Anarchist Perspective on Bush's Visit to Africa
Joram | 08.07.2003 14:20 | World
Bush is coming to Africa to meet one of its notorious tyrants that is responsible for the death of 5 million Africans in recent times.
Salute Comrades,
Not every day does the American capitalist state put Africa on its social agenda. American State gangsters are visiting Africa from July 7-12 and Uganda is one of those handpicked countries to be visited for a duration of 4 hours.
According to Bush why he has to cum in Uganda; "It's also a good friend and key ally. We have a lot to talk to President Museveni concerning HIV/AIDS. We have a lot to learn from President Museveni about that disease". But Uganda anarchists think that the gangasters are just stopping over to use our toilets and also pick blood diamonds that the Ugandan state has been holding for them.
The talks will focus mainly on HIV/Aids, The African Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA) and developments in DR Congo.
But if the capitalist state cares that much for its Ugandan plantation, Anarchist would love to suggest to them that $63 million per year is what is needed to treat persons living with HIV and to stop preventable deaths in Uganda. We also want him to be clear about the $3 billion needed to fight Aids worldwide in 2004 and the need to inject more money into the Global Fund to fight Aids, TB and malaria.
Recent Bush was asked if he would ask the Ugandan dictator to stop backing militias in the eastern Congo (yes, he would). What a joker!
If the dictator stops backing the militias, then who’s going to take care of Bush’s minerals that have to be looted out of mineral-rich Ituri region (Congo DRC). Every time Bush shakes hands with the Ugandan dictator, the silent majority sees him foiling his hands with the blood of 5million Africans that tyrant has murdered in the great lakes region.
Comrades, because the gangsters are to cum soon on Uganda this has resulted into the arrest of the most vulnerable members of the Ugandan society. Homeless children and mothers have been arrested and locked up by state police. Homeless disabled people have also been uprooted from streets and detained to “safe houses”. A similar operation was, carried out ahead of former US President Bill Clinton's visit in 1998 Police spent most of the day rounding up every idler and street child they came across.
"It is an operation to crack down on pick-pockets, criminals and children who have crowded the streets these days," said Police Commander. "But the operation is more successful in the evenings. We shall round up all the sex workers and gangsters," he brags.
However, Anarchists are very saddened by the fact that the Ugandan dictator has signed the contentious Article 98 treaty shielding US citizens against prosecution by the ICC. Under the agreement, Uganda and the USA will not surrender each other's citizens for trial to the ICC without the consent of the other.
One of the grave implications of the Article 98 agreement is that both countries' soldiers can commit sexual violence during war or armed conflict with impunity, flee into each other's territory and be free from the ICC. Why? Because, let's face it, after signing such a pact, neither of the two countries will be willing to give consent for such trial.
A single mother in Uganda with a child that reminds her of the three soldiers who gang-raped her during war by about five UPDF soldiers for several days until she lost consciousness. Since then she lost the use of her womb, she experiences excruciating pain when she tries to pass urine, for a long time her pussy oozed with puss and blood and she walks with a limp. She fears that she is HIV positive but is too scared to go for a test.
This is a contradiction in terms for a state that has presented itself as pro-women and that knows all too well the suffering that women go through in times of war and armed conflict. With this in mind, the Ugandan state should in fact have been one of those taking the lead in advocating against the signing of such an agreement than succumb to a government whose forces continue to be involved in the killing of civilians in Babylon as they purportedly search for the elusive weapons of mass destruction.
On the African Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA). What opportunity of Growth?? I think Anarchists are able to tell that the only true growth would be if USA took a lead by removing agricultural subsidies that amount $300b a year, so that African could also compete favorably. I think there’s really nothing wrong if all forms of trade-distorting measures that USA imposes on Africa were removed, then this would enable the development of a vibrant and competitive African agricultural sector, rather than planting state run corner shops on the populace. I mean here by stopping discriminatory (social not biological) behaviors towards disabled countries. In short, a collective and unanimous signal to those members of the WTO that priotises corporate profits over their right to regulate investment, public health and food sovereignty.
