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Kill The Gays Bahati One Step Ahead of Deportation

Melanie Nathan – Dec 14, 2010 -It would seem that yours truly of LezGetReal may be the accused catalyst of a merging  international furor; now why would we want to do that with Uganda?  It seems that Mr. David Bahati has his you know whats in a knot about our breaking report that he had been “booted” out of the USA.

The Ugandan Monitor, has been picking up our articles and recently posted the one about  Bahati being  booted out of the USA.    This clearly angered Bahati by his reaction in the Ugandan Monitor.  Mr. Bahati fails however to place his response in context and so I will set the record straight.

The Monitor’s Post reads:

“Kampala — Ndorwa West MP David Bahati has denied that he was ordered out of the United States by the State Department where he had gone to attend a conference on financial management but was denied entry because of his Anti-homosexuality Bill.

Mr Bahati dismissed reports of his deportation from the US as false and said it was a fabrication by those against his Bill that has drawn worldwide criticism. Press reports indicate that the legislator was put on a plane at Dallas Airport (misspelled by Ugandan Press should have been Dulles in D.C. ) in the US, through Paris and back to Uganda on the orders of the State Department. But Mr Bahati said: “It’s a mere fabrication by those who want to spoil the relations between two friendly countries. I came through Amsterdam not Paris like they are saying.”

Mr Andy Laney from the State Department also said they did not ask Mr Bahati to leave.  “We did not ask David Bahati to leave the country,” in a statement on Lez get Real  (Should be spelled LezGetReal) website on Saturday. Mr Bahati obtained a single event visa to the US to attend the conference but told he was not welcome due to his Bill.” Also  picked up by Queerty Blog.

When Bahati first entered the country, I spoke to the State Department, sent them my article and an e-mail. I also contacted DHS and was relentless in pushing my belief that  David Bahati, the author of the Anti-Homosexual (Kill-Gays) Bill was here in the USA and possibly under false pretenses.

I told them that I believed that Bahati was in violation of his VISA.  He had been granted a Visa to enter the USA based on a single event – a Conference- that he knew would deny him entrance.  In my prior articles and according to (site of ) College Prof. Warren Throckmorton,(see footnote 1.) you will see that when Bahati was informed he would be denied entry by  Conference organizers, he commented and then boarded a plane and came anyway. ( quotes Uganda Press Footnote 2.) Effectively that means Bahati lied when he entered the USA. He presented a VISA at the counter of  Immigration and Customs officials, which said he was going to a Conference while he knew he had been barred from the conference.

He showed up a day later for registration knowing he was excluded, knowing he had not paid the registration fee ; and If he dare allege that he did not know about the fact that he was going to be barred from the conference in advance of the  flight, then when he pretended to attempt registration – why did he not turn back and head to the airport?

The Conference organizers went on the record and provided LGR with a letter confirming his ban from the Conference.  While Bahati may have pretended not to know this, it is highly doubtful because it was already in the Ugandan press before he came to the USA and quoted by Prof. Throckmorton.    Bahati showed up a day late to the Conference on the Tuesday – to register- and admits the doors were closed on him.

That was on Tuesday – that is when he should have left but he did not. Instead he did exactly what we had predicted in earlier articles. His real connived intent; he had come to the USA intending to visit his evangelical friends, evidenced by the fact that Jack and Linda Klenk , members of the Truro Church were his hosts;  he stayed in their Fairfax County, VA home.  He  went on the Rachel Maddow show where he admitted that ‘The Kill the Gay Bill,’ pending parliament in Uganda was indeed the work of the infamous “C” street Fellowship Group.

Again I pushed with articles and links and e-mails – insisting that Bahati was here illegally; he can deny whatever  -in the Ugandan press (picked up by Queerty)  he is circumventing the real issue of his illegal entry into the USA.  He may pretend not realize this – but when a person gets a VISA to the USA , the Visa is invalid if the purpose of the VISA is different to the intent of its holder when entering the Country.  I dont see Bahati addressing the real issue at hand.

While Bahati asserts in the above article that LGBT activists via my report could harm USA and Uganda relations is ludicrous. USA and Uganda are friends; yet he so flagrantly breached our immigration laws -by entering the country on the phony VISA ; he is the one who entered the USA in bad  faith. (no pun intended ,of course.)  He is the one who thereby caused his own embarrassment in the Country.

The inside story of how BAHATI left the USA.

Gay activists  had planned to protest outside the Klenk home early Friday morning; Bahati had been at MSNBC’s  D.C. studio on Weds afternoon and recorded two shows, for Weds night and Thursday night.  After Maddow show – as the noise from blogging and sending e-mails and organizing of protests got louder, the authorities gave Bahati a nudge. I have not reported that Bahati was deported as alleged in his article.     Bahati was quietly, behind the scenes informed that he was unwelcome – that his visa was suspect and  that  ICE would be forced to visit the issue. (nudge, nudge, boot, go now..)   My information is well sourced.

So Andy Lany is absolutely correct when he says that they did not ask Bahati to leave – as in “Get OUT Bahati,” but rather he received a hint and to avoid embarrassment acted upon it.   It is true the State department spoke to Bahati as confirmed by Throckmorton as follows:  “However, Mr. Laney confirmed that State Department officials met with Mr. Bahati while he was in the United States and told him

…that the Anti-Homosexuality Bill is a major violation of human rights and that we strongly oppose it.”  (also not mentioned by Bahati in  Ugandan Press.)

He left hurriedly after mall shopping and did not return to the Klenks home as activist were aware of his plans to do so.  He boarded a plane for Paris and may have had to come via Amsterdam. Sources have not confirmed whether Bahati was denied entry into France or if he was merely catching a connecting flight.

If I could talk to to Mr. Bahati, as I have attempted to do, I would inform him that his actions alone will bring down the relationship of the USA and Uganda especially if he proceeds with the Bill that defies The International Declaration of Human Rights.    I believe Bahati is trying to discredit me  because I have exposed the ultimate ramifications of what the Anti-homosexuality Bill will really do – as I said before the US may well have to close its Embassy and all US Corps. withdraw in a climate where merely having gay employees could be a crime.

So it seems Bahati does not need my help in destroying Uganda and US relations.

Footnote 1. From Prof. Throckmorton’s article:

Interesting claim that Bahati’s visa is specifically for the event he now cannot attend. What happens when he is unable to enter? Bahati commented on the situation:

“I know US as a defender of democracy in the world and can differentiate between the efforts of a legislator in a democratic parliament from acts of dictatorship,” he [Bahati] said. Unlike other MPs, the American mission in Kampala gave him a single-entry visa specifically for the event.

Mr Bahati and five other MPs are scheduled to attend a financial management conference of practitioners in the US starting tomorrow. The gays also want to demonstrate at the venue of the meeting to show their distaste of the Bill and Mr Bahati. But Mr Bahati said he would continue with his trip. Footnote 2. http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1067082/-/ckit9uz/-/

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Melanie Nathan
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