Re: [Ugnet] Fw: [Ugandacom] Exercise your freedom within the law Edward Mulindwa TORONTO

[Y Yaobang]

I also cannot believe E Mulindwa would write trash like this!

 

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Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Did you write that EM? Or was it your alter ego?

Edward Mulindwa wrote:

> *From:* gook makanga
> *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Monday, August 15, 2005 4:37 PM
> *Subject:* [Ugandacom] Exercise your freedom within the law Edward
> Mulindwa TORONTO
>
> Exercise your freedom within the law Edward Mulindwa TORONTO
>
> In reading Dr Muniini Mulera's article in your Monday's opinion pages,
> I found it hard to pass with out a comment.
>
> My friend Dr Mulera makes some very good points and I completely agree
> with him that there are questions which have to be both asked and
> answered. I have a problem with the closure of KFM 93.3, the Monitor’s
> FM radio station, but not being in Uganda I do not know if this
> station was warned by the agency on what it should air on the public
> waves or not, makes it difficult for me to make a call on it either way.
>
> But here is where I have a problem with Mulera's article; he is
> failing to make one very important point, that freedom of speech is
> not an open ended status. We all use freedom of speech but we respect
> the law.
>
> I read the transcript of Andrew Mwenda and some of the statements he
> made in that program, Dr Mulera can not make them in Canada waves if
> he wants to have a license.
> I have to be very careful here for Andrew Mwenda's case is soon going
> to be before a judge so I cannot debate any of his statements.
>
> But I would ask Dr Muniini Mulera to go back and read the transcript
> of that program, and wonder if he had a radio station in Canada if he
> would make such statements on a prime Minister of Ca nada and see if
> the CRTC would not yank his license.
>
> Freedom of speech does not empower us to disrespect our leaders, and I
> happen to be one of the people who have opposed the Movement for a
> very long time, but like it or not Yoweri Museveni is a president of
> Uganda today, and we owe him that respect.
>
> *Danger*
> The danger here is that there is no way you can disrespect Yoweri
> Museveni with out disrespecting the position he holds.
> And I wish Dr Muniini Mulera used this chance to point out to his
> audience that respect of the presidency is paramount in all things we
> discuss in or on our nation.
>
> The questions Dr Mulera asked are understandable and they need to be
> asked and answered as I stated before, but why am I able to understand
> them in Mulera's article and I can not understand them in Andrew
> Mwenda's transcript?
> Yet Dr Muler a is not a journalist and Andrew Mwenda is. That is the
> main problem in this whole circle.
>
> Lastly the movement has brought very many changes to our nation. we
> used to have only land lines today we are in cell phone times.
> The Internet was introduced including reading Daily Monitor on line,
> but I have looked very carefully on how we use these new facilities.
>
> The other day a Florence Namutebi from Sweden wrote a letter in Daily
> Monitor complaining about the abuse of Uganda chat rooms. When you
> read Andrew Mwenda's transcript, one can not help but wonder if we
> were ready to move from a state one controlled radio station.
>
> We need to build freedom of speech in our nation, but let us not
> forget the growth of journalism that must follow it.
>
> *Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
>
>
> Gook
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