Monday, September 23, 2013

Declaring War on His People – v2


Murdering, terrorizing
declaring war on his people
not “the violence in Libya”
but death in the streets
killing the innocents
setting the storms
the dogs of war
into the street
The madman brutalizing
denying them rights
killing his people
in an abuse of his might


Edited September 23, 2013
Declaring War on His People – v2
March 7, 2011
Declaring War on His People
Continuing fighting against the Libyan people
by the illegitimate continuing rule of Muammar Gadhafi
&
“Moammar Gadhafi's son speaks with CNN”
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi
Nic Robertson
&
one of the all-time
great pictures, capturing evil, before it rose up to full flowering http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9911/icon02.htm,
on display at The Granary Gallery on Martha’s Vineyard
taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898 - 1995),
a master of black and white. Photojournalist of the century, http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9911/eisieintro.htm.
&
Tweet about nighttime abductions in Tajoura district of Tripoli
massacre in Zawiya
March 4, 2011
&
firing of tear gas on people coming out of prayers
in  Tajoura neighborhood of Tripoli
March 4, 2011
&
the coming of a Friday day of prayers, which have been the days
of the largest protests in many of the countries in revolt
March 4, 2011
&
The ludicrous statements of Moammar Gaddafi
February 28, 2011
The coverage of the sons of Muammar Qadhafi
with Christiane Amanpour
February 27, 2011
&
seeing the genocide in Libya
and hearing the rabbling of Gadhafi
2/22/2011
&
on the transformations since the beginning of January -
all the protests in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Oman,
Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Palestinian Territories, Djibouti, Mauritania, Senegal, etc.
and
especially the resignation of Hosni Mubarak
February 11, 2011
&
and the jubilance in Tahrir Square
versus the bloodshed in Bahrain and Libya, etc.
February 18, 2011
&
hearing claim by President Obama 2/15/2011
in a news conference that when history books tell it
we will be seen as being on the right side of history
in how the United States responded
&
Post on Twitter by Wael Ghonim
“Our Revolution was like Wikipedia”
February 14, 2011
&
Post on Twitter by Wael Ghonim
 “This is Revolution 2.0: No one was a hero because everyone was a hero.
February 13, 2011

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