# The Dictatorial Scum of who wail for Qadafi **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 22, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670 "2011-08-22T16:24:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ramira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ramira/32/344_2.png) [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670/1 "2011-08-22T16:24:16Z")
I am angered to see this [1633: Kenya’s Assistant Foreign Minister Richard Onyonka has told the BBC’s Focus on Africa that Col Gaddafi will be missed in Africa. "Kenyans have seen Col Gadaffi as someone who has done very positive things - especially for the liberation movement in Africa. He played a big role in the struggle against apartheid and colonialism.](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14610722) It is not Kenyans and not Africans who will be missing him, it is the sycophantes who he bribed personally and the anti-democrats who he bribed and paid great sums. He has been a great catastrophe in Africa and these hypocrites are not missing him because of "struggle’ they are wailing for his bribes. It disgusts me to see these fake leaders in our countries putting the clothes of anti-colonialism on their prostitution to his money. Good riddance to him, good riddance to his evil money and one day good riddance to those hypocrites who dress up their bribe taking and their corruptoin in the language of anti-colonialism. It is a shame places like South Africa are even now refusing to recognise a liberation of the Lybian people out of respect supposed to come from his dirty money. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670/2 "2011-08-22T17:21:15Z")
Seriously, you expect other dictators to endorse his overthrow? Come on, where’s your compassion? They are a dying breed, they need to stick together, who else is going to come to their defense? Where else are they going to get foreign mercenaries to come in and kill their countrymen for them? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670/3 "2011-08-22T18:24:15Z")
The monthly dictator pot-luck dinners won’t be the same without Qaddafi’s marshmallow squares. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670/4 "2011-08-22T20:10:46Z")
Won’t someone think of the childlike dictators? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670/5 "2011-08-22T20:23:21Z")
Gaddafi took part in the struggle against colonialism? He took power in Libya in 1969 and spend most of the seventies consolidated his hold on Libya. By the time Gaddafi had anything to say about it, colonialism was a dead issue. He might as well have claimed credit for defeating the Axis. ---
**Author:** ![Ramira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ramira/32/344_2.png) [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670/6 "2011-08-22T21:01:56Z")
He did fund movements against the Settler regimes of southern Africa - you see the reference to the Apartheid, and against the Portuguese who last to 1975. But you see it is this exploitation of the tiers-mondiste discourse for evil ends that maddens. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670/7 "2011-08-22T21:43:03Z")
[http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/libya-aug-22-2011-0916](http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/libya-aug-22-2011-0916) Left to right in the front row: deposed leader of Tunisia, beseiged leader of Yemen injured and recuperating in Saudia Arabia (i.e. not home in Yemen getting shot at), soon-to-be-deposed leader of Libya, and deposed and on-trial leader of Egypt. You don’t need Photoshop when people like this **pose** for pictures like this. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670/8 "2011-08-22T21:51:17Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Won’t someone think of the childlike dictators? Yes, someone should take all of these overgrown infants away somewhere and build them a home (a little place of their own). Maybe call it the Felcher Memorial Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings. > [@John\_Bredin](#): > > [http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/libya-aug-22-2011-0916](http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/libya-aug-22-2011-0916) > > Left to right in the front row: deposed leader of Tunisia, beseiged leader of Yemen injured and recuperating in Saudia Arabia (i.e. not home in Yemen getting shot at), soon-to-be-deposed leader of Libya, and deposed and on-trial leader of Egypt. And just to make this a twofer: if you look to the back, you can see a group of anonymous Latin-American meat packing glitterati adding colour. ---
**Author:** ![ctnguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@ctnguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ctnguy)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670/9 "2011-08-23T07:00:24Z")
> [@Ramira](#): > > It is a shame places like South Africa are even now refusing to recognise a liberation of the Lybian people out of respect supposed to come from his dirty money. I’m pleased to say that the South African government does now [seem to recognise the transitional goverment](http://www.dirco.gov.za/docs/2011/liby0822.html): > [@](#): > > With the imminent fall of the government of Colonel Gaddafi, we wish to urge the interim authority in Tripoli to immediately institute an all-inclusive inter-Libyan political dialogue aimed at building a truly representative and people-centred dispensation. […] Consistent with the AU Roadmap, we believe that the way forward should include the drafting of a new constitution under the supervision of the transitional government, the holding of a referendum on the new constitution leading to the first ever democratic elections in Libya. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670/10 "2011-08-23T12:20:28Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > And just to make this a twofer: if you look to the back, you can see a group of anonymous Latin-American meat packing glitterati adding colour. Jean Ping is neither anonymous, Latin-American, meat packing, nor glitterati. However [François Bozizé](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Boziz%C3%A9) and [Amadou Toumani Touré](http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Amadou+Toumani+Tour%C3%A9) are quite anonymous. Is that Mwai Kibaki also in the background? ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670/11 "2011-08-23T13:04:11Z")
> [@orcenio](#): > > Jean Ping is neither anonymous, Latin-American, meat packing, nor glitterati. However [François Bozizé](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Boziz%C3%A9) and [Amadou Toumani Touré](http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Amadou+Toumani+Tour%C3%A9) are quite anonymous. Is that Mwai Kibaki also in the background? By the way, which one’s Pink? ---
**Author:** ![Bambro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@Bambro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambro)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670/12 "2011-08-23T13:24:25Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > By the way, which one’s Pink? Win! ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670/13 "2011-08-23T13:32:29Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > By the way, which one’s Pink? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670/14 "2011-08-23T14:11:16Z")
Pink Floyd reference, from “Have A Cigar:” \*Well I’ve always had a deep respect, And I mean that most sincerely. The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think. Oh by the way, which one’s Pink? \* ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670/15 "2011-08-23T14:34:29Z")
Sorry for the confusion. The ‘twofer’ above was two from Pink Floyd’s [The Fletcher Memorial Home](http://www.pink-floyd-lyrics.com/html/fletcher-memorial-final-lyrics.html) See the quote from Boyo Jim’s, then consider the lyric: > [@](#): > > Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere > And build them a home, a little place of their own. > The Fletcher Memorial Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings. Then take a look at John Bredin’s quoted post, in conjunction with a latter lyrics snippet: > [@](#): > > Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Reagan and Haig, > Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher, and Paisly, > “Hello Maggie!” > Mr. Brezhnev and party. > “Scusi dov’è il bar?” > The ghost of McCarthy, > The memories of Nixon. > “Who’s the bald chap?” > “Good-bye!” > And now, adding colour, a group of anonymous Latin-American meat packing glitterati. Now then. _ **Get your filthy hands off my desert!** _ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670/16 "2011-08-23T15:33:04Z")
Good old Roger. So right, but too nutty to be taken seriously. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670/17 "2011-08-23T16:27:49Z")
> [@Ramira](#): > > It is a shame places like South Africa are even now refusing to recognise a liberation of the Lybian people out of respect supposed to come from his dirty money. Well, it’s kinda like how the American government had mixed feelings about abandoning Mubarak. He was **our** son-of-a-bitch. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670/18 "2011-08-24T04:44:42Z")
I guess Qadaffi fell out of his twelve step program. I remember an episode of _Pinky and the Brain_ in which Brain attended a meeting of Megalomaniacs Anonymous. He sat on the front row and was flanked by two people, on of whom looked like Stephen Spielberg, and the other Qadaffi. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dictatorial-scum-of-who-wail-for-qadafi/593670/19 "2011-08-24T16:15:16Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I guess Qadaffi fell out of his twelve step program. You never know when he’ll weaken and pick up a Nescafe . . .