I've been watching this epic documentary on netflix called HyperNormalisation and its kind of a minfuck for a lot of reasons. They touch upon Gaddafi's involvement with terrorism at the global level and how he was the fall guy a few times for Syria.
What I did not know is that dude saw himself as a revolutionary and the more I start digging the more I realize things are not as they seem. Growing up, Gaddafi was just "the bad guy" but there was never any real explanation as to why that was and I'm seeing that there was a real effort to paint him in a fucked up light and for good reason.
What got me interested is that the doc showed footage of Gaddafi straight up saying to the camera he wanted to create an independent black army and was down to send over weapons to create an army of 400,000 black men. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfMDzo8TWe0
Then I started to read his wiki page and found out that dude eventually rejected an Arab Nationalist stance in favor of a pan African identify
Then when it came to his death I wanted to figure out what was behind it but this video states that it was down to currency - Gaddafi was planning on introducing a gold backed currency which would destabilize everything. It would have given him too much power and empowered the continent.
Anyway...I'm sure he was no angel, I guess I'm just blown away by how forward thinking dude was when it came to things and I'm mad for finding out about it way late.
2. "He paid Sarkozy 50 mil euros " In response to Reply # 0
Nicolas Sarkozy in police custody over Gaddafi allegations This article is more than 1 year old French ex-president questioned over claims Libyan regime gave his election campaign €50m
The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been taken into police custody to be questioned over allegations that he received millions of euros in illegal election campaign funding from the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Sarkozy, who was France’s rightwing president from 2007 to 2012, was being questioned on Tuesday morning by police officers specialising in corruption, money laundering and tax evasion at their office in the western Parisian suburb of Nanterre, as part of an inquiry into whether Gaddafi and others in Libya illegally financed his winning election campaign in 2007.
The investigation is potentially France’s most explosive political financing scandal in decades. Sarkozy has repeatedly denied the allegations, dismissing the claims as “grotesque”.
America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.
4. "One of the worst dictators of our time" In response to Reply # 0
It’s easy to see the humor in his speeches {some of which are great} or admire his flair and style but for Libyans, Chadians and Sudanese he was a nightmare. His funding of the ANC during apartheid was inspired.He also gave money to any rebel group that asked. While he was traveling with a tent ( and a camel tied outside) and looting the treasury for frivolous shit Libyans were not seeing any of that money. Read up on the Green book. He basically wrote a book of conjumbled truisms and made it Libya’s Ten Commandments.People had to study it in school (all the way to post grad). He squandered billions of dollars and kept his country a backward backwater run on cronyism and tribalism. His ‘turn’ to Africa was after he exhausted all Arab allies and had no where to turn. His was not a Pan African vision it was a mockery and fetishized fantasies. He crowned himself King of Africa (lol) and had a picture of Condaleeza Rice in his tent. The shitstorm in Libya today is his legacy.
5. "One of the worst dictators of our time" In response to Reply # 0
It’s easy to see the humor in his speeches {some of which are great} or admire his flair and style but for Libyans, Chadians and Sudanese he was a nightmare. His funding of the ANC during apartheid was inspired.He also gave money to any rebel group that asked. While he was traveling with a tent ( and a camel tied outside) and looting the treasury for frivolous shit Libyans were not seeing any of that money. Read up on the Green book. He basically wrote a book of conjumbled truisms and made it Libya’s Ten Commandments.People had to study it in school (all the way to post grad). He squandered billions of dollars and kept his country a backward backwater run on cronyism and tribalism. His ‘turn’ to Africa was after he exhausted all Arab allies and had no where to turn. His was not a Pan African vision it was a mockery and fetishized fantasies. He crowned himself King of Africa (lol) and had a picture of Condaleeza Rice in his tent. The shitstorm in Libya today is his legacy.
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