{UAH} Response to Musoke: Boycotting enablers in Kla.

Mw Sam Musoke,

If your point is that the boycott should expand to many other enablers of the regime in Kla, then I totally agree with you and I think I memntioned it in one of emails yesterday.

In my view, the system in Kla, just like other governments allover the world, depends on enablers...police, army, businesspeople, members of parliament, local administrators, etc.  Of these enablers, the businesspeople obviously have the most to lose if changes happen.  In addition, the businesspeople have easy access to the leaders, in a way that other groups of enablers do not have.  For example, I remember seeing an interview of Amelia Kyambadde that business people could easily access the president via his family members:

"We have a president who is also a family man: didn't you find yourself on a collision course with the family needs of the president?

Ohhh yes.  Family was another challenge. It was very difficult for me to manage family. The family cannot say I am coming to see him and you say no.

And when they come, they have to bring people. Then people learnt that there was a gap there; so, they [would] go through the family. That one I had no control over."

Therefore, it makes sense to apply pressure on the economic interests of the business people because they have easy access to the leaders and can tell the leaders that things are not going well. But most importantly, because they need to protect their ecomomic interests.  The other enablers live off tax payer money.  Business people live of their business earnings.

That is probably why the US and E.U impose sanctions on businesspeople that are close to leaders that these governments want to influence.  e.g Russia, Syria, Iran, etc. 

thanks

On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 8:46:39 PM UTC-8, Sam Musoke wrote:

MW. Joseph Musoke, the purpose of sanctions and boycotts is to apply pressure to a system to change? Tell me what boycotting 10 or 15 artists will achieve other than just  a mere retaliation against individuals who are practicing their right to support a candidate of their choice. This reminds of "kwookya ebitooke".

On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 6:49:44 PM UTC-6, frank.mujabi21 wrote:

Mr Sam Musoke

At the height of apartheid in S Africa, the UK Labour Party spearheaded sanctions against all pro apartheid S.African companies and individuals.
S.African products were boycotted by a lot of left leaning organidations and people.

And what do you call the travel ban against Robert Mugabe? That is a boycott against an individual by a democratic US govt.