Civil War in Libya
Anarchy in Libya. This is about to get real. The President's men are using overwhelming force against protesters and a military unit has defected. Thousands of people are going to die and Gaddafi will be dragged into the street and hung. I can see it now. This will not be as gentle as Egypt and will happen much, much faster if it hasn't already.
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Last edited by ICantSpellDawg; 02-21-2011 at 03:28.
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
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Do you have a news link or something?
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Read what's happening there. The Ambassador to China has resigned on live TV and said that the President has fled the country and that his sons have been involved in a gunfight. Armed units are defecting, the protests have spread to Tripoli and are getting so bloody that people are startign to fire back. Tribes are declaring Gaddafi "no longer a brother"
"Online reports claim remaining pro-Gaddafi militia in Benghazi, around the Elfedeel Bu Omar compound, "are being butchered by angry mobs""
Last edited by ICantSpellDawg; 02-21-2011 at 03:34.
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
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THANK GOD THE US WENT IN ALL THESE PLACES TO SPUR DEMOCRACY
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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C'mon man, doesn't all of this revolution give you a chubby?
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
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Very much so, 0000s of dead Americans and trillions spent does not
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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......Or likr the United Kingdom, rory?
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
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No, not remotely like the United Kingdom. The UK is a representative democracy held together by an elected Parliament which has shared its powers through devolution to the constituent kingdoms within. The vast majority of its people are reasonably happy with the movement so far (not the Cornish, obviously).
Last edited by Banquo's Ghost; 03-23-2011 at 13:52.
"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
Albert Camus "Noces"
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I'd not shed a tear to see Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland go their own way. Of the three, Scotland would have something approaching a functioning economy. The other two are verging on being basket cases. What would England be loosing? A flag that initially there was uproar over as it was replacing the English flag, some naval ports in Scotland for the ships we no longer have and... that's about it.
It'd be good to have English politicians in Westminster and others in their respective parliments, rather than the current duplication.
An enemy that wishes to die for their country is the best sort to face - you both have the same aim in mind.
Science flies you to the moon, religion flies you into buildings.
"If you can't trust the local kleptocrat whom you installed by force and prop up with billions of annual dollars, who can you trust?" Lemur
If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain.
The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter. Winston Churchill
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Those Celts have no idea how good they have it
Bloody ingrates
Edit: And after seeing Welsh women I'd porbably lean more towards genocide, sheep are more preferable to those ghastly creatures
Which means all those jokes make sense to me now
Last edited by Strike For The South; 03-23-2011 at 14:00.
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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Apologies to everyone for my terrible terminology. Obviously, I don't know what I am really talking about with this subject. Imma shut up and lurk this thread from now on.
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