{"id":184697,"date":"2012-02-12T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/12\/what-ken-livingstone-said\/"},"modified":"2012-02-12T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T01:43:00","slug":"what-ken-livingstone-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/12\/what-ken-livingstone-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What Ken Livingstone Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>In the time I was mayor, I used to do meetings with City bankers and I&#8217;d often open by saying, &#8216;This isn&#8217;t the world I would have created . . .&#8217; [Bankers&#8217; bonuses are] like penis extensions, among a small league of men &#8211; mine is bigger than yours.<\/p>\n<p>. . . The world is <b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">run by monsters<\/span><\/b> and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2014 The former (and hopefully future) Mayor of London Ken Livingston on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/blogs\/the-staggers\/2012\/02\/khan-ken-livingstone-interview\">the banksters and other captains of industry<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>I think that this is an important thing to say.&nbsp; One of the primary defenses of the banksters and the rest of the parasites on our economy is that their success is somehow the product of their virtue and ability.<\/p>\n<p>This is a lie.&nbsp; It has <b>always<\/b> been a law, and so long as we allow the myth that these folks are anything other than amoral winners of the genetic lottery, we grant them a legitimacy that they they do not deserve, and we do so at our own peril.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the time I was mayor, I used to do meetings with City bankers and I&#8217;d often open by saying, &#8216;This isn&#8217;t the world I would have created . . .&#8217; [Bankers&#8217; bonuses are] like penis extensions, among a small league of men &#8211; mine is bigger than yours. . . . The world is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1004,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-finance","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}