Gadaffy

I am listening to Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi rant on how the UN charter said all nations were equal in the preamble of the UN Charter, but are not equal based on security council membership.

He is referring to how members are placed on the council and that there are permanent members. While he is correct that the UN is not an egalitarian organization, he makes his point in such a way as to bring discredit to his cause and his country.

Ranting on how the Europeans pillaged African wealth, he piled on how the west kept Africans in the dark and perpetuates it still today by the policies of the UN security council. How amusing is Gaddafi, in that the lack of choice and freedom he bitterly complains about in the UN today is the same as he has foisted upon his people for more than 40 years.
Under Gaddafi, Libyans have suffered the benefits of his Pan-African Socialism. Under the guise of helping the poor, he has robbed the nation of its wealth for his benefit. Most of his nation lives in squalor, while the government and its bureaucrats controls the larger business activities to his personal benefit.

He is a brutal man who has slain thousands of his people for dissent, yet he comes to the UN to express his own. He is really a sad caricature of a despot who whines over what he cannot take by force. He talked of jet lag and how everyone was so tired from the long travel. He suggested that the UN should be moved to a different country in order to relieve the American people of the burden of taking care of housing the UN and paying for the security.

Gaddafi is a classic banana republic dictator. It is funny only to the extent that we do not live there, yet. We should be vigilant to ensure that we do not allow anything that is close to his line of thinking to remain in power in Washington. The government that is big enough to provide you everything, is also big enough to take it all away. The biggest thing the Libyan people do not have is their freedoms.

Freedom... Don't lose yours to tyrants and.... "leaders"