₦airaland Forum

isale_gan2:
The article did state that bigamy remains a "civil offense." It's not clear from that whether that means it is simply a tort between the parties, or it is still an offense, but simply a misdemeanor.

Bottomline: You can't go to jail for it and it is not a felonious offense.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/in-lagos-bigamy-is-no-longer-a-crime/105094/
The reporter could have done a better job asking questions. Or is the state still working on the final details?

It means that if someone marries more than ) wife the state wife, the state is no longer obligated to prosecute his as a criminal. However, the first wife still has the right to sue the husband and claim damages. This is more important when the marriage was was contracted on the basis that it would be monogamous as most church weddings are. If the man then changes his mind and marries another wife against the first wife's wishes, she can sue.

Whatever joo. The new year is almost here so you people had better get ready to pay 100% of your January salary as first fruits.

Other wise the god shall punish your wickedness and turn his face away from you. Thy crops shall wither in the fields, thy goats and thy sheep shall perish. The lord shall smite thine children and thine children's children, even to the seventh generation. For thou hath stolen that which belongs to the lord, and kept his offering for thineselves.

[/sarcasm]

GEJ and co are pissing on us and Beaf keeps shouting that it's rain.

If it's rain, how come it's yellow and smells like ammonia?

Look at all these people bashing PDP. As if come 2015 you're not all going to line up and vote for them again like you did in April.

Nigerians! Never have I seen a bigger bunch of mugus.

Deep Sight:
There are se[b]x[/b]ual practices that can actually be very very physically harmful and even constitute assault and battery. Such as Bondage, Domination, Sado Masochism. Why is no one criminalizing these?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_and_submission

And if that is criminalized, just how many se[b]x[/b]ual perversions will we go on to criminalize?

This is misdirected energy.

Obviously, they're hoping that by passing this bill they can make Nigerians to forget what a lazy, useless bunch of parasites they all are. They are hoping that we'll forget that they failed to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill last term and that the bill has to start the entire process again from scratch. They are hoping we'll forget about the dozens of other important bills that they've been sitting on, some for up to a decade, without passing.

They are hoping that we'll forget about how they were able to amend the constitution in record time to protect their jumbo allowances, yet they couldn't find time to make the small change that would allow states to control the electricity they generate by themselves and improve the power situation. They want us to forget about the sharing of money every time they pass a budget.

But one day their hour will come. I don't know what will happen in the future, but there can be no doubt that things cannot remain this way for long.

Remii:
David Cameron refused to sign Euro treaty because it not in favour of UK but African countries must sign any law whether it favours them or not.

The EU treaty doesn't discriminate against a segment of the population or attempt to strip them of their civil rights. You're conflating two issues that have nothing in common.

What really annoys me is the level of ignorance Nigerians are so proud to display everytime the topic of hömösèxuality comes up. I realize that most of us have never knowingly interacted with a gäy person before, but how hard is it to read a wikipedia article or two so that you'll have some clue about what you're talking about other than what your pastor said?

It's really embarrasing.

Obinoscopy:
@Evilbrian, I'll disagree with you partially.

There are several causative factors of homosexualism and they include:

1. Genetic factor: some homos have unique genes that make them have more of a sex hormone than the other (eg a female having more testosterone that estrogen)

2. Trauma: some become homosexuals due to some form of trauma they went through when young. This is common more among the lady-loving-ladies

3. Heartbreak: when someone is heartbroken in a relationship, he/she might become a homo

4. Psychosexual disorder: this occur when the limbic system of the brain is dysfunctional

5. Idiopathy: some cannot simply be explained

I fully agree on points 1 and 5. But not so much on the 3 in between. Just because someone who got dumped or had a traumatic experience and then later came out as gäy doesn't mean that trauma/heartbreak leads to hömösèxuality. Correlation is not the same as causation. There are plenty of people who've had such experiences who aren't gäy and could never imagine being with a member of the same sèx. Also practically everyone with a weird sèxual predeliction would be able to dig up something from their childhood to try and explain it (my uncle pinched my nîpple when I was 5 and now I can't stop staring at girls' tîtties, boo hoo!).

Number 4 is circular reasoning. Many people consider hömösèxuality itself to be a psychcosexual disorder especially in the more effeminate gäys and butch lèsbians.

