Naked, Bloody Imperialism Or "We Came, We Saw, He Died"

"An official on Libya's governing council says he believes Muammar Gaddafi is hiding in the south-western desert near the borders with Niger and Algeria."

We submit that the publishing of grisly (and grainy) photos and video of the alleged death of Gaddafi is not for the benefit of the global public at all (even though many seem to have relished the lynching). Rather, it is for the benefit of the leaders of any other nations who might be thinking about disobeying the dictates of the US Empire and the World bank. British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg seemed to confirm my earlier thoughts about this when he declared on 22 October that:

"The death of Muammar Gaddafi sends a huge signal to others in the region that the sins of grotesque dictators eventually catch up with them."

In making this statement, Clegg has departed from the British government's original rationale for an attack on Libya - humanitarian intervention - and has made clear the real reason for the eight month-long bombing of Libya, its people, and their freedoms - naked, bloody imperialism, launched - quite coincidentally - on 19 March, the same date as the invasion of Iraq eight years ago.

Assuming for a moment that that really was Gaddafi they murdered in broad daylight, then the unctuous words of British foreign secretary William Hague...

"We would have preferred him to be able to face justice at the International Criminal Court or in a Libyan court for his crimes. We don't approve of extra-judicial killings. "

...are such fantastical bullshit that I think Hague deserves a prize. If Gaddafi was in fact executed on October 20th, then Hague and his ilk in the US and France are undoubtedly delighted. Gaddafi in the dock at The Hague was the very last thing any members of the US, British or French criminal enterprises (aka governments) would have wanted to see, mainly because of the large quantities of beans he would have spilled. They didn't want a rerun of Slobodan Milosevic's truth-letting tainting their blood-spattered image as liberators, an embarrassing judicial episode which thankfully, for NATO governments, came to an abrupt end with the termination of the former Serb leader in his jail cell.

As we ponder the dark implications of living in a world where the large numbers of people rejoice at gruesome stage shows of death and merrily embrace the murder of decent men, I'll leave you with the final, disgusting words of the clearly psychopathic Hillary Clinton:

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