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Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by Nobody: 6:52am On Feb 03, 2011
OAM4J:

Tani boda adugbo? Se o ti gbo wipe enu agba ni obi ti ndun ni? Again, omo ti o ba mo owo we lo nba agba jehun. E yin small small boys yi need lati mo bi won se nba agba jehun, otherwise. . . undecided

BTW, Se mo je nanny ti won nfi omo ti ni? Mo kan fe clarify/analyse few things ti o wa confusing fun isale gan ni now, that is why ti mo ni ko wa fun lecture over some weekend nao. Abeg ki eyin small boys lo joko si ibi kan jor. grin
elenu sha.iru yi bayi viagra + red bull lede ma n fi take-off.o kan dun mi fun isale gan ni cuz omode ara e kogbodo tele awon baba ti won ni anything lati offer.
In any case,eje temi shi fresh,i'm just under 18.mo de gbo pe katsumoto ti wo 48 last year.so ti n ba lo,theory bird of the same feather,eyin na ti ma to bi 50 ni yen.e jo sir,e fi isale gan fun awa youths ta le toju e.set ti yin ti expire.you no no fit understand, grin grin
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by fstranger1: 6:58am On Feb 03, 2011
Its funny how everyone is fighting over Isale

Isale seems to be the new  NL bride

Her list of suitors thus far include:

Katsumoto      ( Professor-like in demeanor, but willing to shed the toga of Mr. Serious for a taste of some, hopefully, hairy puccy)
Bluetooth        ( Always clueless, but never found wanting anywhere puccy is the subject of discuss)
OAMJ               ( Apparently gay, but willing to try some puccy, as long as it is underage, very pathetic man)
DayoKanu       ( Usually loves to take it in the arse, but now willing to give it in the arse to anyone with a DD boo-bie)
Buzegee         ( pretends to be shy in order to make himself seem more attractive to Isale, Epic Fail)
SEFAGO          ( Very Heterosexual and polygamist, loves to despoil random women he meets on NL, hopes to make Isale his latest conquest)
PHYSICSMSTP ( Rumor has it that he enjoys listening to "I Like It (Jersey Shore Version)" while being rammed from behind by grad students, preferably Bristol grad students, but now very well interested in licking it as against getting sticked)

Letz see how it all plays out in the coming weeks



PS: If you feel you have been very well represented, appropriately portrayed,  or given an undue advantage in any way, I hereby offer . . .   undecided
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by Nobody: 7:12am On Feb 03, 2011
fstranger1:

Its funny how everyone is fighting over Isale

Isale seems to be the new  NL bride

Her list of suitors thus far include:

Katsumoto ( Professor like in demeanor, but willing to shed the toga of seriousness for a taste of some hairy puccy)
Bluetooth   (Always clueless, but never found wanting anywhere puccy is the subject of discuss)
OAMJ          ( Apparently gay, but willing to try some puccy, as long as it is underage, very pathetic man)
DayoKanu  ( Usually loves to take it in the arse, but now willing to give it in the arse to anyone with a DD boo-bie)
Buzegee    ( pretends to be shy in order to make himself seem more attractive to Isale, Epic Fail)
SEFAGO     ( Very Heterosexual and polygamist, loves to despoil random women he meets on NL)

Letz see how it all plays out in the coming weeks



PS: If you feel you have been very well represented, appropriately portrayed,  or given an undue advantage in any way, I hereby offer . . .   undecided



Don't mind the two of them jare.They seem to take advantage of small boys,just the same way they hijacked ileke-idi.such is life. grin grin
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by Sagamite(m): 2:15pm On Feb 03, 2011
By the way, eldee, in regards to Lions eating grass that I told you a Lion would if it does not irritate the Lion's palate and it is desperate.

You would be surprised what animals would eat.

