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I dont have much to say; but Truth Hurts.

Oh dear. Its obvious the NRM 2011 CAMPAIGN STRATEGY missed one major priority on the list: intensify clamp down on the media!

Dont worry , we are with you, the dictator now even fears cartoons , How shameful will his last days be , only God knows , but now I see his end at the other side

They at it again :X !!! but we will stand in solidarity with our colleagues...

The govt cant frustrate our profession by carrying such inexplainable acts....this is so wearisome!!!!

So what is what is in the cartoon turns to be real in 2011? Will the independent summon the police. Let the above authorities accept the reality.

Gentlemen and ladies at the independent the truth they say is bitter yet you still brave heat to publish this truths. Keep on this and we shall stand shoulder to shoulder with you. Uganda is for all of us so hold firm.

I THINK THE REVELATIONS BY JUSTICE KANYAIHAMBA AND MULENGA CONCERNING JUDGEMENT ON THE PREVIOUS ELECTION RESULTS WERE TOO MUCH FOR MZEE BUT THEN WHAT DO YOU DO TO REGAIN INITIATIVE, OOPS INDEPENDENT CATOON. BUT THE ATTACK IS BROADER THAN JUST THE CATOON, IT IS AIMED AT GAGGING THE RATHER FREE PRESS -MONITOR AND INDEPENDENT. CBS IS PROTECTED BY THE INSTITUTION OF KABAKASHIP AND MONITOR BY AGHAKAN FAMILY. SO WHAT DO WE DO FOR INDEPENDENT? THE OTHER DAY MWENDA SURVIVED STATE ABDUCTION? INDEPENDENT FANS ON THE GROUND IN UGANDA WORKOUT SOMETHING TO SUPPORT OUR VOICE

I'd rather have parrallels drawn between the "Media Crimes Department" and "The Ministry of Truth" than having comparisons to the "Special Force", "or the dreaded summons that used to be issued to Nile Mansions.

I am not sure what insinuation the article tried to trigger, but the police are there to keep law and order in the service of Justice. Part of that process entails the establishment of the facts and being summoned can not be regarded as an infringement on anyones rights. Unless of course you contend that journalists are above the law, in which case I say, "Lets M7 set up a State Research Bureau for Media." That way, all will be overboard.

Emperor,

When you are summoned by the British police you trust that they have a guinine issue and you will be treated fairly. With Uganda Police you are not sure, because you remember Elizabeth Kuteesa (CID Chief) and the concorted evidence including trying to coach a witness against Besigye rape case. So THERE IS LOW TRUST IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. Unfortunately this includes hospitals and M7 said it himself when he flew his daugher to Germany to deliver. That bad

I think the cartoon was a bull's eye. Exactly on the red spot.
If he is scared of just the cartoon, what will he do when sees the end game appraoching? This is our voice. We the people of Uganda must stand shoulder to shoulder and be ready to defend the right to air our vew.

Oooooh!!! Wonderful. This is exactly what Mwenda has been looking forward to. Something to fan the fires of doubt about how he gets away with his "writing style".Intresting how a cartoon would rattle the police when there have been articles and cartoons "seditious " enough in the past to warrant a call in from Kale's boys. This is a nice tactic for a sales surge n opportunity to create distance btw Mwenda n State hse. Whats next raid on the Independent offices? mmm.. makes for good press n conspiracy talk. Not News to me

thank you for delivering the truth. the cartoon got it right only that it left out very many things on the NRM list of wierd things they intend to do. i think the police felt cheated by not putting another Kibooko squard headed by them! Any since my friend Andrew challenged the "Sedition" law in the constitutional court, just organise some few coins and surities you will get bail. You know these days all right thinking members of society are out on bail!

It's only the beginning, it starts... more to come as we approach 2011, TRUTH HURTS but also brings out TRUE COLORS!! On your Mark Kakooza Mutale...

Vendetta sparked off by guilt.

Good luck guys.
May god bless you.

The list on the cartoon is spot on though it mist out a rew which would have been too much to swallow.

Things like car crush and poison by that Congolis waiter at Serena Hotel.