2buff:
People aren't born man-lover. A combination of unfortunate circumstances simply make them so.
e.g girl hurt early from opposite sex, guy disvirgined by suckaway-smelling toto, etc.

The brain is a wonderful thing. It's entire course can be altered, shifted or derailed by some form of trauma or the other at some very impressionable time.

That aside. . .
A law banning then will cause more harm than good. You can't ban the sick.

And you know all this how? Nice theory but unfortunately reality disagrees with you. People are most definitely born gäy. It even tends to run in families. And it's not something they can control. Most of the gäys I've spoke to would give their left nut to become straight. I know a guy who did 40 days fasting and prayer, and another guy who went for deliverance at Mountain of Fire all to no avail.

There's far too much ignorance about hömösèxuality in Nigeria. That's a big part of what's feeding the hatred. Maybe you guys shoud ty reading a little about it. Wikipedia would be a good place to start.

@Gbawe

Don't be fooled, the subsidy money is included. If not, how come this budget is 6% higher than last year's which included the subsidy? If the savings had been taken out, this budget would have been significantly less. I'm not buying it.

The bulk of the money has almost certainly been used to pad this budget. And the capital spending is only 15% higher. If my expectations hadn't already been so low, I'm sure I would have been disappointed.

apocalypse:
Wait oh wasn't he the police officer dude , we truly have lost one of the best legacies in Nigeria. Between where are the likes of Olapade Adenekan , Chidi Imoh and the twins ( can't remember their names ).

Davidson and Osmond Ezenwa.

moderattor:
we are not getting you gayys in prison because it doesnt violate your animal rights , but because of what it will be in future.
Imagine the GCFR, commander in chief of the nigerian armed forces, nigeria 001,
the revered president of the federal republic of nigeria,
steps out in front of the national assembly
*clears throat*
'fellow nigerians, i have decided to take david mark as my new wife
after divorcing the first lady!'.
And david mark, with his protruding stomach
and hair filled asss throws
a wide smile from where he is standing behind the newly possessed president.
When marriage to animals is legalised as has been done in the US
o,
it could the president and a and a full grown kenyan monkey!

As long as he does his job well, what difference does it make who the president marries?

And frankly, even David Mark in a dress would be an improvement over GEJ's current wife. Just my opinion.

Henry120:
ok, let's say 80k a month, I based using a 3million naira yearly income, and no i don't stay in abuja nor do i have an uncle who is a senator. Just an assesment.

Try 40k. And only in city dwelling families with 2 breadwinners. In rural areas its even less than that.

Remember that the people in cars are the 1%ers. The average nigerians are the maiguards, hawkers and women trading at the side of the road.

More than half of Nigerians actually live in rural areas. And they are dirt poor.

Henry120:
if am to add, beaf, the removal of subsidy is good, but this is not the right time to take it out in my own opinion. The government should fix our refineries first and atleast provide 24/ 7 power supply first before removal of subsidy nw. For example as a citizen, single parent you earn 3 million a year, because our public schools are in shambles you spend over 800k a year on a single child( in a private university). You are left with 2.2 million, you provide your own security @ 30k a mnth = 360 a year, you buy fuel @ 150 a litre and you purchase 5 litres a day( becos you dnt get light) u end up spending 275k on petrol a year 4 your generator and the same on your car 275k a year also, At d end of the day on your 3million a year income( 68 percent has bn spent on, school fees, security, petrol for your car and generator), can you believe that? So what happns to clothing, feeding, houshld upkeep, health care, etc, At the end of the day you are lost, He shld first fix electricty and the refineries, then he can take his fuel subsidy money, An average naija family makes 160 k a month, and that is how i based my analysis.

In what universe does the average Nigerian family earn 160k? Do you mean Zimbabwean dollars or what? Are you aware that >50% of us live below the absolute poverty line?

Your uncle must be a senator or something for you to be thinking like this. Maybe you should ask your driver to take out of Asokoro one of these days so you can see how the real Nigerians live.

Beaf:
The subsidy funds will be administered by a committee outside of the budget. We need to wait for further announcements on the solid capital and welfare projects it will support.

Are you suggesting that there's going to be another supplementary budget soon? And what's taking so long in figuring out how to spend the money? The suffering from the subsidy removal is going to start immediately, yet Nigerians are supposed to wait while the government shuffles its feet?

