{"id":195142,"date":"2008-07-27T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/27\/thabo-mbeki-can-kiss-my-shiny-metal-ass\/"},"modified":"2008-07-27T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T20:01:00","slug":"thabo-mbeki-can-kiss-my-shiny-metal-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/27\/thabo-mbeki-can-kiss-my-shiny-metal-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"Thabo Mbeki Can Kiss My Shiny Metal Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that Thabo Mbeki, the friend of brutal genocidal rulers everywhere, is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7527376.stm\">&#8220;concerned&#8221; about the possibility of crimes against humanity indictments against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir<\/a>, because it might make negotiations more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, we see that there is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">no<\/span> tyrant, no mater how <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">homicidal<\/span>, that Mbeki does not feel compelled to embrace.<\/p>\n<p>He spent years claiming that HIV does not cause AIDS, and when public pressure required a reversal on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">that<\/span>, he decided to create his own, &#8220;save the tyrants,&#8221; charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that Thabo Mbeki, the friend of brutal genocidal rulers everywhere, is &#8220;concerned&#8221; about the possibility of crimes against humanity indictments against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, because it might make negotiations more difficult. Once again, we see that there is no tyrant, no mater how homicidal, that Mbeki does not feel compelled to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1032,964,972,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-foreign-relations","category-justice","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195142"}],"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=195142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}