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• There's something horribly familiar here. Once a government declares a class of its citizens as less than human and not worthy of living, the inevitable result is mass violence against those people. The law will persecute gay people in Uganda but the citizens, largely whipped on by loony evangelicals who dare to call themselves Christian, will do most of the killing in a far more personal way. Look to Rwanda as an example of how the process works.

  In the meantime, let's stop giving money to the Ugandan government and impose every kind of political sanction that makes it less fun for the instigators of this criminal madness. We probably can't stop them but we don't have to help them with millions of taxpayer dollars.

  And one thing that produced the change in South Africa was the campaign of corporate disinvestment inspired by anti-apartheid groups around the world. Let's find out who does business with these fucks and lean on them good and hard.

  • You're absolutely right -- this is how it always goes. The writing is on the wall, and this is precisely the kind of situation that calls for international sanctions on the basis of human rights.