If NRM can lock up FDC youth wing over demonstration then what else if difficult, coming 2011 expect the worse, but as a country we must unite together and the press and Media have the tools and power in their hands to educate the citizens on truth. educate citizens so they understand Election processes, what it is all about and for citizens to exercise their rights as citizens of Uganda. Expect the worse coming 2011 elections but we shall stand together as one in Unity. This is the one time when M7 will fight like you have never seen before, many people will be terrorised, many murder, intimidation, rigging, corruption, theft, but resist the enemy and it will flee.

1. Kiboko squad arranged. done

2. Appointing supreme judges. done

3. Create division in Bunyoro. done

4. Kayihura to arrest Besigye, Otunnu, Mao, Okello Okello, Okumu regan over allegations of genocide committed by UPDA in North and Eastern Uganda. x

5. Firing gun shots in IPC, FDC UPC 2011 election campaign. x

6. Winning Presidential Election. Failed

The problem with the Ugandan police is that they are obsessed with doing what is "right" for "His Excellency".

Cartoons are cartoons and even bafoons need to wake up to realise that cartoons are cartoons;

From what I see on the list, all items were proven in courts of law as NRM tools for electoral malpractice, the cartoon just revisited the list. They should question the courts first.

great cartoon! A picture really is worth a thousand words, keep it flowing.

I wish the Uganda police was impatial or shameless.
muna

Mwenda carry on with yr good job we are together in everything this is our country we cann't accept to be intimidated like that.

Keeping the media constantly responding to frivolous police sermons only serves to occupy the media wasting money, energy and time thinking and traveling to and fro engaged in worthless and unproductive endeavors. Typically the government is just distracting and confusing the media and the opposition so that they don't have time and energy to expose the rampant political corruption and hypocrisy and several other malfeasance.

These are the reasons why the independent should be prosecuted:

1. Leaking out classified intelligence info on how life rulership project;

2. Documenting public knowledge so that it is part of Uganda's well documented political history;

3. Truth telling;

4. Bold and Fearless;

You have your eyes wide shut and, not surprisingly, missed my point. I'll try and be as plain as possible.

Under UPC (and similar regimes), being summoned by police was merely a training manual occurance, however, under the NRM being summoned by the police is procedural in their role of keeping the law, whereas under the other regimes it meant Nile mansions et al and definite torture.

If you are more pre-occupied with not having the trust in the police, then do not publish seditious material (or break the law) and you will regain that trust.(just a by-the-way!)

People, the trueth shall set u free.All that is expected as we approach 20011 but lets stick 2 the truth.

so was the Independent telling the truth based on facts. or was it wish ful thinking meant to tarnish someones image. Journalists are supposed to messegers of facts. i challenge you to open a newpaper in rwanda and write such nonsense and we will see if you will another day

Congs Indepedent and thats the reason to why this is the only paper I do read in Uganda for they stand by what ever they write without favour.

My parents once told me that you should always call a spade spade and not a big spoon.

Bwana Mwenda you have demostrated that you are a true jornalist who respects and hornors your work.

These dictatators have to realise that intimidations will and shall never work again for Ugandans are now awake and tired of their lies. They say that too much of anything is always bad and how long did you think you were going to rob this dear country Uganda.

We shall always stand besides you Andrew. Good luck and continue the fight.

you have overstepped on the President

Too many useless summons undermines the integrity of the police. Let them summon, it is due to redundancy.

I am not surprised they are actually keeping up to their strategy. Our leaders are mindless, corrupt and are very arrogant people starting with the president. they think they are being cut short with this information made public.

Emperroe,
It can be sickening for NRM to hide its sins by comparing with past regimes instead of doing the right things. What if I was not born when what you allege was done by UPC happened, do I settle for partisan mediocre police service for that matter. A quarter century is too long to keep comparing with the past. Hey Emperror you can defend better

Going by your response, you will no doubt be surprised when I tell you with all honesty that I di not coin the following phrase, "Better the devil you know".

