Posted On: Wednesday - March 25th 2026 6:50PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Immigration Stupidity Race/Genetics
You can have on-going legacies - I can think of a couple of examples. “Legacy of slavery” has been the term of art, but, for some reason I can’t fathom, “enslaved persons” is better than “slaves”, and “enslavers” is better than “slave owners” or “slavers” nowadays, so we’ll go with “legacy of enslavement” here.* It was a big deal ending enslavement in America 160-odd years back - we thought we had it licked, but still, Americans have been enslaving people to this day in, for example, Martinez, California and Greater (but not SO great) Chicagoland.** I mean, that is, if immigrants from Nigeria and Benin, respectively, can be considered Americans - they were the ones doing the enslaving, BTW.
Well, even the UK has its enslavers today. Gateway Pundit reports UN Judge and Former Columbia University Fellow Convicted of Modern Slavery . One Lydia Mugambe… wait a minute! She was a former fellow? I just gotta quit being a curmudgeon and get hip to the modern world… where was … OK, one Lydia Mugambe a Ugandan based in the UK, brought some domestic help out of the old country to do dishes and take care of the 3 children.
Because she lacked the legal right to sponsor a visa, she conspired with John Leonard Mugerwa, then Deputy High Commissioner of Uganda to the UK, who agreed to sponsor the victim’s entry under a diplomatic servants scheme.I wouldn’t have imagined that such a prestigious individual, formerly on the High Court of Uganda, would lack integrity. It’s the Nigerians, right, not the Ugandans that run all those scams? I mean she was a freaking judge at the UN, OK?!
False employment contracts and a false Certificate of Sponsorship were created stating the victim would work as a paid housekeeper at the Ugandan diplomatic residence.
The intention from the outset was that the victim would instead live and work unpaid at Mugambe’s private home.
She’s right, you know. It IS hard to get good help these days. However, even in the modern UK, you can only get away with so much, at least when your victim is also a woman of colour.
Lydia Mugambe, a Ugandan lawyer who served as a High Court Judge in Uganda beginning in 2013 and as a Judge of the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), the successor body to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, since May 2023, was convicted on 13 March 2025 at Oxford Crown Court on four counts: conspiracy to facilitate a breach of UK immigration law, arranging travel with a view to exploitation, requiring a person to perform forced or compulsory labor, and conspiracy to intimidate a witness.Wait, what was the middle thing again?
She was also a fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights in 2017. She was studying for a doctorate in law at Oxford University at the time of the offences.Miss Mugambe ought to know a thing or two about human rights, and enslaving people has got to be some sort of HR violation - yeah, in both senses - or at least it ought to be…, but then, I’m no barrister. I attended neither Columbia University nor Oxford, so perhaps Peak Stupidity should stand down here.
Now she’ll spend half of her 6 year sentence for enslavement at a place quite different from Columbia or Oxford, and she has been ordered to pay FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS in reparations for this:
Once in the UK, the victim was required to cook, clean, and provide childcare without pay, receiving only food and board. Mugambe confiscated the victim’s passport and biometric visa card.Oh, and…
The case attracted public comment in Uganda, some of it critical of the victim, which has been a source of distress. The victim was subsequently granted asylum in the UK.That’s the way you do it. Two Ugandans for the price of one, as formerly-Great, formerly-Britain
* In a weird way, I’m kind of hoping the clutch slave cylinder on my truck fails again, just for the fun I’ll have requesting the black auto parts clerk quote me a price on a new enslaved cylinder.
** Ha, I wrote this title today, and I now see that I wrote almost the same title 6 years back!
Comments:
Moderator
Friday - March 27th 2026 4:02PM MST
PS: Thanks for that quick lesson, Alarmist. Until now, all I knew about barristers is what I watched in “A Fish Called Wanda”. Great movie!
The Alarmist
Thursday - March 26th 2026 2:20PM MST
PS
Qualified as a Solicitor, worked in the City of London. Barristers are the giuys who go to court, Solicitors are the guys who keep you out of it, what with our clever contracts and slippery ways.
Qualified as a Solicitor, worked in the City of London. Barristers are the giuys who go to court, Solicitors are the guys who keep you out of it, what with our clever contracts and slippery ways.
Moderator
Thursday - March 26th 2026 9:39AM MST
PS: The posts are proliferating, Mr. Hail, like nukes in the hands of Moslems...
I do tend to forget the older ones, but I did reply to you, and to Adam Smith, too, on that thread. This is no Unz Review, as far as commenting goes, unfortunately.
I do tend to forget the older ones, but I did reply to you, and to Adam Smith, too, on that thread. This is no Unz Review, as far as commenting goes, unfortunately.
