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**bsteadman** · 01-13-2012, 12:44 PM

Lucas,

Congratulations on your unique and spectacularly informative research find regarding the inauguration of (de facto) President Obama in January 2009, as viewed by the people of Kenya. I hope that this now-digitized document will serve both as an important source for historical information concerning Obama and this interesting time period and also as a stimulant to intelligent discussions regarding the issue of his POTUS eligibility.

I intend to make some more detailed comments on the topic later, after I have had a chance to closely examine this ‘treasure trove’ of new information, which has not previously been made available for viewing by the vast majority of the American public.

For now, I will simply state: WAKE UP AMERICA!

It’s readily apparent that the extensive and totally ecstatic coverage the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama II was given on January 21, 2009 in ‘The Standard’ was NOT just for some guy born to a teenage white woman, 47 years previous, on some island in the Pacific ocean, in the new American state of Hawaii, whose Kenyan-born, low-level bureaucrat father happened to have been married to for 3 years.

Upon viewing that awesome, January 2009, over-the-top presentation in ‘The Standard’, it should be OBVIOUS, to even the most slow-witted amongst us, that it signified a national CELEBRATION of the fact that one of their very own, BORN IN KENYA citizens, had been elected and was now assuming the coveted office of President of the United States of America.

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**bsteadman** · 01-13-2012, 01:02 PM

Obama, Escorted from the 'Standard Group' head offices, 8/2006, after 3/2006 Raid

Hmmmmm!

I note with interest, the photo of Obama exiting the Standard Group offices in Nairobi, Kenya, which is shown on page 20 of the Adobe pdf document:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/77663019/T...t-Barack-Obama

The photo bears the caption:

“Obama is escorted out of the Standard Group head offices by Deputy Chairman and Strategy Advisor Paul Melly and Managing Director Paul Wanyagah. He paid a courtesy call on the group following a punitive raid by State operatives in March 2006.”

My questions regarding the photo are:

(1) What was Obama seeking to accomplish by paying a call on the Standard Group during his visit to Kenya in August 2006, which occurred about 5 months after the ‘punitive raid’?

(2) What possible interest did Obama have in the raid, anyway? That is, the Standard did NOT need to mention the raid in the photo caption, unless there actually was some CONNECTION between the raid and Obama.

(3) Why did the ‘Standard’ choose to use the caption phrase ‘Obama is escorted out ..’ rather than a more friendly phrase such as, ‘Obama is accompanied by … as he leaves the Standard Group head offices … ’?

I am suspicious of the official story regarding the March 2, 2006 ‘punitive raid’. I suggest that perhaps the raid was actually concerned with INTIMIDATION of the Standard Group to insure that nothing of a ‘sensitive or derogatory’ nature would be published in their newspaper, or shown on their affiliated TV network, regarding Senator Obama, who would soon be visiting their country.

From Wikpedia: “The Standard is one of the leading newspapers in Kenya with a 20% market share. It is the oldest newspaper in the country owned by The Standard Group, which also runs the Kenya Television Network (KTN)".

The 3/6/2006 CNN article covering the raid is linked below:

http://articles.cnn.com/2006-03-02/w...ki?_s=PM:WORLD

CNN

"Masked police carrying AK-47 assault rifles have raided the television station and newspaper owned by Kenya’s second-largest media group and briefly detained four journalists.

A police spokesman said in a statement hours after Thursday’s early morning raid that authorities conducted the sweep to collect evidence about a plot that would threaten national security.

“They went straight to the transmission studios and instructed the staff there to switch off the transmitters,” said KTN Managing Editor Farida Karoney.

“They then took away the computers in the studio, took away the all tapes for today’s programs and then they came into the newsroom, dismantled all the computers and went away with them,” the editor added.

The police spokesman said journalists at the Standard had been paid to write a series of fabricated articles about the government, and that police were acting on intelligence information about “an intended act” that would threaten national security.

The spokesman denied, however, that police had a hand in burning newspapers.
An employee at the printing plant said police forced the workers to do it.

“All of us were told to lie down, then … they ordered us to take the all the newspapers outside there where they forced us to burn all of them,” said Raphael Mutila.
The raids came two days after three other Standard journalists were detained without charges after the publication of an article alleging a meeting between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and a key opponent, former Environment Minister Kalonzo Musyoka.

Both men deny the meeting, and Musyoka said the government is just using the story as a pretext to crack down on the Kenyan news media.

Intimidation of the news media was frequent in Kenya under Kibaki’s predecessor, but since his election in 2002 the country has largely enjoyed freedom of the press.
However, in the last few months, the Kenyan government has been under fire over allegations of corruption reported by the news media.

Information Minister Mutahi Kagwe said he knows nothing about the raids, but earlier this week he threatened government action if the media continued what he called “misreporting and misrepresentation.”

A 8/26/2006 article by Jeffrey Gettleman, titled, ‘Obama gets a warm welcome in Kenya’ published in the New York Times is linked below. Note that then-Senator Obama was already being hailed as a possible future POTUS at that time, both in Kenya and here in the U.S.A.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/26/wo...a/26obama.html

A 3/2/2010 article, titled, “Fresh Demands for Truth Behind the Standard Raid’ published by All Africa is linked below:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201003020962.html

The above is a slight variation (for clarification purposes) of the original comment to the post by 'Bruce', 1/12/2012

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Inauguration of Obama, 1/20/2009, as Covered in the Kenyan Newspaper, 'The Standard'

Inauguration of Obama, 1/20/2009, as Covered in the Kenyan Newspaper, 'The Standard'

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