Its not like anybody has any high expectations for the "solid capital and welfare projects" but the least they could do is act quickly.

EDIT: Also, if the subsidy savings aren't included, how come this budget isn't significantly less than last years which included the subsidy? Its's actually 6% more when it should be at least N1.3trillion less.

So he's removed the fuel subsidy, yet capital spending only went up by 15%. The bulk of the money is being flushed down the toilet that is the federal recurrent budget.

I guess it was too much to ask that he do something sensible with the money like build some new roads or a railway.

Well, na una vote for am sha. Enjoy your PDP.

When's the autopsy? Or are we just going to assume it was "cardiac arrest" and forget about it?

Wexelion:
how do they give birth? Can they kiss in public? A guy screwing another guys arss? When you need to hold on to bosoms,you're holding one heavy chest,you don't feel embarrassed when two cocks meet (what tha bleep)

Kissing in public, even between heterosèxuals, is frowned upon in most parts of Nigeria.

So if a religious fanatic introduces a bill that outlaws contraceptives and all types of sèx other than the missionary position, you'd support him? Should impotent men and post-menopausal women be banned from getting married? What about girls with flat chests? Or people born with ambiguous gènitalia?

Mobinga:
So you support a full grown man putting his joystick into another man's anus?

You're disgusting.

What business is it of yours where other people put their dîcks? You're talking about what two consenting adults do in private. How does it affect you? Is anybody trying to force you to bend over for them? Why can't you just face your own life and keep your mind out of other people's bedrooms?
I hope you are aware that there are religious fanatics here in Nigeria that see you in the exact same way you look at the gäys. Learn to live and let live.

2buff:
After further studying the bill I kinda see how this can get bad.

Any government is like an inept parent. In an attempt to make things right, they get involved with things they shouldn't be in very wrong ways and end up making things much much worse.
This is true with every government. A people under some form of oppression/suppression tend to become "stronger". That's not what you want to do here. You can't handle this delicate issue with rashness.

What was life like without the bill? Might be best to step back on this one and not go on.
Personal grievances with man-loving-men and all they stand for aside, tactics must be applied. It is not an autocracy, or Naija might as well be some sort of North Korea, and Naija is waaaay too late to start entering that game. All the autocracies already have nuclear warheads

Thank you!!!

Now if I can just convince the remaining 160 million Nigerians to settle down and examine the bill rationally, I can finally get some rest.

senbonzakura_kageyoshi:
@dinachi, you seem to know something the rest of us don't. pray tell, where did you get your statistics from? a published medical report or did you pull it out of your as5?

I'm actually more interested in knowing if he's aware that Nigeria isn't part of the US.

Obinoscopy:
I'm loving your post Evil Brain. I still maintain my stand that you are also a Lawyer in addition to your medical degree. You are just too much although I have reservation as regards your reply to Dinachi's question as regards the health risks of homosexualism. You did not answer his question straight. You were comparing safe Same-sex practice with unsafe heterosexual practice. When doing comparative analysis, all other factors are to be constant except for the factor in question. The question was if homosexuals are more at risk of contracting HIV and other STIs compared to the heterosexuals. The answer is yes cause it have been studied scientifically and shown that homosexuals were more at risk than heterosexuals.

Nevertheless, I'm of the opinion that we need to protect their fundamental human rights. Also if we ban the man-lover organisations, they'll become invisible to public health officers like us, thus we won't be able to lecture them of the need to play safe when having a,nal intercourse. Thus will consequently lead to the silent spread among the homosexuals and which will then finally spread across to the heterosexuals as well.

So I'd say you post below was very equivocal. Nevertheless, I'm still impressed

Fair criticism. Let me try again:

Are male hömösèxuals at a higher risk of contracting HIV and other STIs? The answer is yes, the risk is significantly higher however, female heterosèxuals who engage in anäl sex are also at a similar risk.

Are female hömösexuals at a higher risk of contracting HIV and other STIs? The answer is no, female/female sèx is safer than both male/female and male/male sèx.

In addition, all forms of sèx are much safer when adequate precautions are taken including and especially the use of condoms.

I hope that is clearer.

dinachi:
I am waiting for you to deny that man-lover lifestyle is extremely risky health wise. Keep side stepping the issue. Instead of wasting futher time with you here on your self destructive mission, I am opening a new thread on why the anti-man-lover bill is right! You are prolonging this thread unnecessarily because you have failed to gain the sympathy of posters.

