You won't find much mention of this in "The oath of Tobruk," the vanity show that the supposed left-wing intellectual Bernard-Henry Levy recently debuted at Cannes.
If this unctuous twat is what "liberal intellectuals" have become I don't blame the Fox News types for putting a pox on all our houses.
Law 37 in our newly liberated Libya makes it a crime to "glorify" the regime of the recently departed Gaddafi.
So, for example, if you have the audacity to speak out loud what most Libyans are thinking, i.e. things were better with Gaddafi than they are now, that's good for life in prison.
And if you think that's a bit undemocratic and police-statish, scroll ahead to Law 38.
Law 38 gives retroactive immunity to anything and anyone who committed human rights abuses in the course of bringing to an end the Gaddafi regime.
This covers not only the recent outrages like hanging black folks from trees, but also the time honored tradition of UK and US intelligence services renditioning their citizens to Libya for the gloves-off kind of "interrogation" that we can't get away with here.
All's fair in war...
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