To: sarcasm, Jack BlackActivist ‘lucky not to be shot like dog'
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Thursday--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ZIMBABWE’S official daily newspaper says British gay activist Peter Tatchell, who was beaten by security guards while trying to "arrest" President Robert Mugabe in Belgium, was lucky not to have been "shot like a dog". The Herald said Tatchell of the British gay rights group Outrage, who was knocked to the ground by the president's bodyguards in Belgium on Monday as he tried to make a citizen's arrest over Mugabe's human rights record, was a "gay gangster" whose behaviour represented the Western world's extreme contempt for African leaders.
Tatchell, who previously tried to "arrest" Mugabe in October 1999 during a private visit to London, yelled "Arrest Mugabe, arrest the torturer" as the veteran African leader left the Hilton Hotel in Brussels.
The 77-year-old Mugabe, in power since the former Rhodesia gained independence from Britain in 1980, has denounced homosexuals as "worse than dogs and pigs".
Posted on 03/07/2001 22:34:08 PST by Byron_the_Aussie
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And it was back in 2001 and no FR person said it. It was as you said quoted in an article and used by Mugabe.
Could be other threads that quoted Mugabe with this quote also.
O'Reilly is obviously bothered by FR because people here don't coddle him and call him out on his mistakes haughtiness
Here is the thread I found. O’Reilly completely mischaracterized it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aa40f1e78fe.htm
Gay activist tries to arrest Mugabe - again
Foreign Affairs News
Source: Reuters via Independent Online
Published: March 05 2001
Posted on 03/05/2001 14:11:42 PST by sarcasm
Brussels - A prominent British gay rights campaigner tried to make a citizen’s arrest of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe on Monday over his human rights record, but was knocked to the ground by the president’s bodyguards.
Mugabe, who is on a one-day visit to Belgium for talks about the central African peace process, is a hate figure for many homosexuals, whom he has branded as “dogs”.
Peter Tatchell of the British gay rights group Outrage yelled “Arrest Mugage, arrest the torturer” as the veteran African leader left the Hilton Hotel in Brussels.
In the ensuing scuffle, Tatchell was pushed to the ground.
“I am OK, I fell down,” he said afterwards.