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Last month, when Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni traveled to Coolup, Australia, to accept an award for lowering his country’s AIDS infection rate from 28 percent to 6 percent, he implied that the task was made easier because no one in his country is gay (last year Amnesty International issued a report condemning the torture of homosexuals in Uganda)….That same month officials of the African National Congress issued a report questioning the existence of HIV and attributing the 4.7 million cases of AIDS in South Africa to the products of Western pharmaceutical companies.
In January, Ted Hudson was arrested in Casper, Wyoming, for allegedly setting up a secret video camera in his boss’s bathroom and catching the man’s wife showering, a stunt he claimed was just a practical joke….That same month deputy sheriff Gabriel Bruno was arrested for placing feces in the sinks of two Rhode Island Superior Court judges, which he also called a practical joke….And last month Idaho state representative Kent Higgins presented two colleagues who advocate early childhood education with a swastika-adorned photograph of a child from a breeding scheme in Nazi Germany, later telling his stunned colleagues that it was all a joke.
In February, 22-year-old Leon Watson of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was arrested for allegedly beating his two-year-old son; Watson said the boy had given him a “mad dog” look reminiscent of gang members staring down rivals….That same month a jury in Galveston, Texas, convicted Thomas Mitchell of shooting his girlfriend; Mitchell said she’d uttered the words New Jersey, among the four names that send him into a rage (the others are Wisconsin, Snickers, and Mars bar).
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