[flash=400,350]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9vxHN8_jSE[/flash]
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by manny4life(m): 5:22pm On Feb 03, 2011
@Sagamite, that cow eating a lil chicken video was just awful
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by Sagamite(m): 5:28pm On Feb 03, 2011
manny4life:

@Sagamite, that cow eating a lil chicken video was just awful

Grow some balls, nigga. grin grin grin grin grin

You are just realising life is not like Disney described it. tongue grin
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by manny4life(m): 6:06pm On Feb 03, 2011
Well I can borrow some of your grown balls; no homo,
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by Sagamite(m): 6:24pm On Feb 03, 2011
Just stop watching Disney or go for therapy to unwash what Disney fed you, it stifles balls growth.
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by OAM4J: 6:42pm On Feb 03, 2011
~Bluetooth:

elenu sha.iru yi bayi viagra + red bull lede ma n fi take-off.o kan dun mi fun isale gan ni cuz omode ara e kogbodo tele awon baba ti won ni anything lati offer.
In any case,eje temi shi fresh,i'm just under 18.mo de gbo pe katsumoto ti wo 48 last year.so ti n ba lo,theory bird of the same feather,eyin na ti ma to bi 50 ni yen.e jo sir,e fi isale gan fun awa youths ta le toju e.set ti yin ti expire.you no no fit understand, grin grin

Iwo omo 45sec-action yi, o fe ma ko ja aye e. Se iru e ni Isale gan ati ileke idi nwa ni? Pele atoto 2inches e ti ko le ever kan ile, abeg kuro lona jor.
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by OAM4J: 6:48pm On Feb 03, 2011
fstranger1:

Its funny how everyone is fighting over Isale

Isale seems to be the new  NL bride

Her list of suitors thus far include:

Katsumoto      ( Professor-like in demeanor, but willing to shed the toga of Mr. Serious for a taste of some, hopefully, hairy puccy)
Bluetooth        ( Always clueless, but never found wanting anywhere puccy is the subject of discuss)
OAMJ               ( Apparently gay, but willing to try some puccy, as long as it is underage, very pathetic man)
DayoKanu       ( Usually loves to take it in the arse, but now willing to give it in the arse to anyone with a DD boo-bie)
Buzegee         ( pretends to be shy in order to make himself seem more attractive to Isale, Epic Fail)
SEFAGO          ( Very Heterosexual and polygamist, loves to despoil random women he meets on NL, hopes to make Isale his latest conquest)
PHYSICSMSTP ( Rumor has it that he enjoys listening to "I Like It (Jersey Shore Version)" while being rammed from behind by grad students, preferably Bristol grad students, but now very well interested in licking it as against getting sticked)

Letz see how it all plays out in the coming weeks



PS: If you feel you have been very well represented, appropriately portrayed,  or given an undue advantage in any way, I hereby offer . . .   undecided
  grin grin
You forgot to tell us that you are SEFAGO's secret lover (the reason people mistake you two as one person). BTW who is 'male' & who is 'female' btw you two? . . . Dont bother tell us, we dont wanna know . . . very gross!!! tongue grin
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by manny4life(m): 7:42pm On Feb 03, 2011
Sagamite:

Just stop watching Disney or go for therapy to unwash what Disney fed you, it stifles balls growth.

Doesn't look like you get it; I watch disney right, and so I won't stop right, that why I said

manny4life:

Well I can borrow some of your grown balls; no homo,
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by viewlekan: 11:36pm On Feb 03, 2011
Like I said all along, a lot of folks were a bit premature in making definitive conclusions as to the motive behind the death of Mr. Kato.

AP reports that a male prostitute has been arrested for his murder:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ihVH6Ahnbnhdo3CqrEDT3mCBknKg?docId=CNG.9057dbf4f3db02f92ea39216b26eb623.8a1

I cannot obviously attest to the genuity of the report but it is quite possible.
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by viewlekan: 11:46pm On Feb 03, 2011
Hmm, some interesting parts of the story:

Police believe the two had a prior relationship since Kato stood as surety for Nsubuga during a January bail hearing where Nsubuga was released on remand after an arrest for theft, according to Kayihura.

Following his release from prison, Nsubuga, who has a long criminal record, began working on Kato's property doing domestic labour, Kayihura said.

"According to the suspect , he negotiated with the deceased to be paid money as he was being used as a sexual partner, but that the promise was never fulfilled," Kayihura said.


Basically, I believe dude wanted to take advantage of the guy and he got the wrong end of the stick!,
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by isalegan2: 12:17am On Feb 04, 2011
Fact is all the hand-wringing about "African Savages" and "Vigilante Executions" was nonsense, since it was already mentioned in the original article in the opening post that the police's primary suspect was the deceased man's roommate.  Looks like the murderer is a career criminal.

