{"id":4498,"date":"2014-05-25T14:52:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T18:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=4498"},"modified":"2014-05-26T01:00:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T05:00:10","slug":"lucas-daniel-smith-to-be-charged-with-treason-in-kenya-death-penalty-and-the-isabela-river-in-santo-domingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/lucas-daniel-smith-to-be-charged-with-treason-in-kenya-death-penalty-and-the-isabela-river-in-santo-domingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Daniel Smith to be charged with &#8216;Treason&#8217; in Kenya (death penalty) and the Isabela River in Santo Domingo."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Embedded directly below is a short video of the now capped (?) Isabela River which I captured last Wednesday with my Nokia Lumia camera:<\/span><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UOYcFDmMGnU?rel=0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/lucas-daniel-smith-rio-isabela-santo-domingo-Dominicana-Mayo-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4501\" alt=\"lucas daniel smith rio isabela santo domingo Dominicana Mayo 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/lucas-daniel-smith-rio-isabela-santo-domingo-Dominicana-Mayo-2014.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/lucas-daniel-smith-rio-isabela-santo-domingo-Dominicana-Mayo-2014.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/lucas-daniel-smith-rio-isabela-santo-domingo-Dominicana-Mayo-2014-168x300.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That&#8217;s me standing in front of the Isabela River in Santo Domingo on Wednesday afternoon, May 21st 2014. \u00a0You might be wondering where the water is. \u00a0Me too. \u00a0I&#8217;ve fished from the same spot featured in the adjacent picture but it appears that the river has now been capped (?).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A few days ago, May 21st 2014, I attended a motion hearing regarding my extradition to Kenya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When I arrived I saw that my attorney, a tall white Dominican whose graying hair he wears combed towards the backside of his head, was standing adjacent the gates of the courtroom and that he had a dejected and despondent look on his face and in his posture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He told me that the \u00a0government of Kenya wishes to add the charge of &#8216;Treason&#8217; to the extradition request. \u00a0He wears glasses (and has a youthful-looking \u00a0face for his age) which he was adjusting as he said, &#8221;Lucas, the charge of treason in Kenya can carry the death penalty.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I instantly felt a stinging-burning perception and realization in my stomach and even in my one kidney (my right kidney, I donated my left Kidney several years ago) and my face felt oven-like and my hands felt like they were swelling with blood and then it was over and I accepted it and asked my attorney if we had time to eat before the hearing \u00a0(I arrived 90 minutes earlier to eliminate any prospect of being late) and he said, &#8221;Yes, yes lets get some pleasure food.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I myself was starving because all I had eaten was four\u00a0masitas dominicana (<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-MrI8h2HeXX0\/UFfPmnJOu7I\/AAAAAAAAAlg\/mNZTg27vhAY\/s1600\/DSCN6614.JPG\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">see pic here<\/span><\/a><\/span>) and a 16 ounce Rica orange juice without sugar NOTE: fruit juice in RD is loaded, full and packed with extra sugar, (<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnimall.com.do\/smarket\/images\/thumbnails\/smn\/drinks\/juices\/2110030124A.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">see pic here<\/span><\/a><\/span>). \u00a0We decided on boiled yuca and fried salami (<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-PhAXUjqHf6A\/TZzpkrPd0-I\/AAAAAAAAAC8\/pSlJzWyStfM\/s1600\/DSC00610.JPG\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">see pic here<\/span><\/a><\/span>) and we drank Kola Real (<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn-images.cdstatic.net\/sites\/clubdarwin.net\/files\/imagecache\/npm_image_8col\/kola_real.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">see pic here<\/span><\/a><\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After we ate and talked more it was nearing the allocated time for the motion hearing. \u00a0 At the hearing the Honorable Court indicated that the government of Kenya wishes to add the charge of Treason to their extradition request. \u00a0 The Honorable Court stated that additional time to consider the motion would not be needed and that the government of Kenya would need to supply the Court with a written and endorsed guarantee stipulating that if extradited for the charge of Treason that the death penalty would not be applicable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It appears that Kenya retains the death penalty for murder, armed robbery and treason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/map-of-new-US-Embassy-and-new-US-Consulate-in-the-Dominican-Republic-Avenida-de-Colombia-and-Carretera-La-Isabela.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4507\" alt=\"map of new US Embassy and new US Consulate in the Dominican Republic Avenida de Colombia and Carretera La Isabela\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/map-of-new-US-Embassy-and-new-US-Consulate-in-the-Dominican-Republic-Avenida-de-Colombia-and-Carretera-La-Isabela.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/map-of-new-US-Embassy-and-new-US-Consulate-in-the-Dominican-Republic-Avenida-de-Colombia-and-Carretera-La-Isabela.jpg 285w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/map-of-new-US-Embassy-and-new-US-Consulate-in-the-Dominican-Republic-Avenida-de-Colombia-and-Carretera-La-Isabela-141x300.jpg 141w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/a>After the motion hearing was completed I got on board my Yahama motorcycle and decided to drive with no particular destination in mind. \u00a0I then decided to stop by my house, kick of my oven-like suit and throw on some regular cloths and also pick up a beautiful Dominican woman. \u00a0We then drove north-eastish and eventually, on a highway-like street called Carretera La Isabela, reached an area where, adjacent to the street, there is what looks like back side of a large industrial or government compound, which looks distantly American or at least not at all in anyway possible Dominican, which I had seen many times before but it just then made sense to me, this was the backside of the new US Embassy which I&#8217;d written about last month (see that report here:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/barrack-obama-eligibility\/part-2-new-not-yet-in-service-us-embassy-and-us-consulate-in-the-dominican-republic-exclusive-photographs-and-answers-for-the-skeptics\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Part 2. New (not yet in service) US Embassy and US Consulate in the Dominican Republic. Exclusive photographs!