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Gaddafi gives lesson on democracy
BBC ^ | March 24, 2006 | BBC

Posted on 03/24/2006 10:19:18 AM PST by Cboldt

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. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: khadaffi; libya
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!

1 posted on 03/24/2006 10:19:21 AM PST by Cboldt
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"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?
2 posted on 03/24/2006 10:22:48 AM PST by RightOnTheLeftCoast (You're it)
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To: Cboldt
Thanks a lot for blowing up Flight 103, "Colonel".

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

3 posted on 03/24/2006 10:23:15 AM PST by jpl ("We don't negotiate with terrorists, we put them out of business." - Scott McClellan)
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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."
4 posted on 03/24/2006 10:26:34 AM PST by wolfpat (Dum vivimus, vivamus.)
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To: Cboldt
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!

5 posted on 03/24/2006 10:28:03 AM PST by Tamar1973 ("There are some things for which we should display no tolerance." Queen Margrethe II of Denmark)
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To: 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?

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

6 posted on 03/24/2006 10:29:37 AM PST by Tamar1973 ("There are some things for which we should display no tolerance." Queen Margrethe II of Denmark)
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
Yet we wouldn't let Cat Stevens in?

Col Muammar Gaddafi speaks during the video conference


7 posted on 03/24/2006 10:32:12 AM PST by Cboldt
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It's not scrappleface, but it sure reads like it.

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

8 posted on 03/24/2006 10:44:23 AM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)
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To: Cboldt

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


9 posted on 03/24/2006 10:46:53 AM PST by Redbob
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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)


10 posted on 03/25/2006 9:30:16 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Monthly Donor spoken Here. Go to ... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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