By Their Deeds
'By their deeds ye shall know them' - a biblical saying attributed originally to St Matthew, I believe.
Judging people by their actions and behaviour - seems tailor made for this murderous Libyan regime.
Who yesterday bundled a very distressed woman into a car and drove her away - for making an allegation of rape against Gadaffi loyalists.
The woman - Iman al-Beidi - a trained lawyer, was essentially kidknapped by Libyan government minders.
From right under the noses of western journalists - some of whom were attacked and threatened with violence - as they tried to intervene.
Today a Government spokesman came before the world's press to say that the woman would now face charges of slander - from the very men who attacked her in the first place.
The fact that this 'news' was announced by a Government official - who then went on to lie and dissemble over the woman's whereabouts - tells you all you need to know about the Libyan regime.
Iman al-Beidi is just one example of inhuman and brutal treatment - within a much wider conflict - far removed from the United Nations and its Security Council.
Yet in a way she is a symbol of what people are fighting for - or some of them at least.
Human rights, the rule of law and its separation from government - and the right not to be victimised for exercising freedom of speech.
Judging people by their actions and behaviour - seems tailor made for this murderous Libyan regime.
Who yesterday bundled a very distressed woman into a car and drove her away - for making an allegation of rape against Gadaffi loyalists.
The woman - Iman al-Beidi - a trained lawyer, was essentially kidknapped by Libyan government minders.
From right under the noses of western journalists - some of whom were attacked and threatened with violence - as they tried to intervene.
Today a Government spokesman came before the world's press to say that the woman would now face charges of slander - from the very men who attacked her in the first place.
The fact that this 'news' was announced by a Government official - who then went on to lie and dissemble over the woman's whereabouts - tells you all you need to know about the Libyan regime.
Iman al-Beidi is just one example of inhuman and brutal treatment - within a much wider conflict - far removed from the United Nations and its Security Council.
Yet in a way she is a symbol of what people are fighting for - or some of them at least.
Human rights, the rule of law and its separation from government - and the right not to be victimised for exercising freedom of speech.