ViVa Anarchism!
Not every day does the American capitalist state put Africa on its social agenda. American State gangsters are visiting Africa from July 7-12 and Uganda is one of those handpicked countries to be visited for a duration of 4 hours.
According to Bush why he has to cum in Uganda; "It's also a good friend and key ally. We have a lot to talk to President Museveni concerning HIV/AIDS. We have a lot to learn from President Museveni about that disease". But Uganda anarchists think that the gangasters are just stopping over to use our toilets and also pick blood diamonds that the Ugandan state has been holding for them.
The talks will focus mainly on HIV/Aids, The African Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA) and developments in DR Congo.
But if the capitalist state cares that much for its Ugandan plantation, Anarchist would love to suggest to them that $63 million per year is what is needed to treat persons living with HIV and to stop preventable deaths in Uganda. We also want him to be clear about the $3 billion needed to fight Aids worldwide in 2004 and the need to inject more money into the Global Fund to fight Aids, TB and malaria.
Recent Bush was asked if he would ask the Ugandan dictator to stop backing militias in the eastern Congo (yes, he would). What a joker!
If the dictator stops backing the militias, then who’s going to take care of Bush’s minerals that have to be looted out of mineral-rich Ituri region (Congo DRC). Every time Bush shakes hands with the Ugandan dictator, the silent majority sees him foiling his hands with the blood of 5million Africans that tyrant has murdered in the great lakes region.
Comrades, because the gangsters are to cum soon on Uganda this has resulted into the arrest of the most vulnerable members of the Ugandan society. Homeless children and mothers have been arrested and locked up by state police. Homeless disabled people have also been uprooted from streets and detained to “safe houses”. A similar operation was, carried out ahead of former US President Bill Clinton's visit in 1998 Police spent most of the day rounding up every idler and street child they came across.
"It is an operation to crack down on pick-pockets, criminals and children who have crowded the streets these days," said Police Commander. "But the operation is more successful in the evenings. We shall round up all the sex workers and gangsters," he brags.
However, Anarchists are very saddened by the fact that the Ugandan dictator has signed the contentious Article 98 treaty shielding US citizens against prosecution by the ICC. Under the agreement, Uganda and the USA will not surrender each other's citizens for trial to the ICC without the consent of the other.
One of the grave implications of the Article 98 agreement is that both countries' soldiers can commit sexual violence during war or armed conflict with impunity, flee into each other's territory and be free from the ICC. Why? Because, let's face it, after signing such a pact, neither of the two countries will be willing to give consent for such trial.
A single mother in Uganda with a child that reminds her of the three soldiers who gang-raped her during war by about five UPDF soldiers for several days until she lost consciousness. Since then she lost the use of her womb, she experiences excruciating pain when she tries to pass urine, for a long time her pussy oozed with puss and blood and she walks with a limp. She fears that she is HIV positive but is too scared to go for a test.
This is a contradiction in terms for a state that has presented itself as pro-women and that knows all too well the suffering that women go through in times of war and armed conflict. With this in mind, the Ugandan state should in fact have been one of those taking the lead in advocating against the signing of such an agreement than succumb to a government whose forces continue to be involved in the killing of civilians in Babylon as they purportedly search for the elusive weapons of mass destruction.
On the African Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA). What opportunity of Growth?? I think Anarchists are able to tell that the only true growth would be if USA took a lead by removing agricultural subsidies that amount $300b a year, so that African could also compete favorably. I think there’s really nothing wrong if all forms of trade-distorting measures that USA imposes on Africa were removed, then this would enable the development of a vibrant and competitive African agricultural sector, rather than planting state run corner shops on the populace. I mean here by stopping discriminatory (social not biological) behaviors towards disabled countries. In short, a collective and unanimous signal to those members of the WTO that priotises corporate profits over their right to regulate investment, public health and food sovereignty.
ViVa Anarchism!
Joram
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