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The REAL Reason Obama Keeps Dissing the Brits: Grandpa & the Mau Mau
Canada Free Press ^ | 03/22/2009 | Joy Tiz

Posted on 05/29/2009 9:40:40 AM PDT by jazminerose

Obama and the Mau Mau

By Joy Tiz Sunday, March 22, 2009 Yet again, it seems that Barack Obama is acting out his pathology at our expense. His appalling treatment of British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, could be written off as another example of this administration’s incompetence. But, it also looks as if Obama also has his own ax to grind with the Brits and lacks the emotional maturity to deal with it like a grown up.

Phase one of Operation Ally Alienation was the belligerent act of rejecting Downing Street’s offer to allow the new president to keep the bust of Winston Churchill that had been given to former president Bush after 9/11 in a gesture of solidarity and support.

After snubbing the prime minster of America’s staunchest ally by cancelling a joint news conference in the Rose Garden, the Obamas took their boorishness to the next level during the traditional world leader gift exchange.

Prime Minister Brown presented the new Oval Office occupant with gifts reflecting considerable forethought. Brown gave Obama a pen holder made of oak timber from the HMS Gannet, a Royal Navy ship that served on anti-slavery missions off Africa.

The Prime Minister also gave ingrate Obama the framed commissioning paper for the HMS Resolute, another Royal Navy ship. The ship had been rescued from icebergs by the US and was offered as a symbol of the goodwill between our two nations.

Rounding out the collection of treasures was the 1st edition of Martin Gilbert’s seven volume biography of Winston Churchill; another symbolic gift representing the alliance of the United States and Britain during WWII.

(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...


TOPICS: History; Politics
KEYWORDS: maumau; obama; queen
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It's about his grandfather & the Mau Mau
1 posted on 05/29/2009 9:40:40 AM PDT by jazminerose
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To: jazminerose

bump


2 posted on 05/29/2009 9:46:25 AM PDT by VOA
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To: jazminerose

Canada Free Press has become notable for some ridiculous nonsense over the years - but this one is a bit more “notable” than usual.


3 posted on 05/29/2009 9:47:21 AM PDT by mrmeangenes
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To: jazminerose

The part on Obama’s grandfather was involved in is chilling. Makes you ask again: what kind of person did we actually elect?


Obama’s paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama worked as a cook for a British army officer when he became involved with the Kenyan independence movement. Grandpa Obama was arrested in 1949 as a sympathizer for the Kikuyu Central Association, the organization that ultimately spawned the Mau Mau. There is no question that the Kenyan penal system of that era was a violent place; mere imprisonment was not considered sufficiently punitive; torture was ubiquitous. Grandpa Hussein’s wife tells of horrific torture of her husband at the hands of the Brits. Some of her recollections are questionable however: one scene of hell on earth she describes is actually a pretty good description of the process of delousing.

There is also no question that if Hussein was arrested for subversive activities, he was up to something more than just being a good community organizer. He certainly would have been subject to some enhanced interrogation.

The left wants to paint the Mau Mau as yet another misunderstood group of oppressed victims. The truth is, the Mau Maus were vicious guerrilla fighters. Contrary to popular folklore, the Mau Mau slaughtered far more Kikuyu citizens than the whites they were supposedly rebelling against.

Mau Mau membership required taking an oath which was not exactly frat boy material. The colonial secretary, Oliver Lyttleton wrote:

“The Mau Mau oath is the most bestial, filthy and nauseating incantation which perverted minds can ever have brewed. I have never felt the forces of evil to be so near and as strong as in Mau Mau. As I wrote memoranda or instruction, I would suddenly see a shadow fall across the page-the horned shadow of the Devil himself.” (Source)

Little information is available as to the specific language of individual oaths, but we know that the process was taken seriously and had more elements of magic than politics. Kikuyu were under tremendous pressure to take the oath and join the movement.

Counter insurgency expert, Major Frank Kitson describes a Mau Mau body snatching raid:

“The gang, frenzied by the thought of blood, slashed around with their simis (a Kikuyu sword) and fired their guns. One old man, slower than the rest, was caught and hamstrung. He fell at the feet of his pursuers, covering his face with his arms to protect it from the slicing swords, but a mouse in a mechanical mincing machine would have had a better chance of survival. One terrorist hacked off a foot, and another sliced off his testicles to use later in an Oathing ceremony. A third gouged out his eyes with a staple and put them in his pocket for the same purpose. When they had finished, most of the gang came by to cut and stab the twitching corpse. They then licked the blood off their simis and moved off into the night, having first set fire to all the huts they could see.” (Source)

Other writers claim the oath was far more innocuous. However, a 322 page report by Career Colonial Administrator, Frank D. Cornfield supports the seamier version:

“By compelling Mau Mau members to violate not only Christian ethics but every tribal one as well, Mau Mau leaders deliberately reduced their victims to a state where a man who took the Mau Mau oath was cut off ‘from all hope, outside Mau Mau, in this world or the next. Cornfield found that to achieve this absolute loyalty to the movement, ‘ . . . leadership forced its recruits, voluntary or involuntary, to seal their oaths by digging up corpses and eating their putrefied flesh, copulating with sheep, dogs or adolescent girls, and by drinking the famed ‘Kaberichia cocktail’-a mixture of semen and menstrual blood.” (Source)

Sounds like an earnest group of freedom fighters, right? Again corroborating that Barack Obama has never known a normal person, his grandfather’s support for the Mau Mau was sufficient to get himself arrested. The struggle for independence from the Brits may have been a noble one, but not justification for the kind of depravity indulged by the Mau Mau. Longtime nationalist leader and Mau Mau manager, Jomo Kenyatta studied economics in Moscow in 1932. We are not supposed to make too much of that.

