Another example of how lucky we are to be living in a democracy:
TRIPOLI, Libya - The son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has acknowledged that the Bulgarian medical workers who were jailed on charges of infecting children with HIV were tortured during captivity, Al-Jazeera TV said on its Web site Thursday.
The doctor and five nurses were released last month and have maintained that their confessions were extracted through torture.
“Yes, they were tortured by electricity and they were threatened that their family members would be targeted,” Seif al-Islam Gadhafi was quoted as saying by the Arab broadcaster.
Hmmm, doesn’t that sound a lot like another former dictactor and his jackal offspring?
How did these throwbacks get transported to our time anyway?
The medical workers said they endured torture and rape — abuses under which they made admissions.
One of the nurses, 41-year-old Nasya Nenova, said she tried to commit suicide out of fear of further torture.
Another, Kristiana Valcheva, has said she “was tortured with electric shocks, beaten and submitted to every kind of torture known since the Middle Ages.”
And, can you imagine, no help from the Libyan judicial system?
In 2005, the six medics filed lawsuits against 10 Libyan officers alleging torture, but the charges were rejected by a Libyan court.
Wow, I bet they were shocked by that outcome.
And in the “it would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic” department, just a few years back, in 2003, the United Nations appointed Libya to head its Human Rights Commission. In the uproar that followed, this same Seif Gadhafi offered this classic comment (which could have come straight out of a Mel Brooks movie):
“We have a better human rights record than our neighbours. Sure, we are not Switzerland or Denmark; we are part of the Third World and part of the Middle East. But we are better than our neighbours”.
Maybe I need to stop reading the news. It sometimes makes me think I am in the Twilight Zone.
Perhaps we need a contest for the best, “Sure, we’re a terrorist country/organization/group, but we’re better than ……………”
Please, make me laugh.
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And Libya wants normal relations with the US ?
Well of course!
There are degrees of ethical behavior to be demanded from Libyan politicians…. as well as well-meaning Louisiana politicians.
You gotta stick with the best ones you can acquire.
Please quit being so damned demanding of these guys. They’re doing the best they can.
sarc off
UN. Just what have they ever done? They’ve never stopped a famine, prevented a war, ousted a dictator, actually done crap. Did they even help one Katrina victim? Why do we tolerate them on our precious soil? Maybe they’ll someday go the way of the League of Nations.
“Sure, we’re a terrorist country/organization/group, but we’re better than THOSE NON KYOTO TREATY SIGNING AMERICANS!!!!”
Typical RickG! Siding with the criminals instead of the LEO!
and these are our allies?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292796,00.html
Damn you Rick G! DAMN YOU!!
http://www.eventsounds.com/wav/buckwht.wav
Concur with RickG:
It’s like in the Superman comic books from when we we’re kids, where Superman finds himself in Bizzarro World, where right is wrong and wrong is right.
Satan and his spawn are alive and well obviously: we are even at a point where a felonious criminal, and her husband, are being considered for the most powerful position in the world.
God help us all!
Dims and UN have no problem with it as long as US doesn’t do it - or more specifically, the US with a Rep Pres.
5. Hooked
Could I carry a copy of the Constitution in my pocket?
Sure, we’re a terrorist country/organization/group, but at least we’re forcing the true Islam on those to stupid to know they need it.
/not very good, I admit
Sure, we’re a terrorist country/organization/group, but at least we’re better than blood-sucking leeches.
/marginally better
Sure, we’re a terrorist country/organization/group, but at least we’re better than the crust around your anus.
/Maybe not too much better, but at least it’s true. Ooohh, wait a minute…
I’ve been told that one main reason we stay in the UN is to be able to spy on so many missions in New York. I don’t know if it is worth it; not to mention the money, troops and back-stabbing involved. Let’s get out. It’s time for the libyans, French etc. to spend their money and troops on solving unsolveable probs.
10.
Definitely the third one. LOL
11.
Plus we can veto stupid stuff that otherwise might come out of the Security Council.
The Libyans are bodaggets. I like that.
Hamous
#13
That was gross! Yuck!
Neo, yeah I guess I should have warned you
#13 Err, uh, well, not that I’m an authority on such matters, but where I’m from #1 is otherwise known as a dingleberry………..I think…….?
But concur with Neo: I could probably have gone my whole life and not felt like I’d missed anything without knowing that tidbit of info….!
O:
Ditto Neocon #14