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A blog entry from one of my friends from KC who lives in Libya now

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TraceOneInfinite:

--- Quote from: Sami on March 30, 2011, 01:12:44 PM ---Essentially the guy in the article was saying how the Libyan rebels are fake and Qaddafi's a victim even though Qaddafi kicked him out of Libya for publishing some newspaper.

Of course it includes thinly-veiled Libertarian poor-bashing reference as well

"There had always been, in all nations, a lethargic group whose main role consists in blaming other, more productive strata of society for its misfortune."



--- End quote ---

Libertarianism has nothing to do with poor-bashing.  Don't know where you get that idea.  Libertarians just aren't pro-government people, so they don't look to the government to "fix" everything in society.  One reason I like my friend, is we have both became more Libertarian over the last few years.  

But actually, one interesting thing about my friend is when the war first started in Libya he was actually talking shit about Qaddafi and his son safe acting as if Qaddafi was a desperate leader in his last days...   But something changed in him, because when he called me a couple days ago he didn't come right out and say that he had changed his view, but as you can see in his most recent blog he certainly sounds more pro-Qaddafi.

I mean, after all, it was the UN that dropped bombs 100 yards or so from his home.  Don't know if that's what changed his mind; I think it had something to do with him thinking Qaddafi was on his way out just like Ben Ali of Tunisia or Mubarak of Egypt and when he realized the thing could turn into a long drawn out civil war he didn't much like the prospects of ending up like Somali and he realized it wasn't so bad under Qadafi after all.

But when I get a chance to talk to him again I'm going to ask why he had a change of heart, or if I have misunderstood something and this is how he felt all along

TraceOneInfinite:
Just got through to him, the phone services come and go.

Okay, I asked him why he changed his perspective.  Here's the reason he gave.--- He said that at first he thought it was just protesting and he respected the peoples rights to protest and when the government attacked the protesters he was very upset.  But he says later he investigated it all and he thinks that it was elements from outside the country that were stirring things up and inflaming the protests, because he says those protests aren't noble in the way that Egypt and Tunisian protests were (not exactly sure what he meant by that).

He also said that it was indeed the UN that had bombed 100 yards or so away from his home and that it was not Gaddaffi's forces.  This is interesting because my friend actually lives in the South of the country, and most of what we hear in the news about the United Nations is about their involvement in the North.   The name of my friends city is Sabha

Sami:
Well, I'll tell you something, as an Egyptian-American I'm glad to see Qaddafi go, especially since the rumor is that Qaddafi was in talks with Mubarak to allow his loyalists shelter in Libya to fight against the Egyptian government and restore Mubarak to power, when the army arrested Mubarak.

Qaddafi is worth $131 billion, and Mubarak is worth $50 billion or so. They are both crooked, evil morons that deserve to die and have their assets seized and restored to their nations. Fuck them.

Sami:
Also...hate to double post, but I wouldn't be surprised if your friend just said that because Qaddafi holds Sebha and is monitoring phone traffic and having people killed for saying anything contrary to the approved speech. What he said pretty much matches that.

Russell Bell:
libertarianism is more about letting people make decisions and not delegating them to another group of people

you dont have to be pro govt to care about people

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