And again, you still have your eyes wide shut. There is nothing "mediocre" or "substandard" or indeed "underhand" in being summoned to police for the purpose of carrying out investigations. What could amount to mediocrity would be if these writers were picked up with no notice and held in cells without chargeor even taken to Nile mansions for "questioning".

Finally, you may feel / believe that I am defending the govt, but far from it. I look at it from an independent perspective (if only the writers could live up to the magazine name too!)

Apart from Kayihura (The man is not a police man),and may be a few 'eating' Police I do not think most police men/women agree with what they have to do.I have spoken to many and are disgusted with their own n plight like all Ugandans who are now living like rats. So why are they the ones enforcing the suffering?Do these guys have a choice to refuse such orders?.can the courts protect them if they refuse to follow unconstitutional orders?

Emperror,

Sublimal phrases come from the past and sometimes circumstances overtake them but some people with uncritical mind hold tight on them. You can now say better the devil, what about previous develis some of whom you revile they were better known, so chose the starting point at your convinience ehhhhh

Emperor, shame upon you for defending a weak and losing Govt. The banyankole have a saying that ' wayeshweka bwasesire'. Its too late for repair now. How blind could you be to see that you are losing the battle if just a cartoon throws you off balance!! You prepare for the worst- This is just the beginning!! I'm worried you will be short of policemen to "enforce law" and on the voting day if you understand what i mean?? Forewarned....

Kaihura is Museveni's right hand man, like Martin Bormann was
to Adolf Hitler.


Both men are of the same ethnicity.

Anonymas

Wy are you still in Uganda?
Just pack your bag go to Rwanda. Stop telling who are waking up to today.
Just pack your bag and go and share in that kind of dictatorship but do not compare us with Rwanda you fool!!!!!!! live us alone to speak our mind and be kill for doing so. people who dont like it here have long left the country, what are you waiting for?

I agree with Mati. Getting underneath Kags hood and producing a citation that sails close to the truth demands the harshest retribution. The Hitlerist Media Police should NOT BROOD the denigration of our omnipotent. I suggest the penultimate British method of 'hung, quartered and drawn' be applied to the 'smalls' of the repugnant :evil: editor.

I guess you have no choice in deciding which "starting point" I choose, and will thus promptly choose Uganda's independence day as the starting point.

Now that you know that, I will rephrase my earlier statement thus: "Better the devil you know".

and there you have it. I am sure you are on the brink of choking on your spit 'cause you know I am right, ..... again!

I have heard of a few pathetic excuses to justify breaking the law (even to cultivate a persecuted persona), but the perrenial "Media is above the law" and "Media should make the law" is as pathetic as they come.

In defence of common sense (and the rule of law), being summoned by police does not constitute harrasment. And by the way, NRM is not about to go anywhere soon unless you vote them out of office. I am sure it is a dream of many commentators here, but thats only a miniscule number of votes.

Anonymas, what monster you're, i feel sorry for you. Actually if youre one of those who have turned Uganda into a private entity, you stand warned. You may shoot us, intimidate us, steal uganda's resources, kill children, men and women who are HIV positive by stealing money for their medication, but remember your days are numbered. Hitler is gone, Mobutu is gone, Amin is gone. Ofcourse this regine is worse than Hitler's but we are sure it will go. You have proven to the world that you actually hate yourselves and your children. Because whether you want it or not, you or your children will pay for your sins. So stand warned. Stop showing your jealous of Rwanda. Are they the ones who told you to be rotten bustards, the most corrupt country in the world? Shame on you.

conquests conquer nations but not the hearts of men and women therein.

the emperor is naked, and so by telling him that he is naked, that becomes an offense.

besides,is not the list of priorities highlighted in the cartoon a reflection of what is exactly on the emperor's mind?

by employing apartheid era police policies, the state machinery not only hardens the hearts of men and women but also makes them resilient. we are made up of a material that gets harder the more you harmer it !!!!! BEWARE

Museveni is very very worried now, because he thought he had successfully hiden evidence of the muders he commited over the past 23 years and it wouldnt come out, but they are allover the place now. When Museveni was in Amin's State Reseach Beureau, a three thousand member strong unit, answerable directly to Amin. Museveni learnt from his mistakes as a serving officer in the unit, because they were dumping dead bodies in the lake. Museveni thought he would do better, but technology made the world very small for him. Dead bodies are now scaned from above as soon as a report of genocide is recieved. That is why a cartoon like this touches their nerve quickly because it hads on to what is already known by the international commuity. When David Martin's book, "General Amin" hit the book shelves, Amin became very worried and he didn't last long. One book on Museveni's killings is out last month by Jane Bussmann titled "The worst date ever". Clock is ticking on him.

