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The Destruction of Libya: Posturing

Predators; Lethal Lies

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A good article by Robert Snefjella

The Destruction of Libya: Posturing Predators; Lethal

Lies

Premeditated criminal violence has been around for a

long time.

Deliberate criminal violence has motive, involves

planning, and is cruel and harmful. The motive often
involves the attempt at some real or imagined gain, or
forceful seizure. Surprise attacks are favored.

Because the evil of such violence is obvious if in clear

view, criminals usually attempt to hide such acts, or to
obscure their crime with lies. Secrecy and dishonesty are
generally indispensable basic tactics for the success of
violent criminality. An exception historically is the
criminal violence of those who rule tyrannically; their
crimes are sometimes brazen, ‘in your face’.

Wars of aggression are criminal violence on a massive

scale. During the period after the 2nd WW, the last
seventy five years that is, there have been lots of those.
There is as yet no effective justice served to those who
wage wars of aggression. Once a war has been initiated,
one can surrender, or fight back, and hope for the best.
Prevention is the best cure.

Curiously enough, wars of aggression are often

undertaken by countries that are members of the United
Nations, and who are sworn to refrain from wars of
aggression. The very words United Nations are of course
misleading, as the member nations are not united, but in
any case, they are all supposed to “refrain from … the
threat or use of force against … any state.” (part of UN
Article 2.4)

When intending or conducting a war of aggression, apart

from the prerequisite war machines and logistics and
soldiers, a basic disinformation template is habitually
deployed: The public in the aggressor countries are
subjected to propaganda, a blizzard of lies and
distortions and spin, with tactical censorship of
unhelpful info. The intent of preparatory and ongoing
propaganda is to program the ‘home team’ to at best
support, or at least not oppose, the impending or actual
war of aggression.

The leader of the designated target country will be

denounced repeatedly as a monster, and accused of a
compendium of personal defects, dastardly intentions,
and vile deeds. The country itself will be subject to serial
vilification by the intended predators, and usually,
whatever can be done will be done to weaken the
intended prey. Then, as preface to launching the war, one
or more incidents will be staged, or declared, the now
proverbial ‘false flag event’, and this will be used to
‘galvanize’ the aggressor’s public, and ‘justify’ the
‘response’. Public fear, anger, desire for revenge, and ‘war
fever’, will all be cultivated. But a further effort to dignify
and even sanctify the criminal violence is often
employed. Sometimes even prior to the atrocities, but
usually after the fact, outstanding perpetrators of
atrocity will be ceremoniously honored. Warmonger
Obama’s Nobel Prize for Peace is an example of the
former. This entire process will call forth the fullest
repertoire of the human capacity for hypocrisy and
emitting falsehoods and sanitizing evil with simulated
sincerity.

I’ve chosen Libya as the particular focus for the rest of

this article. Its history and present circumstances are
illustrative and instructive pertaining to the general
observations above.

At the time of its founding in 1954, Libya was a very poor

and very large (17th largest on Earth) monarchy with a
population of just over a million people. In 1959 the
great blessing and curse of oil was discovered in Libya,
and the corporations moved in. Libya became
‘significant’ in planetary corporate, financial and power
politics calculations. King Idris III of Libya was no
hindrance to the flow into corporate pockets of the
considerable profits to be made from the Libyan oil. The
people of Libya remained poor.

In 1969 a young Colonel, Muammar Gaddafi, led a

bloodless coup in Libya, and soon thereafter
nationalized the oil: the profits now flowed towards the
Libyan people and state.

This nationalization occurred after a post 2ndWW period

of extensive de-colonization in many parts of Earth, and
no immediate savage response was unleashed against
the Libyan people. But the Powers That Be were not
amused, and began a perpetual process of covert and
overt hostile acts.

In the decades that followed, Libya was subjected to

calumny, subversions, attacks, sanctions and the like,
but even so made great general progress in many
respects. To jump forwards a bit, by 2010 Libya had
achieved really remarkable progress, leading the UN’s
human development index for Africa. Many other
counties could only dream of what Libya had achieved.
But before getting into that, let’s retrace our steps back
to 1986, and examine just one episode of the denigrating
depictions and criminality that Libya so frequently faced.

