https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/04/26/ap-report-bahati-says-death-penalty-to-be-dropped-from-antigay-bill/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Wed, 30 May 2018 18:16:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/04/26/ap-report-bahati-says-death-penalty-to-be-dropped-from-antigay-bill/#comment-80655 Wed, 30 May 2018 18:16:13 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=9104#comment-80655 Ah, you mean like Nigeria, or the UK!!! (Sorry about the mordent sarcasm!)

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/04/26/ap-report-bahati-says-death-penalty-to-be-dropped-from-antigay-bill/#comment-80652 Wed, 30 May 2018 18:16:13 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=9104#comment-80652 By the way, it’s not clear if Bahati’s so-called ‘concession’ will apply to so-called ‘repeat offenders’, according to Melanie Nathan.
http://lezgetreal.com/2011/04/bahati-pushing-for-uganda-parliament-to-vote-on-anti-homosexuality-bill-by-may-12/

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/04/26/ap-report-bahati-says-death-penalty-to-be-dropped-from-antigay-bill/#comment-80650 Wed, 30 May 2018 18:16:13 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=9104#comment-80650 Actually, Lynn, I’m not sure that M7 will gain much (if anything) by ‘scapegoating gays’. My feeling is that many educated Uganda are much more sceptical about such cheap tactics than in the past. Also, the UG public finances are in a pretty parlous state, so alienating countries like Germany would be counterproductive.
Furthermore, the ISO probably takes the view that many of the signatures on that 2 million strong petition were fake (and I’m sure they would be absolutely correct in doing so). The (second) Oundo debacle must surely have been a great embarrassment to Ssempa, and I think that is a growing awareness in the right places that all this ‘recruitment’ stuff is a load of bull.
But you may be correct, of course …

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/04/26/ap-report-bahati-says-death-penalty-to-be-dropped-from-antigay-bill/#comment-80646 Wed, 30 May 2018 18:16:13 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=9104#comment-80646 Not yet seen anything in the UG press.
But I have seen this: http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/uganda-kill-the-gays-bill-moving-forward-unchanged-contrary-to-reports/news/2011/04/27/19308

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/04/26/ap-report-bahati-says-death-penalty-to-be-dropped-from-antigay-bill/#comment-80636 Wed, 30 May 2018 18:16:11 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=9104#comment-80636 Yeah, I can see Museveni scapegoating gays again as he has in the past.

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/04/26/ap-report-bahati-says-death-penalty-to-be-dropped-from-antigay-bill/#comment-49631 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:41:30 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=9104#comment-49631 Or perhaps I should have said that Tullow looks like it will get out of paying the tax for which it is allegedly liable by striking a deal with the French and the Chinese. (I don’t approve of all this apparent skullduggery, by the way: developing countries should get a fair deal for their wares. Never trust the British!)
As for Ssempa: he’s hardly expert at ‘economic transactions’. He couldn’t even get his $42 transaction with George Oundo right!

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/04/26/ap-report-bahati-says-death-penalty-to-be-dropped-from-antigay-bill/#comment-80653 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:41:30 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=9104#comment-80653 Or perhaps I should have said that Tullow looks like it will get out of paying the tax for which it is allegedly liable by striking a deal with the French and the Chinese. (I don’t approve of all this apparent skullduggery, by the way: developing countries should get a fair deal for their wares. Never trust the British!)
As for Ssempa: he’s hardly expert at ‘economic transactions’. He couldn’t even get his $42 transaction with George Oundo right!

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/04/26/ap-report-bahati-says-death-penalty-to-be-dropped-from-antigay-bill/#comment-49630 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:50:36 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=9104#comment-49630 And Tullow has wriggled out of that little tax business rather nicely, of course!

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/04/26/ap-report-bahati-says-death-penalty-to-be-dropped-from-antigay-bill/#comment-49629 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:45:55 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=9104#comment-49629 Ah, you mean like Nigeria, or the UK!!! (Sorry about the mordent sarcasm!)

]]> https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/04/26/ap-report-bahati-says-death-penalty-to-be-dropped-from-antigay-bill/#comment-49628 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:24:00 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=9104#comment-49628 Yeah, though the likes of a Ssempa would choose to argue that Uganda could become an oil superpower and throw the bird at the like of Germany. But thanks to Museveni’s government that has been put on hold over the Heritage tax situation that they are trying to make Tullow pay.

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