Gaddafi gives lesson on democracy

BBC ^ | March 24, 2006 | BBC

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Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has given US academics a lecture on democracy, declaring his country's government freer than any in the West.

"There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet," he told an audience at New York's Columbia University via live satellite link. ...

Col Gaddafi was appearing as a panellist at a two-day conference on democracy at Columbia University. ...

Challenged by a US moderator on the issue of freedom of speech, Col Gaddafi said every Libyan could express their opinions at the congresses.

He described them as better forums than a newspaper, insisting that "everything is open to discussion" in Libya and, while Washington resorted to "eavesdropping" on its population and "creating another state of terror."

"Countries like the United States, India, China, the Russian Federation, are in bad need of this Jamahiriya system," Col Gaddafi said. ...

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It's not scrappleface, but it sure reads like it.
Here is another example of truth being stranger than fiction.

The article is worth a read, if for nothing more than a laugh!

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Col Gaddafi was appearing as a panellist at a two-day conference on democracy at Columbia University."

Yet we wouldn't let Cat Stevens in?

[jpl]

Thanks a lot for blowing up Flight 103, "Colonel".

Our government may have forgiven you, but I haven't.

[wolfpat]

This reminds me of the old joke in the Soviet Union. An American and a Russian are trying to one-up each other. The American says, "I can walk into the White House, right up to the President of the United States and call him a SOB."

The Russian responds, " I, too, can walk into the Kremlin, up to the Premier, and call the President of the United States a SOB."

[Tamar1973]

Gaddafi gives lesson on democracy

This should be in the humor section (there isn't one, but FR needs one) rather than the news section. ROTFLOL!

[Tamar1973]

"Col Gaddafi was appearing as a panellist at a two-day conference on democracy at Columbia University."

Yet we wouldn't let Cat Stevens in?

Maybe Mr. Stevens (or whatever he calls himself now) will sue for reinstatement?

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Yet we wouldn't let Cat Stevens in?

Col Muammar Gaddafi speaks during the video conference

[Irish_Thatcherite]

It's not scrappleface, but it sure reads like it.

You mean this is for real?? Oh Lord...

[Redbob]

Well, we don't have a democracy...

[NormsRevenge]

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi addresses the media in Khartoum, Sudan January 24, 2006. Gaddafi lectured a U.S. audience on democracy on Thursday and said Libya is the only real democracy in the world. (Antony Njuguna/Reuters)