Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Vox Populi, Vox Me

Muammar Gaddafi interviewed in the February 7th edition of Time:

Time: Given Foreign and Local Skepticism, Is Libya Really Reforming Itself?

Gaddafi: About the economy, quite possible. We have begun to apply the Green Book. It's what we call popular socialism and what Thatcher calls popular capitalism. Elections? What for? We have surpassed that stage you are presently in. All the people are in power now. Do you want them to regress and elect somebody to replace them?

Time: What Do Libyans Tell You?

Gaddafi: If you put them in paradise, they will still complain. (Laughs) Libyans are in paradise.

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