That you think I would sidestep something like this is even more evidence that you haven't read the thread.

The issue of the health risks of hömöintimate sex is not as simple as it appears. For instance, lèsbian sèx is far, far safer than male/female sèx especially when there's no condom involved. Also all the risks of male/male sèx also apply to heterosèxual couples who engage in änal sèx (this is far more common than people think, even in Nigeria). Also, the level of risk is related to the prevalence of STIs and HIV in the population therefore gäy sex with a low risk partner can be safer than hetero sèx with a high risk partner.

While there is no doubt that änal intercourse is riskier than väginal intercourse (particularly to the receptive partner), most of these risks can be mitigated through the use of condoms, limiting the number of partners and adequate lubrication.

In general, if proper precautions are taken, gäy sex is safe. It's certainly much safer than unprotected hetero sèx with an unscreened partner which is how HIV is mostly spread in Africa.

X-factoria:
Is it that you are incapable of reading comprehension? I introduced new points and you are trying to dodge them.



I put it to you that homosexualism is corruption of public morals. Have you responded to that earlier?

The morality issue has been adequately dealt with by others earlier in this thread. To summarise, morality varies from person to person and from culture to culture. I'm sure your idea of morality differs from that of the average muslim fundamentalist's. Yet both of you are entitled to your views under the constitution. A problem only arises when one person tries to impose his views on others like you and Boko Haram are trying to do.

I said LGBTs are threats to our corporate peace in Nigeria. Have you disproved that?

That which is asserted without evidence can be discarded without evidence. The burden of proof is on you.

Look, you don't have to get more hypocritical or start cooking lies. You and your man-lover-alikes got your damn insanity from the west. Homosexualism is a western export to the world. That is why I always refer you to your western lords who have been crying more than the bereaved.



If you know what is good for you, you'd better start processing your assylum papers before the House of Reps pass the bill and GEJ signs it into law because I will fish you out for prosecution myself. Don't be under any illusion that this forum is faceless.

Hömösèxuality has existed in Africa since the dawn of time. Google "history of hömösèxuality in africa". I'm going to ignore the threat to my person since nothing in your previous posts suggests that you should be taken seriously.

PeeBee:
^^^^^
I think you're being too emotional about this topic.

I agree.

Ovamboland:
Negroes were called all sorts of names when they demanded their rights, lynching was a common way of dealing with the Negro problem them. You can maybe try this on any man-lover within sight.
Now where did the OP admit to these things in bold? Objective readers can easily spot the LIAR.

@Ovamboland
Don't be too hard on Dinachi. It seems that reading and comprehension are a big challenge for him. Blame our poor educational system.

@peebee

You sound just like the sharia proponents and Boko Haram spokesmen. You think that your religious edicts should apply to everyone. Well, thankfully, the constitution prohibits state religions so we are safe. Let me suggest rebel controlled Somalia if you want to live in a society ruled by religion.

@Dinachi
You can go through my posting history if you want proof that I'm not a christian. Let me again point out that whether or not I am one is irrelevant to our discussion. Google "ad hominem fallacy".

X-factoria:
Evil Brain:

As Fela once sang "animal wan dash me human rights". If you continue to see this as human rights violation, I will advise that you go about it by first fighting your white lords/paymasters to legalize polygamy and bigamy. If you do that successfully and they are able to bear the consequence of one man exercising his rights to marry ten women and one woman married to ten men, then you can come back and preach human rights to us. Then we in Africa/Nigeria will consider repealing the anti-man-lover laws using human rights protection as justification.

The truth is, what constitutes human rights must be defined. Have you wondered why you cannot just say anything about anybody with your mouth even when you have the right to run it anyhow? Ever heard of statements or acts that are capable of stirring up assaults being prohibited even when you have freedom of expressions? Ever heard of corruption of public morals being an assault for which you can be fined or jailed depending on its severity? As long as homosexualism would not be restricted to something that would be done indoors or in closets and it is capable of assaulting people's morals (especially when there is a general belief that this is possible) when exhibited in public, it wouldn't be out of place to outlaw it.

