As a young child, watching the behavior of delegates and attendees was like watching a freak show.

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We've got a get out of what an author calls the freak show.

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That is not to mention the freak show tent, the giant exhaust pipe sculpture or the church with a boxing ring in the middle.

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Rather than wanting to see the kind of freak-show snuff film of Gadhafi that is worming its way through the internet as I write this, I would have far preferred to watch him from a front row seat in the Hague as he, in true Milosevic style, would have been made to answer for his countless hideous crimes.

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