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Bluenorthwest

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24. Did I say those events were not genocide? I'm talking about the bullshit TNR is

Fri Dec 14, 2012, 11:15 AM

Dec 2012

covering up here. Uganda's regime is genocidal. This is why for serveral years now, international pressures on them to stop all of it and to not make law allowing for more murders have been high on many priorty lists.
Do some reading. TNR says 'the anti gay bill' but most world wide press and even US press call it 'death to gays bill' or the 'gay genocide bill'. Many people use that language because that is what the bill calls for.
Uganda law already makes gay people criminals subject to 14 years in prison. The new law adds life in prison and death as punishment. Did you know that from reading TNR? Nope. Why do you think that is?
Please note that the folks TNR calls 'gay' are Ugandans. Facing genocide from their own government. They share all of the other social pressures Uganda has, plus threats and arrests from their own government. They are Ugandans. They are not somehow Westerners because they are gay.

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Did you know that Uganda had +30% inflation & riots over the last year? Me neither. [View all] HiPointDem Dec 2012 OP

You think ethanol isn't part of the problem? dkf Dec 2012 #1

you think ethanol has nothing to do with speculation by 'job creators' (not to mention political HiPointDem Dec 2012 #2

Well if by job creators you mean farmers then maybe so dkf Dec 2012 #3

I mean Cargill and ADM. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #4

Agricultural Profits Pass $100 Billion As Farmers Have One Of Their Best Years Ever dkf Dec 2012 #5

archer daniels midland: ethanol HiPointDem Dec 2012 #9

No no no...it all starts with the farm subsidies that drive the Iowa caucuses. dkf Dec 2012 #12

cargill and adm control corn production in the us and in the world. and get most of the subsidies. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #13

So those are all Cargill and ADM employees driving the entire Iowa process? I doubt it. dkf Dec 2012 #14

excuse me? they buy most of the corn and are the price makers, what don't you get? HiPointDem Dec 2012 #15

How long have you been following the Iowa caucuses? dkf Dec 2012 #33

what didn't you get about cargill & adm buy 1/3 of all corn grown in the US? They are the price- HiPointDem Dec 2012 #35

That isn't what drives Iowa voters. dkf Dec 2012 #37

adm *owns* iowa. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #38

du rec. nt xchrom Dec 2012 #6

You'll never hear anything like this about Uganda. bulloney Dec 2012 #7

we hear plenty about the high inflation in 'communist' zimbabwe, though. an official 'enemy.' HiPointDem Dec 2012 #8

Hadn't heard a thing. LisaLynne Dec 2012 #10

Of course I did. Historically genocide movments thrive under these circumstances. Bluenorthwest Dec 2012 #11

I have no idea what you're talking about. By 'this article' do you mean the one that says uganda HiPointDem Dec 2012 #16

You asked if people knew about this. I most certainly did. Bluenorthwest Dec 2012 #17

i'm confused about what you're calling 'the genocide'. the article talks about two things: food HiPointDem Dec 2012 #18

I'd suggest that the confusion stems from TNR's language 'anti gay bill' without Bluenorthwest Dec 2012 #21

i see. by 'the genocide' you mean the genocide of gays connected to this bill which hasn't been HiPointDem Dec 2012 #22

Did I say those events were not genocide? I'm talking about the bullshit TNR is Bluenorthwest Dec 2012 #24

TNR says the bill surfaced 'nearly two years ago.' Yet here is The Atlantic from Dec Bluenorthwest Dec 2012 #23

Because that article was written in 2011. but yeah, i agree with you about warren -- & obama's HiPointDem Dec 2012 #25

Well that makes a large difference. It is a two year old article. Bluenorthwest Dec 2012 #26

i'm completely on your side regarding the use of scapegoats to divert people from their real HiPointDem Dec 2012 #27

Yeah, it is wrong to call a bill allowing genocide a genocide bill until how many are dead? Bluenorthwest Dec 2012 #28

as i said, i am perfectly willing to call it a *genocidal bill.* i'm just not willing to talk about HiPointDem Dec 2012 #29

What I actually wrote: Bluenorthwest Dec 2012 #32

Here is where you are highly incorrect. Bluenorthwest Dec 2012 #30

no, i don't think it's odd at all. i think they're very aware of the bill & much less aware of much HiPointDem Dec 2012 #31

You keep attacking my use of the word 'genocide' although the entire world uses Bluenorthwest Dec 2012 #34

from your link: a "genocide in the making" is a genocide that hasn't occurred. i am sorry you are HiPointDem Dec 2012 #36

Some of what has been occuring and look at the issue in depth: Bluenorthwest Dec 2012 #39

How would you have heard about it at DU, when you joined a year later? muriel_volestrangler Dec 2012 #40

It should ring a Bell. nt msanthrope Dec 2012 #41

i've been reading du for a very long time. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #42

You read DU for a long time, then decided to do 10k in posts in one year? msanthrope Dec 2012 #43

Which doesn't mean you weren't posting here for a long time too (nt) muriel_volestrangler Dec 2012 #44

nope not a thing but we did hear about justin biebers love life dembotoz Dec 2012 #19

More of the Shock Doctrine at work gollygee Dec 2012 #20