Pink Purge in Peru
Peru’s police force does not have the full trust of the public. So, in order to improve the image of the police, Peru’s left-wing ruling party, the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana – which is affiliated to Socialist International - has hit on the perfect publicity stunt. It is going to purge the police force of homosexuals who, according to the Interior Minister, Mercedes Cabanillas, are “damaging the image of the institution”.
The BBC reports that the new law states that “any police officer who has sexual relations with someone of the same gender will be indefinitely suspended from the police force. ”
Critics have called the law ‘unconstitutional’.
The British Ambassador to Peru, Catherine Nettleton, confirmed to campaigner Peter Tatchell that “a new Peruvian law intended to improve police discipline includes sanctions on members of the national police who ‘have sexual relations with members of the same sex, which cause scandal and discredit the image of the institution’. We are seeking the views of local human rights groups and the office of the Ombudsman and will be considering with our European Union colleagues what action to take.”
Now, Socialist International says in its statement following its 20th Congress held in 1996 - A Human Rights Agenda for the 21st Century:
Lesbians, gay men and bisexuals experience abuses of their human rights on a daily basis. They continue to be unequal to heterosexuals in law. Homophobia contributes to the violation of human rights and is a matter of criminal behaviour and should be dealt with accordingly in terms of legal action.
Lesbians, gay men and bisexuals do not currently enjoy the same freedoms and treatment before the law as heterosexuals. For example, discrimination at work on the grounds of sexuality is lawful in most countries (unlike discrimination on the grounds of gender and race) and same-sex relationships are not afforded the same legal recognition as opposite-sex relationships in most countries. The struggle against homophobia and sexual discrimination requires a broad strategy of action, ranging from legal and political measures to policies in the fields of teaching, education, culture and information. Lesbians, gay men and bisexuals are entitled to the same human rights as heterosexuals. Those rights must be enshrined in law through the enactment of legislation to ensure equal treatment, regardless of sexuality, in all areas of political, social and economic life.
Criminal behavior eh? We’re not even a decade in yet, chaps, and already a member is scapegoating gays and lesbians. So, will Peru’s governing party be expelled from the organisation?
Comments
| 27 May 2009, 2:08 pm |
Mustn’t make gay rights a shibolleth, now, must we, as Lindsay German (?) was reported as saying…
| 27 May 2009, 3:03 pm |
Foul-still it makes a change from left wing LatAm regimes scapegoating Jews (thank you El Presidente Chavez)!
Oddly, a few gay Argentinian friends swear blind that men who only penetrate will trot back to their wives and girlfriends completely secure in their (hetero)sexuality. The comment about trannies above is spot on. They would still all be caught, most likely, under this nasty law though…
| 27 May 2009, 3:14 pm |
Has the Socialist International [and who but nutters like us even know that it exists?] ever expelled a party?
Which parties have committed crimes worthy of explusion in the past and have remained members?
| 27 May 2009, 3:29 pm |
Alexei Sayle was nearly expelled for being a twat.
| 27 May 2009, 3:45 pm |
I just farted.
| 27 May 2009, 5:12 pm |
“Oddly, a few gay Argentinian friends swear blind that men who only penetrate will trot back to their wives and girlfriends completely secure in their (hetero)sexuality.” – Barad
Barad – remembering some of your other posts, and this one – do you consider ‘homosexuality’ a synonym for ‘buggery’? Is kissing and cuddling, fellatio, mutual masturbation and other non-penetrative stuff not thought of as queer? Would this also apply to Peruvian policemen? “I only done a blowjob on Pedro, Chief – an’ he only give me a wank. You’re not gonna fire us for that, are you? Specially considering you’ve had sex with everyone in the force that you’ve promoted?”
| 27 May 2009, 5:19 pm |
Bernardo, no, you can be gay and not have penetrative sex. However if you have penetrative sex with a man, I would have trouble not thinking that you were the teensy, weensiest bit homoxual.
I think from what my friends tell me, the “straight” Argentinian bloke gets to be sucked off or fucks a man and still thinks he is straight because…well just because. I am not sure that cuddles come into it much!
| 27 May 2009, 5:23 pm |
I suppose prison sex is the odd scenario where the urge to have sex with something overcomes other urges for that something to be female. In the opposite situation, if I were locked in a prison full of women, I would not expect to have sex with any of them because it interests me no more than having sex with a vacuum cleaner. However maybe other people are more on a spectrum than I am and they are perhaps more open to offers.
| 27 May 2009, 5:50 pm |
When will you soft headed liberals realise the world outside of Western Europe and North America lives by different rules, All this multiculti bullshit will be the ruin of us.