<\/span><\/a><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As regular readers of the WOBIK blog may remember, the new (construction not yet complete, though scheduled to be opened summer 2013, last year) US Embassy and US Consulate is located on Avenida\u00a0Rep\u00fablica de Colombia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However, on Wednesday we discovered that their compound covers a relatively large area of land which extends north to the\u00a0Carretera (or highway) La Isabela where there are several exits and entrances including those for motor vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Later on today I pan to add a several photographs of the back side of the new US Embassy and US Consulate to the comments section of the above cited report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In any event, we stopped and snapped a few pictures and then turned around, pulled a near-death-experience wheelie (considering that Kenya can sentence me to the death penalty, if I figured the wheelie would be something like warm-up stretch before trying out real death), and headed in a return direction on the Carretera (or highway) La Isabela because I wanted to take a look at my old fishing hole which is specific spot located on the Isabela River (Rio Isabela). \u00a0 You have turn off Carretera Las Isabela near it&#8217;s overpass of Avenida Jacobo Majluta Azar on small street named Ercilia Pepin which will lead your down to small bridge which crosses a very small stream or creek called Arroyo Manzano (appears as a small river or waterway on online maps).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Adjacent to the creek (i.e., Arroyo Manzano) is an earthen or dirt road (it doesn&#8217;t have a name) which will lead you to the Isabela River which is a good-sized river where I once quietly and comfortably fished in years past. \u00a0 NOTE: \u00a0It should be noted that such areas can be extremely dangerous and you should never enter (although I have ignored my own advice on many occasions) without a weapon such as a machete or a handgun, and be prepared to use said weapon(s) if needed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As I neared the River Isabela I saw what appeared to be green-colored plants on top of the water. \u00a0What was this? \u00a0 I&#8217;d never seen the river like this in the past. \u00a0 As I drove closer to the river I ascertained that the river had been drained or capped. \u00a0 There might be a small amount of water flowing under all of the green-colored plants (I don&#8217;t know the common name, nor the scientific name, for these plants.) but other than that, and a few deeper holes of water without the green colored plants down the river, the water was gone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I haven&#8217;t been able to ascertain why the river has been capped, drained or dammed but I do know that a couple of years ago the river was exceedingly contaminated and full of garbage ans waste. \u00a0Moreover, it seems like there is always some new save-the-rivers-project (not just the Isabela, but the Ozama and others) which are typically never carried but if the Isabela River has been capped it may be some sort of project. \u00a0It&#8217;s also equally possible that the river has been dammed to use the water for some other area or need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As we were leaving the Isabela River we decided to take different route home so we got on\u00a0Avenida Jacobo Majluta Azar and took this last picture from it&#8217;s bridge which crosses the Isabela River. \u00a0We hope you like it:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/rio-isabela-sin-agua-santo-domingo-Rep\u00fablica-Dominicana-may-2014-lucas-daniel-smith-resize-Copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4503\" alt=\"rio isabela sin agua santo domingo Rep\u00fablica Dominicana may 2014 lucas daniel smith resize - Copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/rio-isabela-sin-agua-santo-domingo-Rep\u00fablica-Dominicana-may-2014-lucas-daniel-smith-resize-Copy.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/rio-isabela-sin-agua-santo-domingo-Rep\u00fablica-Dominicana-may-2014-lucas-daniel-smith-resize-Copy.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/rio-isabela-sin-agua-santo-domingo-Rep\u00fablica-Dominicana-may-2014-lucas-daniel-smith-resize-Copy-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I like the Dominican Republic better than Kenya and I move the Honorable Court to please reject Kenya&#8217;s request to have me extradited to East Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please exercise your free speech in the comments section below. There are no stipulations of political correctness on this blog. Speak your mind, give us your thoughts, both objective and subjective. Share your ideas, hunches, inklings or your expertise. Please provide recommendation and corrections if you spot errors in fact within the blog report. Lastly, remember that posting a comment is much like casting a vote, so please do so.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embedded directly below is a short video of the now capped (?) Isabela River which I captured last Wednesday with my Nokia Lumia camera: That&#8217;s me standing in front of the Isabela River in Santo Domingo on Wednesday afternoon, May &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/lucas-daniel-smith-to-be-charged-with-treason-in-kenya-death-penalty-and-the-isabela-river-in-santo-domingo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,538,65,12,37,5,35,539],"tags":[13,29,68,2436,2299,2435,2437,2438,136,4337,2439,2440,1696,4339,851,1298,1299,1523,2434,507],"class_list":["post-4498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barrack-obama-eligibility","category-j-a-lasorsa-assosiates","category-kenya-protectorate","category-lucas-daniel-smith","category-obama-birth-certificate","category-obama-news","category-the-government-vs-lucas-daniel-smith","category-tom-worthington","tag-barack-obama","tag-dominican-republic","tag-east-africa","tag-east-africa-obama","tag-extradition-to-kenya","tag-isabela-river","tag-kenya-treason","tag-kenya-treason-dealth-penalty","tag-lucas-d-smith","tag-lucas-daniel-smith","tag-lucas-daniel-smith-faces-death-penalty","tag-lucas-daniel-smith-faces-death-penalty-for-treason","tag-lucas-daniel-smith-obama-kenyan-birth-certificate","tag-obama-birth-certificate","tag-obama-born-in-kenya","tag-obama-illegal-president","tag-obama-ineligible-president","tag-obama-kenya-birth-certificate","tag-rio-isabela","tag-santo-domingo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4498"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4541,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions\/4541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}