Days of the jackals
| AN OUTSIDERS VIEW |
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| Ken Fuller |
There is a scene in Guiseppe de Lampedusa’s 1958 novel The Leopard (brought to the screen five years later in a visually stunning film by Luchino Visconti) in which Don Fabrizio, the larger-than-life prince of Salina, meditates upon the decline of his aristocratic class and the rise of the bourgeoisie in a unified Italy as he gazes upon the squalid poverty of his Sicily. “We,” he muses, “were the leopards; the lions; those who’ll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas…”
These words came to mind as I watched the horrifying end of Moammer Kadhafi on the video that circled the globe in the days following Oct. 20. Leaving aside the question of whether Kadhafi qualified for the description of leopard or lion, there seems little doubt that those who have replaced him are jackals and hyenas.
In addition to their treatment of Kadhafi, they may be judged by their arbitrary arrest, and sometimes murder, of dark-skinned Libyans, their slaughter of those 267 of his supporters found in a mass grave in his home town of Sirte and, we can expect, further atrocities yet to be unveiled..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111122com5.html
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buksan ninyo mga mata ninyo, people of this world (o kaya umalis kayo sa zombie state ninyo). isang linggo bago patayin si khadaffy ay nagpuntahan ang mga business people ng UK at pranses at nagsabing ok na para sa kalakal ang libya. hindi n'yo pa rin kuha ang konek at kung sino talaga nasa likod ng 'rebel' invasions? the jackal nato (& fundamentalist muslim puppet rebels).
"It goes without saying, therefore, that not all of the jackals are Libyan. On Oct. 28, Scott Shane reported in the New York Times (“West Sees Libya as Ripe at Last for Businesses”) on the latest invasion. “Western security, construction and infrastructure companies that see profit-making opportunities receding in Iraq and Afghanistan have turned their sights on Libya, now free of four decades of dictatorship.” The piece talks of the “competitive advantage of Libyan gratitude toward the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) partners.” A week before the murder of Kadhafi, an 80-strong delegation representing French companies arrived, and the UK’s new defense minister Philip Hammond has told British companies to “pack their suitcases.” The UK company Heritage Oil has recently purchased 51 percent of Sahara Oil Services Holdings."
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