Qaddafi said he will "cleanse Libya house by house" if protesters do not surrender

[Anti Federalist]

Hundreds dead now, government forces gunning people down in the streets at will.



Qaddafi: I will fight protesters, die a martyr

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/22/501364/main20034785.shtml

[Anti Federalist]

Libyan Parliament building on fire

http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFLDE71K0OP20110221

[RideTheDirt]

Qaddafi: I will fight protesters, die a martyr


He's right about the dying part

[Anti Federalist]

Crude oil prices soar, stocks flounder amid unrest in Libya

http://www.examiner.com/economy-in-national/crude-oil-prices-soar-stocks-flounder-amid-unrest-libya#ixzz1EiQn3yTS

[ihsv]

Shit's gettin' real over there. Coming soon to a country near you.

[Cowlesy]

It's too bad there isn't someone who would just pop the guy before he orders more innocents to be mowed down.

[ravedown]

too late Qaddafi, its over and nobody is lifting a finger to help. white house? silent. whatever atrocities he's planning will be twittered and broadcast around the world the moment they happen. Libyan implosion.

[Vessol]

The vast majority of the military has already sided with the protesters.

Qaddafi's only support his his small core of 5,000 body guards and his tribe from his hometown.

He's finished, but it's very sad that he'll take as many down as he can with them.

[FunkBuddha]

I said this in another thread but I wish we could come up with a way to crowd source a few hundred thousand AKs and ammunition for those folks.

I really want to help them out somehow on a personal level but I don't know what do. Is anyone aware of any charitable organizations providing assistance?

[Anti Federalist]

Which is why, once again, being armed is so vital.

Peaceful must be the word moving forward, whoever shoots first in one of these situations loses, but when the regime is in it's last gasps, they can just go stark raving mad.

That's when the people must come together, armed, to defend themselves from being uselessly slaughtered as nothing more than a statistic in some regime's dying days.


The vast majority of the military has already sided with the protesters.

Qaddafi's only support his his small core of 5,000 body guards and his tribe from his hometown.

He's finished, but it's very sad that he'll take as many down as he can with them.

[ravedown]

Which is why, once again, being armed is so vital.

Peaceful must be the word moving forward, whoever shoots first in one of these situations loses, but when the regime is in it's last gasps, they can just go stark raving mad.

That's when the people must come together, armed, to defend themselves from being uselessly slaughtered as nothing more than a statistic in the some regime's dying days.

this is a great point that often goes overlooked-especially in the US because most people i know would reply, " yeah- but whats happening there would never happen here. their culture is backwards." also- i hate to give the current administration any credit and i may regret saying this but kudos to our state dept. for not outwardly responding with giant military/financial aid to a situation that will undoubtedly effect US business interests very soon.

[Anti Federalist]

Nations condemn Libyan crackdown
Strong reactions and high-profile defection follow reports of massive use of force against civilian protesters.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/201122214042786138.html

[amy31416]

It's too bad there isn't someone who would just pop the guy before he orders more innocents to be mowed down.

Hopefully there is.

[archangel689]

I certainly wish someone would "Oblige Him"

They are shooting at unarmed with .50 machine guns and from aircraft....

[LibForestPaul]

I certainly wish someone would "Oblige Him"

They are shooting at unarmed with .50 machine guns and from aircraft....

Maybe they are mistaking the civilians holding cameras for holding guns.

[BlackTerrel]

Insane

[nobody's_hero]

Nations condemn Libyan crackdown
Strong reactions and high-profile defection follow reports of massive use of force against civilian protesters.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/201122214042786138.html

From that story:

'Two air force colonels defected to Malta after being ordered to bomb their own people from the air.'

I'm a grown man and that made my eyes water. Just the thought of how the pilots were brave enough to do that (but I wonder what will happen to their family members on the ground in Libya still?).

[madengr]

I said this in another thread but I wish we could come up with a way to crowd source a few hundred thousand AKs and ammunition for those folks.

