Kagame to Spread Propaganda: Scream BLOODY MURDER!
Gay rights and anti-war activist Nakhone Keodara blasts Rwandan President Paul Kagame as being hypocritical for preaching about forgiveness, reconciliation and peace at Rick Warren’s Saddleback Civil Forum on Reconciliation at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest Friday night. Nakhone also took OC Register reporter Erika Ritchie to task for lying about there not having been a protest of the civil forum that night.
The liar paradox
- Kagame urges Kenyans to embrace healing and reconciliation. What did he do in his own country, Rwanda? NOTHING.
- Kagame is a big liar. All he does is lie, lie, and lie. Kagame was presented as a man of peace by Rick Warren. What is now if he was lying?
- Kagame, a president and an imposter, responsible for the rape of millions of Congolese and Rwandan men, women and children in a military coup to plunder the vast natural resources of the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R. Congo) and the countless lost lives of these same people in an ethnic cleansing conflict that Kagame is widely reported as having been the mastermind and commander-in-genocide.Three people, including myself, showed up Friday night to protest Rick Warren’s Saddleback Civil Forum on Reconciliation at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest Friday night. The purpose of the civil forum was to honor Rwandan President Paul Kagame as a ‘Man of Peace.” An odd distinction for a President responsible for the rape of millions of Congolese men, women and children in a military coup to plunder the vast natural resources of the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R. Congo) and the countless lost lives of these same people in an ethnic cleansing conflict of which Kagame is widely reported as having been the mastermind and commander-in-genocide.
Filmmaker, screenwriter and human rights activist Alystar McKenneh and I were 30 minutes late to the protest. There were three to four police cars parked along the Saddleback Parkway and several of the police officers were on a motorized Segway scooter. It was a disappointing sight, to say the least, when we drove up to find that we were the only two people who showed up for the protest. The third protester name Ewanni, whose email I received later that night when I got home, apparently showed up at 6:20pm and then left prior to our arrival. Regardless, the protest did occur.
In the interest of full disclosure and for the sake of establishing record, I will post my email exchanges with Ewanni below:
The promotion of Absinence-Only-till-Heterosexual-Married-Monogamy as the only acceptable HIV/AIDS prevention strategy isn’t half of U.S. Evangelical Pastor Rick Warren’s HIV/AIDS ministry fraud. He’s never said a word about systematic rape, including male on male rape, and thus, HIV, used as weapons of war in D.R. Congo, by the armies of Uganda and Rwanda, which he claims as “purpose driven nations,” in keeping with his evangelical global bestseller “The Purpose Driven Life.”
The Evangelical Emperor wears no clothes.
I sent a link to this photograph of evangelical Pastor Rick Warren, with this caption, to gug, the anonymous author of Gay Uganda, the blog I turn to first for updates on Uganda’s “Hang-the-Gays” Bill,” more formally known as the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2009., or, the Bahati Bill, for its sponsor, Ugandan Member of Parliament David Bahati.
Gug responded: “I will volunteer to play the child… the one asking about those vestments, or the absence thereof…”
On 11.13.2009, a KPFA Radio News reporter called me about the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2009, and I later posted the broadcast result to the Youtube, with video:
Back to the protest. Alystar and I stood outside for three hours from 6:30pm to 9:30pm bearing signs that read “Kagame is No Man of Peace,” “Stop Rick W.’s Purpose Driven Globalization of LGBT Persecution,” and “Christians Should Not Support a Dictator.” In order to maximize the three signs, Alystar and I alternated in having one of us hold two signs throughout the night. Our protest was peaceful. We had a lot of people slowing their cars down as they passed us to read the signs.
For the most part, people seemed curiously interested in our messages. However, we had one African-American man yelled “Fuck You,” from his car window on his way into the Church. Another incident was with one older white woman who left the Church, rolled down her car window and screamed, “He’s not a dictator!” Alyster and I responded promptly. “He’s a criminal,“ yelled Alystar. I chimed in, “He’s a murderer. Yes, he is a dictator. Kagame is no man of peace!” Indignantly, she responded with, “You’re an idiot,” before driving away.
The irony between that lady’s last statement and her ignorance, or, more accurately, her willingness to be led by the nose by Rick Warren to believe that Paul Kagame is a man of peace, is lost on her. If Paul Kagame really wanted peace in the Congo and reconciliation with Congolese, he should have to make restitution for the Congolese people by resigning as president, pulling his militias out of D.R. Congo and turning himself in, for repentance sake, to European authorities so he can be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for the countless crimes against humanity that he’s committed.
While at it, Kagame would do well to make amends to the LGBT Congolese for the atrocity of sentencing LGBT Congolese who had HIV/AIDS to die without access to treatment medications-denying PEPFAR funds to AIDS service organizations that acknowledged that gay people exist in Rwanda, thereby not abiding by his “Purpose Driven Bigotry.”
Flying to America and putting on a show by pulling a wool over Rick Warren’s “civilized” sheep is disingenuous. Let’s see Kagame attempt to set right the errors of his ways by living up to some of my suggestions above. Then we’ll talk about reconciliation. Otherwise, his hypocritical preaching about forgiveness, reconciliation and peace will ring hollow.
Other than those two incidents, we felt safe having the cops there protecting us. Deputy Richard W. Nelson of the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Department was such a kind gentleman that he put us at ease right away. He went out of his way to accommodate us and even left me a voice mail while we were parking that a reporter name Erika Ritchie from the OC Register stopped to see him on her way in to cover the forum and had expressed interest in getting comments from me as one of the organizers of the protest.
Alyster and I were elated to hear those news. We figured we would make the most out of the situation and was looking forward to speaking with Ms. Ritchie. The aim of our protest was to let Rick Warren and Paul Kagame know that we’re watching them.
The Truth can be buried and stomped into the ground where none can see, yet eventually it will, like a seed, break through the surface once again far more potent than ever, and Nothing can stop it. Truth can be suppressed for a “time”, yet It cannot be destroyed. ==> Wolverine