Jane Bussmann, titled "The worst date ever". The clock is ticking on him guys, dont get intimidated.

Guys, the book is selling fast.


Just checked Amazon.com, it's
temporarily out of stock.

To check back later.

Absolutely correct! An offence against an Emperor need not be written in law, but can be coined "on the fly".

The harder you get, the better for the Emperor, WHEN you are hit, you SHALL shatter into a thousand pieces.

And just a small piece of advice, you would make a hopless preacher!

The only way they can not be voted out is because of non thinkers like you Emerror that are there to be used and turned into puppets to do their dirty work.

You talk about media being abovee the law just because they write the facts does not make them above the law.

secondly the president is a citizen as an ordinary person so that means is meant to be written about when it comes to issues that are against the people.

You his puppets everytime they say some thing that is wrong you jump to defending him. The police is there to keep law and order but to my dimay they only work for one side and thats the side of the dictator and those that are his puppets like you.

When it comes to those that are pionting out the evil being done and created by him then those are the ones turned out to be the criminals while the real criminals go free.

give us a break there no more tricks this time around for the mass is tired of being used.

I have such relief that you refrained from refering the M7 but to the President, and qudos to you. In my thinking (and that of the constitution), the President is the fountain of honor. It is for this reason alone that he can not be dragged into a court of law, and for the purposes of your argument, can not be equated to mere journalists (read mere mortals like you).

Journalists "pretend" to be above the law by insinuating that being summoned by the law amounts to not only an infringement of their private lives, but those of freedom of speech in general, which is far from the truth, especially in Uganda today. This cultivation of a "persecuted persona" is also adopted by the opposition who are blinded by their own web of lies to believe that they are capable of winning a free and fair general election. It is well documented that the opposition carried out several election malpractices in Norther Uganda during the last presidential election.

Emperor, can you explain the money in brown envelopes, that's dished out during election time, and the numerous Nigginas for the women to get the freebies, yet you cannot keep the hosptials stocked and roads maintained.
The women you try to compromise give birth on concrete floors in the hospitals due to lack of beds.

An inconvenient truth Mad dogs with rabies usually act out! Just wait and watch!

Emperror being one of them doesn't see anything wrong with summoning a journalist for a simple satiric cartoon yet ministers that cause financial loss worth millions of dollars get a pat on the back. Emperor is obviously not well versed with mainstream literature and takes the author's use of the same as a weakness if I may say. There is no difference between this regime's black mamba, PGB and the special forces of old. Likewise there is no difference between Nile mansions and the Safe houses of today. Emperror you wanna keep it real then do so!!

Folks,
Only a cartoon president sends police after a cartoonist. Otherwise any president worth the title wouldn't have given a damn. That is how desperate and low it can get; a president full of caprice is a cartoon president period.

Emperror,

SUBLIMES ARE ARE PARLIATIVES NOT CURES. THEY GET YOU SOME TEMPORARY RELIEF, SO ITS OK YOU CAN FEEL A WINNER. 1980 WE WE TOOK THE FAMILIAR DEVEIL WE SHOULD THINK TWICE FOR 2011 THAT INCLUDES EMPERROR

"Better the devil you know" :X
It's sad because you can not teach an old dog new tricks. To emperror and company,
Better the corruptions they reaps from.
Better the bad governance they enjoys.
Better the stinking public insitutions that serve them.
Better the poverty people are comfortable with.

Quote the President
is the fountain of honor. It is for this reason alone that he can not be dragged
into a court of law, and for the purposes of your argument, can not be equated
to mere journalists

So I guess thats why you his puppets and him have decieded to use this opportunity to do what ever you wish to the people and their properties.

