Elections in Libya (a right used as means to an office)
The idea of elections was not an end in itself, but rather people chose it as a mechanism by which they could replace the violent conflict that led to death in their struggle over who would manage their resources. Since elections are a mechanism nominate a group of people who will manage the affairs of the rest of the people in a peaceful manner, it is therefore imperative that set standards that enable everyone to compete, without tailoring these standards to the bodies of specific people, whom even their clothes can no longer tolerate.
If we agree to this premise, we will see that what is happening today in terms of tailoring electoral laws in Libya contradicts the logical approach to the electoral process, its standards and objectives, as after a wait that lasted nearly two years, the 6+6 committee concluded by submitting its proposal for legislative and presidential election laws, which were loaded with many several pieces of cloth tailored to their owners; these proposals were transformed into the form of a law that was voted on by the House of Representatives, awaiting a vote by the Supreme Council of State, as the texts of this law came in fact to preserve the continuity of the ruling class in power.
Starting with its approval of accepting the return of whoever runs for the presidential elections to his previous job (his position), meaning that even if you do not succeed in the elections, we guarantee that you will continue in your (immortal position), this is very clear in Article (17), Paragraph (5).
The tailored law was not limited to this only, but also linked the presidential elections to the legislative elections, so that in the event of any defect in the presidential elections, the legislative elections are considered as if they did not take place, this is clearly evident in Article (12) Paragraph (4), and this means that, O Libyans, in the event that you choose a president, we will continue to rule you indefinitely....
As for the legislative elections, which will produce the Senate and the House of Representatives, our esteemed committee could not let go without adding a racist touch to them, whereas it stipulated that in running for both parts of the National Assembly, the candidate must have Libyan parents, and excluded every Libyan whose mother is foreign, despite being Libyan according to the law, and having an inherent right to vote, it nonetheless deprived him of the right to run for office (we take your vote, but we don’t vote for you).
The law did not provide any proposal that could be relied upon to solve the issue that has so far existed in holding the elections, which is: who guarantees that the election results will not be rejected specifically by the losing party in the presidential elections? What measures will be taken against him if he refuses? Especially since all the names proposed for the presidential elections are based on large military forces and tribes, in addition to being able to return to their previous positions if they lose, and through these official positions they can cast doubt on, cancel, or overturn, if you wish, the amputated election project.
We cling to the elections for dear life, because we are well aware that this transparent ballot box is the only safe path through which we can change our reality if we want, but at the same time we neither want elections that preserve the same ruling class, nor electoral laws that take away from the electoral process its purpose, which is to bring about change, hence some see that these laws are nothing but a play intended to convince people that they have chosen those to rule them, but in reality they have only chosen those who were previously chosen, and this is consistent with what the ruling authority, lacking legitimacy, has been trying to establish in people’s minds since ancient times.
(In 1474 in Basel, Switzerland, (Dick) was put on trial on charges that it laid an egg?! According to the indictment, it was accused of committing the heinous brutal act contrary to nature of laying an egg an egg, and the people of the city were afraid that the devil was behind this act, and that the egg hatched a Basilisk or Cocatrice, a mythical monster with the body of a rooster, a ponytail and the wings of a bat that the people of medieval Europe believed existed; the poor rooster was sentenced to death, and the sentence was carried out by burning, as was the custom with heretics witches).
In Italy, in 1519, the church put on trial the mice of the city of Stelvio; because they spoiled the barley crop in one of the fields, the court sentenced the mice to exile, but because the churchmen were rational, they ordered the mice to be guarded, to protect them from cats as they left the city, and that the pregnant or lactating mouse must wait two weeks before the sentence was implemented.
In France in 1750, a female donkey was brought to trial on charges of committing indecency with a peasant, but witnesses testified to the donkey’s chastity, so it was released and the peasant was sentenced to death.
In 2014, the Attorney General of an Arab country ordered the opening of an investigation into a case in which a citizen accused a cloth doll of spreading encrypted messages to carry out terrorist operations.
Authority is neither imbecile nor crazy. Authority knows what it is doing and means it fully. In the Middle Ages, the Church used to assert, by judging animals, its authority over all souls. However, in our country, the goal is to make people mad, to make people lose their balance and self-confidence.
When the ruler attempts to pass a completely insane ruling and it passes, the observing person becomes cynical of the people who let such a ruling pass and did not object. Therefore, the establishment of any unjust authority depends on disintegrating the people’s self-confidence; their goal is that you accept madness thinking that others accept it. It is a deliberate attempt to make you putty in their hands to shape you however they want.
So beware... do not believe them... defeat them.) (Written by Tamim Albarghouti).