Enemies! My Kenyan Experience_Yoseph

Last week, end of May 2012, I had a flight from Dar Es Selam to Nairobi . A week before on 28 May 2012, there was a blast in Nairobi. The blast tore apart a shopping complex on Moi Avenue at lunchtime. Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said the blast had a terrorist link. Militant group al-Shabab has repeatedly threatened to stage revenge attacks after Kenya sent troops to Somalia. When the Immigration Officer find out I have an Ethiopian Citizen, things get serious. I was grilled, screened and search fully. I understand, I kind of fits suspect list as potential abettor even if I don't look Somalia or Muslim. Searched me all over again. They had the faxes and by one glance I could tell, the chief officer faxed my screening data and requested them to search me again to make it double sure. I just smiled and co-operated without complaint, just about 35 minutes of delay; No hurries! They thanked me and waved me on after they were done. I was quite angry that my group had their bags much earlier.
Some Country’s law requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone stopped or arrested when there is “reasonable suspicion” the person is there unlawfully. I don't believe such random checks are legal!!

I was flying in a group with 8 Israeli colleagues; One of them told me ''If they had the resources, they should follow the Israeli approach to airline security, wherein no one is profiled on the basis of religion, race, ethnicity, nationality, age, or gender. Rather, the Israelis attend only to a person’s behavior at the airport. “Behavioral profiling” is logically and empirically distinct from other sorts of profiling, and Kenyans should practice it alone''. My father told me that.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists. I tell them that I was also a terrorist yesterday, but, today, I am admired by the very people who said I was one. NELSON MANDELA.