Little Barry heads back to school next week

The Jakarta Post ^ | 02/13/2010 | Hasyim Widhiarto

[opentalk]

The Central Jakarta administration will move the controversial "Little Barry" statue from its current location at Taman Menteng in Central Jakarta to state elementary school SDN 01 Menteng next week, an official says.

"We are currently discussing with officials from the school and its alumni association," city spokesman Cucu Ahmad Kurnia told reporters Friday. "We hope the move will happen next week."

US President Barack Obama attended the elementary school for almost two years when he spent part of his childhood in Jakarta.

Erected by the Jakarta-based Friends of Obama Foundation in December last year, the statue, which resembles Obama as a boy, recently sparked wide public criticism for insulting the nation's pride.

Just a few days after the Central Jakarta municipality unveiled the statue at Menteng Park, experts and a group of Facebook users demanded it be dismantled.

On Wednesday, the Central Jakarta District Court held a hearing to try a class action lawsuit by five plaintiffs representing 50,000 members of the "Take down the Barack Obama statue from Menteng Park" group on Facebook.

The five plaintiffs - Heru Nugroho, Protus Tanuhandaru, Daniel Rudi Haryanto, Andes Soesman and FX Agung Bimo Sutedjo - filed the suit against Jakarta governor, Central Jakarta mayor and the Jakarta Parks and Cemeteries Agency, saying the statue didn't deserve a place at the park and should be immediately removed.

Although appreciating the administration's plan to remove the statue, Heru said the group would go ahead with its lawsuit.

"We will only withdraw the lawsuit if the city administration publicly apologizes for its one-sided decision to permit the statue," he told The Jakarta Post.

Hawaiian-born Obama moved to Indonesia at the age of six to live with his mother, Ann Dunham, and Indonesian stepfather Lolo Soetoro.

Obama attended third grade at the school in 1968. He returned to Hawaii at the age of 10 to live with his maternal grandparents.

[JustPiper]

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[expatguy]

Lia (47) alias Mbak Nun

Not just beaten with the rattan but locked in the bathroom until night.

Lia also tells the story of how she was punished together with young Barry by Ann Soetoro for simply bringing him outside food to eat.

Barry's mother Ann liked to lock him in the bathroom and Lia would pity him and give him food through the bathroom window.

Locking a kid up in the bathroom and then not releasing him until the next afternoon is pretty damn cruel.

The Indonesian story of Lia (Mbak Nun) is not kind at all to Obama's mother Ann at all.

You can expect to see a lot more of these stories from the Indonesian media, none of them will be covered by the US MSM you can be assured of that.

There is a LOT more you are going to learn about Obama in the days ahead including a lot concerning his religion. The Indonesian government intends to treat him not just as a visiting head of state but as a fellow muslim in their own protocol.

Im hoping I can get some time to work on this and give updates concerning the trip.

[hennie pennie]

w@w, eXpatguy, thanks for the translation!!

I have seriously wondered about Stanley Ann, ever since I heard that she'd waken Barry every morning at 4 am and make him read aloud english language books. Much less that she dumped him with his grandparents at age 10.

It doesn't surprise me to learn that she also would lock him in the bathroom overnight without any food, as a punitive measure.

NO wonder we now have a TOTUS -- that's ALL he was trained in childhood, was to Read Aloud with Perfect Enunciation. He's Batterred Barry, spawn of Mommy Dearest.

[hennie pennie]

Don’t miss expatguy’s post, just w@w!!!!

[LucyT]

Not just beaten with the rattan handle of the duster, but locked in the bathroom (over) night.

Lia also tells the story of how she was punished together with young Barry by Ann Soetoro for simply bringing him outside food to eat.

Barry's mother Ann liked to lock him in the bathroom and Lia would pity him and give him food through the bathroom window.

Locking a kid up in the bathroom and then not releasing him until the next afternoon is pretty damn cruel.

The Indonesian story of Lia (Mbak Nun) is not kind at all to Obama's mother Ann at all.

You can expect to see a lot more of these stories from the Indonesian media, none of them will be covered by the US MSM you can be assured of that.

There is a LOT more you are going to learn about Obama in the days ahead including a lot concerning his religion. The Indonesian government intends to treat him not just as a visiting head of state but as a fellow muslim in their own protocol.

[Rushmore Rocks]

Thanks for the pings.

Expat, please keep us updated.

[null and void]

Could we have found a candidate with more personal baggage????

