By Neba-Fuh
Gaddafi has ruled Libya uninterrupted for 40 years. He
is the current Chairman of the African Union. His allotted '15 minutes
speech' ended up to be a 96 minutes 'talk' , whose inferences and
sarcasms can not bypass anybody who has often tried to seek the truth
why events take the trend they do on this world stage.
The messenger is a prolonged African autocrat, who allegedly has propagated terrorism and who also claims to be a victim of terror. He projects himself now as a fervent advocate for a United States of Africa, after numerous unfruitful attempts to rally Arabs to form one state.
His style of delivery was void of the usual 'western teleprompter' reading of prepared speeches.
He spoke the way he dressed- like an African King addressing his subjects. He projected confidence in a midst, where that could be considered as arrogant. He refused to minimize his African identity in a gathering where African dictators,dressed in Western suits, go to be humbled, usually anxiously waiting for dinner and photo-time with so called 'super leaders'.
Whatever drives Gaddaffi to speak or act the way he does remains an enigma to many. Often the basic element of want of human justice in the world has surfaced in most of his verbal thoughts, even though, Libya, his country cannot claim to be a bastion of human rights and justice in this 21st century Africa.
What always pushes him to this prefix 'Pan-'? If he is not soliciting a Pan Arab Jamahirya, he is dreaming of a Pan African State, or his involvement in a Pan Am Flight 103 bombing in Lockerbie in 1988.
Gaddaffi's confrontation with the West, especially with Ronald Reagan [resulting to the death of his daughter] in the 80s, as well as an alleged British plot to assassinate him in the 90s, left scars he has never learned to forget. His vision of a mighty military prowess in a United Africa may be one of his triggers.
Second, Gaddaffi's sympathy for the oppressed especially the Palestinians whom he considers his muslim brothers has been a factor to most of his stand-offs with the West and the Zionist State of Israel.
His view of the world order as a completely unbalanced scale of power, bolsters and exacerbates his radicalism. He sees two worlds: The Lords and the serfs, the super powers and other nations, the nuclear powers and the non-nuclear powers, The developed and the under developed nations. etc.
His 96 minutes' talk at the UN may have been portrayed by the Western media as a 'rambling diatribe', but imbued in that 'diatribe' are the silent pondering voices of millions of people worldwide, yearning for justice and truth.
Even though not all would agree with every statement of his talk, his theme of highlighting the plight of 'small' nations , as well as bringing the unanswered historical questions to perspective, sold well to those who seek the truth and fear it not. Is it his description of the United Nations as a lame duck, that has drifted from its ideals during its creation, to become a puppet of the Security Council controlled by a handful of 'super powers' ?
Or the selective avoidance of instruments of international justice such as the International Criminal Court[ICC] by so called 'super powers' ?
He proposed that the UN headquarters be rotatory[50 years rotary period], that is it should be moved from New York to some other country in Europe or Asia, because of insecurity.
While spicing his talk with praises to the United States President, Barack Obama, calling him son of Africa, he over peppered it by wishing Obama could rule America forever, exposing the general retarded psyche of his fellow African dictators in power- who have vowed to rule and ruin Africa forever.
The messenger is a prolonged African autocrat, who allegedly has propagated terrorism and who also claims to be a victim of terror. He projects himself now as a fervent advocate for a United States of Africa, after numerous unfruitful attempts to rally Arabs to form one state.
His style of delivery was void of the usual 'western teleprompter' reading of prepared speeches.
He spoke the way he dressed- like an African King addressing his subjects. He projected confidence in a midst, where that could be considered as arrogant. He refused to minimize his African identity in a gathering where African dictators,dressed in Western suits, go to be humbled, usually anxiously waiting for dinner and photo-time with so called 'super leaders'.
Whatever drives Gaddaffi to speak or act the way he does remains an enigma to many. Often the basic element of want of human justice in the world has surfaced in most of his verbal thoughts, even though, Libya, his country cannot claim to be a bastion of human rights and justice in this 21st century Africa.
What always pushes him to this prefix 'Pan-'? If he is not soliciting a Pan Arab Jamahirya, he is dreaming of a Pan African State, or his involvement in a Pan Am Flight 103 bombing in Lockerbie in 1988.
Gaddaffi's confrontation with the West, especially with Ronald Reagan [resulting to the death of his daughter] in the 80s, as well as an alleged British plot to assassinate him in the 90s, left scars he has never learned to forget. His vision of a mighty military prowess in a United Africa may be one of his triggers.
Second, Gaddaffi's sympathy for the oppressed especially the Palestinians whom he considers his muslim brothers has been a factor to most of his stand-offs with the West and the Zionist State of Israel.
His view of the world order as a completely unbalanced scale of power, bolsters and exacerbates his radicalism. He sees two worlds: The Lords and the serfs, the super powers and other nations, the nuclear powers and the non-nuclear powers, The developed and the under developed nations. etc.
His 96 minutes' talk at the UN may have been portrayed by the Western media as a 'rambling diatribe', but imbued in that 'diatribe' are the silent pondering voices of millions of people worldwide, yearning for justice and truth.
Even though not all would agree with every statement of his talk, his theme of highlighting the plight of 'small' nations , as well as bringing the unanswered historical questions to perspective, sold well to those who seek the truth and fear it not. Is it his description of the United Nations as a lame duck, that has drifted from its ideals during its creation, to become a puppet of the Security Council controlled by a handful of 'super powers' ?
Or the selective avoidance of instruments of international justice such as the International Criminal Court[ICC] by so called 'super powers' ?
Is it the request for inquiries into the assassinations of African visionary, Patrice Lumumba, former American President JF Kennedy and Civil Rights Activist Martin Luther King? Or the death of Former UN Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjold?
Is it the demand for Western countries to pay reparations of trillions of Dollars for the exploitation of Africa during colonization? Gaddafi had all these on his menu.
He questioned the relevance of the United Nations; called the Security council a ' Terror Council', and then lambasted its undemocratic nature , while advocating for more African representation in the UN Security council. He decried the double standards when it comes to nuclear proliferation and appreciated Obama's proposal for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons by nuclear powers.He proposed that the UN headquarters be rotatory[50 years rotary period], that is it should be moved from New York to some other country in Europe or Asia, because of insecurity.
While spicing his talk with praises to the United States President, Barack Obama, calling him son of Africa, he over peppered it by wishing Obama could rule America forever, exposing the general retarded psyche of his fellow African dictators in power- who have vowed to rule and ruin Africa forever.
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