I really want to help them out somehow on a personal level but I don't know what do. Is anyone aware of any charitable organizations providing assistance?

I thought the same of Tienamen Square, however, how far do you go in non-interventionism? Everyone should be armed for liberty, but giving them guns would be foreign aid, and technically against the principles of many here.

[Nate-ForLiberty]

I thought the same of Tienamen Square, however, how far do you go in non-interventionism? Everyone should be armed for liberty, but giving them guns would be foreign aid, and technically against the principles of many here.

If a private individual wants to intervene, fine. But a government should not.

[FunkBuddha]

If a private individual wants to intervene, fine. But a government should not.

Exactly. This is perfectly in-line with the libertarian idea of non-intervention. As a private citizen, I feel that it is MY responsibility to help those in need, not my government's. Government would extract money by force from citizens to pay for foreign aid which they may or may not agree with and most likely it would have strings attached. What I do with my money is my business.

[madengr]

Funny thing is, if a bunch us did try to source guns to those in need, we would be arrested for arms trafficking. Government holds the monopoly on the trade of arms, and Thelma ALL agree that their citizens and subjects should be disarmed.

[FunkBuddha]

Possibly. Although I would think if you had a million or so donors it would be difficult to convict all of them of arms trafficking. I certainly don't know the legal issues surrounding this. Perhaps I could send an email to Ollie North.

Apparently though, they don't need guns now as most of the military is with the people. Now it's just a matter of securing cities by rooting out all of the mercenaries and making Qaddafi dance around on the long end of a rope. After a fair trial of course.

[itshappening]

The military should arrest Gadaffi if they're truly with the people

[HOLLYWOOD]

Just a military marketing ploy... "Qaddaffi Ex-Lax... Cleans the Shiite right out of you!"

Damn, someone has to do a movie on this character.

Nice article from 2009 on Qaddafi Oil: http://takimag.com/article/its_good_to_be_qaddafi Low Life (http://takimag.com/topic/low_life)It’s Good To Be Qaddafi (http://takimag.com/article/its_good_to_be_qaddafi)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Mutassim_Gadaffi_Hilary_Clinton.jpg/220px-Mutassim_Gadaffi_Hilary_Clinton.jpg
U.S. Secretary of State (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Secretary_of_State) Hillary Clinton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton) with Libyan National Security Adviser Mutassim Gaddafi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutassim_Gaddafi)


http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_P1aSfh7IEUE/TBvLeUAvrVI/AAAAAAAAApM/OUab_NhyMJs/s320/Green_Nuns.jpg
Qaddaffi's famed "All Woman Guard"



and lets not forget: Libyan Colonel Gaddafi’s “voluptuous Ukrainian traveling nurse” Galyna Kolotnytska
http://midliferocksblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/sexy-nurse-21.jpeg

[Pericles]

Shit's gettin' real over there. Coming soon to a country near you.
+rep for truth

[Anti Federalist]

Qaddafi Loyalists Hold Tripoli as Lines Harden With Opponents

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-24/libya-is-split-as-qaddafi-loyalists-hold-tripoli-rebels-organize-in-east.html

Loyalists of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi sought to crush dissent in the capital, Tripoli, as his opponents tightened control of eastern cities and President Barack Obama called for international pressure on the regime to end its attacks.

Oil surged to $100 a barrel in New York for the first time in two years. Libya is Africa’s third-biggest supplier, and violence threatened to spread to other Middle East producers.

Egyptians crossing back into their country across a border now in the hands of Qaddafi’s opponents described attacks by government forces in the capital. Soldiers and militiamen shot at civilians and most people stayed home out of fear, they said.

“Gunfire starts at sunset and lasts all night in Tripoli,” said Mohamed Hassan, a carpenter. Yasser al-Badry, also a carpenter, said live bullets were “all over the ground” after one crackdown against protesters in the capital.