{"id":614,"date":"2007-12-10T09:31:15","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T14:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=614"},"modified":"2009-03-23T09:34:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T14:34:38","slug":"whats-the-deal-with-mugabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2007\/12\/10\/whats-the-deal-with-mugabe\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the deal with Mugabe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nYeah, alright, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Mugabe\">Robert Mugabe<\/a> is a Bad Man &#8482;, the kind of authoritarian asshole who doesn&#8217;t hesitate to sent the riot police against his ooposition, or rig the elections. He&#8217;s also been accused of stealing white people&#8217;s land, which is just <cite>wrong<\/cite>; doesn&#8217;t he know it can only be done the other way around? Cheap sarcasm aside, it&#8217;s clear Mugabe is a thug, but he&#8217;s hardly unique.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo why is it that during the EU-Africa summit this weekend, all attention was on Mugabe being present and how awful it was that such a tyrant should&#8217;ve been invited, when much worse people were present as well? People like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mubarak\">Hosni Mubarak<\/a>? He&#8217;s surely as authoritarian as Mugabe, but there has been nothing like the hysteria that surrounded Mugabe&#8217;s participation, none of the official denounciations, no carefully staged mediafriendly protests against him. Why is that?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSurely not because Mubarak, unlike Mugabe, is careful to stay on the right side of &#8220;the west&#8221;, e.g. helping us out by providing handy extralegal torture facilities for those pesky suspects we cannot torture ourselves?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, alright, Robert Mugabe is a Bad Man &#8482;, the kind of authoritarian asshole who doesn&#8217;t hesitate to sent the riot police against his ooposition, or rig the elections. He&#8217;s also been accused of stealing white people&#8217;s land, which is just wrong; doesn&#8217;t he know it can only be done the other way around? Cheap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367],"tags":[366,365,364],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imperialism","tag-breathtaking-hypocrisy","tag-hosni-mubarak","tag-robert-mugabe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}