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RE: Uganda wants to kill homosexuals.
February 28, 2012 at 5:29 am
(February 27, 2012 at 7:49 pm)Rhythm Wrote: So what's the story, I don't care, or it won't help?
It won't help, that is for sure, however I don't think that you care beyond signing a petition, which is in reality, doing nothing but adding a name to something that matters little.
Quote:Petitions had actually been effective many times in the past. Amnesty International does a lot of petition and letter writting just as an international pressure. Either way you do what you can, Nobody can run into a country and hoping you can liberate them. I sure as hell wish I could do it. You do what you can even if it is as little as a petition. You aren't the only one signing. The least it can do is to make it clear to the country's leader and to the international community that people do not agree with this policy because it is hateful,inhumane, and a violation of human rights.
Well, you can use only political means to stop a country from doing something.
Countries like Iran only understand measures like a blockade, and some countries do not even understand if you blockade them for years, and their people are on the verge of starvation, and still won't back down unless you do tell them things through the language of cold steel and hot lead.
Like for example, my brethren in Eastern Turkestan are suffering under the Chinese regime. Even if I sign a thousand petitions, they won't be free, unless we free them. We've thrown ourselves against their embassies, and faced our own police who protected them. Did it do any good?
No. But we did something beyond simply signing a petition from far away that will go somewhere we do not have any power, and where our words count for little.
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RE: Uganda wants to kill homosexuals.
February 28, 2012 at 5:52 am
You have to FIND the Homosexuals first ...I am thinking
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RE: Uganda wants to kill homosexuals.
February 28, 2012 at 9:59 am
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(February 28, 2012 at 5:29 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: It won't help, that is for sure, however I don't think that you care beyond signing a petition, which is in reality, doing nothing but adding a name to something that matters little.
Guess we'll have to wait and see. If economic pressure from two of the biggest firms in Uganda don't have any effect then so be it, but if they do....well, you'll never hear the end of it from me Mehm. I think it's more likely that you just don't want this to work, because you can't stand teh gayz, but wtf do I know..lol. Maybe you're projecting your own ignorant prejudices onto me when you claim that I don't care, but again, wtf do I know?
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RE: Uganda wants to kill homosexuals.
February 28, 2012 at 10:10 am
(February 28, 2012 at 9:59 am)Rhythm Wrote: wtf do I know?
A lot more than a certain shit-for-brains Turk, no doubt about that.
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RE: Uganda wants to kill homosexuals.
February 28, 2012 at 11:05 am
Perhaps, but I am equally skeptical of online petitions making any difference whatsoever.
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RE: Uganda wants to kill homosexuals.
February 28, 2012 at 11:06 am
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In general I would be as well, but in this case, it's a petition to a couple of business giants that are very lgbt friendly, with thousands of employees in the country, representing a significant portion of their economic activity. It's a petition to their wallet, by way of the internet. If there's any sort of pressure a politician is likely to feel, it's the kind you put on his purse strings. These guys need the country to make money if they are going to embezzle it. So, I'm betting that they're corrupt pieces of shit. Usually a safe bet.
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RE: Uganda wants to kill homosexuals.
February 28, 2012 at 1:18 pm
(February 26, 2012 at 11:05 pm)Rhythm Wrote: “And I stood up from the very beginning back in 2003 when the Supreme Court was going create a constitutional right to sodomy and said this is wrong we can’t do this,” Santorum said. ”And so I stood up when no one else did and got hammered for it. I stood up and I continue to stand up.”
Maybe he's standing up because it hurts to sit down.
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RE: Uganda wants to kill homosexuals.
February 28, 2012 at 1:20 pm
(February 28, 2012 at 9:59 am)Rhythm Wrote: (February 28, 2012 at 5:29 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: It won't help, that is for sure, however I don't think that you care beyond signing a petition, which is in reality, doing nothing but adding a name to something that matters little.
Guess we'll have to wait and see. If economic pressure from two of the biggest firms in Uganda don't have any effect then so be it, but if they do....well, you'll never hear the end of it from me Mehm. I think it's more likely that you just don't want this to work, because you can't stand teh gayz, but wtf do I know..lol. Maybe you're projecting your own ignorant prejudices onto me when you claim that I don't care, but again, wtf do I know? No, I do know that I do not care.
But I just want to know how much you do.
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RE: Uganda wants to kill homosexuals.
February 28, 2012 at 2:00 pm
More than you, what else need be said?
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