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Once puppet officials take office, drafting a new constitution will follow. Originally planned as their first order of business, voters will now decide who'll do it. Expect Western powers to choose eligible candidates.
Neoliberal exploitation and tyranny replaced Jamahiriya direct democracy and generous benefits it provided. Libya's oil wealth was shared with its people.
It provided free healthcare, education, electricity, water, training, rehabilitation, housing assistance, disability and old-age benefits, interest-free state loans, as well as generous subsidies to study abroad, buy a new car, help couples when they marry, practically free gasoline, and more.
Libya under Gaddafi became Africa's most developed nation. Its hospitals and private clinics were some of the region's best. Now they're in shambles. So is most else from months of bombing, continued violence, and Western indifference to people needs.
What Gaddafi provided, NATO swept away. Libyans are on their own to survive. Former calm and stable life is now violent, chaotic and dysfunctional.
Anyone expressing support for Gaddafi's government is subject to criminal penalties. Insulting the so-called "revolution" is also illegal.
"Liberated" Libya looks more like hell. It's true wherever NATO shows up. It's a killing machine.
Its mandate includes mass deaths, vast destruction, subjugation, colonization, resource control, exploitation, and defiance of rule of law principles and other democratic values.
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