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Little Barry heads back to school next week
The Jakarta Post ^ | 02/13/2010 | Hasyim Widhiarto

Posted on 02/13/2010 10:35:13 AM PST by 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.


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KEYWORDS: bhosr; birthers; eligibility; jakarta; naturalborncitizen; obama; obamashrine; soetoro
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To: OafOfOffice

‘Dreams From My Father’:

Only Malcolm X’s autobiography seemed to offer something different. His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me;
the blunt poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order, martial
in its discipline, forged through sheer force of will. All the other stuff, the talk of blue-eyed devils and apocalypse, was
incidental to that program, I decided, religious baggage that Malcolm himself seemed to have safely abandoned toward
the end of his life. And yet, even as I imagined myself following Malcolm’s call, one line in the book stayed me. He
spoke of a wish he’d once had, the wish that the white blood that ran through him, there by an act of violence, might
somehow be expunged. I knew that, for Malcolm, that wish would never be incidental. I knew as well that traveling
down the road to self-respect my own white blood would never recede into mere abstraction. I was left to wonder what
else I would be severing if and when I left my mother and my grandparents at some uncharted border.


181 posted on 02/16/2010 6:16:34 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

They do look alike. The person who revealed this story said Malcolm X had a secret son. I cannot find anything on a secret son. FBI followed him everywhere he went and there is no record of any indiscretions that anyone found.

And Malcolm X was against extra marital relations and said to be why he left the Islam group whatever it was called.

He had a white girlfriend early ‘50s I think. but after they all went to prison they never saw each other again. I think she turned on him from what I read.

http://www.reelhistory.org/malcolmx.html

http://www.brothermalcolm.net/mxtimeline.html

Pieces don’t fit.


182 posted on 02/16/2010 6:28:23 PM PST by OafOfOffice (W.C:Socialism:Philosophy of failure,creed of ignorance,gospel of envy,the equal sharing of misery)
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To: El Gato

I think he/she was mocking all the misinformation. Like with Maya saying Obama was born in one hospital and then another report saying he was born elsewhere. Two different hospitals?

Am I wrong? I am blonde.


183 posted on 02/16/2010 6:38:23 PM PST by OafOfOffice (W.C:Socialism:Philosophy of failure,creed of ignorance,gospel of envy,the equal sharing of misery)
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To: Fred Nerks
Barry looks more like his half brother Mark Ndesandjo than Malcom X or FMD. Do a morph between Barry and Mark and you'd be closer. I have no doubt that Barry is the demon spawn of Barack Obama Sr. Same forehead and hairline with a splash of color. The rest is Dunham.

Does Mark look anything like Barack Obama Sr.? Survey sez....ehhhhh. He took after his mother's side also.


184 posted on 02/16/2010 6:51:25 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (If the constitutional eligibility of the president is not a "winning issue," then our nation is lost)
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To: hennie pennie

No problem, I’d rather see it a dozen times than miss a new one.


185 posted on 02/16/2010 6:57:52 PM PST by null and void (We are now in day 390 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Electric Graffiti
I think Obama Sr. passed on a gay gene.....


186 posted on 02/16/2010 7:00:44 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (If the constitutional eligibility of the president is not a "winning issue," then our nation is lost)
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To: OafOfOffice

I believe Pops in that poem is FMD.


187 posted on 02/16/2010 7:13:53 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Electric Graffiti

Only problem with that theory is that zero looks nothing like Obama Snr, there’s no evidence that Stanely Ann was EVER in Hawaii, and when the old man died, there was ONLY ONE offspring who could PROVE he was the biological child of Senior.

AND THAT WAS MARK!


188 posted on 02/16/2010 7:17:14 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: OafOfOffice

“U. S. Army finds Malcolm “mentally disqualified for military service;” because of psychopathic personality inadequacies, sexual perversion, psychiatric rejection; is classified 4F.”
~~~
mmmmmmm,,,This piece seems to fit...


189 posted on 02/16/2010 7:30:09 PM PST by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: Electric Graffiti

Who on earth is that fat dude next to Mark? I seem to remember knowing at one time.


190 posted on 02/16/2010 7:35:09 PM PST by little jeremiah (Asato Ma Sad Gamaya Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya)
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To: Fred Nerks
Only way this can be settled is to grab one of Ogabe's cig butts after one of his speeches and DNA test it ;) I'm sure one of his hundreds of half brothers and sisters would be willing to cough up some DNA for a little cash


191 posted on 02/16/2010 7:41:46 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (If the constitutional eligibility of the president is not a "winning issue," then our nation is lost)
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To: little jeremiah

No idea....not sure I want to find out. ;)


192 posted on 02/16/2010 7:42:35 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (If the constitutional eligibility of the president is not a "winning issue," then our nation is lost)
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To: mojitojoe

I have always thought FMD was Pops in the poem as well.


193 posted on 02/16/2010 7:54:11 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Fred Nerks

The morph is freaky but what’s super freaky is they sound just alike as well. There was once a youtube with comparing their intonation, cadence, etc. I’m not saying they’re related, but anything is possible with this guy. Perhaps someone knows the link.


194 posted on 02/16/2010 8:12:07 PM PST by bgill (The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
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To: bushpilot1; SvenMagnussen; butterdezillion; BIGLOOK; Danae; Fred Nerks; LucyT
Was an ad removed and Obama's birth added???

Some people are pack rats and never throw away newspapers. Not even old ones. Especially if they detail some significant event. Especially if they're from a place where they honeymooned.

Many people chose Hawai'i as a honeymoon destination. Many saved old newspapers as mementoes.

The newspaper (actual newspaper, now yellowed and fragile pulp by now, likely) may be in someone's attic or garage, tucked away somewhere, forgotten... maybe. But that paper has the real birth announcements in it.

195 posted on 02/16/2010 8:13:13 PM PST by thecodont
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To: OafOfOffice

And the old racist Strom Thurmond had a secret black daughter. Seduction can trump principle.


196 posted on 02/16/2010 8:13:38 PM PST by Jedidah (Character, courage, common sense are more important than issues.)
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To: OafOfOffice

And the old racist Strom Thurmond had a secret black daughter. Seduction can trump principle.

The real question is whether the paths of X and Stanley Ann ever crossed, like the “au pair” summer in Chicago mentioned in O’s book.


197 posted on 02/16/2010 8:14:53 PM PST by Jedidah (Character, courage, common sense are more important than issues.)
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To: bgill

Frank Marshall Davis Interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C422SbjYHoU

MALCOLM X EXPLAINS BLACK NATIONALISM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO6Co8v2XjY


198 posted on 02/16/2010 8:19:38 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: LucyT

This would explain why he did not go to her when she died of cancer. Also why she left him or why he was taken from her by his grandparents.


199 posted on 02/16/2010 8:21:14 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: thecodont; mojitojoe

mojitojoe’s been dropping some hints.


200 posted on 02/16/2010 8:23:35 PM PST by little jeremiah (Asato Ma Sad Gamaya Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya)
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