Its just naivity that the likes of you think that you are going to be in power for the rest of your lives but let me assure you that that will never happen. So you had better do all the attrocities now for the time is coming when you all will be answerable including the dictator himself.

John Lema

It goes without saying that I have no intention of agreeing with you on the 1980 "choice". The devil we know was actually "robbed" of a clear victory ..... and the rest as they say .... is the HISTORY we are talking about here.

Come off it and admit YOU got that one incorrect (I dare not use the word WRONG else you pull out your handbags!).

The absurdity of the whole situation is that there are no suitable alternatives to the purpoted "mess" we supposedly are in.

Mention Besigye and I will tell you I see no difference with the incumbent. Mention Otunu and I will un-ashamedly tell you that he's in the same boat.

So I say again, "Better the devil you know".

You forget easily and that is sad, but if I can tell you that one of my experiences as a pupil / student was to have my suitcase emptied of all materials for checking at a roadblock (I did not mention that I was in full school uniform). I wont mention panda gari at all since I narrowly missed one while leaving Nakivubo after a match. Oh, I forgot to say, when an army land rover turned up (and this was about twice a week at least) in our local trading centre, everyone would vacate their premises, the soldiers would dis-embark and browse the shops, picking up whatever they wanted before they left.

"Better the devil you know"

I have previously said in these pages that I am in no way connected to the NRM or indeed to govt. I therefore can NOT give a response to your querry.

Further, I have resisted all temptation of sowing my Royal seed in a daughter of the soil, and for good reason. I also make it a point to compromise ONLY willing and mentally capable women.

With the supposedly better brains coming up with statements similar to what you say above is proof enough that opposition will NOT take to the helm in my lifetime. I can sleep soundly in the knowledge that you and your ilk will never pose a threat to me or my property .

Sorry to say but yu are the guys that have robbed the people of what belongs to them and are not even still satisified with all the loot that you have and now heading towards dividing them.

Wow and you think no one will ever come after you with all the properties you have stollen. Thats a big shame you standing there calling others that and forgetting that you are the very doing it.

Wow now you are trying disown your own time has come where by people are starting to disown what wrong things they have been doing.

I expected you to do that but it will never save you from all the atrosities that you guys have done.

It will hount you till the end.

Could this debate be a waste of precious time and resources? At the end of the day, MIGHT MAKES RIGHT! Look at any government, or any human organization and you will find this to be the case.

As long as M7 has the power to do as he pleases, regardless of how he got that power, his actions should be respected. Let there be peace at all cost!

No one has a monopoly on hapiness. Even M7 himself could be unhappy and miserable... but as they say, the grass is always greener on the other side. The 'have nots' think that having will make them happy! Far from it! Hapiness is a choice regardless of ones circumstances.

Mwenda... are you ready to assume the presidency of Uganda in 2011? Can we truely entrust our peace and security into your hands? If yes, more power to you. If not, appreciate the peace that has been brought by this government at a very high cost and try not to frustrate the government deliberately.

Since there are no better alternative leaders, does that mean that Uganda is heading into a BLACK HOLE in the event of Museveni's untimely death?

Not sure whether the term BLACK HOLE is aptly used in this context (I tend to believe BLACK is good!), but the Kenya scenario (read Kavuyo) is not that far fetched. The only exception clause I put on that is that by M7, I mean NRM and not the individual.

Kyupa ddebe! Do you even have any capacity to ascertain what constitutes an atrocity let alone charge anyone with an offence? Keep dreaming.

This is a cowboy state. Everyone trys to grab as much as they can or victimise a threat. It is unbelievable that apparently a ROAD has been sold off! To an investor! Even the mayor is trying to pocket what he can. Or rather what he wants. How can any so called ministers or MPs allow this to happen? Actually how can we Ugandans allow it! Of course we can't do anything but don't be surprised if one day the road leading to, or by your house is SOLD off. To an INVESTOR. The man was right when he said .... are sleeping. We are all sleeping.
Muna