What we have in Europe is at odds with the whole of human history and you idiots will throw it all away because you think “everyones the same”, They are not the same and they will change us not the other way around no matter if they are Muslim, Hispanic or Negro.
We are already half way there, Third world people are just that, third world.
| 27 May 2009, 6:37 pm |
Barad – actually the same rules apply in Turkey and possibly other bits of the Muslim world (though I wouldn’t want to generalise…) Only the “accepting” partner is regarded as homosexual (and thus a second-class citizen). If you fuck you’re still a red-blooded man no matter which orifice or whom it belongs to. And of course that means you’re still entitled to pose as a first-class homophobe.
| 27 May 2009, 6:50 pm |
Cipriano, well they’re used to completely despising and oppressing the women and girls they fuck, why should the men they fuck get a pass?
| 27 May 2009, 8:57 pm |
Barad:
“I would not expect to have sex with any of them because it interests me no more than having sex with a vacuum cleaner.”
For heaven’s sake keep your voice down dear. We can all do without James Dyson getting any more “good ideas”.
| 28 May 2009, 12:26 am |
Rockall666 – “Has the Socialist International [and who but nutters like us even know that it exists?] ever expelled a party?”
Singapore’s People’s Action Party resigned before it was expelled.
“Which parties have committed crimes worthy of explusion in the past and have remained members?”
Well a lot of parties have done very bad things in the past and have been allowed to join – all the former Soviet Communist Parties tend to try to be members these days. So why anyone would want to share a platform with FRELIMO I don’t know. But Mexico’s PRI is still a member. Egypt’s ruling party is too. So are the Sandanistas. All of which suggests it is not a club any sane person would want to belong to.
| 28 May 2009, 5:17 am |
Since I am not a leftist, only a Liberal, I find the following impenetrable:
“We’re not even a decade in yet, chaps, and already a member is scapegoating gays and lesbians.”
This is some sort of reference to some kind of international socialist group in which self-important, self-referential boring dumb-shits, educated far past their intelligence, complain about some transgendered Goth getting made fun of at some mall in Alberta or Singapore and such-like.
Meanwhile, millions die in the Congo, hundreds of thousands die in Darfur, while thousands of 7 year olds are raped in both.
What is wrong with you sick, sick leftists, that makes you obsessed with minutiae as millions of innocents die?
| 28 May 2009, 5:38 am |
In the name of God, are you seriously arguing that a group called “Socialist International” promises to improve current conditions? How many millions dead by famine and concentration camps do you need to know about? What is wrong with you?
| 28 May 2009, 5:46 am |
In the name of God, are you seriously arguing that a group called “Socialist International” promises to improve current conditions? How many millions dead by famine and concentration camps do you need to know about? What is wrong with you?
| 28 May 2009, 8:15 am |
Leave us out of this, you big meanie.
| 28 May 2009, 12:35 pm |
if I were locked in a prison full of women, I would not expect to have sex with any of them because it interests me no more than having sex with a vacuum cleaner.
Charming!
| 28 May 2009, 1:12 pm |
Mrs Trellis, are harrumphing as if to suggest that I should somehow be attracted (or pretend to be) to people that I am not? I am not intrinsically likening women to vacuum cleaners.
| 28 May 2009, 2:35 pm |
I am not intrinsically likening women to vacuum cleaners.
I don’t think you should rule anything out, whether that be women, men or a new Dyson.
| 28 May 2009, 3:06 pm |
I am 42-I think I would know by now if I was attracted to women or vacuum cleaners.
| 28 May 2009, 3:07 pm |
I am 42-I think I would know by now if I was attracted to women or vacuum cleaners. I am not!
| 28 May 2009, 5:07 pm |
APRA is as much a leftwing organization as you guys are, the ignorance of latam politics is derived from silly vestiges like affiliation, do the research Alan Garcia is the head of APRA and he is about as rightwing as Fujimori.
| 30 May 2009, 6:02 pm |
Biff Larkin, many people are opposed to both the deaths in Darfur and the abuse of transexual teenagers. It doesn’t have to be, and very often isn’t, a case of choosing one or the other.
“any police officer who has sexual relations with someone of the same gender will be indefinitely suspended from the police force. ”
So it’s still cool if we shag transsexuals, though, right?
Whew, dodged a bullet there with that one.