Why does the SCMP publish a letter from someone living in South Africa about US domestic politics?
Reject Kagan
US Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s ascendancy to the Supreme Court should be emphatically rejected.
Kagan has not yet had time to develop a mature philosophy of judging.
People need to know of Kagan’s agenda-driven approach to legal interpretation, which in terms of the life issues is out of step with the mainstream of the American public.
John Smith, Sandton, South Africa
A quick Google search reveals that a longer version of the same letter has been published in the Barbados Advocate (a publication of which I had not previously been aware), but that “John Smith” claims to live in Brooklyn. Curious.
Ordinary Gweilo 
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