Colonel Muammar Qaddafi addressed the Libyan public in a rambling, defiant speech today. In it he vowed not to step down and said he’d die a martyr. Colonel Qaddafi also blamed the protesters’ actions on hallucinogenic drugs and threatened them with severe punishment. To help us parse Colonel Qaddafi’s address and his decades-long grip on Libya is Mansour El-Kikhia, chair of the Department of Political Science and Geography at the University of Texas-San Antonio, and author of the book Libya’s Qaddafi: The Politics of Contradiction.