I happened to watch the CNN interview of that big c.nt with unkempt hair and dark glasses.
And that poise! Boy! that ridiculous, despicable poise. I wonder if the interviewer (what’s his name) didn’t have to make an effort not to burst out laughing.
Noticed also that he sat much higher than the interviewer so that the poor man had to pitifully look up to Him ?
And remember when he attended that international meeting draped in a long veil, and wearing a white glove ? Just one white glove.
I’m so pitted against that jerk I find it hard to find the fitting epithets.
How such a zany character can become head of a nation, and stay there so long is beyond me.
And now the whole world seems to be licking his a… er… his feet, and without laughing up one’s sleeve, please. Just because he’s got oil.
I read a one page interview of him in Time magazine where he states his country is living the revolution; that is, everyone is free and has rights and a say and he is just sortfo running things. What on earth did he mean by that?
Actually, quite a bit. Say what you will, but Mr. Q seems to be very modest. (Well, except for the Mercedes and palaces.)
On TV, he often speaks from the middle of the crowd, as if he is just a regular guy. In the same way, he is only a Lieutenant Colonel, he never promoted himself. As a result, the local military tops out at Major.
Does it mean a lot? Probably not, but it seems important to him for some reason.
Yes, he’s a dictator, and in usual dictatorship-style refuses to admit it (don’t forget that Saddam claimed to have a mandate to rule from the 99.9% victories in ballots). He emerged as leader from the group who’s coup overthrew the monarch, which is the ‘revolution’ bit.
Well, the thing I’ve heard about Libya is that he does do really well by his people. I don’t know for sure, never having been a Libyan citizen, but I think westerners automatically equate Dictator with lack of freedom. He might very well simply be an administrator that does really well by his people. Countries these days have CEOs more than anything. We happen to have a really powerful Board of Directors here in the US. Freedom isn’t measured by government type, it’s measured by the ability of the citizenry not to be micromanaged by the higher ups.
A good CEO therefore hires good people to be in the jobs he puts them in so he doesn’t need to micromanage the populace. When their country(company) operates relatively efficiently without his direct intervention all the time, freedom of action for the populace increases. This is how freedom can exist within a military dictatorship. Lots of past Monarchs were military dictators and many of them did right by their people.
Any good Monarch recognizes that he has to have the mandate of the people, which is just a fundamental law of physics, an individual human cannot have more power than the entire populace of his nation. It’s like inertia except the mass is not inert. So as Machiavelli will tell you, it’s democratic after a fashion. A simple axiom, a monarch cannot exceed the power of the will of that which his power is derived. (The body politic)
Julius Caesar saw that the land was in the hands of too few people, and saw this as a great source of unemployment. He started to give people land, and spread the power of Rome out to make it more representative of the larger empire that he had created. This is why Julius Caesar was killed by a conspiracy of Patricians, who saw what was actually a sensible move on his part as a grab for power, which it was.
Octavian when he took up the mantle of Caesar later was confronted with the same problem of land being focused largely in the hands of a small number of patricians. Of course the practice of slavery contributed to a dissatisfied populace incapable of finding gainful employment, as the wealthy who controlled all the land had slaves that ran much of their operations.
So it’s not so simple as “Republic good, Dictatorship bad”
I thought that he was a (in the American lexicon) “Bird” colonel, and that through the way the LAJ’s armed forces, it’s the equivalent of an American brigadeer?
