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Subscribe to RSSKAMPALA, Uganda -- Activists hacked several Ugandan government websites on Thursday to denounce what they see as the harassment of homosexuals in the east African country.
A controversial bill that initially proposed hanging gays in the conservative country is before a parliamentary committee, where it appears to have stalled.
On Wednesday, Advocate reported that hackers from the group Anonymous said they had targeted Uganda government websites over the issue, replacing information with spoof posts.
It reported that visitors to a website for Uganda's prime minister found a statement formally recognizing gay rights and a personal apology from the man himself.
On Thursday, Reuters reported that a hacker using the Twitter name @PinkNinj4 defaced several government websites including those of the prime minister's office, parliament, the Uganda Securities Exchange and Uganda Law Society.
"Message to the government of Uganda: you want to put people to death only because they have different likings," read one message posted on the website of the Uganda Law Society, Reuters reported.
"How ... disgusting. There's no need to put people to death for this, and we'll not tolerate it."
The proposed legislation, first introduced in parliament in 2009, has pitted veteran President Yoweri Museveni against the evangelical church on one side and donors on the other.
Denounced as "odious" by U.S. President Barack Obama, the proposed legislation has been widely condemned outside Africa, a continent where homosexuality is illegal in 37 countries.
Few Africans are openly gay, fearing imprisonment, violence and the loss of jobs.
"Hijacking our websites and using strategies of blackmail to promote their dark agendas is unacceptable to us," said government spokeswoman Karoro Okurut.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Now that blacks have the power to run their own countries. look what they do: Not only discriminate against gays BUT harass them to the point of encouraging and allowing rape, murder, attacks, and NOW making it illegal with jail time and death. MAYBE someone ought to show these NEANTHERDALS films of the old American South, maybe a slave ship movie, or life on the plantation, or even civil rights movement clips. It's amazaing that SOME WOMEN and SOME BLACKS have NO CLUE that once upon a time, in the NOT SO LONG AGO PAST, blacks were owned pieces of property and women were property of their husbands, to have kids, keep house, and serve their husbands. No smoking, No voting, No education, No birth control
@Bill-4012182
"Now that blacks have the power to run their own countries. look what they do."
What are you saying here? If blacks are in charge of running things there will be atrocities like this? Racist generalization.
Besides, the government of Uganda had plenty of help from white US government officials, in forming the basis for this legislation:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120746516
In fact it was American evangelicals like Scott Lively and Richard Land (of the SBC) who sponsored and promoted the "Kill the Gays" bill in Uganda.
The FRC hate group which Chick-fil-A supports is one of the main lobbyists in favor of the bill here, and has spent at least $25,000 lobbying Congress not to condemn Uganda's actions against gays.
http://www.truthwinsout.org/tag/family-research-council/page/2/
Interesting finding here. Seems that white Europeans have Neanderthal DNA, but black Africans do not :) http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2010/05/06/4350416-neanderthal-dna-lives-on-in-some-of-us?lite
no.. it seems you didn't read it closely:
Genetic sequences from the three non-African modern individuals (from Papua New Guinea, China and France) were statistically more likely to be similar to Neanderthals than the sequences from southern Africa and West Africa.
it only states that they were more likely to be similar. it doesn't state that black africans have no neanderthal dna, just that they aren't as statistically likely.
that's two different things.. so his statement can be true about that they are neanderthals ... and the same can be said about many other humans as well
Bill, I have to agree w/your sentiments. Being a black person myself, it is disgusting. but you have to remember these people live in a culture SOOOOooo different from ours, and Homosexuality is even more Taboo than it is here (imagine that). But regardless, such a law is Barbaric, primitive, indecent and Backward to say the least. I'll NEVER understand why some people care SO MUCH about what other consenting adults do in the bedroom.
I suggest gays in Uganda stay in the closet for safety's sake.
American evangelicals need to stay out of foreign affairs. Their psychotic biblical drivel is causing problems all over the world, even right here in the USA. These pseudo-preachers stirred up the hate - telling Africans that gays rape children, have an "agenda" to destroy their families, and are "evil" people who commit murders.
Is it too late for us to send in some drones and take the hateful Christians out?
YES, stay in the closet and keep the door LOCKED
it is sad that they should have to do that
"Psychotic bible drivel" - couldn't have said it better
Bet there's no chik fil a Kiss-ins over there.
Chick-fil-A supports the FRC hate group, which supports the "Kill the Gays" bill.
You're a loon.
It's no more complicated than that.
But executing gays and criminalizing homosexuality is OK, right?
At least you've got your priorities straight.
A GAY-HACKER is an oxymoron. Unless they want your spouse!
WTF does that even MEAN?
exactly my thoughts -- what does it mean ?!
I think it means that art-2739038 is finally coming out of the closet. Or it could mean that art is an oxy moron, I'm not sure which!
maybe because its Thursday and i'm looking forward to the weekend that my mind isn't working at 100% today, so forgive me, but what in the world does your comment mean Art-2739038 ?
