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To: curiosity; Fred Nerks; Candor7

You serious? Well you probably are but the government of Kenya didn’t see it your way and neither do I.

Prominent visitors have criticized Kenyan corruption before. But hearing the message from Obama was different. For he was seen not only as a fellow Kenyan standing up to power, but also as a Luo standing up to a Kikuyo—the dominant ethnic group to which President Mwai Kibaki belongs and against which Luo resentment runs deep. And worse, in the government’s eyes, at least, he was seen as siding with the opposition—in particular with Raila Odinga, a powerful kingmaker and Luo whose Orange Democratic Movement has been a painful thorn in Kibaki’s side. “It is very clear that the senator has been used as a puppet to perpetuate opposition politics,” sniffed Kibaki spokesperson Alfred Mutua.

http://www.newsweek.com/2006/09/10/walking-the-world-stage.html


644 posted on 03/30/2011 8:53:08 AM PDT by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
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To: Vendome; Fred Nerks; Candor7
I see. So in your view, criticizing government corruption in another country is somehow a violation of the Logan act.

Can you cite to me the relevant section of the act?

645 posted on 03/30/2011 9:05:57 AM PDT by curiosity
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