Last [Friday’s shootings in Christchurch](https://www.oye.news/news/shootings/breaking-man-opens-fire-on-a-tram-in-the-dutch-city-of-utrecht/), New Zealand which ended with 50 dead and just as many injured have rung the global bell on a call for tougher media censorship. Yesterday an open letter from Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, who is the head of Counter-Terrorism Policing in the UK was published on the counter-terrorism website. Basu’s letter is a plea for the UK Government to recognise the threat that the free flow of information can have on a nation and to do something about it. Basu points out the ironic fact that *“the same media companies who have lambasted social media platforms for not acting fast enough to remove extremist content are simultaneously publishing uncensored Daesh propaganda on their websites, or make the rambling ‘manifestos’ of crazed killers available for download.”* He said extremist propaganda that might reach tens of thousands of people through their own channels or networks has the potential to reach tens of millions if a national newspaper published it. He goes onto say in summary that: > ‘Society needs to look carefully at itself. We cannot simply hide behind the mantra of freedom of speech. That freedom is not an absolute right, it is not the freedom to cause harm – that is why our hate speech legislation exists.’ [source](https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/acso-neil-basu-issues-open-letter-about-reporting-of-terrorism/) Basu continually refers to this dangerous information that the UK’s media is publishing as Terrorist propaganda, which he claims inspires other potential terrorists into action, he bases this assessment from the statements of terrorists his team have interviewed over the years. I think it is undeniable that information can be dangerous, it can reinforce beliefs and prejudices, it can raise one’s emotions causing anger and fear. This is true whether the information is accurate or not. Information which has been designed to produce a specific public emotional response, propaganda, is even more dangerous – But, it’s not the root of the problem, it merely accelerates an exceptionally small minority of people to do what they were inevitably going to do anyway. Censoring our media is a far more dangerous path to take, with dire consequences. A government which controls its media and dictates the flow of information is a Government who has a self-perpetuating power and thus unbreakable control over its people. While we have been condemning dictatorships across the World for decades with the oppression they place upon their people through censorship and their own propaganda we are voluntarily begging for it ourselves, a little bit at a time. ______________________ Read this article in its original format and thousands more over on our [WEBSITE](https://www.oye.news/news/freedoms/censorship/christchurch-shootings-inspire-global-censorship/)

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Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s leader for over four decades was murdered on 20th October 2011 during the Battle of Sirte at the age of 69. The US, UK and their allies labelled Gaddafi as a tyrant, a tyrant that needed to be removed. The Obama administration, NATO and the UK Government and all the usual suspects were making some ridiculous claims, none of which had any supportive evidence. #### MUAMMAR GADDAFI WAS BOMBING HIS OWN PEOPLE This is a total fabrication, supported by no evidence. The BBC on the 21st February 2011 reported that “Witnesses say warplanes have fired on protesters in the city ” However U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, when asked if there was any evidence of these alleged bombings responded, “We’ve seen the press reports, but we have no confirmation of that”. Admiral Mullen echoed Gates’s response with, “That’s correct. We’ve seen no confirmation whatsoever”. #### GADDAFI USED RAPE AS A WEAPON OF WAR Back in June 2011, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton she was “deeply concerned” that Gaddafi’s troops were participating in widespread rape in Libya. “Rape, physical intimidation, sexual harassment, and even so-called ‘virginity tests’ have taken place in countries throughout the region,” she said. Yet no evidence was ever found to support these claims, [Amnesty International investigated](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/amnesty-questions-claim-that-gaddafi-ordered-rape-as-weapon-of-war-2302037.html) these claims but turned up nothing to support such claims. > *An investigation by Amnesty International has failed to find evidence for these human rights violations and in many cases has discredited or cast doubt on them. It also found indications that on several occasions the rebels in Benghazi appeared to have knowingly made false claims or manufactured evidence.* > *The findings by the investigators appear to be at odds with the views of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, who two weeks ago told a press conference that “we have information that there was a policy to rape in Libya those who were against the government. Apparently, he [Colonel Gaddafi] used it to punish people.”* These accusations are just more lies and propaganda entirely fabricated by the West. Any claims made by Libyan rebels at the time were inconsistent and blatant lies: > *In one instance two captured pro-Gaddafi soldiers presented to the international media by the rebels claimed their officers, and later themselves, had raped a family with four daughters. * > *Ms Rovera says that when she and a colleague, both fluent in Arabic, interviewed the two detainees, one 17 years old and one 21, alone and in separate rooms, they changed their stories and gave differing accounts of what had happened. * > *“They both said they had not participated in the rape and just heard about it,” she said. “They told different stories about whether or not the girls’ hands were tied, whether their parents were present and about how they were dressed.” [[source]](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/amnesty-questions-claim-that-gaddafi-ordered-rape-as-weapon-of-war-2302037.html)* Just to make these claims even darker and twisted they added an additional claim on the back of the ‘Rape as a Weapon’ narrative. Soldiers were allegedly powering these rapes with Viagra. > *Several doctors say they have found Viagra tablets and condoms in the pockets of dead pro-Gaddafi fighters, alleging that they were using rape as a weapon of war. They say they have been treating female rape survivors who were allied with pro-democracy forces.* > *Furthermore, 175 people, including doctors, have been reported missing from Ajdabiya, and many have now been found to have been killed. [[source]](https://www.aljazeera.com/video/africa/2011/03/201132845516144204.html)* This Viagra story was first published by Al Jazeera, in collaboration with its rebel partners, favoured by the Qatari regime that funds Al Jazeera. > *In a startling declaration to the UN Security Council, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice also asserted that Gaddafi was supplying his troops with Viagra to encourage mass rape. She offered no evidence whatsoever to back up her claim.* > *Indeed, U.S. military and intelligence sources flatly contradicted Rice, telling NBC News that “there is no evidence that Libyan military forces are being given Viagra and engaging in systematic rape against women in rebel areas”.* > *Rice is a liberal interventionist who was one of those to persuade Obama to intervene in Libya. She utilised this myth because it helped her make the case at the UN that there was no “moral equivalence” between Gaddafi’s human rights abuses and those of the insurgents. [[source]](http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/08/31/the-top-ten-myths-in-the-war-against-libya/)* This Viagra-fueled rape story originated from Hillary [Clintons leaked emails](https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_DecWebClearedMeta/31-C1/DOC_0C05782390/C05782390.pdf): > *Sources now say, again rumor (that is, this information comes from the rebel side and is unconfirmed independently by Western intelligence), that Qaddafi has adopted a rape policy and has even distributed Viagra to troops. The incident at the Tripoli press conference involving a woman claiming to be raped is likely to be part of a much larger outrage. Will seek further confirmation.* Although these were merely rumours, they were soon passed to the Western press as facts and all the major media outlets ran the story. ________________ ### Read the rest of this article over on our website at [OYE NEWS](https://www.oye.news/news/war/muammar-gaddafi-filling-the-gaps-of-a-western-narrative/)