The United States has warned Uganda’s President Museveni that it will closely “monitor” Uganda’s 2011 presidential and general elections, to ensure that they are “free and fair”. Otherwise there will be crippling sanctions.

There are going to be sanctions anyway – Uganda being expelled from the African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA), an agreement between the US and several African countries, giving them favourable access to American markets — whether the elections provide an excuse or not.

Last month, US Trade Representative, Ron Kirk Wyder, wrote to Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, telling her to “communicate immediately to the Ugandan government and President Museveni directly, that Uganda’s beneficiary status under AGOA will be revoked should the proposed legislation be enacted”.

What legislation?

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An Anti-Homosexuality Bill was proposed in October 2009 by David Bahati MP – a bill providing for jail terms for homosexual acts and the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality“, i.e. if it involves a minor, if the perpetrator is HIV-positive, and for serial offenders.

The Ugandan Parliament’s Speaker has told the USA to mind their own business: “As Black people, the way we understand this issue is not the same way Whites understand it. We should be able to decide our own ways . . . .”

So with the homosexuality legislation now before Uganda’s Parliament, Mrs Clinton reportedly had a recent 45-minute phone call with President Museveni, telling him that Uganda must “toe the line, or else”.

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Last year, there were 52 executions in the USA, including 27 in the state of Texas alone. Perhaps they should impose sanctions against themselves?

Mrs Clinton has also announced the USA’s intention to provide “massive funding” over five years to promote “reproductive health care and family planning” – read “abortion” — as a “basic right” around the world.

In 2007, Museveni was one of the African presidents refusing to sign the Maputo Protocol, a push for legalising abortion throughout Africa. He is being punished for that, too.

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The USA, long world leader in hypocrisy, is now descending to uncharted depths of degeneracy and bullying.

P.S. Read on below the picture . . . .

Dear Reader, Since posting the above, we have received the following comment from the Exceutive Office of the President of the USA. Please look at it. Your MMK blogger, AJ

From: Daniel Workman

Message: To whom it might concern,

My name is Daniel Workman and I work for United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk.  A few weeks ago the Monitor Newspaper, Uganda,wrote an article that mistakenly said United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk Wyden sent a letter to Secretary of State Hilary Clinton on January 12 regarding opposition to Uganda’s proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill.  Ambassador Kirk did not write the letter to Secretary Clinton. Representative Ron Wyden sent the letter.  The USTR Public Affairs Office reached out to the Monitor Newspaper to get the article corrected.  The corrected article now appears on the paper’s website (http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/842460/-/whaqcx/-/index.html).
 I want to make sure you see the corrected version of the article so that you too can update your website content
(http://marymackillop.org/the-world%E2%80%99s-worst-and-most-perverse-bully-at-it-again) as soon as possible. If you have any questions, comments or concerns please don’t hesitate to let me know.

Thanks and have a great day,

Daniel

Daniel Workman
Office of Media and Public Affairs
Office of the United States Trade Representative
Executive Office of the President