Comments on: Contentious Day Ahead for Uganda’s Parliament; Anti-Homosexuality Bill Still On Deck; UPDATE on Death Penalty

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:31:43 +0000

http://www.policymic.com/articles/19788/uganda-kill-gays-bill-why-passing-this-bill-would-be-the-best-things-for-gay-activists

(A different take on whether it would be good for the Bill to pass; the same take on the reality of the ‘death penalty’ – it’s effectively hard-wired into the Bill, even if those ‘car cash’ MPs change Clause 3.)

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:31:43 +0000

http://www.policymic.com/articles/19788/uganda-kill-gays-bill-why-passing-this-bill-would-be-the-best-things-for-gay-activists

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:31:58 +0000

Death penalty is till there; Bill still in 2009 form: http://allafrica.com/stories/201211290868.html

The ‘formal’ death penalty is not the real issue, of course. It’s the whole Bill that is the problem.

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:31:58 +0000

Death penalty is till there; Bill still in 2009 form: http://allafrica.com/stories/201211290868.html

The ‘formal’ death penalty is not the real issue, of course. It’s the whole Bill that is the problem.

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:48:47 +0000

An aside: isn’t it interesting that certain high-profile extreme right-wingers (Lively, Fischer, and now, apparently, Perkins) are all ‘coming out’ to support the Bill, even though the death penalty is in fact still there (I’m certain you are correct in your appraisal, Warren – no amendments have ever been made to Bill as fas as I know).

Perhaps they are ignorant of the reality? Or perhaps …