Another thing is, LGBTs are security threats!!! See how I'm going to prove that: It clearly violates our cultural norms and values in so much that it is capable of causing civil unrest or creating animosity among majority of citizens who sees their activities as abberations. Government should be about addressing potential problems like this from its root hence the law banning LGBTs and activities that could promote them.

I've already addressed everything yo've said earlier. Read the thread from the beginning please and don't post again unless you have something original.

Also you people keep on talking about the British, the Americans and the "white lords" as if their opinions are in anyway relevant. I'm a full blooded Nigerian, I've lived most of my life here and I love my country which is why I'm spending so much time and effort defending her constitution from misguided bigots like you people and David Mark. So unless you have a picture of me collecting a cheque from Obama, I suggest you drop it.

dinachi:
Evil brain is man-lover, period! Everyone who dosent havd a reprobate mind knows that the man-lover life style is extremely risky health wise. @ Evil brain, you are not denying the medical facts presented by rymzo are you? You are so man-lover! I hate cowards! You are not proud of your gayism, thats why you hide behind human rights to spew lie to attract sympathy to your insane orientation! Get it into your head man-loving-men are not welcome here!

Show me the part of the Nairaland terms of use that prevents gäy people from posting. Then follow that up with some actual evidence that I'm gäy, preferably the type that exists outside your imagination and I'll leave this thread.

If its so hard for you to believe that someone can have empathy for his fellow human beings who are being misrepresented and oppressed, then that is your problem. But like I said, feel free to believe what you like. I don't really care. Unlike some people, I'm not ignorant enough to think calling someone gäy is an insult.

rhymz:
You are not talking to somebody you can easily browbeat by spewing lies and distortions. Show me where I have used my religious beliefs to back up any of my arguments or even say anything about hating POOFTERS.

If you'd bothered to read through the thread before posting, you'd know that religion has been the most common argument used to support this bill. It was even used by David Mark on several occasions. Also, you'd also have read all the hate-filled invectives spewed out by people on your side.

Why do you sound so angry and concerned?? Are you g'ay?? Or is the closet getting stuffy and you want to come out but this bill is threatening to take the fresh air you so badly are gasping for. You talk so much of their rights, yet my own rights and sensibilities means nothing to you, typical of a g'ay man arguing with people who diasgree with their life style or need to expand it. If you want to be g'ay it is all good but don't expect anyone to bend over for you( cos I don't trust you lots, might just stick it in the process) just because you are man-lover. man-lover people have freedom of rights to expression not any different from those religious bodies whose freedom of expression are being curtailed every day just to accommodate the inordinate demands ans desires of your sect. Go and read all that ga'y rights nonsense to people who have been indoctrinated by the man-lover majority influenced western mainstream media and books. I am African, I have a mind of my own, I don't have to see things through the jaundiced lens of the west.

What, this again? Opposing discrimination against midgets doesn't make you a midget, I thought we covered that already. But if you so badly want to believe that I'm gay, then go ahead and do so, I really don't care either way. Your ad hominem attacks don't reduce the validity of my arguments. Any rational person can see that, I'm not sure why you can't.

rhymz:
@ EvilBrain
Since you claimed to be in the medical profession, I thought you could make do with this medical reports on impact of homosexuality. It is a very balanced report.
By JOHN R. DIGGS JR., M.D.
THE HEALTH RISK OF man-lover SEX
Introduction
Back in the early 1980s, while working at Beth Israel Hospital, I vividly remember seeing healthy young man-lover men dying of a mysterious disease that researchers only later identified as a sexually transmitted disease — AIDS. Over the years, I've seen many patients with that diagnosis die. As a physician, it is my duty to assess behaviors for their impact on health and wellbeing. When something is beneficial, such as exercise, good nutrition, or adequate sleep, it is my duty to recommend it. Likewise, when something is harmful, such as smoking, overeating, alcohol or drug abuse, it is my duty to discourage it. When intimate activity is practiced outside of marriage, the consequences can be quite serious. Without question, intimate promiscuity frequently spreads diseases, from trivial to serious to deadly. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 65 million Americans have an incurable sexually transmitted disease (STD) .1 There are differences between men and women in the consequences of same-sex activity. But most importantly, the consequences of Same-sex activity are distinct from the consequences of heterosexual activity. As a physician, it is my duty to inform patients of the health risks of man-lover sex, and to discourage them from indulging in harmful behavior.

