With Joe raising the excellent issue of organized child abuse within Republican ranks, and behind the mask of Christian missions, we should not overlook the arrest last week of one Dr. Peter E. Waldron of Tampa, FL, at his (other, one presumes) home in Kampala, Uganda, for illegal possession of four high-powered assault fire arms and scores of rounds of ammunition (I first heard about this on NPR this morning, but they didn't have the transcript up when this was penned). There is talk that he may well be charged with terrorism, despite his connections with several top Ugandan officials (including President Museveni, it is claimed), whom he called upon his arrest.
An IT consultant, Waldron's arrest is of interest because he has quite the checkered - and mysterious - history in Africa and the Middle East, and the US, where he has campaigned for the Republican party since Reagan-Bush in 1980. Also raising questions are his home state being Wyoming, his "work" in Africa in the 1960s (wonder if he knows Abramoff) that resulted in an execution (sound like CIA to you?), his claim to have arranged meetings between Museveni and our President and Bill Gates, his turn at running sports programs for underprivileged youth in Tampa, and his conversion to a deeply dominionist-evangelical brand of theology, Check out his Christian agenda, as quoted here:
“It struck me that, for many Americans of faith, Uganda - a country where homosexuality and abortion are outlawed, where politicians freely mix church and state, and where outward displays of religious devotion are the norm - represents a kind of haven."
The girlfriend of Waldron, 49, and his maid are also being held for questioning.
Just what was Dr. Waldron's Christian mission in Uganda, with all those deadly weapons?
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