Anyway, here is the full article in the new link provided by Viewlekan above:

Male love-peddler killed Uganda gay activist: police
(AFP) – 5 hours ago

KAMPALA — A Ugandan gay rights activist was killed after reneging on an agreement to pay for sex, the country's police chief told journalists Thursday.

Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura said Enoch Sydney Nsubuga, 22, had confessed to killing activist David Kato, and "there is nothing concrete to suggest" the murder was "a hate crime."

"According to the suspect ,  he negotiated with the deceased to be paid money as he was being used as a sexual partner, but that the promise was never fulfilled," Kayihura said.

Nsubuga, presented briefly to the media Thursday, confessed that after realising Kato did not intend to pay as promised, "he picked a hammer from the bathroom and hit (Kato) on the head," and robbed him, Kayihura added.

Police believe the two had a prior relationship since Kato stood as surety for Nsubuga during a January bail hearing where Nsubuga was released on remand after an arrest for theft, according to Kayihura.

Following his release from prison, Nsubuga, who has a long criminal record, began working on Kato's property doing domestic labour, Kayihura said.

Kayihura added that police were "not dismissing" the hate crime theory and cautioned the public and Uganda's media against "intolerance."

Last year Kato was named and pictured by an anti-gay tabloid called Rolling Stone in a story that carried the headline "Hang Them" in reference to gay rights campaigners.

"Whoever is talking about hanging, we are going to have to take them on. It is absolutely unacceptable," Kayihura said.

Kayihura also admonished Anglican priest Thomas Musoke for anti-gay remarks made at Kato's funeral last week.

"You don't make such statements at a funeral," he said. "God accepts everybody ,  you must be sensitive."

Although engaging in homosexual sex is listed in Uganda's penal code, Kayihura said investigating such cases in not a top priority.

"At this moment in time, there are bigger crime categories that we are focusing on," he said.


http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ihVH6Ahnbnhdo3CqrEDT3mCBknKg?docId=CNG.9057dbf4f3db02f92ea39216b26eb623.8a1
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by Caliente(m): 12:41am On Feb 04, 2011
[size=13pt] i dont give a 4uuck if a dead walkin gay was killed, its a relief to the normal natural society. Whatever the case is, Leviticus 20:13 solution is what they deserve. Filthy gays![/size]
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by OAM4J: 3:54am On Feb 04, 2011


KAMPALA — A Ugandan gay rights activist was killed after reneging on an agreement to pay for sex, the country's police chief told journalists Thursday.

Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura said Enoch Sydney Nsubuga, 22, had confessed to killing activist David Kato, and "there is nothing concrete to suggest" the murder was "a hate crime."

"According to the suspect ,  he negotiated with the deceased to be paid money as he was being used as a sexual partner, but that the promise was never fulfilled," Kayihura said.

Nsubuga, presented briefly to the media Thursday, confessed that after realising Kato did not intend to pay as promised, "he picked a hammer from the bathroom and hit (Kato) on the head," and robbed him, Kayihura added.

Police believe the two had a prior relationship since Kato stood as surety for Nsubuga during a January bail hearing where Nsubuga was released on remand after an arrest for theft, according to Kayihura.

Following his release from prison, Nsubuga, who has a long criminal record, began working on Kato's property doing domestic labour, Kayihura said.

Kayihura added that police were "not dismissing" the hate crime theory and cautioned the public and Uganda's media against "intolerance."

Last year Kato was named and pictured by an anti-gay tabloid called Rolling Stone in a story that carried the headline "Hang Them" in reference to gay rights campaigners.

"Whoever is talking about hanging, we are going to have to take them on. It is absolutely unacceptable," Kayihura said.

Kayihura also admonished Anglican priest Thomas Musoke for anti-gay remarks made at Kato's funeral last week.

"You don't make such statements at a funeral," he said. "God accepts everybody ,  you must be sensitive."

Although engaging in homosexual sex is listed in Uganda's penal code, Kayihura said investigating such cases in not a top priority.

"At this moment in time, there are bigger crime categories that we are focusing on," he said.[/i]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ihVH6Ahnbnhdo3CqrEDT3mCBknKg?docId=CNG.9057dbf4f3db02f92ea39216b26eb623.8a1


I hope all those gay rights activists and their reps on NL can now shut up their mouth.

