utterly helpless against Qadafi! Please! Anyone who expects me to believe that is quite possibly insane. Big Sister says: Mohammar Qadafi, today on "Two Minutes Hate"

I KNOW better, because I have studied Revolutionary warfare for years and years, and I'm very good at spotting the patterns that underlay events and behavior. I KNOW that with the factors in place that the Libyans already have, they're more than capable of ousting Qadafi themselves. Really. I'm serious.

They've got provincial armies that have gone over to their side. They've gained control of infrastructure in the East. They've established an Independent media, which allows for recruiting of the general populace to mobilize. They've got weapons. There is absolutely no reason why Qadafi is any real serious threat, with a mobilized populace and an independent media. So what if he has some soviet-era weaponry? Did that stop the people of Aghanistan from whooping a superpower's ass? (Two of them, for that matter?)

It becomes all too clear why Former White House Press Secretary Gibbs made that all-too-convenient slip up on his last day as Press Secretary, when he "slipped up" and announced that the U.S. had a position on the Uprisings in the Middle East (particularly Egypt was the topic of the day that day). Not that I don't believe that America SHOULD have supported the right of Egypt to rebel against Mubarak. I actually do believe America should have, and am still somewhat glad they did, even though they raped that whole storyline by using it as a cover for their intentions in Libya.:/

See, that's the thing. It becomes more and more evident that Libya was the intention all along, and that when Press Secretary Gibbs let that little bit slip that one day back in January (26th, I think, or 25th), he was providing a parting catalyst to the Obama Administration to allow them to develop a strategy on Libya, or carry out a pre-existing one. And so they used their position on Egypt to try to play the "Promote Democracy in the Region" card even while actually, covertly, destabilizing the region via the Government Hashishans, the CIA...

Why would the U.S., U.K., and France want so desperately to take Qadafi out, and now? After they've been arming him for years and years. Fact: Qadafi got a bunch of weapons and military equipment from, guess who, that's right. The U.K., and France. Guess what that makes Mohammar Qadafi? That's right. The next Sadaam. These fuckers (please excuse my language) have funded Qadafi, sponsored him, sold him weapons and materials, allegedly including V-X Gas.

Now they're embarking on yet another Unholy Crusade, like in Iraq, and in Afghanistan. This is what the Government does. It creates enemies, and then and goes and fights wars with them to purposefully squander the resources of society so that society is perpetually kept on the verge of starvation (absolutely prerequisite in order to maintain a Pyramidal, Hierarchical structure of society). Bin Laden was such a boogeyman. Sadaam Hussein was such a boogeyman. Mohammar Qadafi is now such a boogeyman. The faces change, but the game remains sickeningly the same.

Until people realize that that is what is going on, the war will never be stopped, and humankind will never move on from the shite that is happening now.

The words of Farrakhan in this piece are pretty wise, and it's surprising that I say that, since I've never really been a fan of Farrakhan. But what he said in that interview was dead-on accurate in places, and I made that the centerpiece of this work.

Unfortunately, the interview was kinda a long one, or the music wasn't long enough (and because of the structure of this piece, couldn't be looped very easily without making it kinda boring). I could have fit more into this one if Farrakhan's speech weren't so long, but there wasn't much that I edited out of it, because it was important to be said, so the flow of this one seems a little strange to me. But it's still, in my honest opinion, a pretty good piece in its own right, and I hope you enjoy it.

Raspe's Rating: * * * *

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