"A controversial bill that initially proposed hanging gays in the conservative country is before a parliamentary committee"
And I thought the Homophobes were bad in America.
"A controversial bill that initially proposed hanging gays".... WTF?
Uganda has computers?
I wondered the same thing :)
Gee; I guess I should be glad to live in America... where I can be persecuted and hated openly; at least they don't KILL me here.... yet....
Give them time.... just give them time.
Yet you and others like you in furtherance of your own publicity pull a stunt like this in the hopes Uganda will kill more gays and you'll get some publicity. Typical leftist: all about values as long as someone else gets killed.
um... i'm not 100% but i'm pretty close to 100% sure that gay people are not advocating the death or killing of other gay people just so that gay people can have publicity... that's QUITE a stretch ... and rather illogical
could be a good conspiracy theory for homophobes tho -- watch out for those gay people !! they will kill each other just so they can be on TV !
LOL
Jesus Jeff, are you and art doing oxy's together? WTF are you talking about? Obviously you are a perfect example of a RWNJ, Mittens would be so proud!
stay out of texas, they do kill gays and transgenders.
Come on now, seriously how can you expect anything competent or coherent from these knuckle dragging Neandrethals? They are barely one step above illiterate and are kept in line by the religious fanatics (FRC), who continually feed them this line of BS! And I am so sorry that "Hijacking our websites and using strategies of blackmail to promote their dark agendas is unacceptable to us", because the rest of us DON"T CARE if it is acceptable or not. Quite frankly, I hope they continue to hack them and take down every website in their half-fast Government!
Africa is a good place to be from and affix it to American...other than that there is not enough blood pressure medicine in the world! Just a f'ed up bunch of barbarians!
Why am I not surprised to see the words "evangelical church" in this story?
More of that sweet, sweet kristian love I keep hearing so much about...
Hi Mike,
I am glad to see that ole time religion is rubbing off on you.
Lazarus
way to go anonymus shut the bigots down
I thought black people couldn't be bigots? Or was that racist? Or perhaps phobic?
Uganda has computers? <-- Sarcasm
Interesting use on the word ( Hackers . ) Be careful with your word connotation in the African countries . Stay out of their business and stop interfering .
Oh, Okay.......then, the next time the Egyptians need us to hack those phone systems that we sold to their Evil Government, so that they will have at least a chance of overthrowing it via popular revolt - or, the next time a Qadaffi calls out the tanks to smash the innocent civilians who'd been wasting away, members of the wrong tribe or clan, craving the kind of universal political and social sufferage for all that We, The People like to "export": in this case, in the form of laser guided anti-tank bombs and missiles - then we'll just, "Stay out of your business", if that's what you think Africa really needs, or if, at least, you think it's what your Fellow Africans really want, Okay?
Or, no.....How about this!
How about We, The People reign in the Evil Cracker (and Bronky! and Kony!) Missionaries who want to "export" their "Al Qaeda, with a Bible" (Trademarked Name Brand Terrorism!) Hatred to Africas otherwise Loving Kind (Well, at least when your not NOT being Loving Kind, that is!) Peoples!
Yes, those 19th C Missionaries did indeed bring them, "The Love, of Jesus" - the Blond Haired Blue Eyed One who, promising him a cup of sweet, sweet wine, led the blind man to the edge fo the cliff, then pushed him off and stood there slapping his knee and guffawing, saying, "Did you see how his head done went and EXPLODED when it hit that ROCK like THAT?!?" - of course!!!
MAN, you need to stop smoking weed!
These are backward people.Let's us make a pact to keep them out of the US.
The hateful religious dogma is world wide and comes from ALL religions that use the Old Testament as a spiritual guide. Anyone who has read my post knows that I can write an accurate history to confirm my statements.
What saddens me is that as the world becomes smaller with the advent of the Internet and social networks, we still cling to the narrow minded hatred that was once spread with the apostolic invasions of the sudochristian beliefs that were derived from the Hebrew and Jewish text and the Laws of Moses, the Old Testament. The Muslims adopted the same hateful text in the 6th century and they tried to conquer the world with their version of the same writings that led the Roman Catholics, Jews, various other religions. The thing is that the "Laws of God" were written by man but adopted as having been said by God. The laws come with punishments and those are DEATH, DEATH and more DEATH.
Religion was then and is now a form of Capitalist Business, but more importantly, is a vehicle for the POWERS to maintain control over a population of people. For Moses, it was the Tribes of Jews, for the POPE it was the known Roman Empire and the Greeks, it was Russia and upper EurAsia Here in the US we had a bunch of REBELs that followed the first Rebel, Jesus. They said that the organized persecution of people in the name of God, King, or institution was not to be tolerated in this country.
The poor countries in Africa have been affected by evangecals for centuries. There should be no surprise when they resort to the persecution of any group that opposes their dogma.
China, Japan, and Korea were the only countries to show any sense in kicking out the Evangelical invaders before too much damage was done. This is not to say they were a Utopia, they were not, but at least the killing was not sanctified by God above.
Lazarus