The guy was breaking the law and apparently taking advantage of the underprivileged.

Africans say No to Homosexuality. QED.
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by Sagamite(m): 11:22am On Feb 04, 2011
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8275937/Gay-lessons-in-maths-geography-and-science.html

[size=18pt]'Gay lessons' in maths, geography and science[/size]

Children are to be taught about homosexuality in maths, geography and science lessons as part of a Government-backed drive to "celebrate the gay community".

Lesson plans have been drawn up for pupils as young as four, in a scheme funded with a £35,000 grant from an education quango, the Training and Development Agency for Schools.

The initiative will be officially launched next month at the start of "LGBT History Month" – an initiative to encourage teaching about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual issues.

The lesson plans, spread across the curriculum, will be offered to all schools, which can choose whether or not to make use of them.

But critics last night called the initiative a poor use of public money which could distract from the teaching of "core" subjects.

Among the suggestions are:

Maths – teaching statistics through census findings about the number of homosexuals in the population, and using gay characters in scenarios for maths problems;

Design and technology – encouraging pupils to make symbols linked to the gay rights movement;

Science – studying animal species where the male takes a leading role in raising young, such as emperor penguins and sea horses, and staging class discussions on different family structures, including same-sex parents;

Geography – examining the transformation of San Francisco's Castro district in the 1960s from a working-class Irish area to the world's first "gay neighbourhood", and considering why homosexuals move from the countryside to cities;

Languages – using gay characters in role play scenarios, and teaching "LGBT vocabulary".

The lesson plans, written by teachers and backed by the Department for Education, will be available for schools to download from the Schools Out website.

For younger children, the plans will suggest using images of same sex couples and also promoting books such as "And Tango Makes Three", which is about two male penguins raising a young chick, inspired by actual events at New York's Central Park Zoo.

The Schools Out organisation, which runs the month-long event, declares on its website that the aim is to "celebrate the lives and achievements of the LGBT community" and "encourage everyone to see diversity and cultural pluralism as positive forces".

However, Craig Whittaker, Conservative MP for Calder Valley and a member of the Education Select Committee, said: "This is nonsense.

We have enough problems in our country, where we are too far down the national comparative league tables in these core subjects.

"Teachers should concentrate on teaching the core subjects, so we become the best at those again. I don't see how introducing LGBT themes into those subjects is going to help.

"This is not about being homophobic, because there are other schemes around the education system which support the LGBT agenda."

John O'Connell, from the TaxPayers' Alliance, added: "Parents will wonder if this is the right use of funds and time in those subjects, particularly when we keep hearing how tight budgets are."

Sue Sanders, from Schools Out, defended the project.

She said: "These lessons are not big tub-thumping lessons about LGBT and nothing else.

"All we are attempting to do is remind teachers that LGBT people are part of the population and you can include them in most of your lessons when you are thinking inclusively."

David Watkins, a teacher involved in the scheme, said: "We don't want teachers to start out saying 'This is a gay lesson.' We just want lessons that don't ignore that there are lesbian and gay people who suffer from issues and problems.

"When you have a maths problem, why does it have to involve a straight family or a boyfriend and girlfriend? Why not two boys or two girls?

"It's not about teaching about gay sex, it is about images and exposing children to the idea that there are other types of people out there."

A spokesman for the TDA said the funding was secured last March and that £20,000 was to go towards the lesson plans, with the rest spent mostly on the website.

A Department for Education spokesman added: "These are optional teaching materials. Ultimately, it is for heads and teachers to choose the most appropriate teaching resources to help promote equality and tolerance."

LGBT History Month started in 2005 and has previously focused more on raising awareness of prominent figures said to be homosexual.

A list on its website includes Hadrian, the Roman emperor, Michaelangelo, the Renaissance painter, Alan Turing, the mathematician, and Will Young, the singer.
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by Sagamite(m): 11:37am On Feb 04, 2011
Hear their silly arguments directed to stealthly let gullible mooorons not be against it.

A Department for Education spokesman added: "These are optional teaching materials. Ultimately, it is for heads and teachers to choose the most appropriate teaching resources to help promote equality and tolerance."

So what options are available to a parent that objects to this if the head and teachers of their ward's school elect to utilise the materials?

