Great and Sad News

The good news is that my grandson, his wife, and baby son took a jaunt away from Tripoli to spend a few days on Malta, a place they like. As things got worse in Libya, they did not go back. He heard the people who operate the building where they had an apartment deserted their jobs and left everything for looters. So, he wrote, they lost everything, including laptops and sentimental objects they cherished, and their clothing except for the three-day supply they had with them. They are probably in the States today. And if so, should be sleeping now. I hope to see them soon.

The sad news, as of an hour ago, is that that tyrant Gadhafi has ordered as much killing as possible of his own people, even bringing in mercenary killers from outside to do so in the middle of the night. Another high-up official has resigned his position. That makes two of those to do that, and some army pilots flew to Malta for safety and protection, saying they would not fire on Libyan citizens again. Don’t be surprised to hear soon that Gadhafi is himself dead. A big problem with that is that since the Libyan people have not had any freedom at all, they also have no one with leadership ability to lead them. May the day of Divine Right of Kings return, in this one case, to lift up the right leader that would be now needed.

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