Methinks that the scion of a man the Yanks brought to heel should not hold his breath awaiting any cash from them.

Howe much will Engerland pay its former colonies, including oil poor Scotland?

#2 why should the Yanks pay Vietnam anything?

Or is this just more communist bootlicking?

#3 - England and Scotland were united by the act of union, Scotland has never been a 'colony'. You're not an SNP voter by chance, are you ?

#5 We may not be an actual colony, but we are treated as one, as can be seen to this very day in that we are still being exploited by the English, and still subsidising them.

In any event, we were sold out in 1707. The Treaty of Union was not signed or agreed to by the people, but by a bunch of traitors who were bought and sold for English gold.

So does that mean the whole world must now ask Rome for billions in response to Ceasers rule? What a fukcing joke these Africans are...
Maybe Africa should pay Europe the 790 000 000 000 000 000 000 that it has taken in handouts over the last 30 years.
That amount of hand out you would think that the continent would be a thriving and bustling place, but alas not a fukcing blade of grass can grow.

It seems the eldest sons of despots and lunatics are congenitally crazy.

Just look at Saddam Hussein's eldest son and now this joker spouting this imperialistic nonsense.

All rhetoric and posturing signifying nothing and indicating NOTHING inside the skull.

What a DUMMY Seif al-Islam Gadaffi is - and his pre-psychotic father is probably proud of that piece of scum.

6 Guga II

Who are the septics? The Soviets?

I just wonder who helped Gadaffi to develop his multi-billion oil resources?

Italy's response should be of the single-fingered kind.

#10 Hugo.

Septics is short for septic tanks. This is known as rhyming slang.

#8 Media 1: I'm sick of your ignorant, asanine, boorish comments. The amount you have mentioned is utterly impossible - you haven't a clue about numbers. You have neglected to mention the diamonds, gold, cobalt, agricultural produce etc. extracted from the colonies using African labourers paid nothing, or next to nothing. In fact South African gold mines and farms were some of the worst offenders. Worst of all, you haven't mentioned the slaves taken by European and Arab states, a huge number of whom died on long voyages. The conniving, filthy, underhand manner in which people such as Rhodes went about kicking Africans off their own land makes one's blood boil. However, you are an illiterate, back-of-the-woods turkey, who has probably never read a single proper history of a single African country. So I forgive you.

#13 - get it right; slaves were not "taken" from Africa by European and Arab states. They were PURCHASED from their African brethren, who had been selling them for centuries.

The Arab slave trade predated that of Europe for centuries, and was more widespread, taking in the eastern seaboard of Africa, as well as Western Africa, where the European/transatlantic slave trade was concentrated (Nigeria/Ghana/Senegal etc.)

Also, Africans were never kicked off their own land. Their land was divided by the colonial powers without regard to traditional tribal/familial/ethnic occupancy, and their contents exploited, but there is not a single documented case of European coloinal power displacing native African peoples.

I think in your liberal, white, guilty self loathing hysteria, you are confusing the displacement of native Americans - but then deep down all the coloureds look the same to liberals!!!

#15 flub

Nicely done Flub. A fact based rebuttal. You are perfectly correct about the slave trade. Until Europeans figured out how to avoid or counteract tropical diseases do while people dare set foot in equatorial Africa because deadly tropical diseases that they had no immunity to. They anchored off shore and the African slave traders they were dealing with would row THEIR slaves out to the ships and sold them to the European slavers. Every single slave that left Africa was either a slave or captive to the African that sold him.

#11 ex-angry

ex-angry said:

"I just wonder who helped Gadaffi to develop his multi-billion oil resources? "

I don't think anybody helped Gafaffi. I'm pretty sure it was the previous government, one that was on good terms with the West, that had the oil fields developed. When Gafaffi came to power in 1969 the Libyan oil fields had been well developed under the reign of King Idris by foreign companies. Gafaffi nationalized them, but they were, as I recall, already there.

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Bit unfair on media 1, while in no ways a fan of its posts, now and again a dollop of wisdom seems to spring forth. Africa in general is a well screwed up place which seems to live on grants from the west or to be a bit more to the point is run by Chinese.

Most Africans never see a single cent of the money pumped into the continent by the apologetic morons trying to make amends for what happenrd in the past.

Slavery for example is a vile practice and still goes on in public view. The Islands in lake Volta are a prime example and are sanctioned by the powers that be as a traditional institution.

I have been living in Africa for a good few years on and off as well as Asia which to be blunt is worse and all I will say is do not give any money, it lands in the pockets of people already driving about in Mercades.

If you want to help the poor do so but generaly they will try to emulate the guys in the big cars and thats end ex.

Most Africans are bloody lazy and just wait for someone to throw cash in their direction as if it was a God given right. Not their fault I suppose as that is the way it was and probably will be.

Saying all that I have put a fair bit of money towards mainly orphans and the blind over the years as they are in no way in charge of what happened to them and the blind dont tend to drive big German cars, when they make it biog they get someone else to drive. Creates employment I guess.

Who exactly are we dealing with here? A man who ordered a bombing in a Berlin disco - a man who claimed the entire Gulf of Sidra as an exclusion zone and tried to attack any shipping that entered.

The idea that anyone should be paying compensation to Gaddafi is quite ridiculous. For one thing he's had a go at being a colonial power himself and contributed to destabilising and undermining Chad. Secondly, if the Libyan regime were at all competent, Libya with its small population and large oil reserves should be amongst the richest of the Arab countries. Thirdly, Gaddafi has organised terrorist attacks all over Europe (eg. Lockerbie) and deserves compensation from nobody. But most importantly, if the current Italian government and Italian people should be held responsible for the bad behaviour of Mussolini, it would be inconsistent to not go back just a few generations more to the time when Libyan pirates kidnapped, murdered and enslaved Italian seamen and attacked small Italian fishing villages.

Before any European even thinks about apologising for European colonisation in North Africa, he should find out how the Europeans came to be involved in North Africa in the first place: naval expeditions to suppress the Muslim slavers who set up their strongholds and slave markets in such places as Tripoli (the modern capital of Libya).

A million Europeans and millions more Africans were enslaved by the Muslim Barbary pirates of the North African coast. Whereas modern Europeans have grovelled apologies for their past involvement with the slave trade, the often forgotten fact of North African slaver attacks on Europe or European shipping has been conveniently ignored by the Libyans, Algerians and Moroccans. This should be addressed before there is any talk of guilt for European colonialism in North Africa.

No sooner does Italy come to its senses by passing laws that defend the country from Illegal cesspool scum, than they defeat themselves and their couage in working to save their country by agreeing to PAY OFF one of the most horrid dictators the world has ever seen, Gaddafi. All this does is to show grave weakness to defend Italy against minority invasion, and adds yet more proof to the Islamist belief that the west is decadent, and unwilling to protect itself from the onslaught of Muslim immigrants both legal and illegal who look to overwhelm and destroy the west to their advantage and our loss. Showing, and proving weakness to a Muslim is the perfect receipe for national suicide.