Obama has a grudge against the Brits for their abuse of his grandfather, a subversive who supported a bunch of ferocious guerillas. And as always with Obama, rather than deal with his own inner demons, he uses his position of power to act out. Another campaign promise kept: Obama is most assuredly changing the world’s view of America. Perhaps Obama is saving up all the really cool gifts for Ahmedinejad.


4 posted on 05/29/2009 9:48:06 AM PDT by Brookhaven (The Era of Reagan is NOW)
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It’s the whole Kenya-colonial era thing

A Kenyan would take this quite personally


5 posted on 05/29/2009 9:48:27 AM PDT by silverleaf ("Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal ( Martin Luther King))
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A Kenyan would take this quite personally

bump! Just another "brick in the wall" of evidence that he's not a natural born citizen.

6 posted on 05/29/2009 9:50:19 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (my former tagline "We can, and we will prevail" doesn't fit with the usurper's goals.)
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To: Brookhaven

I think what we’re supposed to believe is that the blood-thirsty behavior of the Kenyans is a result of the evils of colonialism. However, it’s worth wondering how Kenyans behaved prior to colonialism. It might have been much the same. I mean, cutting off a man’s testicles to use in an “oathing ceremony” isn’t something they picked up from Queen Victoria ...


7 posted on 05/29/2009 9:58:13 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are a ruled people, serfs to the Federal Oligarchy -- and the Tree of Liberty thirsts)
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To: jazminerose

Grandpapa oom mau mau?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSdSqXwZkAo


8 posted on 05/29/2009 9:59:42 AM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: jazminerose

The Zero wrote a whole book about “race” of course it is his greatest mental pathology.


9 posted on 05/29/2009 9:59:55 AM PDT by junta (The Left must be divided and conquered one cult at a time.)
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To: Brookhaven

“Nice” branch in Obama’s family tree! There’s a reason for the qualifiers for US President in the Constiturion. The purpose was to prevent loyalty or allegiance to another country, their rulers, or their citizens. Seems Obama may have some issues in that area.


10 posted on 05/29/2009 10:02:51 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: jazminerose

IMHO it’s about doing Kennedy’s dirty work.


11 posted on 05/29/2009 10:05:09 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: Carley

The HMS Gannett was put into service against Slave ships that were raiding Kenya.


12 posted on 05/29/2009 10:06:57 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: mrmeangenes

Care to share your evidence that this story is ‘out there”?

Welcome to FR.


13 posted on 05/29/2009 10:09:12 AM PDT by MortMan (Power without responsibility-the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: jazminerose
It seems Otinga isn't welcome in Britian anymore.....
14 posted on 05/29/2009 10:11:38 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: mrmeangenes
Why is this "ridiculous nonsense"?

Clearly Obama has been humiliating British politicians since his election. And now he snubs the Queen on D-Day? She, at least, served in the military during that war. He would have been "community organizing" had he been alive at the time.

15 posted on 05/29/2009 10:27:25 AM PDT by CaptRon (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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Going on and on about the Mau-Maus ?
Snubbing the Queen on D Day (next week) ?

How would one “humiliate” a British politician ? Refer to his bad teeth ?? Say something unkind about tea ??

Please explain how Elizabeth “served in the military” during WWII , by the way . Strikes me she was a mite young for that !!!


16 posted on 05/29/2009 10:58:01 AM PDT by mrmeangenes
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To: mrmeangenes

Sorry - but you owe more than this tripe as rebuttal to your inability to specify why this article is incorrect. I suspect you are a troll, and not a talented one.


17 posted on 05/29/2009 10:59:46 AM PDT by MortMan (Power without responsibility-the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. - Rudyard Kipling)
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She joined the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service, as No. 230873 Second Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor. She trained as a driver and mechanic, drove a military truck, and rose to the rank of Junior Commander.[22] She is, at present, "the only living head of state who served in uniform during World War II".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II_of_the_United_Kingdom

18 posted on 05/29/2009 11:05:00 AM PDT by Shady Ray
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To: jazminerose
Once Again.........

Obozo is exhibiting normal behaviour of a.......British Colonial (former)Citizen

19 posted on 05/29/2009 11:13:28 AM PDT by urtax$@work (The best kind of memorial is a Burning Memorial.........)
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To: MortMan

Mort ol sport: Read this and see what you make of it-

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/05/29/France-admits-snubbing-Queen-Elizabeth/UPI-61761243605310/


20 posted on 05/29/2009 11:24:13 AM PDT by mrmeangenes
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