High Life | 2 August 2008

On board S/Y Bushido

Around 20 years or so ago, Udai Hussein, Saddam’s boy, had some of his heavies beat up a man who refused their master’s invitation to join his table in a Geneva nightclub. The Iraqi wanted to meet the man’s beautiful companion, hence the invite. Although arrested, Udai got away with it by claiming diplomatic immunity. The Swiss caved in, as they often do in such cases. As Plato pointed out, money talks. The only good thing anyone can say about Udai is that he died like a man, as did his brother. Last week a scumbag who goes by the name of Hannibal Gaddafi, son of the Libyan head clown Muammar, was arrested by the Swiss police for beating up his servants. He spent two days in the cooler, was bailed, and then left the country. In response to his arrest, the head clown halted oil deliveries to Switzerland and barred Swiss ships from its ports by way of protest.

Libya supplies more than 50 per cent of Switzerland’s crude oil imports, so the oil freeze will definitely hurt. Yet if the Swiss cave in, all the bull**** we hear about human rights will go flying out the window. People, even servants of scum like Gaddafi, do have rights, and if those rights are trampled on and the guilty are let off because of their moolah and power, the whole Human Rights legislation becomes as big a joke as Gaddafi is as leader. Here’s what the Swiss should do immediately as well as permanently: ban all Libyans from entering the country. Expel all Libyan diplomats and Libyan passport holders. Freeze all Libyan assets until Hannibal Gaddafi gives himself up and is tried in a Swiss court of law.