Sic Semper...

[poliphilo]

It's not clear exactly how Gaddafi died. The cameras were switched off at that point. Or maybe the footage has been suppressed. I think it was a case of bullying that went too far. The guys who found him were leaderless and over-excited. There was no plan, no cold-blooded cruelty. They knocked him about a bit because they could and then someone pulled the trigger. It's what happens. I don't see the point in moralising about it. 

Would it have been better if they'd turned him over to the authorities (what authorities?) and there'd been a trial and a sentencing and only then a killing? I'm not so sure. Did you see what happened to Saddam? That was ugly.

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[daisytells.livejournal.com]

I guess that's what happens when a justifiably angry mob gets hold of their oppressor. Recently I was reading about how some of the prisoners in Nazi camps tore guards literally to pieces once liberation was a fact. Like you said, no point in moralizing...

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

I agree: it's impossible to see how Saddam's end was necessarily any less humiliating and dehumanizing than Gaddafi's. In the final analysis, no state likes the idea of peasants roughing up a head of state in the street before shooting him in the head, whatever the circumstances or however richly deserved might be such a reward.

As a human being, there is a part of me that feels sympathy for the bastard. Yet he spent a long time and went to a lot of trouble trying to prove that he was of a different order than the rest of us.

What I want to know is what became of his all-female bodyguard?