By: StraightGrandmother

StraightGrandmother — Wed, 30 May 2018 18:51:13 +0000

Dear Richard Willmer,
Please carry on. It is a pleasure to read your comments concerning Uganda.
Sincerely,
StraightGrandmother

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Wed, 30 May 2018 18:51:13 +0000

My comments are not really about Uganda, actually, SGM.
I know many Ugandans and like them enormously. What therefore perhaps pains me most is those who besmirch Uganda’s reputuaion with deceitful and vicious rhetoric against some of their own people.
One Ugandan I know, and who currently lives in London, now says he’s Rwandan to avoid ‘funny looks’; another told me that she was ‘ashamed to be a Ugandan’ in the wake of, especially, the Bahati Bill. They are both as straight as can be, as far as I know. It’s very sad, and completely unnecessary.
This whole ‘Bahati business’ has developed a life of its own. In many ways, it’s very unUgandan (Ugandans are usually peaceful, generous and hospitable people quite unlike our ‘post-pay-rise’ fellow blogger seems to be). It might have something to do with the general ‘instability’ in Ugandan politics: Museveni is getting old, and – despite some very creditable achievements in the past – is seriously ‘past his prime’ … but there’s no obvious successor (this is perhaps the result of a deliberate policy on M7’s part – e.g. a few years back, he plucked a complete unknown to be his Vice President): the current Vice President Ssekandi and Premier Mbabazi are both nearing the end of their political careers, and the latter has many enemies (which may include Bahati, by the way). The Parliament hasn’t that much real power, although it’s trying to ‘flex its muscles’ at the moment: this may another factor at play re. the Bill. All very complicated. Meanwhile, innocent gay Ugandans are ‘canaries in the coal mine’.
One hears much talk from certain about the ‘moral superiority’ (sexually, of course) of Ugandan society over ‘ western society’. That’s a favourite ‘lietmotif’ of the ‘bahatistas’ at the moment. My own view is that main difference is that ‘naughtiness’ in that regard tends to be ‘covered up’ more there than here or in the USA (although many straight Ugandan men are often open about their energetic promiscuity). It’s interesting to note that many ‘bahatistas’ complain mostly about the fact that gay Ugandans are being open about who they are … and that is what they find so difficult: the pretence of a ‘gay free Uganda’ is no longer credible.
I think ‘Maazi NCO’ is an MP, and the reason I have engaged with him is to get insight and information into what’s really going on. He has actually been quite helpful in his way.

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Wed, 30 May 2018 18:48:24 +0000

‘Maazi NCO MP’ said this on 20 May:
“… it was the MPs across party lines from NRM to FDC to UPC to the Independents who were gagging to vote unanimously in favour of that bill and it was the executive branch which was trying to restrain our parliament.”
So, according to ‘Maazi NCO MP’, those who tell the truth are lying, and those (like him) who lie are really telling the truth. His credibility is completely in tatters. He can’t even be truthful about his own name!

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:11:56 +0000

Inhofe used to be an insurance salesman. This is proof insurance salesmen have souls.

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:11:56 +0000

Inhofe used to be an insurance salesman. This is proof insurance salesmen have souls.

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