In fact utter irrationality has long been the leitmotif of Gaddafi's thought, as is proved by his 1975 work of political and social philosophy, the Green Book.

实际上，卡扎菲毫无理性的思维在他自己于1975年发行的绿宝书里表现的淋漓尽致。

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John Mitchell, who was President Richard Nixon's Attorney General, argued that the government didn't need a warrant to tap the phone of any political dissenter it thought was a threat to national security, which certainly does sound like the secret police at work.

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