We learn from former Mossad agent and whistleblower

Victor Ostrovsky, in his book The Other Side of
Deception, that in 1986 the Israelis surreptitiously set up
a transmitter near Tripoli in Libya and used this device,
called Trojan, to transmit false terrorism messages. The
Americans were duped into thinking that they were
listening in on Libyan terrorism plots. A terrorist attack in
Berlin was duly blamed on Libya, and ‘the world’s
policeman’, at that time led by acting United States
President Ronald Reagan, ‘took action’. In April of 1986
over a hundred American planes dropped tens of tonnes
of bombs on various locations in Libya. Some reports
have given the number of people killed at over a hundred,
and unknown numbers were wounded by the attack.

But we also learn from former CIA official and

whistleblower John Stockwell in his book The Praetorian
Guard that Gaddafi and Libya were deliberately
demonized preceding the bombing. The American
people were repeatedly polled to make sure they had
been primed sufficiently to accept or cheer an attack on
Libya. Stockwell notes that Reagan harbored a visceral
personal animosity towards the accomplished Libyan
leader. Stockwell cites author Lloyd DeMause in the
book Reagan’s America as describing Reagan’s reaction
to the 1986 bombing of Libya as “exultation”. Given
Reagan’s background as actor, was the exultation
feigned or genuine? In any case, it is reminiscent of
American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s cackling
approval of the brutal murder of Gaddafi in 2011. Serious
personality and spiritual disorders do not seem a
hindrance to political prominence.

Ostrovsky notes that the bombing of Libya by Israel’s

useful idiot the United States also elicited self-
congratulatory glee in Israel.

By 2010, as noted, Libya had created an extraordinary

national success story, despite the never ending
animosity and subterfuge from so many directions.

And here we introduce to our narrative two outstanding,

truly honorable, brave citizens of the United States.
JoAnne and Jimmy Moriarty were American business
people who had developed an effective technology and
substances to clean up oil spills and oil messes, and
furthermore, their technology could increase oil
production efficiency. They had first gone to Libya on
business in 2007, and made several trips there for the
following four years, developing their business.

Much of the information that follows is gleaned from

one of their films and many interviews and lectures they
have given over the past several years, including an
interview they granted me, as well as from their website
libyanwarthetruth.com. In the midst of the NATO 2011
war upon Libya the Moriartys went to Libya as part of a
fact-finding commission, and they became trapped in
Libya for over 100 days.

They witnessed night after night NATO bombing of

civilian housing and infrastructure, and the weapons
used included the use of ‘illegal’ weapons such as
horrific fuel air explosives. The bombing continued for
months, and along with critical infrastructure and
civilians, even targeted hospitals and schools. Many tens
of thousands of heavily armed mercenaries were
brought into the country from ships. The mercenaries
committed atrocities, mass murder and mass rape along
with mutilation and beheadings. The country was left in
ruins and hundreds of thousands of Libyans were killed
or wounded. Many fled the country.

The Libya that the Moriartys experienced prior to the

NATO and mercenary war upon it had been one of the
most hospitable and successful countries on Earth, and
they had grown to deeply admire and love the country
and the people. The vast majority of then nearly six
million Libyans, by 2010, were happy participants in a
unique and independent and quite incredible experiment
in societal and political development.

Many development projects were underway in housing

and infrastructure and agriculture in a society that was
not debt based. Mortgages were paid at the rate of 10%
of income, and completed in twenty years. Marriages
received a 46,000 dollar marriage gift, and births were
rewarded by several thousand dollars. Gasoline and
transportation was extremely inexpensive, and health
care and education were free. The latter included
expenses paid for health care or education out of
country.
Women were emancipated, literacy was very high, and
religious extremism discouraged.

The bank of Libya was independent of the western

private banking cabal, and Libya had built up savings
worth hundreds of billions of dollars. By 2010, Libya was
making preliminary steps towards establishing a gold
based currency and alternative credit and financial
system for Africa, with the intent of facilitating
beneficent, not parasitic, financial help for the many
financially-beleaguered countries of Africa.

Muammar Gaddafi had stepped down from power in

2006, and taken up the role of wise elder statesman in
the country. As a reflection of Gaddafi’s personal
political philosophy, elements of direct democracy had
been woven into Libya’s political proceedings.

The Moriartys were captured by the mercenaries while

on their fact-finding commission during the NATO
bombardment and learned from an Arab speaker that
their captors had slated them for execution,
dismemberment, and burning of their remains. They just
managed to escape Libya by the skin of their teeth,
thanks to good luck and some friendly people. Upon
returning ‘home’ the Moriartys first turned with naiveté to
any US government official they could manage to
contact, in order to tell them what was actually
happening in Libya. But they were rebuffed at just about
every turn, and those who appeared to respond with
friendly overtures usually turned out to be “poisonous
snakes in the grass”, in the words of the Jimmy Moriarty.
They are wiser today.

