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Hi, Peter.
I never said that this man should be released...I made no statement one way or the other. What I did was question the apparent joy on this listserve that the man had been jailed for not having a work visa and that his imprisonment was deemed a desirable thing. What I also questioned was the pleasure evoked because this man was jailed due to his unpopular views and because he has printed defamatory articles about people in power...
I'm just trying to understand the double standard. When American presidential administrations (doesn't matter which party, really) is accused of these acts, it is regarded as business as usual for American regimes. When it occurs and the person involved is someone you (pl.) don't agree with, then you decide he should be jailed. Whether or not the person has money isn't the issue here.
Imprisonment without probable cause should be illegal everywhere; work visas notwithstanding. If you feel it's wrong to jail people without work visas here because they're poor and hard workers, then why should any country jail people without work visas? Let them work.
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From: "Amakobe, Peter" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008 10:39 am
Subject: Re: Anti-Barack Author Detained in Kenya
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> VERA PLEASE!
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> READ THE ARTICLE! Would you!
>
> This lunatic is accusing very senior members of the Kenyan Government
> of
> committing criminal acts and belonging to communism. Visiting the
> country is
> arrogance at its best. Asking questions and revealing his identity is
> beyond
> belief. Does this start to paint some kind of picture? How he got a
> VISA
> is beyond me.
>
> That said, I agree with you that he should be released. He walked into
> the
> country without proper papers and/or protection. He should be allowed
> to
> malign Kenyan officials on Nairobi streets as often as he pleases.
> Heck, he
> should stay and write another book on how the president, prime
> minister, V.P
> and the entire cabinet cohorts with Moslems and terrorists.
>
> Have you ever witnessed hungry hyenas tare up a wildebeest!
>
> What you ought to say is THANK YOU to the Kenyan government for protecting
> this mentally unstable person. You are wrong to use "...this is okay with
> all of you?"
>
> I work up a feeling uplifted with what OBAMA's campaign is doing.
> Thanks to
> the good work of people like Samba, Lasisi, Dick and the entire
> listserv.
>
> I will signoff by saying mental acquit is a gift and common sense is a
> luxury to some people. The unlucky ones end up in mental homes labeled
> 'deranged.'
>
>
> Peter
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> So, they jailed him for not having the proper work visa...this is okay
> with
> all of you? He didn't actually commit a crime...and you want to keep
> him in
> jail because he doesn't like Obama? This is making sense to you?
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> Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008 2:55 pm
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> > I think he should know the elections results in a Kenyan jail; I do
> not
> > think he should be deported to the USA until after the elections. He
> is
> > a spoiler for no reasonable reasons...
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> > Anti-Barack Obama author detained while promoting his book in Kenya
> > Jerome Corsi, the author of a controversial book attacking Barack
>
> > Obama, has been detained in Kenya and is expected to be deported,
> The
> >
> > Times' Nairobi bureau chief, Edmund Sanders, reports.
> >
> > Corsi is the author of "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the
>
> > Cult of Personality," a best-selling book whose assertions -- that
>
> > Obama was raised a Muslim and is secretly seething with "black rage"
>
> >
> > -- have been widely dismissed as false and based on little more than
>
> >
> > the author's desire to derail the Democrat's presidential candidacy.
> >
> > Corsi arrived in Kenya Thursday to promote the book and to
> investigate
> >
> > Obama's ties to Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, according to a
>
> > news release sent to the media by Corsi's publisher last week. In a
>
> > chapter of Corsi's book titled "Kenya, Odinga, Communism, and
> Islam,"
> >
> > the author claims Obama gave Odinga $1 million for his 2007
> > presidential campaign -- a claim both Obama and Odinga deny.
> >
> > Corsi was detained on Tuesday by Kenyan immigration officials for
> > failing to obtain the proper visa needed to work in the country. He
>
> > told the Associated Press that he expects to be deported soon.
> >
> > Obama, whose father was Kenyan and mother was American, is wildly
> > popular in Kenya and the U.S. election is being closely followed in
>
> > the country.
> >
> > Corsi played a role in the 2004 presidential election with a book
> > attacking that year's Democratic nominee, John Kerry. "Unfit for
> > Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry" hit No. 1
>
> >
> > on the New York Times bestseller list. "The Obama Nation" spent four
>
> >
> > weeks at the top of the bestseller list.
> >
> >
> > "A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle"
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