What has me confused is that he is telling people to go out into the streets and defend their city. The only thing they want to defend is themselves from this asshole. He also just said he hasn't yet ordered the use of live ammo. I guess the 300+ dead now are just a fluke. What kind of president refers to his people as rats?
Gosh it's so different indoors, I live here on rig-site with a lot of Arabs of all nationalities work and the discussion in the tea room is so different from the one here, nobody here is a least but surprised by the nut case reactions and behavior, I get indoors to talk to you guys and I'm back in the states where everybody thinks American allies are so sweet just because they're harmless to America, at least in Mubarak's case.
Don't get me wrong Chino, your perspective -and other good fellas here- is very refreshing and important to me, it reminds me that I've been taking these tyrants as a given immortal problem that commits atrocities and gets away with it on basis that are too regular to view them as "atrocities".
A week before the Libyan revolution started:
So... Algeria next?
It looks like it but I'd really like to see that crazy asshole Kadafi go first, but it seems he has it well under control in Libya, I was talking to a Libyan co-worker earlier and he said the people are too terrorized to act, when I told him so were we he said not anywhere near how bad they have it from their police and president secret service.
Kadafi is seriously insane, no exaggeration there, he is literally mentally unstable, in the 80's he used to make the local TV broadcast a still picture of his shoes when he's "unhappy with his people", he wrote something that he calls "The Green Book" which has nothing but quotations that doesn't make any sense and the quotes from this book are everywhere from sign boards to newspapers in Libya, I recall a couple saying "Kids are small now but then they will be large" and "If you have something then you neighbor doesn't own it".
In the few times foreign press has interviewed him the journalist usually just assumed it was the language barrier or the interpretor fault that makes Kadafi completely not understandable to them but he really does not make any sense, last I remember was Larry David when Kadafi was in NY for the UN thing last year and KI have never seen King more confused by answers of the interviewee than this, he thought the interpretor was weak but I understand what Kadafi is saying in Arabic and it simply doesn't make any sense.
He's been ruling Libya for 41 years according to the Libyan guy I was talking to earlier.
Now that guy I was talking to is in a state of deep depression and staying in the base camp, other Libyans are still working here on the rig-site but he hasn't heard from his younger brother in 2 days and the last time he spoke to his mom she told him she can't find him, she's too old and weak to go out and look for him in all this chaos, they have no other relatives.
Another Libyan said his brother-in-law told him that there were choppers emptying diesel tanks on groups of protesters to spread fires faster once shots has been fired, he saw people getting burned alive.
I saw the speech with them earlier, obviously we knew it was gonna be non-sense, you have pointed out here that he has offended his people in his speech, the Libyans watching the speech didn't seem offended at all, they know he's insane and too used to this to get offended or even really notice it, it's a much worse situation than we ever had in Egypt.
I think one of the biggest problem now remains the successful black-out of the media.
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