At Change.org, Citibank customer Collin Burton posted a petition aimed at Citibank and Barclays banks. Both banks have significant operations in Uganda. From the petition:
With the “Kill the Gays” bill looming in Uganda’s parliament, Citibank and Barclays have unique and necessary voices that could help stop this bill in its tracks. Their presence in Uganda is significant, and their voices in opposition to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill could have a profound impact in keeping LGBT people safe in Uganda.
Ask Citibank and Barclays to publicly condemn Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” bill, and send a loud message to Ugandan legislators that criminalizing homosexuality with lifetime prison sentences and the death penalty won’t be supported by major international businesses.
I wondered when this might happen. Western companies doing business in Uganda will have a hard time helping their GLBT employees feel safe in an environment where the government can break up peaceful meetings and jail employees for private conduct. Western customers of those companies might want to direct their funds elsewhere here if there is no voice of concern or outrage.
Thank you, Warren, for including the link to the petition. I see the petition has now received well over 500 signatures. This is a positive way we can channel our frustration with this Ugandan slide toward genocide (again).
Will these campaigners be asking Western companies to pull out of Saudi Arabia because their sodomite employees may be decapitated if caught in the act of gayism ?? Do Western companies not operate in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain ???
Nothing will stand in the way of passing this bill. Not even the threat of a western trade boycott
The situation with the Bill is really very confused (M7 and ‘Maazi’ are almost saying the private consensual sex should effectively be decriminalized). Given that it looked like (original full-on Slaughter) Bill would sail through the UG Parliament around two years ago, it could be argued that much has already been achieved.
Plus, Uganda can say goodbye to her coffee exports.
And her standing as a tourist destination will take a clobbering. To say nothing of her standing in the international community.
The situation with the Bill is really very confused (M7 and ‘Maazi’ are almost saying the private consensual sex should effectively be decriminalized). Given that it looked like (original full-on Slaughter) Bill would sail through the UG Parliament around two years ago, it could be argued that much has already been achieved.
Maazi NCO, thanks for informing these folks obsessed with gayism. This time Uganda is not about to give in. If Barclays and Citi Banks show any sign of supporting gayism Ugandan customers will be the first to pull out i assure you. You will merely find any one wanting to associate themselves with any thing to do with Gayism in Uganda. So just be sure that the petition will result into a big loss for both banks.
Hahahahaha….You will find out sooner or later that this boycott is about the West shooting itself in the foot. Once you chaps withdraw, businesses operated by the Chinese, Russians, Turkish, Koreans, Japanese, Indians, Brazilians, South Africans, Nigerians, Gulf Arabs, etc, etc will expand to cover the vaccuum left by you people. I think your government is not crazy enough about gayism to let that happen. Keep dreaming about an international boycott that will hardly have any useful effect on our economy. Our Tourism will not take any significant beating. Of course, those who love gayism will stay away, but we know that many of our foreign customers will keep coming no matter what gay propaganda you put out there.
There’s clearly quite a lot of ‘movement’ on the Bill (or at least there APPEARS to be), suggesting that the efforts to combat Bahati’s proposed slaughter are proving effective.
I supposed we’ll just have to wait to see what the Bahati Bill Mk. 2 looks like, and take it from there, although, if the focus is – as apparently claimed by M7 – now the prevention of so-called ‘recruitment’ of children into sex, then the Bill (Mk. 1 or Mk. 2) is completely unnecessary; Penal Code 129 could take care of that.
People like ‘Maazi’ really want to close down human rights groups (‘Maazi’, in one of his more injudicious moments, has admitted as much on this blog) and probably – for good measure – clobber their members; ‘protecting children’ is not his agendum.
Why is this whole debate so important? Well I think it is about TRUTH. People like Bahati and Ssempa (and ‘Maazi’) have been shown to be liars – hurling accusations which they cannot substantiate (whereas on this blog and elsewhere the lies of Bahati and Co. have been exposed). We have people like that here too, and we don’t want them to receive ‘encouragement’ on the back of the suffering of LGBT Africans.
There’s clearly quite a lot of ‘movement’ on the Bill (or at least there APPEARS to be), suggesting that the efforts to combat Bahati’s proposed slaughter are proving effective.
I supposed we’ll just have to wait to see what the Bahati Bill Mk. 2 looks like, and take it from there, although, if the focus is – as apparently claimed by M7 – now the prevention of so-called ‘recruitment’ of children into sex, then the Bill (Mk. 1 or Mk. 2) is completely unnecessary; Penal Code 129 could take care of that.
People like ‘Maazi’ really want to close down human rights groups (‘Maazi’, in one of his more injudicious moments, has admitted as much on this blog) and probably – for good measure – clobber their members; ‘protecting children’ is not his agendum.
Why is this whole debate so important? Well I think it is about TRUTH. People like Bahati and Ssempa (and ‘Maazi’) have been shown to be liars – hurling accusations which they cannot substantiate (whereas on this blog and elsewhere the lies of Bahati and Co. have been exposed). We have people like that here too, and we don’t want them to receive ‘encouragement’ on the back of the suffering of LGBT Africans.
Maazi NCO, thanks for informing these folks obsessed with gayism. This time Uganda is not about to give in. If Barclays and Citi Banks show any sign of supporting gayism Ugandan customers will be the first to pull out i assure you. You will merely find any one wanting to associate themselves with any thing to do with Gayism in Uganda. So just be sure that the petition will result into a big loss for both banks.
Thank you, Warren, for including the link to the petition. I see the petition has now received well over 500 signatures. This is a positive way we can channel our frustration with this Ugandan slide toward genocide (again).
The situation with the Bill is really very confused (M7 and ‘Maazi’ are almost saying the private consensual sex should effectively be decriminalized). Given that it looked like (original full-on Slaughter) Bill would sail through the UG Parliament around two years ago, it could be argued that much has already been achieved.
Hahahahaha….You will find out sooner or later that this boycott is about the West shooting itself in the foot. Once you chaps withdraw, businesses operated by the Chinese, Russians, Turkish, Koreans, Japanese, Indians, Brazilians, South Africans, Nigerians, Gulf Arabs, etc, etc will expand to cover the vaccuum left by you people. I think your government is not crazy enough about gayism to let that happen. Keep dreaming about an international boycott that will hardly have any useful effect on our economy. Our Tourism will not take any significant beating. Of course, those who love gayism will stay away, but we know that many of our foreign customers will keep coming no matter what gay propaganda you put out there.
Plus, Uganda can say goodbye to her coffee exports.
And her standing as a tourist destination will take a clobbering. To say nothing of her standing in the international community.
The situation with the Bill is really very confused (M7 and ‘Maazi’ are almost saying the private consensual sex should effectively be decriminalized). Given that it looked like (original full-on Slaughter) Bill would sail through the UG Parliament around two years ago, it could be argued that much has already been achieved.
Nothing will stand in the way of passing this bill. Not even the threat of a western trade boycott
Will these campaigners be asking Western companies to pull out of Saudi Arabia because their sodomite employees may be decapitated if caught in the act of gayism ?? Do Western companies not operate in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain ???