Vukoni,
I am still dazed by that article to be from EM !!!!! He must have drunk
something strange.
DMN
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From: "Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Ugnet] Fw: [Ugandacom] Exercise your freedom within the
lawEdward Mulindwa TORONTO
Did you write that EM? Or was it your alter ego?
Edward Mulindwa wrote:
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*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 Canada 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 Mulera 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.
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Gook
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