Sometimes mob justice is real justice. Good piece Steven.

Even due C.GADAFI ruled with iron hands but as far the
Libya people talking about democrats , there should had
Put him on trail , that will have shown a way of democrats.
So is it revolution or democrats or countries that help don't
Get what there went from C GADAFI .
To me there's lot question to ask b'cos this countries have colonial Africa countries for long time??

@mcquade
'Today's front pages are the modern equivalent of the public display of heads on spikes. Sick.'

I so agree with you - where have we got to when we think it's OK to plaster A SUMMARY EXECUTION IN PROGRESS all over the front pages of newspapers?

What good can possibly be achieved by such a gratuitous exhibition of blood, violence and human delight at exacting maximised humiliation and vengeance from a hated foe?

What is so extraordinary is that newspapers are on open display in sweet shops, supermarkets etc - great stuff to raise the kiddies on, huh? Have the media completely given up on any idea of responsibility towards (at least)the young?

and bloody hell - it sometimes feels like a losing battle!! wtf is any parent supposed to do to to prevent them being exposed to this kind of shit?

Let alone what it says about the sort of society where the media thinks there's a public thirst for it.

Legitimise lynching for a dictator (no matter how wicked) and you just legitimise it - replace the rule of law by summary justice and then applaud this with glee and you're in a place which says life is cheap.

This may be an understandable
emotional response from Libyans, but it is real life horrorjunkiewanking material for us here.

" in the case of the USA, gave contracts for rebuilding it to their own companies for their own profits."

With US Taxpayers money.

We do apologize for the torture. We stripped em naked and had dogs woof at em.

Woof Woof !!

There is a huge difference between Gadffi's conduct and that of the Allies. Basically its 'democracy'. Gadaffi was a self appointed Dictator ruling without the will of the people. At least the Allies elected their leaders, sought the support of their Legislatures and of the UN before they took action. Gadaffi and Saddam and other dictators did not.
I remember quite clearly the Commons voting to go to War on Iraq, even though the evidence was flimsey.
Gadaffi also waged a cruel war on his own people and dissidents.
Shock and Awe is a tactic used in WWII in Dresden to wear own the will of the people; its not new. Air Support has always been given to ground troops, as happened in Libya.
The USA uses drones to seek and destroy terrorists hiding in the midst of civilian populations.
There is a huge difference. Thats why its pointless even discussing putting Blair or Bush or Sarkozy on War Crimes charges. It just won't wash.

I guess we'll find out about a few more deals if it's true that Saif al-Islam is about to spill the beans at the ICC in The Hague. Beware of smog in Whitehall as the incriminating papers are torched.

am hurt it wasnt right to murder gaddafi coz it seemed he had alot of secrets which wil never be revealed after his dead.Africans, we need to learn from the past colonial times. gaddafi killers you wil never reach his standarts.

Although Gaddafi was a predominantly evil man, the war on Libya was far more evil. It was not a spontaneous civil war, it was a war induced by the so called flag bearers of "democracy" - US, UK, France. Disgusting on all fronts. It's a travesty of 'democratic' civility and international law. The perpetrators and their industrial military complex are far more evil. The Western media propoganda machine run by mindless presstitutes justify the crime.

'What is Justice?' says Pontius Poilate as he washed his hands and walked away.
'Justice' is a Life for a Life. Gadaffi paid dearly nd rightly so.
Lets not be too squeamish. That is the nature of things.

Wel, considering the situation gaddafi met libya, we know definately he has made a tremendous input in the development of his country and Africa at large. The history of libya wil never be told without mentioning gaddafi's name. No matter how, he has contributed to his country better than the way the present US, France and UK presidents hav contributed to the own countries. NATO and their allies want nothing but control over libyan oil. If gaddafi really killed innocent peaple during his time, how much more innocent civilians hav NETO killed in this war. We are waiting to see NETO being tried by the ICC. The libyans should know that these people who claim to have librated them are only hungry lions that will decend on their oil.

It cuts to the quick. I don't accept that being elected like Obama and Blair, gives one the 'right' to commit war crimes or order the killing of people without trials. A despot is still a despot, even if he's elected.

Do we, in the West elect our dictators? I think we do. Temporary dictators who rule now above the law, as does Obama.

And our 'democratic' dictators in our totalitarian democracy have certainly killed far more people than Gaddafi ever did. Only it's our bloodthirsty murderers who get to define what killing is called 'terrorism' and what isn't. Somehow it seems that dropping bombs on people is a better way to kill than throwing a bomb, as if the mere use of sophisticated technology makes the slaughter less barbaric.

But then the West has historically defined its genocide as benign and helpful to those being slaughtered, which is close to madness.

I think the west has left old-school, bourgeois democracy behind, it doens't fit with the new imperialist agenda. Sure we have elections, but so what? There's far more to democracy than elections. And we don't even have a real choice in our elections. The parties are virtually the same. They are factions of the same ruling party, as is so clearly the case in the United States and Britain.

Democracy is dead only we hide this by changing the face of the dictator from time to time. That's what Gaddafi should have understood.

It is well known that his victims did not receive trials but they are nameless and have already been forgotten.

What will be next?? People saying he wasn't such a bad chap.

Tell that to one of the freedom fighters who have been pounded by his military and seen their mates die or being maimed.

The arm chair critics have never fought for their freedom and in my view would be too afraid to fight.

As a well known philosopher wrote "freedom is only appreciated if one has fought for it."

Gaddafi was one of the casualties of the fight and no more important than those others who lost their lives.

Civil wars are not fought in accordance with some rule of law.

Besides there was no rule of law under Gaddafi. His lot also did not fight according to some rule of law.

This civil war was not a chat around the table.

More a matter of kill or being killed.

The author of this article needs to go back to schoool and get a better education.

To compare Gaddafi's slaughter at the hands of a baying mob, 'justice' is digusting and intellectually perverse. It was clearly an act of barbarism by our friends, the innocent, peace-loving, representatives of the 'genuine, people's revolution'... the people we've put in power.

And we've turned Libya over to extremist Islamists who regarded Gaddafi as a western influenced and secular dictator whose regime had to be destroyed, wiped off the map, replaced by what exactly?

And fools like Obama, Clinton, Cameron, and Sarkozy, have made this happen. I don't know if the mob around Gaddafi screaming 'God is Great, God is Great' were right; if their is a deity up there, he surely must be shaking his head and smiling wryly at the stupidity of the west.