Abeg, stop copy-pasting oyimbo nonsense. HIV in Africa is predominantly spread through heterosexuäl sèx. The nature of the epidemic here is completely different from the one in the US which started in the gäy community. You might as well use the same argument to claim that hetero sèx should be banned since it spreads Human Papilloma Virus which causes cervical cancer, the number 1 cancer in Nigerian women.

rhymz:
For those of us who have refuse to see the impending problem that this LĞBT and their agaenda brings: here is an excerpt from a Nigerian commentator on FB about how man-lover freedom is taking away rights from religious bodies.
Stephen Femi Madugu: a facebook comment
Excellent Writeups all around. It's refreshing to run into a good number of ideological comrades on this issue on the web. Typically all one gets is the usual "thou shalt not judge" liberal types like Ade Thomas or on the other side thsoe who threaten fire and brimstone against homosexuality as if arguments by mere declaration, Christian or otherwise puts any matter to rest . I think Mr Olabanji has done a good job in highlighting the societal impact of granting legal sanction to man-lover relationships. For far too many, man-lover marriage is a mere abstraction with zero impact on their personal lives so they adopt the "what's my business, who am I to Judge" stance without appreciating the very real societal costs that this phenom imposes In reality man-lover marriage imposes very real costs on all our lives. We are already seeing here in the west that religious freedoms are being curtailed in obseisance to the man-lover agenda. For instance Christian charity groups in jurisdictions where man-lover marriage is legal are no longer allowed to engage in the adoption process if they refuse to place children with man-lover couples in line with the tenets of their religious or moral conviction. Christian Businesses like Eharmony are being forced by the courts to cater to Same-sex Couples or go out of busisness and Christian groups on colllge campuses are being forced to put man-loving-men in leadership or lose their ability to function. Military Chaplains are now being forced to cater to this only or resign and it's onlty a matter of time before churches 501c Tax exempt status will be outright targetted.

Rubbish! It is not a fundamental huma right to run an adoption agency, or to be a military chaplain, or to not pay taxes. No religion can give a license to break the law. If you religion does't allow you to perform the requirements of your job, then find another one.

The ramifications like healthcare are also often ignored. The liefestyle is in and of itself inherently unhealthy so it imposes a disproportionate burden on healthcare resources which is partiucularly troublesome since the same people that often push this agenda are the same ones pushing for increased economic collectivism thru universal healthcare and other forms of redistributive collectivist economic sytems. So on one hand they tell us that what they do in their bedrooms is none of our business but on the other hand they tell us that the financial costs of the medical consequences of what they do in their bedrooms belong to all of us.

Again, rubbish! Homösexuälity is not the only dangerous practice that affects public health. What about obesity? What about smoking? Both of these are far more dangerous and expensive to the public than hömösexuality. Are you suggesting that fat people should go to prison for associating with other fat people? In any case, if health were a concern, the bill wouldn't also target gäy HIV charities. Hömösèxual sèx is with a condom is actually less dangerous than hetero sèx without one in most cases.

Other issues that people dont consider are issues like immigration policy. What happens when every Tom , and Harry decides to file for a Green Card for their man-lover partner ?? What impact will that have in terms of increasing the backlog and processing times? What is to stop the proliferation of fraud since any two men or women can now claim to be a in a same sex relationship even if they are not homosexuals? We are already seeing many cases like this come to our courts. If we reconfigure the legal definition of family to allow for man-lover coupling then what is to stop reconfiruation for any kind of polygynous permutations (2 men/3women, 1 man/4women, 4 men/1 woman) and so on and so forth with all the attendant strains on our legal system .Can you imagine the complexity of dissolving a 2man/3 women marriage in a divorce court?Especially if children are involved ?

All you are describing are difficulties caused bu attempting to discriminate against gäys. There is no way to differentiate between gäys and heteros and there is no reason to dicriminate between them. Stop the discrimination and those problems will go away.

In any case thanks for this writeup Mr Olabanji and I must say am aslo particularly appreciative of your latter reference to Mr Obama (whom in my mind is probably the worst thing that has ever hapenned to black people and the future of the black race) due to his stance on this and other issues . All the best

Obama supports equal rights for hömösexuals. He certainly never advocates stripping them of constitutional rights. And whocares what he thinks anyway? Unless he has a Nigerian passport, his opinion is irrelevant.