[Jedidah]

Re: the link in post #54 —

the story about the flight to Norway and good-guy Obama picking up the excess baggage tab for “Mary” — have we heard before about him traveling to Norway in 1988? Or did I misread, and he was just standing in line and not boarding?

Where did he get this traveling money, enough to spread cash around benevolently, when he had, according to the article, just left a low-paying “community organizer” job to return to school?

Something I haven’t seen before. Anyone else have info or thoughts?

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

If she was 47 in 2008 her birth year would be 1961.

She was 10? or 12? when she worked for Lolo and Stanley Ann as a Nanny for a 10 year old.

A 10 or 12 year old nanny often locked in the bathroom with 10 year old Barry. How big were Indonesian bathrooms at the time? Were they closets with a toilet?

Damn, I thought I came from a dysfunctional family.:-)

[butterdezillion]

Look at the distortion on Aug. 5 right above Obama’s announcement.

I work with a guy who’s been printing newspapers for over half a century. He showed me how they did the linotype. They used metal letters, sort of like the old typewriters had the metal letters which impacted the ink ribbon to leave the letter on the paper. When they typed a letter on the linotype machine it released a metal letter from a cache which fell into place in a line of letters. When the line was done the metal letters were secured together with hot lead. So each line was its own specially-made “stamp”.

The lines were placed one above the other inside a metal frame. Everything had to be very tight. And then the small frames were held together inside a frame that was the size of the page. That frame was placed on the press and the papers were pressed up against that inked frame to make the image on the paper.

So when you see the frames on the page that’s exactly what it was - a metal frame.

If you look on this paper you’ll see that the announcements are uninterrupted going down - just one line of type following another - until an ad breaks up the continuity.

Some of the lines don’t show up clearly. I imagine that’s normal when microfilms are made. But the EXTRA lines we see would have to come from the microfilm machine or from a copy machine. Vertical lines could come from wear and tear of the reader on the films. I’m not so sure what would cause horizontal lines.

Maybe somebody who’s worked with microfilm could help us out on that.

But the placement of a horizontal line right before and after Obama and the Asing announcement, coupled with the distortion on just the words right above that top horizontal line do look fishy to me. We know the horizontal line is not from the frames because it actually crosses out some of the words on the far right side of the page.

Just eye-balling it, the whole left-hand column doesn’t look square with the rest of the columns.

[mojitojoe]

Oh great, now he can play the wounded deer. Poor little Barry, a victim of child abuse. Excuses for what an effed up Marxist he is now.

[mojitojoe]

Clue... forget the microfilm.... actual old newspapers from that date...that will bust Barry.

[LucyT]

. . . . Just FYI; check out #90.

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[LucyT]

Heh.

[hoosiermama]

Yes. It’s the lines that give it away....Look at HGTV the header for several programs use fake ad pages....They use the lines as they appeared in the old time papers. The lines on these two are a dead give away that the announcements were altered.

Adds are created differently than the news....”strippers” cut and paste the ads in place creating the lines.

[Red Steel]

Yeah, the Obama newspaper announcements look like they have the tell-tale signs of being cut and paste jobs.

[butterdezillion]

Agreed. So far we haven’t found any place that has actual paper copies of the newspapers. Surprise, surprise.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Yeah, the Obama newspaper announcements look like they have the tell-tale signs of being cut and paste jobs.”

Well, Obama is our first cut & paste POTUS.

[Jedidah]

Linotype would have been used in 1961.

Linotype machines were phased out in the 70s and replaced by offset printing, which used computer-produced copy that was cut, waxed, and adhered to a mock-up of the page, which was then photographed. The full-sized negative was then used to produce the final print.

Were it not for the fact that the horizontal line extends across all columns, not just the one with the Obama birth announcement, I would strongly suspect that the Obama announcement was cut and pasted.

However, that line does reach across columns. No way to tell from here what caused it. Once again, we’d have to see an original newsprint of that date to know.

The Hawaii newspapers almost certainly keep originals in their morgues, but who has access?

[LucyT]

Re: the link in post #54 —

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2450678/posts?page=54#54

the story about the flight to Norway and good-guy Obama picking up the excess baggage tab for “Mary” — have we heard before about him traveling to Norway in 1988? Or did I misread, and he was just standing in line and not boarding?

Where did he get this traveling money, enough to spread cash around benevolently, when he had, according to the article, just left a low-paying “community organizer” job to return to school?

Something I haven’t seen before. Anyone else have info or thoughts?

Good questions, Jedidah; thanks.