Comments on: Museveni To Drop Death Penalty, WaPo Says Bill Is Still “Ugly and Ignorant”

By: Truth Wins Out

Truth Wins Out — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:34:12 +0000

BREAKING: According to Ugandan Cabinet Member, Bill MAY Be Withdrawn…

This is very encouraging news. Box Turtle Bulletin (of course) reports the following from The Monitor, a leading Ugandan newspaper:
The State Minister for Investments, Mr Aston Kajara, yesterday said the government was looking at the Bill with the pos…

By: Ephilei

Ephilei — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:02:48 +0000

You’re missing a big one:

*Criminalize LGB advocacy, making it illegal to argue for the repeal of this law in the future.

@William
Calling it a “war” may even be optimistic. It would be a slaughter.

By: William Westwork

William Westwork — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:38:16 +0000

Bill Clinton once said that his greatest regret was not acting quickly enough to stop the genocide in Rwanda. I wonder, do he and his wife really ever talk to each other?

A huge war is about to break out in the southern Sudan and make no mistake, a refugee crisis on Uganda’s northern border will be a gift of decorated pretext for that government to double-down on scapegoating homosexuals.

Every time the Ugandan government takes a single Dollar or Euro from taxpayers or missionaries or eco-tourists, their cries of neo-colonialist meddling ring spectacularly hollow.

Don’t want to share our values? How dare expect our hard-earned money.

By: David C.

David C. — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:20:29 +0000

Another application of the Overton Window?

By: Priya Lynn

Priya Lynn — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:57:53 +0000

I believe this was part of the plan all along. The death penalty was a throwaway placed in the bill so once it was removed they could pretend the rest of the barbaric bill was now more “reasonable”.

By: John B. Chilton

John B. Chilton — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:32:14 +0000

Note that the WaPo editorial contains an error. The Commonwealth Nations meeting was in November. PMs of Canada and UK criticized the bill at that time. (Australia, too? — can’t recall)