Reply #47: Actually, given that the LIBYANS support the TNC by 90% according to polls done... [View All]

[joshcryer]

...it seems that anyone who is against the revolutionaries is against them. The uprising in Libya is a http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4872438&mesg_id=4873041">popular uprising no ifs ands or butts, anyone saying otherwise is either ignorant or lying. The fact that simply leaving ones house and denouncing Gaddafi is punishable by life imprisonment underscore that completely.

Gaddafi may not leave, what will happen is the total collapse of the military structure and the final defection and exile of former Gaddafi supporters. Gaddafi may stay holed up somewhere in Libya for the rest of his life surrounded by his most loyal subjects, and either die or be found out a few years from now. If he does leave it will be all the better, as Yemen is showing.

What will happen in any event is that there will be a constitutional convention in Libya, the people, as a whole, will vote upon the new constitution (likely supervised by the UN) which will be a secular democracy, a first in the Arab world.

The reason your puppet government comments don't stand is because everyone behind the national council has pledged not to run for a government position, they're merely acting as a means to keep the country united until such a process is available.

I can't believe you're still saying that Gaddafi's Libya is the real Libya, and that the revolutionaries are not representative of Libya, despite all of the evidence showing that they rose up united against Gaddafi in 21 cities. Again, the act of dissent is punishable by life imprisonment. The courage the Libyan people displayed is overwhelming.

Not one Egyptian or one Tunisian had to risk life imprisonment for merely protesting.