Bachmann Staffer Arrested for Terrorism in Uganda in 2006

The charges were dropped after he spent more than a month in prison. Now he's rallying Bachmann's faith-based support and prepping for a movie about his ordeal.


The evangelical organizer who helped Michele Bachmann win the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa Saturday was previously charged with terrorism in Uganda after being arrested for possession of assault rifles and ammunition in February 2006, just days before Uganda's first multi-party elections in 20 years.

Peter E. Waldron spent 37 days in the Luriza Prison outside Kampala, where he says he was tortured, after being arrested along with six Congolese and Ugandan nationals for the weapons, which were described variously in news reports as having been found in his bedroom or a closet in his home. The charges, which could have led to life in prison, were dropped in March 2006 after a pressure campaign by Waldron's friends and colleagues and what Waldron says was the intervention of the Bush administration.


http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/bachmann-staffer-arrested-for-terrorism-in-uganda-in-2006/243711/

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Bachmann Staffer Tied to Ugandan Minister behind ‘Kill the Poop-Eating Gays’ Bill

Michele Bachmann, a vicious anti-gay crusader herself, might be rivaled in the homophobia department by her campaign aide Peter Waldron.

Waldron, the leader of Bachmann’s faith-based outreach in Iowa and South Carolina and the man credited with propelling Bachmann to the Ames Straw Poll victory, has ties to Ugandan minister Martin Ssempa. In 2004, Waldron was invited to speak at Ssempa’s church. Last year Ssempa rose to international notoriety for his support of genocidal legislation that sought to execute gay people and imprison anyone who fails to report gay people to the Ugandan authorities.

The New Republic documented Waldron’s visit to Ssempa’s church (by Andrew Rice):

“The Sunday I attended Ssempa’s church, after he finished his sermon, the pastor told his audience that he had a special guest to introduce…Dr. Peter Waldron of Wyoming. Waldron told the congregation that he had once been a military man and that he used to travel around Africa a lot in the 1960s. He was vague about the nature of his work. (“I’m not at liberty to say,” he later told me.) But he claimed that, on one occasion, it resulted in some good people getting executed by a firing squad. After that, he contemplated suicide, he told the audience. Then he found Jesus.”

The fact that Waldron was an associate of Ssempa is shocking enough, but that’s not all. Two years later, in 2006, Waldron was still knocking around Uganda when he was arrested on terrorism charges for allegedly having four AK-47 rifles and 180 bullets “all without a valid license or reasonable excuse,” according to a chief magistrate in Uganda.



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The Uganda “Kill the Gays Experiment”- Operation Minnesota
June 11, 2011
By: Jamie Clark

People usually surround themselves with others that have identical morals, values and goals whether it be as friends or colleagues. That is why I feel obligated to share a few grim reminders here, just in case anyone has missed the connections between Uganda and Minnesota.

Yesterday, the Minnesota Independent posted an article which included a picture of Bradlee “kill the gays” Dean with Minnesota Family Council President, Tom Prichard. This sounds innocent enough (if that’s even possible) until, of course, you look at the rest of their circle of friends. Dean is also pals with Bryan Fischer from the American Family Association, who has also been a guest on Dean’s radio talk shows. In one such interview, he promotes a book called “The Pink Swastika,” which is really nothing more than hate propaganda attempting to once again demonize homosexuals. He promotes it because he is friends with the author, Scott Lively.

In 2009, Lively and two associates traveled to Uganda to talk about what he calls “the gay agenda” to basically destroy everything we touch. This country already condemned homosexuality, but now they were being told that their families and even their health, would be threatened as long as gays existed in their society. Easily influenced by a man who they saw as a honest American minister, the people demanded action. Homosexuals in Uganda insist it was the message brought by Lively and his pals that caused panic to turn into what we refer to as the Uganda “kill the gays” Bill. Written by Ugandan Parliament member David Bahati, this bill called for the execution of homosexuals not willing to endure so called “ex-gay therapy.”


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I know this is the United States, and there are laws that protect homosexuals from being rounded up for execution. We need to keep in mind however, that not only do all these guys have a hateful bond, a few of them also have direct ties to political figures such as Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann. The link between them and Bradlee Dean is more than obvious after his “prayer” on the MN Legislative floor, and both of them have even been on Bryan Fischer’s radio talk show. I find it very unsettling that these members of our political parties are spending time with people such as Dean and Fischer, both of whom think homosexuals are monsters that need to eliminated for society to be pure. What exactly is the big picture in all of this?

More:
http://lezgetreal.com/2011/06/the-uganda-kill-the-gays-experiment-operation-minnesota/

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