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Kenya deports anti-Obama author
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ world/ 2008/ oct/ 07/ kenya.obama
A controversial American author and conspiracy theorist was arrested in Nairobi and was due to be deported today after trying to plug his bestselling book attacking Barack Obama, whose late father was Kenyan
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Anti-Obama Author Deported from Kenya
http://www.jossip.com/anti-obama-author-deported-from-kenya-...Jerome Corsi, krazy konspiracy theorist (that's a picture of him with "bigfoot evidence") and frequent Fox News guest (duh) was detained in, and subsequently deported from Kenya after he made it widely known that he was going there locate
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Kenya Deports Anti-Obama Author
http://theerrantaesthete.com/2008/10/08/kenya-deports-anti-o...Jerome Corsi’s scheduled visit to Kenya to promote his latest book, “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality,” was cut short after local authorities, who claimed that Corsi didn’t have the right permit, arrested the author and sent him packing on a plane to Europe on Tuesday. [thnx truthdig]
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Obama-Muslim-conspiracy theorist kicked out of Kenya
http://theroughguidetokenya.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-musli...Kenya's record on freedom of speech is improving, so some might see the expulsion from Kenya of American anti-Democrat Jerome Corsi for trying to promote his conspiracy-theory book about Barack Obama's imagined links with Islam, terrorism, Raila Odinga and all things ungodly as a step in the wrong direction. But it looks like Obama's presence on the world stage (assuming he wins) might actually be a force for good, bringing the US some long-overdue respect and credibility and even putting a soft-focus spotlight on Kenya for the duration of his time in office. I haven't read Corsi's book, but I'm instinctively glad he's not being given the chance to talk rubbish in a fragile democracy like Kenya. It's bad enough when the likes of Sarah Palin do it in the US. Yes, I know: what about freedom of speech? Well sometimes (and this time, clearly) saying whatever you like, voicing an opinion, or making things up, serve to act against freedom from mobs, hunger, disease and death. I think the Kenyan authorities made the right call.
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