Sic Semper Tyrannis — What Truly Happens to Tyrants?

Guero Namara
The Bigger Picture
Published in
8 min readMar 24, 2021

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(REUTERS / Asmaa Waguih — stock.adobe.com)

One of the craziest things I’ve ever seen was Muammar Gaddafi being beaten to death by a cheering mob.

Hours earlier he was sitting on a throne;now he was laid out on the street, bloody and removed from consciousness. For 42 years, he had done the same to countless others to stay lonely at the top. Years before, I watched Saddam Hussein’s neck catch a rope, on YouTube of…

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Guero Namara
The Bigger Picture

If Wes Anderson directed a porno, it would be my life story. Married to obscurity, obsessed with storytelling, in love with the truth.