Poor Muammar El-Qaddhafi.
Not only has he been forbidden from erecting his tent in New York - twice, first because of stupid locals then because of petty officials looking for their minute of fame - but apparently not everyone liked his speech to the United Nations General Assembly yesterday.
Why wouldn't they really? He only exceeded the 15-minute limit on speeches by a mere... oh, 81 minutes?
Having been introduced by his Minister of Foreign Affairs who happens to chair UNGA this month, he must've thought he was addressing his own docile population, which is rather coerced to listen and clap to anything he says...
Qaddhafi spoke for a full ninety-six minutes, during which he asked for inquiry in the Kennedy assassination, called for the establishment of Isratine, and asked for 7.77 trillion dollars in compensations for the colonisation of Africa.
But I don't what was it that ticked an anonymous user to edit his Wikipedia page, changing the Libyan leader's name in Arabic from "Muammar Al-Qaddhafi معمر القذافـي" to "DOG كلب".
Petty, but oh so ridiculous!
Someone corrected it promptly of course, but your favourite blog has a screen shot of the before and after the edit:
Not only has he been forbidden from erecting his tent in New York - twice, first because of stupid locals then because of petty officials looking for their minute of fame - but apparently not everyone liked his speech to the United Nations General Assembly yesterday.
Why wouldn't they really? He only exceeded the 15-minute limit on speeches by a mere... oh, 81 minutes?
Having been introduced by his Minister of Foreign Affairs who happens to chair UNGA this month, he must've thought he was addressing his own docile population, which is rather coerced to listen and clap to anything he says...
Qaddhafi spoke for a full ninety-six minutes, during which he asked for inquiry in the Kennedy assassination, called for the establishment of Isratine, and asked for 7.77 trillion dollars in compensations for the colonisation of Africa.
But I don't what was it that ticked an anonymous user to edit his Wikipedia page, changing the Libyan leader's name in Arabic from "Muammar Al-Qaddhafi معمر القذافـي" to "DOG كلب".
Petty, but oh so ridiculous!
Someone corrected it promptly of course, but your favourite blog has a screen shot of the before and after the edit:
He did say ONE interesting thing. His (very clumsily formulated) remarks on the relationship between the GA and the SC. I also happen to agree this relationship to be totally dysfunctional - in a word, the UNGA, with its one-country one-vote system, is as close to a global democracy as we're going to get; UNSC, with its restricted membership and veto powers, is its antithesis.
As such, a necessary item in the reform of the UN will be to redefine this institutional relationship.
But when he called to rename the Security Council as "Terror Council", Qaddhafi didn't help much.
(HT: @TaraLSF)
6 comments:
hes a joker, a creative one
As Neither the GA OR the SC have any effect on the real world, they are both pretty useless - ALL they do is to condemn Israel. Pretty boring habit, if you ask me.
John
Anything useful he had to say was buried under a rambling, incoherent presentation.
It wasn't stupid locals or petty bureaucrats, although the US has plenty of both--he was denied his choices of accomodation simply because most Americans absolutely despise him. Denying him his tent was a "gotcha" to show him he was deeply unwelcome.
oh and he caused panic in canada when he said he'll juss randomly stop by Newfoundland...there was hysteria and chaos in Ottawa....but obviously he cancelled last second...i found that quite funny..lol
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