Uganda to kill gays
Salomon Baeza
Issue date: 2/26/10 Section: Opinion
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing," while the ever popular quote is usually misattributed to the English politician Edmund Burke its true origin is mostly unknown.
What is known, however, is that despite an origin truer words have never been spoken or for that matter written.
We go about our daily lives ignorant of the goings on that may need our intervening, or at the very least voicing, whether it is in our own backyard or an ocean away we continually allow for 'evil' acts to be perpetrated with little less than an opposing whimper.
Though sometimes there are shouts.
One such instance occurred 10 months ago and will reach its triumph within the next month and yet only a very small amount of us even know of it.
In April of last year the African nation of Uganda proposed the 'Anti-Homosexuality Bill' a bill which if passed calls for the imprisonment and even execution for those breaking the British colonial law, implemented more than 48 years ago, prohibiting homosexual acts.
If passed, a highly likely conclusion, the law would broaden the existing anti-gay laws to, as already stated, allow for the execution of those found having same sex relations.
More than that the bill will also retroactively allow for the execution of those previously convicted of homosexuality, anyone who is diagnosed as HIV positive or found guilty of having performed same sex acts with anyone below the age of 18 as well as provisions for extradition of any Ugandan found to be committing same-sex acts outside of the nation.
As if that weren't enough the bill goes as far as allowing for the prosecution and punishment of anyone, individual, media organization, company, etc., in support of gay rights.
This bill is nothing short of monstrous and would stand amongst historically inhuman laws like the Third Reich's Paragraph 175 and even the South African laws that resulted in the Apartheid that caused the imprisonment of former South African President Nelson Mandela.
What is known, however, is that despite an origin truer words have never been spoken or for that matter written.
We go about our daily lives ignorant of the goings on that may need our intervening, or at the very least voicing, whether it is in our own backyard or an ocean away we continually allow for 'evil' acts to be perpetrated with little less than an opposing whimper.
Though sometimes there are shouts.
One such instance occurred 10 months ago and will reach its triumph within the next month and yet only a very small amount of us even know of it.
In April of last year the African nation of Uganda proposed the 'Anti-Homosexuality Bill' a bill which if passed calls for the imprisonment and even execution for those breaking the British colonial law, implemented more than 48 years ago, prohibiting homosexual acts.
If passed, a highly likely conclusion, the law would broaden the existing anti-gay laws to, as already stated, allow for the execution of those found having same sex relations.
More than that the bill will also retroactively allow for the execution of those previously convicted of homosexuality, anyone who is diagnosed as HIV positive or found guilty of having performed same sex acts with anyone below the age of 18 as well as provisions for extradition of any Ugandan found to be committing same-sex acts outside of the nation.
As if that weren't enough the bill goes as far as allowing for the prosecution and punishment of anyone, individual, media organization, company, etc., in support of gay rights.
This bill is nothing short of monstrous and would stand amongst historically inhuman laws like the Third Reich's Paragraph 175 and even the South African laws that resulted in the Apartheid that caused the imprisonment of former South African President Nelson Mandela.
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