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Title: Transgender Human Rights Activists Arrested in Uganda
Post by: Natasha on September 22, 2008, 05:21:07 PM
Post by: Natasha on September 22, 2008, 05:21:07 PM
Transgender Human Rights Activists Arrested in Uganda
http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2008/09/transgender-human-rights-activists.html (http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2008/09/transgender-human-rights-activists.html)
9/21/2008
"Please take action to protest the detention and intimidation by
police of Oundo George and Kiiza Brendah, transgender human rights
activists in Uganda who were arrested at home for allegedly attempting
to "recruit people to homosexuality."
http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2008/09/transgender-human-rights-activists.html (http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2008/09/transgender-human-rights-activists.html)
9/21/2008
"Please take action to protest the detention and intimidation by
police of Oundo George and Kiiza Brendah, transgender human rights
activists in Uganda who were arrested at home for allegedly attempting
to "recruit people to homosexuality."
Title: Re: Transgender Human Rights Activists Arrested in Uganda
Post by: Kaitlyn on September 22, 2008, 07:43:21 PM
Post by: Kaitlyn on September 22, 2008, 07:43:21 PM
Recruit people to homosexuality?
"LGBT all that you can be!"
"LGBT all that you can be!"
Title: Re: Transgender Human Rights Activists Arrested in Uganda
Post by: Dayna1975 on September 22, 2008, 08:09:51 PM
Post by: Dayna1975 on September 22, 2008, 08:09:51 PM
Scary thing about that is I could actually see that happening here. Seeing many of us being carted off to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Scary thought that you can be arrested for expressing your inner self.
Title: Re: Transgender Human Rights Activists Arrested in Uganda
Post by: Kaitlyn on September 22, 2008, 08:19:24 PM
Post by: Kaitlyn on September 22, 2008, 08:19:24 PM
What scares me isn't so much Gitmo and waterboarding - it's the fact that some people have such black-hearted, malignant inner selves that they enjoy doing that sort of thing to us.
Title: Re: Transgender Human Rights Activists Arrested in Uganda
Post by: lisagurl on September 22, 2008, 08:46:13 PM
Post by: lisagurl on September 22, 2008, 08:46:13 PM
Quoteactivists in Uganda who were arrested
Most of the world does not enjoy human rights. They have a big AIDS problem and are militant about solving it.
Title: Re: Transgender Human Rights Activists Arrested in Uganda
Post by: Kaitlyn on September 22, 2008, 09:07:54 PM
Post by: Kaitlyn on September 22, 2008, 09:07:54 PM
Quote from: lisagurl on September 22, 2008, 08:46:13 PM
Most of the world does not enjoy human rights. They have a big AIDS problem and are militant about solving it.
...in the most wrongheaded, superstitious, bigoted, ignorant way possible. Africa also has a much, much looser standard for AIDS diagnoses than the West, as well as a naturally higher rate of false positives on blood tests due to all the pathogens in the environment. Those two factors account for part of the very large numbers in Africa's AIDS statistics. The standards of evidence are just appalling, and it's making it harder to treat the people who do have the disease.