Hail
Thursday - March 26th 2026 8:53AM MST
PS
(replied at the silver post; on silver prices and the post-2024 silver price surge and on the Housing Bubble(s), and the relation between Housing Bubble and Wokeness.)
(replied at the silver post; on silver prices and the post-2024 silver price surge and on the Housing Bubble(s), and the relation between Housing Bubble and Wokeness.)
Moderator
Thursday - March 26th 2026 8:37AM MST
PS: "For most of human history and across myriad cultures, owning slaves was a human right."
See, there you go - you must be a Barrister. ;-}
Indeed, enslaved people have been around through, what 95% of recorded history? Nobody had a problem with it but the slaves. Many were White people taken from their homes as far off as the coast of the UK by Moslems. They have been enslavers since Mo's time. Some still are.
See, there you go - you must be a Barrister. ;-}
Indeed, enslaved people have been around through, what 95% of recorded history? Nobody had a problem with it but the slaves. Many were White people taken from their homes as far off as the coast of the UK by Moslems. They have been enslavers since Mo's time. Some still are.
The Alarmist
Thursday - March 26th 2026 8:11AM MST
PS
For most of human history and across myriad cultures, owning slaves was a human right.
IOW, nothing to see here.
Shut up and go back to working to finance your gangster government led by corrupt pedophiles, slave!
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For most of human history and across myriad cultures, owning slaves was a human right.
IOW, nothing to see here.
Shut up and go back to working to finance your gangster government led by corrupt pedophiles, slave!
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Moderator
Thursday - March 26th 2026 7:19AM MST
PS: I'll copy the comment I just made under the last post here:
PS: Mr. Hail, paying for a house is THE biggest lifetime for most people. One could relate gasoline to that, as you did, or median family income, or min. wage, as Mr. Smith did.
There are complications with comparisons to anything, but housing is a big one for that. It's hard to compare apples-to-apples. That's why I like to compare to real money, gold or silver. However, they too have problems in the short run. Rather than seeing them as money, people see them as investments to make "money" on. So, as I wrote, if you did this same calculation with $25/oz silver, as I indeed did in the older posts, gas would seem to be right there at 25% lower or so than in 1964.
About the war, yeah, I don't think anyone has had a strategy at all. It's like a bunch of real estate negotiations for Trump - you may cheat, bluff, whatever, and it's all part of his reality show. I'm not happy about this. I'll write the post on the deportation efforts WITH a strategy (I'm sure it's not Trump himself who's worked it out) shortly.
PS: Mr. Hail, paying for a house is THE biggest lifetime for most people. One could relate gasoline to that, as you did, or median family income, or min. wage, as Mr. Smith did.
There are complications with comparisons to anything, but housing is a big one for that. It's hard to compare apples-to-apples. That's why I like to compare to real money, gold or silver. However, they too have problems in the short run. Rather than seeing them as money, people see them as investments to make "money" on. So, as I wrote, if you did this same calculation with $25/oz silver, as I indeed did in the older posts, gas would seem to be right there at 25% lower or so than in 1964.
About the war, yeah, I don't think anyone has had a strategy at all. It's like a bunch of real estate negotiations for Trump - you may cheat, bluff, whatever, and it's all part of his reality show. I'm not happy about this. I'll write the post on the deportation efforts WITH a strategy (I'm sure it's not Trump himself who's worked it out) shortly.
Hail
Wednesday - March 25th 2026 9:17PM MST
PS
(From the previous post)
I thought about the 1964 vs 2026 gas-price comparison calculation and came up with another method I worked through:
Gas prices expressed in terms of new-home prices.
See comment at "Iran wartime gas prices" (PS No.-3479)
https://peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=3479
TLDR: By this method, pre-Iran War US gas prices in 2025-26 were less than half the 1964 prices.
But with Trump's latest con-game about negotiations ahead of invading that VITAL strategic island no one had ever heard of before two weeks ago, and now with Pistol Pete Hegseth's bombastic remarks about "We negotiate with bombs," gas prices rising to $5.00 to $6.00 being realistic, that would put today's prices at about the 1964 level (expressed in new-home-price terms).
(From the previous post)
I thought about the 1964 vs 2026 gas-price comparison calculation and came up with another method I worked through:
Gas prices expressed in terms of new-home prices.
See comment at "Iran wartime gas prices" (PS No.-3479)
https://peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=3479
TLDR: By this method, pre-Iran War US gas prices in 2025-26 were less than half the 1964 prices.
But with Trump's latest con-game about negotiations ahead of invading that VITAL strategic island no one had ever heard of before two weeks ago, and now with Pistol Pete Hegseth's bombastic remarks about "We negotiate with bombs," gas prices rising to $5.00 to $6.00 being realistic, that would put today's prices at about the 1964 level (expressed in new-home-price terms).