First of all, they have to make the effort to challenge the head and teachers. In the society they live in, if they are white (which most likely they would be), they are most likely going to be made to feel like a closed-minded bigot and probably racist (because of the consistent, pathetic and lame linking of faggotism to racism).

If the school insists on using the material after objections, what are they going to do? Pull their wards from school? Who is going to lose out from such an action if not their own kids that will miss lessons without alternatives? They surely would not be able to complain about teachers/heads that are not breaking any rules or law? So what other option is open to them? NOTHING! If they object, only they would lose. This is essentially a by force thing but hidden under optional-with-no-options.

Stealthly forcing people to accept homosexuality and later you would see them coming to give lame arguments after the brainwashing claiming to be "liberals", "progressives"and "open-minded".

This is the silly and insidious way faggotism has slowly been forced on people. Fcking DECEIT and FRAUD!

Why can't the government set up an external teaching body to teach their filth material and let people voluntary send their wards if they want to?

Slow and modular attachments of pro-gay brainwash so as to avoid public outrage because they know the average human is a mooooron and has no foresight. They will say they want a little, then later they would add more, then later more again. They say now it is just an optional thing for Heads, do not be surprised after 10 to 15 years, they will basically force by law all schools to include the material in their curricullum. That is the trend they have used time and again in UK to deceive their mooorons and avoid public outcry. DO NOT GIVE FAGGOTISM AN INCH!

Permanently criminalise it in Nigeria. Don't think all they want is to be able to practice it lawfully in private, they will try and force acceptance and mainstreamism. Only foooools would not be able to figure that out.
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by Nobody: 11:48am On Feb 04, 2011
Sagamite:

Hear their silly arguments directed to stealthly let gullible mooorons not be against it.

A Department for Education spokesman added: "These are optional teaching materials. Ultimately, it is for heads and teachers to choose the most appropriate teaching resources to help promote equality and tolerance."

You see they are already making value judgements implying that those teachers who don't accept teaching faggotism are intolerant and don't believe in equality.
As if there is any reason for a sexual perversion to be taught in schools in the first place. SMH
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by Nobody: 2:23pm On Feb 04, 2011
Sagamite:

Stealthly forcing people to accept homosexuality and later you would see them coming to give lame arguments after the brainwashing claiming to be "liberals", "progressives"and "open-minded".
This is the silly and insidious way faggotism has slowly been forced on people. Fcking DECEIT and FRAUD!
Why can't the government set up an external teaching body to teach their filth material and let people voluntary send their wards if they want to?
Slow and modular attachments of pro-gay brainwash so as to avoid public outrage because they know the average human is a mooooron and has no foresight. They will say they want a little, then later they would add more, then later more again. They say now it is just an optional thing for Heads, do not be surprised after 10 to 15 years, they will basically force by law all schools to include the material in their curricullum. That is the trend they have used time and again in UK to deceive their mooorons and avoid public outcry. DO NOT GIVE FAGGOTISM AN INCH!
That is exactly the point. You even see how some of these posters like Manny and Dr Rionnelli  that are strenuously objecting to being classed in the pro-faggott camp implying that their position on this issue is due to basic moral cowardice and not because they passionately believe in faggotism.
We have other misguided elements on this thread that somehow imagine that once faggotism is decriminalised that the pro faggott lobby would stop at that,
Anyway the whole faggottry business is just dumb and pointless and inherently boring.
Seriously who wants to read about 2 celebrity faggott partners or how they copulate.?
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by Jenifa1: 2:51pm On Feb 04, 2011
una still dey here?
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by daamerican: 10:17pm On Feb 04, 2011
Wow, I can't believe what I'm seeing. There is more hate on this website than stormfront (which is the white nationalist web site) Tisk, Tisk Nigeria.
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by ekubear1: 12:49am On Feb 05, 2011

Quote from: eku_bear on February 01, 2011, 06:04 PM
Ahah, so that is my entire point. "Unnatural and disgusting" does not imply "should be banned", or is an "ideal candidate for banning."

You've formed a specific subjective opinion. Which you are certainly entitled to. But it doesn't follow that what you or even a majority of people find disgusting should be banned.

Entitled to and is a whole lot stronger than the steeewpid arguments saying gays are normal and be accepted.