Despite all this, and their own government’s subsequent

success at destroying their livelihood, the Moriartys have
continued their work of telling the truth about Libya and
explaining current events in Libya. Go to their website for
real current information about what is happening in
Libya. They need support. The Moriartys have been
granted the status of official spokespeople in the United
States for the Tribes of Libya, and have remained in
constant touch with the suffering, brave people of Libya
since 2011.

In the words of Jimmy Moriarty: “Here’s what actually

happened; here’s what we witnessed: A beautiful country
destroyed, atrocities by the attackers; lies piled on lies.”

In a just world, Libya should have been respected and

even honored, not preyed upon. Libya offered practical
instruction to us all. Libyan cultural and political
arrangements were unique and highly successful. They
were a very peaceful society. Their form of Islam was
moderate. They had built, and were further building, an
admirable country.

The destruction of Libya was planned years previous to

the actual war upon it in 2011. In 2007 General Wesley
Clark, in an interview on Democracy Now, told us that he
had been informed that Libya was among a whole series
of countries in the Middle East and surrounding areas
that would over the next several years be ‘regime
changed’.

The western public was told that NATO was there to

save the Libyan people from Gaddafi’s atrocities. A UN
Security Council Resolution, based on lurid lies about the
Libyan government and what was happening in Libya,
established a no-fly zone over Libya. This no-fly zone
was used to bomb and commit mass murder and mass
maiming and mass destruction in Libya.

The so-called “Arab Spring” in Libya existed only in the

fantasies and duplicities of mass media and
propagandistic agents of government. There was no
popular uprising in Libya. There was no civil war. The
‘peaceful protesters’ in the words of the western
propaganda system were actually murderous
orchestrated saboteurs. Lurid lies were told to the global
public that Libyan soldiers were harming their own
people and that Libya was a terrible place. There was
however a supremely evil attack by external forces on
Libya, a war of aggression, defined in International Law
as the Supreme Crime.

In 2018 an investigation by a British Parliamentary

Commission into the destruction of Libya found that the
reports of Libyan and Gaddafi atrocities, prior to the
NATO war upon Libya, were falsehoods. This confirmed
Russian satellite surveillance of Libya in 2011, which
saw no evidence for the lurid descriptions of Libyan
atrocities invented to stoke ‘humanitarian’ war against
Libya.

The mass media of the west set the stage for the
atrocities through decades of demonizing propaganda;
and they gave the NATO atrocities the supreme phony
facelift, describing a murderous war of aggression and
the destruction of Libya as the salvation of the Libyan
people. This is eerily reminiscent of the doctrine of
destroying villages and exterminating the villagers of
Vietnam, in order to ‘save’ the villages.

We learned from Wikileak’s that then Secretary of State

Hillary Clinton in her emails indicated that one main
motive for destroying Libya was to destroy the gold
backed Libyan banking initiative, and thus in effect to
destroy their financial independence.

Under pressure from sanctions and propaganda, Libya

had in the years before being attacked eliminated much
of their military. This was yet another vile tactic to make
them easier prey for the planned predation.

Gaddafi had initiated a lawsuit on behalf of Africans,

suing the colonial powers for trillions of dollars of
compensation for their egregious exploitation and harm
of Africa. This too was put to at least a temporary end by
the destruction of Libya.

Now, in January of 2020, we have the very perpetrators

of the destruction of Libya, meeting in Berlin to decide
what to do about the Libya problem, without the Libyan
people being asked or being present, let alone
empowered there. And we have Turkey recently sending
thousands more mercenaries into Libya in support of
those trying to prevent Libyans from retaking full control
of their country.

Despite so many obstacles, beginning from such a

difficult place, over the course of two short generations
a successful and unique modern societal arrangement
was achieved in Libya by 2011. That was a wonderful
admirable accomplishment. The destruction of lovely
humane Libya, however, is not just about Libya and the
horrific suffering of the Libyan people. It is symptom of
much more extensive pathology.

The years-long planning of a war upon Libya, and the

onset of the attack in 2011, and the many countries
directly and indirectly complicit, and the absence of
condemnation of it to this day, are yet again proof of a
deeply pathological criminality dominating western
political processes and societies. This pathological
criminality is not being held accountable for its
atrocities. Until now, it has not been effectively stymied,
let alone overcome. And this pathology seeds
dysfunction and danger in every direction, in all places it
touches, including close to home. Can we not do better
than to remain complicit with and subject to this?

Robert Snefjella is a retired Canadian farmer and

contractor
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