Thread: Kenya deports Obama book author

ALIPAC NOTE: If Kenya will deport Dr. Jerome Corsi for engaging in politics in their nation, we should follow their example and deport all of the illegal aliens that are foreign nationals engaging in politics on US soil!

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By Barney Jopson in Nairobi and William Wallis in Kisumu

Published: October 7 2008 21:14 | Last updated: October 7 2008 21:14

The American author of an inflammatory book about Barack Obama was being deported from Kenya on Tuesday to prevent him from launching his work in the home country of the presidential candidate’s father.

Jerome Corsi, who wrote the best-selling book The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, was whisked away from his Nairobi hotel by immigration officials and later taken to the airport.

EDITOR’S CHOICE
Full coverage: US elections 2008 - Oct-03Analysis: Race and the US election - Oct-07Jurek Martin: How low will they go? - Oct-07Markets and the US election - Oct-06Editorial comment: The Palin subplot - Oct-03Christopher Caldwell: A disturbing darn debate - Oct-03Mr Corsi won fame for a book that damaged John Kerry’s presidential hopes in 2004 and his Obama book seeks to discredit the Illinois senator, claiming he is a radical and a dangerous candidate for president.

He was due to launch the book in Nairobi before travelling to the slum home of one of Mr Obama’s half-brothers to give him $1,000 (€730, £570) – a donation intended to suggest that the senator had abandoned his sibling.

Mr Obama’s father was a Kenyan economist who met the senator’s white American mother at university in Hawaii. Mr Obama’s candidacy has generated huge excitement in Kenya, where he is seen as a symbol of Kenyans’ ability to succeed abroad.

An immigration official said Mr Corsi was initially detained to investigate his visa status. Peter Mbae, Mr Corsi’s publicist in Kenya, told Reuters: “His papers were found to be in order. His passport was fine, his visa was fine. But the government did not want him to launch his book on Kenyan soil.â€

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“It will be like we are voting here. People are mad about Obama. Since we believe he is one of us, it is expected he will bring a lot,â€

Another layer of the Obama Onion has been peeled off and it's stinking up the place.

Dixie

Editorial: Corsi arrest in bad taste
Written by Administrator
October 8, 2008: Tuesday's arrest of American author, Jerome Corsi, by Kenyan authorities was uncalled-for and a great test to our perceived respect for freedom of speech and thought. The arrest earned him more than he could have got with the launch — publicity and sympathy.

Corsi is the author of the anti-Barack Obama book, The Obama Nation.

It is true that Obama, the US Democratic presidential candidate, has roots in Kenya and is adored by many.

But that does not make Corsi unwanted in our midst. In fact, we would have earned accolades for tolerance had we allowed him to go ahead with the launch.

Again, if Corsi had broken any Kenyan law, he should have been taken to court. But we do not believe that the author simply appeared in Nairobi with no papers. One of the attributes of a democratic society is how it balances between competing values and views.

By arresting Corsi, the immigration officials only exposed this nation’s failure to interrogate the essence of free speech and ended up ridiculing Kenyans as intolerant.

Remember what the European Court of Human Rights said in the famous Handyside case.

That “freedom of expression is applicable not only to ‘information’ or ‘ideas’ that are favourably received or regarded as inoffensive, but also to those that offend, shock or disturb the State or any sector of the population ... Such are the demands of that pluralism without which there is no democratic society.â€

I find it odd that Kenya would be so sensitive regarding this situation if in fact Obama were not actually born there. Why would Kenya be so upset regarding an American citizen and a book somewhat critical of him, just because his father happened to be a Kenyan.

Based upon these developments, it would seem that Kenya have a little more vested in this situation than would be if Obama were in fact born in Hawaii.

Corsi detained because he was 'going to drop a hot potato': www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE ... geId=77280

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

“It will be like we are voting here.

I wonder how many Kenyans will actually be illegally voting for Obama?

[quote]“It will be like we are voting here. People are mad about Obama. Since we believe he is one of us, it is expected he will bring a lot,â€

WHERE IS CORSI NOW? I KNOW THEY SAID HE WAS GETTING ON A FLIGHT OUT OF KENYA...BUT WHERE IS HE NOW? DID HE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE HIS FLIGHT?