Photos of a dead Colonel Gaddafi are being published across the net with news websites and blogs trawling for the most gruesome final images of the dictator they can get.
Such is the horrific nature of some images, a few news sites are carefully censoring the images shown but they are the exception and not the rule.
Just a quick glance at the mainstream press's main online websites and printed press shows the insatiable demand a baying public has for these pictorial documents of Colonel Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi's terrifying last moments on earth.
And the demand is being more than catered for.
The question pervading the minds of those with half a brain cell is this, is the demand for the images due to the public's need for confirmation that this was Gaddafi who was killed? Or is it a result of the public's perverted, bloodthirsty and voyeuristic needs, which have been cultivated through years of graphic violence on the television enhanced with the declassified internet's video library of gore available to all?
Of course there is the demand for the public to have confirmation that the death of Gaddafi is not a hoax like the flimsy pictorial and video evidence relating to Osama Bin Laden's execution. But how many images does one need to draw a conclusion that he is dead?
But the sheer quantity of gruesome photographs of Gaddafi's last moments being published online is becoming more and more competitive.
Prices offered by the mainstream press for new video footage of Gaddafi's dead body or terrified pleas for mercy are so high that one could retire for 30 seconds of blood-n-guts authentic video documentation.
I have found myself pitying Gaddafi, who must have been terrified in those last moments as he pleaded for his life, drenched in blood and the final images of him show a man in pain and it does not sit well with me that any human being's death could be celebrated in such a way……maybe I would feel differently if a close friend or relative had died or been tortured as a direct result of his orders.
Gaddafi may have been a tyrant who needed removal but that does not require the bombing of innocent civilians…that takes one carefully placed bullet from a special forces sniper and do not listen to those who say this would have proven difficult.
Then there are those who say we are being fed a load of rubbish by our mainstream media and Gaddafi was toppled by everyone other than his own people….but we in the west will never know the truth thanks to a compromised media which the public is becoming increasingly distrustful of……however I would suggest you watch journalist, Lizzie Phelan's firsthand experiences of the situation in Libya….food for thought.
unbelievable!
As far as I'm concerned, a person that denies people of their human rights in such an extreme way as Gaddafi did, automatically loses his own human rights
Funny concept human rights lyes tagziria.
Human rights are what all humans supposedly have just by being human, no matter how evil or depraved they are.
If we remove those rights from someone we are either saying:
1. that person is no longer human, which we could then do to anyone we like so defeating the object
or
2. that these rights were never truly human rights in the first place.
We can't just apply them where and when we feel like it.
"I have found myself pitying Gaddafi, who must have been terrified in those last moments as he pleaded for his life, drenched in blood and the final images of him…."
How about the families of the Lockerbee Scotland air tragedy.. do you think they pity Gaddafi? Gaddafi was talking "smack" the day before he died. Calling his people animals….etc. This man was a lunatic. He got what he deserved. Just like all the other evil tyrants before him. Your statement is nuts. There is evil and there is good in the world. The evil do NOT feel for the those who are good – ever!, Why must the good feel for the evil?
Hi Gymgangsta,
Hence my line "maybe I would feel differently if a close friend or relative had died or been tortured as a direct result of his orders."
i also pitied him ..I dont want him dead but toture gradually cos he need to be brought to justice. The ppl killed him just becoz of what he has done to them. he should have step down on his own but
a stubborn fly will follow the corpse to the grave- nigerian proverb.
I too agree with the statement:
I have found myself pitying Gaddafi, who must have been terrified in those last moments as he pleaded for his life, drenched in blood and the final images of him show a man in pain and it does not sit well with me that any human being’s death could be celebrated in such a way……maybe I would feel differently if a close friend or relative had died or been tortured as a direct result of his orders
Is it wrong to feel this way ?
Demand for gruesome pictures on the internet? Surely not! That might have been news in 1998, but 2011? Seriously. It's upsetting and morbid fascination of the worst kind, but it's a fact of human behaviour and has been around online for as long as the there has *been* an online.
As this girl said in a video. In all the other videos that came from the television stations we can't see more than 20 "freedom fighters" against Gaddafi. Their weapons could even scrape a decent tank. They were just videod for the propaganda of western media. And this girl was correct when asking where are those milions of Libyans that were supposedly against Gaddafi, as suggested by the western media. Gaddafi is dead now. Why isn't there 5 million Libyans celebrating "freedom" on the streets of other cities? When talking about Gaddafi, why didn't the media report that universities in Libya were free for all the people, that oil was dirt cheap, that architecture was remarkable in most of the cities, that majority of the people drove new cars, etc… And what about the reprocussions of depleated uranium and plutonium shells dropped by NATO planes? How many innocent children is that going to kill in the next 500 THOUSAND YEARS?
The anger in this woman IS the reality!!! The West has done it again….well done. Another decent country in ruins. Remember Iraq? I no longer trust the media because its become a tool for propaganda. The Head of Al Jazeera reporting to the CIA??? Sickening!How many of us went to Libya that we can sit here pontificating and passing judgement?. I PITY the man who pulled that trigger because he will never live in peace no matter how he might be grinning now. I pity the foolish , foolish Libyans for listening to the West. The West does NOTHING unless it gains and all it wants is Libyan oil which Gaddafi KNEW! There will come a day that they will cry for Gaddafi despite his ills. The days are coming….
i forgot to add. Bury the poor man in dignity or at least preserve him properly if all you want to do is gawk. "Dignity in death" PLEASE!!!