The Libyan Leader, Col Muamar Ghadafi until recently, can be said to have endeared himself to the Libyans for providing them with the needed public goods and services.
Libya was regarded as a stable country and therefore attracted a lot of foreign investors.
Ghadafi might think that the economic empowerment of the people was enough to make him life President of Libya and for that matter
treated the masses quest for freedom of speech, respect for human right and rule of law with contempt.
He further regarded himself as repository of knowledge and his regime had no term limits.
Ghadafi therefore did not see the need for him to step down as a symbol of Libyans desire for increasing freedom.
His perceived achievements for the masses blinded his eyes to his faults, and arrogated to himself a false sense of importance. It twisted his reasoning, bloated his ego, and subverted even his commonsense. He therefore began to think that he can do anything and get away with it. Such impunity has resulted in his heinous actions against his own people.
The Western media, who captured the thinking of Ghadafi, started the usual imperialist propaganda by telling the world half truth of
Libya’s political and socio-economic development.
The imperialist propaganda weakened Libyans resolve, created unfounded fears, brought about self-doubt and divided the ranks of Libyans otherwise cohesive forces.
To the same token, Ghadafi has had its fair share of Globalization, which has exposed the Libya people to Western education, culture and music that levels to rebellion and moral
failures.
The Western propagandists have executed their regime change role in selected Arab countries to perfection with the result that Tunisia, Egypt and Libya would soon adopt multi-party democracy.
The scenario in the Arab world is a reminiscent of events that led to the tearing of the Berlin Wall.
“Tear down this Wall,” was the challenge from late United States President Ronald Reagan to former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to
destroy the Berlin Walls in a speech at the Brandenburg Gate to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Berlin, on June 12, 1987, Reagan
challenged Gorbachev, then the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to tear it down as a symbol of Reagan’s desire for increasing freedom in the Eastern Bloc. Twenty-nine months later, precisely on November 9, 1989, after an intense East German protest, East Germany finally opened the Berlin Wall.
It is America’s policy to gradually spread democracy to all parts of the world.
Russia and PRC captured the mind of America, Britain and France and therefore obtained the UN decision to send forces to Libya to enforce No Fly Zone Air Ban.
Yes, it is a truism that there is much freedom under democracy, but behind the façade of democracy there is racial discrimination,
exploitation of Africa’s wealth, unfair international trade terms, indecent dressing and music that leads to rebellion and moral failures.
By Rex Annan