Quote from: eku_bear on February 01, 2011, 06:04 PM
Err, go bring your white girlfriend around most places in the south. Make out with her in public. See how people react.

Even better, do this in certain black communities anywhere in the US, see how people react 

What is the population of those that will be disgusted. Do loud minorities become a majority?

Even if they were majority, it does not make it unnatural.

Quote from: eku_bear on February 01, 2011, 06:04 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals

I said show me a video. You showed me wiki?

Your position is unreasonable. When did a majority become what determines right or wrong?

And what do you need a video for? The studies references in that article aren't suffucient? Do you actually need some animal gay p0rn to be convinced?  grin grin grin


(Sorry for taking forever to respond, had some school stuff I was preparing for)
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by ekubear1: 12:50am On Feb 05, 2011
[quote="SEFAGO"]
PS: Eku_bear do you code or program? I kind of have issues with a script I am writing (And I should have finished writing since last week Friday lol). Though its probably in a language you might not be used to.
[/quote]

Yes, I do. What language is it in? I realize I might be too late to help though. . .
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by Mobinga: 2:39am On Feb 05, 2011
Caliente:

[size=13pt] i dont give a 4uuck if a dead walkin gay was killed, its a relief to the normal natural society. Whatever the case is, Leviticus 20:13 solution is what they deserve. Filthy gays![/size]

Gbam
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by drrionelli(m): 2:53am On Feb 05, 2011
daamerican:

Wow, I can't believe what I'm seeing. There is more hate on this website than stormfront (which is the white nationalist web site) Tisk, Tisk Nigeria.
True words. But, I feel you'd agree with me when I note that it's quite normal for hate and ignorance to go hand in hand. The degree of non-critical thinking exhibited in this thread is nothing short of appalling.
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by OAM4J: 3:23am On Feb 05, 2011
eku_bear:

Your position is unreasonable. When did a majority become what determines right or wrong?

Majority may not always determine what is right or wrong, but they determine what should be acceptable in a community since the practice of democracy.
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by ekubear1: 4:18am On Feb 05, 2011
OAM4J:

Majority may not always determine what is right or wrong, but they determine what should be acceptable in a community since the practice of democracy.

I don't think democracy quite means "majority can do whatever the F they like." At least, the way it is practiced in the west. Need to avoid mob rule, tyranny of the majority (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority).
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by Jenifa1: 4:23am On Feb 05, 2011
yup. I understand it as majority rule, minority rights.
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by OAM4J: 5:08am On Feb 05, 2011
eku_bear:

I don't think democracy quite means "majority can do whatever the F they like." At least, the way it is practiced in the west. Need to avoid mob rule, tyranny of the majority (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority).

Though I am not a political scientist, I understand clearly that there are check and balances in democracy, but [b]ultimately [/b]the majority in a community will eventually have their way, even if it means changing their constitution.


Jenifa_:

yup. I understand it as majority rule, minority rights.

Minority rights will not come at the expense of majority rights.
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by Jenifa1: 5:16am On Feb 05, 2011
OAM4J:


Minority rights will not come at the expense of majority rights.

of course not.
what kind of majority rights are you talking about?



The term Minority Rights embodies two separate concepts: first, normal individual rights as applied to members of racial, ethnic, class, religious, linguistic or sexual minorities, and second, collective rights accorded to minority groups. The term may also apply simply to individual rights of anyone who is not part of a majority decision.

Civil rights movements often seek to ensure that individual rights are not denied on the basis of membership in a minority group.
Re: Uganda Gay Rights Activist David Kato Killed by Jenifa1: 5:27am On Feb 05, 2011
OAM4J:

Though I am not a political scientist, I understand clearly that there are check and balances in democracy, but [b]ultimately [/b]the majority in a community will eventually have their way, even if it means changing their constitution.

depends on what kind of society it is.
that's why people are encouraged to be active citizens rather than passive citizens. and why the government (if it is effective) is there to protect the individual rights of the minority groups (ex. it is illegal for employers,schools etc to discriminate based on race, gender, sexuality, disability etc at least in the U.S).
why exclude the minority from the same rights that you enjoy. because of prejudice.


The word prejudice is most commonly used to refer to a preconceived judgment toward a people or a person because of race, social class, gender, ethnicity, age, disability, political beliefs, religion, sexual orientation or other personal characteristics.

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