Moammar No More, by Mike Gold – Brainiac On Banjo #246

October 24, 2011 Mike Gold 2 Comments

As of this writing, it appears an 18 year-old soldier was the one who took Moammar Gadhafi’s gold-plated Scaramanga Special and blew the dictator’s brains into the history books. The kid’s Libyan, so it’s pretty easy to understand how the emotions of the moment might overwhelm due process of law.

If my grandfather had walked into the Fürherbunker and took a stolen Schmeisser and machine-gunned Hitler, Mrs. Hitler, and all the Hitlerettes straight into the Fourth Reich, I would find it hard to believe he might have been arrested and held for trial. More likely he would have been returned to the States to enjoy a lifetime of plucking tickertape out of his thinning hair.

So why is it that so many people are so pissed that Gadhafi got offed before he got his due process as a war criminal? Jeez, can’t we agree that living civilians are better than dead delusional dictators and just move on? But now we’ve got all kinds of U.S. and U.N. inquiries and investigations coming down. How dare some Libyan kid off a murderous bastard who’s been raping his nation and sponsoring global terrorism for four decades?

I’ll tell you what. Let’s put the kid on trial – but only if we can have that trial in Lockerbie, Scotland.

Saddam Hussein, dead. A boatload of Somali pirates, dead. Osama Bin-Laden, dead. Anwar al-Awlaki, dead. And the hits just keep on coming.

There’s no question that our world is safer today than it was only a few years ago, and since that happens to be the place I live, I just can’t get all bent out of shape about Gadhafi getting justice before some kid read him his Miranda Rights.

As a famous actor once said, sic semper tyrannis. This time, it works.

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Über-realist Mike Gold also kicks rock’n’blues ass each week on Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind; streaming four times a week on www.getthepointradio.com and available at that same venue on demand for those who can’t work a clock. He also joins MDWers Martha Thomases and Michael Davis as a weekly columnist at www.comicmix.com.